What a week this has been! Today I woke up to over 450 tickets in the system, which sent me into a state of panic. I quickly discovered why!

Lots of exciting things have happened in The World of Meeroos over the past few weeks! We've seen the reveal of some new head shapes, new coats (The Emperor, Koi, Amber, Highland and now Cinder!)

Some of these have been found in starter packages which has resulted in some concerns and questions from members of our community, and I'd like to take the opportunity to fill in some gaps for you here.

As the company grows and evolves, it's necessary to make changes for the good of the staff and the community. Some of these changes happen a little late in the game but we realize that they are inevitably necessary. We learn as we go along and we find better ways of doing things. That's what has happened.

Meeroos have officially hit the 10,000 player mark in Second Life today. In celebration of this, we've awarded our 10,000th player, Xoi Ixtar, with a $L 10,000 Linden "MeeWard!"

Thanks to each of you for helping us reach this monumental milestone with Meeroos.

New coats have been discovered!

Aside from the starters, several lucky Meeroos Parents have revealed the Autumn coat, Sierra coat and so far, we've only seen a couple Amber coats!

But there's still SO MUCH MORE! You guys have miles to go to reveal new eyes, tails, species, coats, head shapes, and... even more.

Over the past 12 hours, we've been notified of an uncomfortable amount of non-deliveries of products (Not just ours!) and items disappearing when picked up, attached or dropped. Apparently, unbeknownst to us, this has been an ongoing issue in Second Life for roughly the past week.

You'll be able to start your own Meeroo Family today starting at 2pm PST (SLT) 5pm EST.

We have two Official Stores in Second Life™ located here:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Twas/93/71/131

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Haute%20Couture/108/89/21

Both regions are closed until that time. You will notice something very different at one of the stores... perhaps a harbinger of things to come. It certainly means something, that's for sure!

Today was a hugely successful launch for us. Our servers performed flawlessly and we didn't experience a single service failure or disruption. Levio's tireless work slaving over the delivery system has paid off.

We here at Malevay Studios have quite a few busy days ahead of us as we move toward our Launch dates. But, before we get there, I want to clarify a couple of things just so there is no confusion on the rules. I need this information to be as transparent as possible so there is no confusion or upset later on.

Now that I've had a chance to take care of so many things on my plate today, I didn't want to go to sleep without coming here to blog a little more in detail - and a little more personally, about the Open Beta experience.