Ragnarok Online is a 1 player MMO - Ragnarok Rants

Right now it's really hard to find anyone to play with and the struggle to level alone is real. Join me as I rant about the current state of partying in the official international Ragnarok Online servers and how this is pretty much a 1 player MMO now.
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[@mbsissef8815]

As a novice near the sewers, being mobbed by bugs and helped by this swordsman guy passing by, saving my life and asking me to join him so he could help me level and become a swordsman too, he was almost going for the knight quest. I would later get to know his wife and son. A natural spontaneous friendship that i will never forget this game for. Nostalgia at its finest.

[@jimfrans2547]

that's when RO still fun to play. after that later, since the Pay To Win came, it became trash game.

[@Skalbemann]

Man I would love to know if the younger players in modern mmos these days form the same connections or not.

[@chingchingbling2145]

​@@SkalbemannExactly my thoughts! I wonder how it is out there now.

[@DadSensei]

@@Skalbemann very rarely, MMOs have become mostly grounds for minmaxing esports no-fun allowed. You get pretentious stuff like WoW Hardcore at most but even so, it's a hype fed by ecelebs and such. Then there's FF XIV, which has a rather shallow overworld experience, and most socialization occur to static groups level. The only moment in modern MMOs where this happened was during their honeymoon-launch phases such as TES honeymoon phase which was to me one of the best in modern MMOs, yet that was all the way back in 2014 or so, and given the difficulty of outworld encounter with enemies and bug-ridden launch, they would then have to nerf it

[@william2154]

Gravity just needs to remake this game and stay faithful to the original.

[@wjp8318]

They have! It's called Ragnarok online origin and it's on PC right now :) They've updated certain things of course and apparently it's how they envisioned RO to become before the got hacked etc. There's a lot of QOL for the present day

[@jjsolstice7283]

There's Ragnarok Eternal Love and Ragnarpk Online X too. Both in mobile versions and PC through emulator.

[@arenjietc1956]

​@@wjp8318i wouldn't call those mobile RO as a remake for the classic RO pc. Its a typical gacha game with a ridiculous power system :(

[@niuniuita]

and remove the f2p + lootboxes part of the game. Start removing those things that makes it more practical to play alone.

[@Tatuzka]

@@wjp8318 No shot.. Ragnarok Origin is just a cheap ass cash grab..

[@nekoraba]

Thanks for creating this video! I grew up playing RO since 2004. I played it on and off throughout the years and it'll always have a spot in my heart. I played in pRO, iRO, and many private servers. No other MMO has replaced it for me :( lately I've been longing to return again but I've always played as a priest on any servers I joined and now that it's empty, it would be impossible to play :(

[@Depredown]

I recommend you to look at the top server pages, there you can see a lot of private servers with a good amount of players, currently I play on ragnaheim, a server that opened recently and has a lot of active players.

[@skyheartsama]

Yeah, ProjectRO was the perfect pserver while it lasted. I've been looking to come back but not if the games dead

[@BlindGardener]

@@skyheartsama ff xiv is what came closest to it for me.

[@zackcr646]

i remember blackout RO. miss those days, vaLK ARMOR , wings , cards ! good ole days

[@MurphyDuong]

You’re absolutely right. I literally downloaded this game and played it for like 2 weeks to relive my memories. After 2 weeks, I was “done” and I stopped playing. Maybe I’ll log back on in a few years… if they’re still around. I’ll still listen to the BGM though.

[@mik-3005]

I remember playing RO in a internet cafe in Bangkok, Thailand back in around 2003-2004. Man that was an amazing times when every PC was playing RO and we all team up in a party to level and go on a adventure together. Using skills from all the classes to support everyone. Now it is just a 1 player MMO....

[@purrfekt]

Hey I remember that time! Kept meeting cute swordys going 555 in orc forest

[@groovelife415]

I played on Chaos back in 2002. I was 22 years old and loved waking up each day. Now I'm 44 and hating life, even though I've achieved the majority of my life goals.

[@Leantath]

Great video! The only reason I got to play RO back when I was 16 (33 now) was via private servers. When Renewal dropped and it became F2P I decided to join iRO and pay for VIP and while it was fun, (got an FS Archbishop to 115), the game had changed way too much from what I used to love. On private servers you get to be part of a small community, while on iRO I constantly felt isolated despite the thousands of active players (and oh God, the bots). Fast forward to recent times, and the only thing Gravity has done to bring attention to the game is via cracking down on loved private servers. I get the point about copyright infringement and all that, but private servers exist for the sole reason that Gravity keeps going in a direction the more dedicated playerbase doesn't want to go in. Hypermonetization tactics, closing down server regions (and iRO Classic) and refusing to implement simple QoL improvements that private servers have had since the beginning (@mi, @whodrops, @whosell and so on) keeps the official version of the game both stagnant and not worth to invest money into.

[@jirokure]

This. the bots infestation alone was enough for me to stay away from the shitshow that is official server.

