ijji was a free multiplayer gameportal website. Games hosted at ijji ranged from traditional shooters and MMORPGs to more accessible casual games, all of which were free to download and play, and with the majority featuring competitive multiplayer gameplay. The ijji website opened on July 7, 2006. The American-based game portal has published some well known worldwide titles that include Alliance of Valiant Arms, GunZ, and Soldier Front. In 2009 ijji decided to focus more on the "hardcore" gaming segment, by releasing titles like Alliance of Valiant Arms and Soul of the Ultimate Nation. ijji later released Genesis A.D into open beta in November 2010. ijji surpassed 10 million unique registered users in November 2009 and created a new logo for their game portal. The old orange ijji logo was replaced by a new metallic looking logo. In this same month, all flash games on ijji.com that required no download were closed and removed from the game portal. In June 2011, ijji partnered up with Steam, the popular game distributing platform developed by Valve, and released Alliance of Valiant Arms as one of the free-to-play games available on Steam. This partnership allowed for the increasing of the community size of the free-to-play game portal. As a celebration, ijji gave away a free exclusive weapon, the British L8A52 rifle for new users who signed up on Steam. Starting on October 26, 2011, ijji removed the ability to sign up for a new ijji account. Instead, users will log in with their Facebook account to play ijji games. Existing users are still able to log in with their old accounts.
Acquisition of ijji
On January 5, 2012, NHN Corporation sold 100% stake of ijji to Aeria Games who began to host ijji's core games. As of July 22, 2012, all ijji services were taken down. On July 23, 2012, account transfers were open for users to transfer existing account data to Aeria Games. On May 5, 2013 Aeria announced the closure of GunZ by May 31, 2013. As of January 29, 2016 Aeria Games has stopped supporting Soldier Front. In 2016, Aeria Games stopped providing service for Alliance of Valliant Arms. The game was transferred to En Masse Entertainment. In April 2018, En Masse Entertainment notified its users that the game servers would officially cease in June 2018. At the end of 2018, Red Duck Inc., the developer of A.V.A, stated that they would self publish a modified version of their most popular game, AVA, under the name AVA: Dog Tag on Steam. After a period of beta testing, the project was closed inMay 2019 as Red Duck Inc. ceased operations.
