Ragnarok to go Free to Play?

I’ve been receiving a lot of questions and requests about when Philippine Ragnarok Online will finally join almost all the MMORPGs here and go Free to Play.

Players have been asking, our sales people have been bugging me and even people here at the office have pointed this to me a lot of times.

And yes, there ARE rumors out there about pRO going F2P. This post is both a “yes and a no” and hopefully, clarify everything at the end of the day.

Let me give you an inside scoop about the top secret “Valkyrie Project”.

This post will explode in 10 seconds, agent, if you don’t click below… tick…tick…tick…

GOING FREE?

Some may have heard about the “Valkyrie Project”. Here’s what’s real;

3 months ago, our CEO tasked our department to look into the idea of RO going free to play. Upon much deliberation, late nights at the office and trying to pull out our hairs; Wauks then started research on the how the other countries with Ragnarok were doing.  I already heard about “something strange and peculiar” in RO China. True enough, Waukeen came back to me and found out the China had all F2P servers – with a twist.

The drop rates were different, the Item Mall setup was also slightly different. Although it was STILL the same RO gameplay and feel, the mechanics of the China servers was what excited us all.

We then burned the midnight oil trying to glean more information on the subject. With the help of our friends from Gravity and the Game Gurus (the GMs from our Product Developement dept), and yes… after a million meetings – Project Valkyrie was born.

Valkyrie will be a FREE-TO-PLAY server. We will launch this commercial server on October 10! Yey! The other commercial worlds (Baldur, Tyr and the rest) will still retain their old business model (subscription + item mall). I’ll have to see first how the Valkyrie server does.

At any rate, the pRO team will be announcing the teasers and put up the marketing materials about Valkyrie (you may have seen the loading screen inside the game na) this week.

Here are some more teasers and bullets about Valkyrie:

  • Boss and MVP monsters DO NOT drop boss cards
  • Slotted items, weapons and gear are also NOT dropped
  • Some maps are PVP enabled
  • Ori and Elu are almost NOT dropped, quested or found
  • You can buy these and other items at the ITEM MALL
  • We will release a CD for this patch (3 CDs)
  • Valkyire already has Rachel (whatever the commercial worlds have, Valkyrie has)
  • If you already have RO installed, you just need to download a 5MB fix.
  • Characters CANNOT be migrated

Before the violent reactions, let me inform you that we have tested this thoroughly and gathered feedback from key players – both current players and those who already quit Ragnarok.

The item prices are fairly reasonable. For example, slotted mufflers cost P10 and various slotted weapons cost from P10 to P50. Even PVP cards such as Tharas, Raydric, and Hydras are anywhere from P20 to P100. And don’t worry about the boss cards, we’ll REGULATE it and will sell a limited supply only. And no, they won’t be released all in one blow – we have an item and card release schedule: think “Magic: The Gathering” boxed sets and you’ll know what I mean.

I also want this server to be dupe and bot-free. So constant testing and confirmation is being done now. We want those items to have value so duping, cheats will be absolutely be unacceptable.

More on Valkyrie in the days to come.

Enjoy!

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  • marlo

    Module Name: C:\Gravity\RagnarokOnline\valexe.exe
    Time Stamp: 0x49cc6f23 – Fri Mar 27 00:16:03 2009

    Exception Type: 0xc0000005

    0x004255f3 valexe.exe
    0x00460aeb valexe.exe
    0x004e0934 valexe.exe
    0x004e7cc2 valexe.exe
    0x005d92c2 valexe.exe
    0x005d8d84 valexe.exe
    0x006a2b25 valexe.exe
    0x006c3cf3 valexe.exe
    0x7c817077 kernel32.dll

    eax: 0x02cd50f8 ebx: 0x02cf66c8
    ecx: 0×00000000 edx: 0×00000000
    esi: 0x000000ec edi: 0×00000000
    ebp: 0x0012f4d8 esp: 0x0012f4d8

    stack 0012f4d8 – 0012f8d8
    0012F4D8 : 54 FA 12 00 EB 0A 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    0012F4E8 : 78 85 8B 02 C8 66 CF 02 60 4A 78 00 90 07 9E 04
    0012F4F8 : 00 00 00 00 00 C8 C8 02 00 00 00 00 78 01 DD 00
    0012F508 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    0012F518 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    0012F528 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    0012F538 : 0F 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 18 84 8B 02
    0012F548 : 00 00 00 00 B8 00 91 7C A8 06 9E 04 64 F5 12 00
    0012F558 : 68 F5 12 00 00 00 00 00 B8 00 91 7C A0 04 9E 04
    0012F568 : 34 F6 12 00 41 00 91 7C D8 07 DD 00 5D 00 91 7C
    0012F578 : C8 66 CF 02 A8 04 9E 04 C8 66 CF 02 B0 66 8A 02
    0012F588 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 78 85 8B 02 B0 66 8A 02
    0012F598 : 18 00 00 00 B8 66 8A 02 68 01 DD 00 90 01 DD 00
    0012F5A8 : 18 00 00 00 50 07 00 00 D8 5F F1 77 03 00 00 00
    0012F5B8 : AC 5F F1 77 70 05 0C 04 30 05 9E 04 18 05 9E 04
    0012F5C8 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 84 8B 02 38 00 00 00

    Launch Info
    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

    Job : Novice

    how do u fix this

  • yeahman25

    GM naddc lagi me sa battle maroll pti woe… dhil daw nka dual me pero hindi nman… ksi nung naginstall me ng valk sa pc ko gumana nung una pero kinabukasan hindi na nag crack na ung gameguard.. kaya pinalitan ko ung valexe.exe kso lagi nman me dc sa woe… pero kung reinstall ko ung installer ko patch pa sya cmula ata sa march 2010.. pero kung meron mada download na orig na valexe.exe un ung ggwin ko

  • HELP

    ANG HIRAP NMAN MAG PATCH.. D KC FULL PATCH UNG NADOWNLOAD SA WEBSITE NYO… FAILED NG FAILED TPOS FEB P UNG START UNG PATCH PAG FAILED ULIT NNMAN?? PAG MLPIT N MATAPOS MAG FAILED.. TAE NMAN

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rain-Tangs/100002070017074 Rain Tangs

    Why Is It that until now Level Up hasn’t posted an update concerning International players playing pRO not being able to play? This damaging the company’s credibility they manage to open a topic In FB about the situation but GMs Have Ignored players and have not provided any Information on whats really going on. The customer support and service website cannot be accessed aswell depriving the players anytype of response without a warning or a heads up. This may all be business talk but people pay to play and a liability must be set for the Inconvenience a reply, response or update on the situation is the least they can provide the players otherwise its just a very Incompetent.


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