Overview
Ragnarok Online is certainly one of the most well known MMORPGs out there. The game was originally released in 2001 and has since had a lot of success. The game has always been ‘Pay-to-play’ which is why private Ragnarok Online servers became so popular. I’m surprised it took Gravity so long to launch a free version of their game, but in October 2008 gravity launched a single free-to-play server on iRO (International Ragnarok Online) called Valkyrie which would pay for itself by selling ‘cash shop items’. The free server ‘Valkyrie’ is largely the same as the pay to play servers, but with slightly slower experience gain. If you’re not familiar with the game, Ragnarok Online is a 3D Fantasy MMORPG with detailed 2D sprites and beautifully animated visuals. It has a large selection of playable classes and a huge game world to explore. The game may be a bit older than other MMORPGs, but it’s still been able to keep fresh with regular content updates from the publisher. If you’ve never played Ragnarok Online before or you’re tired of playing on lame private servers, give the game a try!
Philippine MMORPG, Ragnarok Online? As an RO fan, probably yes, and its coming on June 20, 2017, mid-June as announced and promised by the publisher Electronics Extreme and co-publisher Elite Global Sourcing. The said date is the official CBT (Closed Beta Test) of Ragnarok Online PH with expected two servers to be online: Thor and Loki, announced on Q & A Presscon held last May 12, 2017 in Marco Polo Ortigas.
According to the response of Ragnarok Online PH Facebook page to their fans, after the CBT, all characters including their items, cards, weapons, armors, zeny and other items in their account will be wiped out. But all registered accounts will remain intact. If there's bad news, there's a good news is, Ragnarok Online PH said that they will give rewards to players who will continue to play on OBT (Open Beta Test). Other activities being done before the official Ragnarok Online PH CBT (Closed Beta Test) are Keymaster Contest, Funny Meme Contest, Ragna Festival, Fan Art Contest, Pick-up Line Contest, Hashtag Contest and many more. The winners of Ragnarok Online PH Keymaster Contest from different regions are the following guilds: AWAKEN (Pampanga), ASTRAL RUINA (Baguio), FREE GER ROUX (Cebu) and STEELWOLVES (Bacolod). On the other hand, Ragna Festival was held on The Annex, SM City North Edsa, Quezon City on May 7, 2017 with Filipino rock bands performed including Sandwich and Imago, and a cosplay event. The Facebook group pages ROPH Official Community and ROPH Guild Masters are being administered by CM Darwin, ROPH Community Manager. Announced at Ragna Festival and the Q & A Session, ROPH will be launching a Revo-Classic Ragnarok with 2-1 job classes at the vanguard. According to RO players, in Revo-Classic, a single level 99 character is equivalent to 3x level 99 character of the old Philippine Ragnarok Online. Other player concerns like Multi-client issues and Convert and receive by the old publisher Level Up! Games will also take into consideration by the new Ragnarok Online PH publisher, Electronics Extreme.
According to Kamphee "Ken" Phiromwad, Managing Director of Electronics Extreme (Publisher), ROPH players expect that "Ragnarok in the Philippine server is Free-To-Win which the players are challenge to succeed in-game". In short its free-to-play and not pay-to-win, a good news to those players who can't afford to buy premium items or access the game the traditional way which is you need to top-up a certain amount for you to enter the game. We will see a fair gameplay to this comeback of the Ragnarok Online Philippines. The co-publisher, ELITE (Philippines) or the Elite Global Sourcing will be handling all concerns regarding technical issues and bugs that the players might encounter. On this, live chat will be also available for customer support. The CEO of Elite Global Sourcing is Mr. Johnny Paek. February 2017 is the first date that Ragnarok Online PH comeback was announced. Many fans also created videos to bring back memories of Ragnarok like the Impressive Ragnarok Prontera Theme Cover in Acoustic, Beatbox by Laurentius Rando and Christian Bong. To register an account for Ragnarok PH CBT, visit https://www.ragnarokonline.com.ph/register and fill-in all the required fields. As Ragnarok Online PH said, "We are extremely excited to announce Ragnarok Online Philippines Closed Beta.
Participants will get a sneak peak before the pack and pave the way for the new legend. Register and be part of the legend!" #RagnarokPhilippines #RagnarokReturns #RagnaRokEnRoll To know more about the latest updates for Ragnarok Online PH, visit https://www.facebook.com/RagnarokOnline.com.ph daily.
