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The pRO team has finally decided to break the silence on “Project Valkyrie” for Philippine Ragnarok Online. I already announced this last week. In fact, Waukeen had campaigned for all Level Up bloggers to blog about it and and even upload the official teaser trailer video of the new Free-to-Play server.
So far, so good. With a slated launch this October 10, we’re getting mixed feedback about this. Feedback, if done constructive, is always welcome for us. Due to this, we can do some minor adjustments and FOCUS our efforts to giving better service to YOU, our dear customers.
This post is intended to summarize some of those inputs and hopefully as a way for me to address some concerns.
More after the jump.
DeSquallie was among the first ones to agree to the Valkyrie concept. He said “But on a brighter note, the F2P server idea is a great way for people to get into the game without paying game time but with certain limitations.”. Thanks for this dude. We are really trying our darnest best to make the concept work. This wasn’t done overnight. A lot of thought and process was done to make the marketing plan and the product stand out.
One of the key factors for success of the product is to make the server free from bots and dupe. This is a tough assignment, mind you. Since bot-makers are always trying to be one step ahead of us, we need all the help we can get from Gravity, the developers of the game. Workingdude says to this effect; “ok yan it will bring some of players back to RO… since its free to play… pero pero pero… sana wala nga bot…” He then adds; “but the whole idea is good! at least po mas marami ulit lalaro….” Sidsawyer may have hit on technical fix to battle the bot program makers; “a new dawn for roquiters because of the bot. sana magbantay 24/7 ang mga vanguards. RO bot developers always crack that data.grf to know the ipaddress ang hexing Rag.exe to bypass gameguard wala ba kayong magandang solusyon para makontra ganitong gawain? (itago nyo ipaddress nyo nakikita sa sclientinfo.xml pag na extract ung data.grf!!)”. Alrighty! Thanks for this dude, we’ll look into it.
Meanwhile, not everyone is happy with it. Ayekah said “Well, I highly doubt that this initiative will bring back the former RO players who quit. After all, no character migration means starting yet again from scratch. If those old high-level RO players with godly items who quit before can have the willpower to leave it all behind, I doubt enticing them with a supposedly bot-free F2P server with level1 characters will do the job. “
Ayekah, the goal for the server is a “clean start”. We can’t afford to migrate characters in a world where majority of the rare stuff is for sale in the mall. That will mean a lot of imbalance in terms of economics and item control. Tell you what, since we have DIRECT CONTROL of the items for sale in this server, we can have a regular count – say GTB cards. If we only issue 100 of these and upon next maintenance the count goes to 105, then we will all know that there’s been duping or “something fishy” going on. We also want to be transparent and maybe even have player representatives look (Midgard Police) and help us in policing the server too.
Regarding Thor, we are not turning our back from it. The same settings will most likely be implemented. We are in the testing stage for this, so don’t worry.
I’m so sorry if I don’t have time to address and answer each and every comment on the Valkyrie post. Been busy (as always) trying to rush stuff and prep for the launch. We’ll be having the download instructions up soon (it’s just 5MB for those with a current pRO client).
Here’s a toast to the Battlefield of Legends – Valkyrie!
Strength and Honor!
GM T
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