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On July 16th (this Friday), GameOn365 will officially be one year old! We'll be celebrating throughout the rest of the month with competitions and giveaways.

We've made some truly amazing progress over the year. Whether it be the vast advancement and improvement of the code behind the site and games from our development team, the great volunteer staff members who help maintain our community, or our loyal members; we couldn't be happier. We will continue to maintain and update our services over the next year and beyond and strive to satisfy. We're happy to be able to have a well established staff presence in our community and a personal level of communication between our members and staff. We're exceptionally happy that we are able to review each and every bit of feedback we get as well as respond to and act upon some.

To start things off, every day from now until our anniversary on July 16th, we'll randomly pick a user from everyone who made at least one post during the day to win a month of VIP.

Also, be sure to stop by on July 16th for a special gift package!

The wait is finally over and we're happy to say that the Hotel Royale beta is live. This is the first beta using entirely new server-side software. We expect to find many bugs over the next few weeks, and will do our best to fix them as soon as possible. Please report any bugs that you find in the tracker.

Known bugs and issues...

• See the tracker.

What we're working on...

• Redesigning the Hotel Royale Portal.
• Automatic delivery for items that are purchased with forum points.

Hotel Royale v9 will require a complete recode of all web services to play the game. Most importantly, we will need to create an API for registration and logging in to make it a seamless experience to log in to the hotel with your forum account. We are also focusing on forum integration this time around. All information appearing on the new Hotel Royale CMS will be pulled directly from the forums - announcements, recent posts, competitions, events, the hotel wiki, rare values, and more. We have not yet decided whether the CMS will have the same skin as the forums or a hotel skin.

Major Changes

• The new version of Hotel Royale will be based out of the forums - you will need to have a forum account before you can register on the hotel. Your forum display name and hotel name will be the same.
• You will not have to re-enter all of your information to register at Hotel Royale. The only thing you may need to reenter is your password.
• Forum points can still be exchanged for hotel items and converted to coins.
• We may automate purchasing hotel items with forum points. (Currently, admins have to manually process all purchases.)
• Each day, users that have less than 3000 coins will be given 500 more coins. (Amounts subject to change.)

Minor Changes

• It will no longer be possible to have multiple accounts with the same email address.
• If your forum account is banned, you will not be able to log in to the hotel account that is associated with it.
• If your hotel account is banned, you will not be able to create another with the same forum account.
• Administrators will have to manually process display name change requests from this point on.

We do not have a release date yet. If you'd like to submit any feedback about our plans, or if you've got an idea you think we should include, you can post it at the Hotel Royale Feedback and Suggestions forum.