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It really was a tough choice and a bitter pill to swallow.
Just last night, after thorough analysis and thought, I finally gave the green light to roll back character data of RF Philippines to the state of May 23, 2008 4am. And boy, it was a tough call.
Around that fateful time, a new and dangerous threat to RF surfaced – the Gold Dupe Hack. With this hack, a lot of unscrupulous players had BILLIONS of in-game cash and hundreds of thousands of gold. The economy was in ruins, prices of normal items skyrocketed and there was a huge excess of cash. Duping and screwed-up in-game economies are not new to us… we had to deal with them before but this one was quite alarming.
Thanks to great efforts of CCR, the developers for the game, the dupe was fixed fast. After the patch solution, I gathered the RF team to analyze the damage that was brought about by the cheat.
The first order of battle was to come up with a plan to fix the economy. As you may well know, virtual economies should (and could) be monitored regularly – it’s a key indicator how good or well your MMORPG is doing.
The team and I managed to come up with a plan to fix the problem – a) finding out the rest of the cheaters (the dupers) and banning them (thereby keeping their illegal billions from flooding the market) and b) flushing out the excess cash.
At first we thought that this could be managed. But when we pulled out the numbers from the database, we were shocked – the economy was bloated by as much as 500%. This means that if a server normally had 1 TRILLION cash, it now had 5 to 6 trillion! That’s a lot of cash to trace, flush out and investigate. It would take our GMs maybe up to a year just to this job.
The rollback option was last on the list. We even tried to lay out other plans such as dividing everyone’s cash by 4 but those innocent will be also be hit. By doing a rollback, we (Level Up) will also take a hit on the business side. This would mean that the revenue we gained for a week will be lost (since we’re gonna give back the GCs). But that’s the least of our worries. The main thing was to clean the economy. Trying to convince CCR was another uphill climb that me and the team had to take. Good thing we managed to convince them. Thanks to Kaye and the rest of the CCR team. Mabuhay kayo!
So the servers went down at around 1pm. Community Manager Chase and myself began crafting the official statement together with compensation plan. And here’s another problem – majority of the RF team and my marketing and community team had to fly to Bacolod at 2pm for the CUS event, leaving just me and GM Garamond (who used to to control GM Alric before in RF when I was controlling GM Hexon) to do the job of coordinating and announcing the entire rollback process.
Man, it was like the good old days… it reminded me of my Ragnarok days as community manager and also as brand manager.
We just had a slight glitch with the jade insertions. Instead of wasting more hours and keeping the game down, we decided that we had to put the game up and just reward the jades on monday.
Initial reports proved that the community is happy with what we did. Believe me, it was a long and ardous process. But keeping the integrity of the game and managing the economy is a good trade off in the long. This rollback was done to even out the playing field and keep the game fun for everyone.
I hope you do understand.
Finally, thanks to the community of RF Online who always report new cheats and bugs to us. We and CCR are aware of all these things and we’re on it. Our interest is to serve you always.
Enjoy your weekend!
GM T
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I can understand most of the angry players that commented here, even though I’ve begun playing RF after the Rollback.. Well since this happened to me when I was playing some other previous Online Games, with pointless Rollbacks.. ~_~
But anyways, I’d still continue what I’ve started and I was hoping for that RF Online Expansion, Part 1 Super Nova & Part 2 Planet War(With Sunrise’s Gundams!! xD). But I’m not sure if it’d even be released this Year.. Hearing from the other players, this game might be even dying, but I might probably be wrong lol
BTW, I could still see people playing in Internet Cafes using these Bugs and other piece of crap >_
aw all off your games were shits…can u do better things in defeating those hackers w/o affecting innocent gamers!!!
I have spend thousands for your games and im tired being affected w/ roll backs from ragna even here (RF)
my username is hanepto
Before the rollback i am enjoying playing rf i sepend 2 weeks making the char reach lvl 42 and it started at lvl 16 then u told us that there will be no roll back so i played and played until i reach the lvl and it took me 18 hrs / day and i spend may be 4k for that 2 weeks and the when i open my char it just roll back to the same level what the heck……….
ya right
Excuse me…?? ALAM NYO NA PO BA ANG NAGNG YAYARI SA RF NGAUN? meron na pong CHEAT.. and thats call
!!!!CHEAT ENGINE !!!
pwede nyo po bang ibahin ang Game Guard systems nyo para hindi mapaukan ng CE?
KASE MADAMI NANG NA PEPERWISYO!!!
AMP>>>>
ausin nyo yang game system amp
GM ganito ginagawa para makapasok ang CE oh..
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EHSvc.dll
psapi.dll
hack shiel… tapus babaliktarin lang nila ung txt..pag papalitin nila ng txt ang dalawang program..
psapi.dll
EHSvc.dll
ginaganyan ba nila..
pwede bang paki ayus agad to?..
hindi nyo ba nkikita?..
dupers came from altrax server and JOHNPAUL of mutiny guild from Bellato knows that very well because he’s the one buying that duped items. like the +7 upgrader w/c cost Php 30k.
hahaha alam ko baho mo JOHNPAUL at iba pang kguild mo.
massabi q lng kc s mga taong ala nman hilig s RF wag n siya mag laro ng Rf kc d man nila dos2 ehh… kc para s kin the best ang RF online hehe…
ano sbi u otaboli2008 wag k n laro ha,,,,
d mo man pla guz2 ehh…
Q1:anu pa bang bug meron sa rf?
Q2:kelan nmn to mawawala?
Q3:kelan ang lastest patch?
Q5:cnung nagsabbotage ng rf? kalaban ng \LU?? sinakto nila sa paglaunch na sobrang panget n game play? pati guild wars walang kenta? puro n lng cast ng skills? maaction nga paulit ulit nmn ung casting wala nang sense..ang panget pa ng graphics tapos ang daming channels panu ka magguiguildwars nun? anu un pauso?
Q6: asan ang question no.4?
SANA MAALIS NA ANG CHEAT ENGINE AT DUPE PARA MAS MAGANDA ANG RF
SANA MA BAND C cereal AT C xAnrea
LIKE BARB said RFamazing and RFequilibrium ones you cheat automatic DC ka after that banned ka na, RF amazing own by BLACKHAT my friend in RFaddiction, DC dupe lng yan pwd ka nga makisali sa duping aabang ka lng ng DC if you know all kung anu gagawin hehehehe….. galing bell yan na DC dupe… tulad din yan sa RFaddiction biglang nawal dahil sa bell cheater guild name “ThisIsWhyImHot” i think… pinoy cla lahat.. baka yan ung nanggugulo d2…
I’ve seen private servers who are capable of deflating the crashing issue on RF. This is why i can’t imagine an official server having difficulties on the issue, yet infamous private servers can. I do think you cannot touch the game because of CCR, but your management isn’t reasonable enough to cast the rollbacks.
to all GM’s Plzzz Ayusin nyo nmn po ang RF Online syang lang ang mga puyat ,pera at kuryente namin, ,lagi na lng close ang mga server dahil sa mga pesteng buggers na yan ayusin nyo naman po dahil d lang basta laro 2ng RF online IT’S ALL ABOUT MONEY TALK NA!!
Sana maayos nyo na e2 tnx
Anyway…
nakakatamad na maglaro ng RF…yah its all about pera..
kung lam lang sana kung sino yang mga nagruruin ng game na yan at makulong…hahahah….
Well just be patient…
May araw din yang mga yan…
Bout sa new patch…wala pa akong balita bout sa mga developer…
“RFONLINE PLANET WAR”….hope i will reach this episode…heheheh
All i can say mag private server nalang kayo…hahahaha…
Sana po pag nagclose kayo, wala na po rollback para walang sayang na pawis at pera sa side ng mga players. Mas mabuti siguro, premium players na lang po ang makapaglaro dahil maraming dupers at buggers na nakikihalo po. Nasira tuloy ang laro. salamat po!@
hahahah dami pang cheat sa RF online CE UCE SQL WPE etc……… hahayz naku sa akin laru nlng kau ng private kuryente lng babayan nyo wala na load bilis pa ng exp try nyo RFequilibrium may cahllenge din pag dating mo sa 51 stage medyo mahina na exp…..
hahahah dami pang cheat sa RF online CE UCE SQL WPE etc……… hahayz naku sa akin laru nlng kau ng private kuryente lng babayan nyo wala na load bilis pa ng exp try nyo RFequilibrium may cahllenge din pag dating mo sa 51 stage medyo mahina na exp…..
Please GM masters. . .open my ID!
My ID: bhatex2nd
And my name: JoeyRamone . So please GM, open my ID please . T_T
Please GM masters. . .open my ID!
My ID: bhatex2nd
And my name: JoeyRamone (bellato) . So please GM, open my ID please . T_T
OI… SAMA NAMAN NG BALITA NA YAN.. NAUBOS LAHAT NG PERA KOH TAPOS ITO LNG ANG KALALABASAN… PAPS AYUSIN NYO NAMAN YAN…. KAWAWA ANG MGA INOSENTE…. OI.. SGE NA…. UNFAIR TALAGA KAYO… PALIBHASA PRA LNG NAMIN ANG HABOL NYO… SANA MAGANDA PA RIN SA NEXUS… SANA ANDON PA RIN CHARACTER KOH… SANA HNDI SYA DLETE…… HIRAP NYO KA-USAP
PAPS ANO POH IBIG SABIHIN NG LAHAT NG ITOH…?
bat di ako maka connect?
lalabas ang “Connecting to launcher update server”, then for about 5secs mawawala.?
don’t tell me, block na nman lahat ng naka smartbro? T_T
alm nyu mga fafs, on dying stage na ang RFPH.
kya kung ako senyo magsilipat na kayo.
wlang kwenta ang LUG.wlang kwenta ang faculty at staff at kuripot pa mga GM nila pagdating sa compensations. bat mo pagaaksayahan ng panahon ang larong hina-hack lng ng karamihan?
and if case you guys never noticed, mabagal na servers ng LUG. di na katulad nung dati. mabagal kc di nmn yta nila inaasikaso. eh mas mabilis pa server ng mga private servers kesa server ng LUG eh.
anu ba yan…
pota WPE wag kau gamit >>>pang SD yan >>>>sayang oras ng ibang nag lalaro >>>>pag private wala SD d2 lang sa pinas na bolok vovo GM ng mga ONLINE sa pinas
vovo GM natin sa RF PH>>>>>>tanga mo cyndie SEX kanalang sa syota mo olol
I could of sworn I read about this before. I forgot what website I’ve seen this on but nevertheless nice post.
So I stayed up WAY too late the other night and got caught up into watching some infomercials and really liked one in particular. It struck me as funny and inetersting at the same time.
mas matinde namn yung sa akin nag benta ako ng load tapos lahat ng kinita ko sa LOAD ko at topup ko nawala para tuloy askopng na scam ng level up