[@erickponce1438]

You literally do a better marketing for the game than Gravity.

[@5e55homaru]

Which marketing tho

[@Vikingr91]

@@5e55homaru he's just simping

[@JCE0415]

@@5e55homaru Nah, he's saying that Gravity doesn't do ANY marketing

[@mLumarque]

Glad to have played during the golden age of iRO. Back when your only form of communication were forums and ventrilo, RO was your glorified chat room with hats. I even met my wife on iRO lol. We've thought about hopping back in and checking on our god items, but after watching your video I think we'll just stick to new experiences. Thanks for the vid!

[@jagen304]

CHAT ROOM WITH HATS! that knocked me out LOL

[@mLumarque]

@@jagen304 I only speak truths 😄

[@ruizuferipegameplay]

I tried to replay ragnarok recently, to have some little fun with a childhood game, and i gave up after some time exactly because of that. No parties, everybody play solo, and every where i tried, looks like solo play was even more encoraged. Maybe i felt that more because i play more party dependent roles like tank and support, and felt asking the exact same question "Is it me? Am i doing something wrong?"

[@mrgtmodernretrogamingtech6891]

20 years ago, you can drop an item inside Lower Mid Prontera City and you won't be able to see it again for 2 reasons: 1. City is overcrowded with players and you won't see that item. 2. City is overcrowded with players, many people will loot it and you'll never see that item. That's a bit of a taste of that game in its former glory... Gosh, I miss those days...

[@user-rb4sq1kg8q]

i know that feel bro...

[@Afronautsays]

Back when it was easier to ask someone what they typed if you missed it than to scroll up because EVERYONE was using general chat. Walk anywhere in RO these days and it's just... silence.

[@nanowar1192]

Oh Pronera, land of opportunity. I miss the day when no body know about scamming, and you trade one card with them, then cancel, and on the second trade, you switch to a poring card 😅

[@shutsquad]

It's always a good day when there's a new Amber Evelyn video! I recently returned to the game and main a ranger as well. I found this guild full of old players that have returned to RO and they have been absolutely amazing. They are super friendly and what I like the most about iRO since returning. It's the Gatecrashers guild. I will RODEX you, J_son. Onto the gear aspect. I'm fortunate in a sense that 1) I have a fair bit of disposable income and 2) I returned with a couple of storages full of gear from years past that I could sell. Even with all of that considered, in the last month I think I've put $200 into iRO and in total about 10b in gear and I still have an incomplete build... Granted I can 1 shot a LOT of stuff. However, getting to the 1 shot phase is just more fwing/AS spam. That doesn't resolve the 1 player aspect of the game. Two Ring of Ceynian alone are like 10b. I think fully geared BIS Ranger will probably cost more than 40b. It's a money pit for sure. The game is now built around EVERYONE being able to one shot whatever they are hunting. This is in direct conflict with party play. Why would anyone party when everything dies in 1 click? My game errors all the time. I've looked at Gravity's outdate FAQ and support pages, even on the forums lots of these error posts go unanswered. The resolutions to manually patch the game are dated and have broken links. These errors are just something we have to suffer through for now I guess. I wish they would add some of the other dungeons but they only seem interested in adding cash shop items and none of the content. Thanks for another awesome vid though! Can't wait to see what you come up with next!

[@WeTheNorthRaptors]

i returned to playing RO just last april 2023, i've spent about 400 canadian dollars, just to get my FAS ranger set(and im still missing the best shadow gears for FAS ranger).. Just for the nostalgia, my FAS set is probably worth 18b zeny, i can do end-game contents now, ET is a 20-min run for me.

[@kingmonday2918]

It's a shame they never remade Ragnarok properly. I reckon up to Transcendence was the best time for this game. Used to spend hours just rotating around one or two maps with my buddy, meleeing things to death so fast on our rogue and knight. No quests. No dailies. No best in slot farming. Not even multiple characters. Just cruising around and text chatting for hours. Loved this game.

[@EbonySeraphim]

Ragnarok Online was definitely nostalgia from high school (2000) to maybe a bit post college (2009) for me. At first it was iRO beta, but didn't have the money to pay for it online so switched to private servers back then. Boy what a TIME SINK it was back then and I only made it to a level 82 Hunter (bow and arrow, with hawk) which was considered a fast leveling job back then. I love how you were deadly honest about leveling too. Most of Ragnarok's broken systems only make sense in the early game: like before level 35~40. I'm talking about slow HP/SP regen taking minutes to get to full, and the fact that you sit to increase your regen rate, and there are no healing NPC even in towns. That game isn't designed for you to sustain a battle with a monster by executing some strategy of offense and defense based on the specific monster type. Monsters are damage sponges, and damage dealers. At some point the damage dealt by certain jobs is so high, they have to scale up the damage monsters deal too much to make them actually dangerous. Oh and then movement -- early game monsters move slow. You can run from most of them when you find yourself dying. Later game, nope. The weight limit on characters also means you are forced to go back to town to drop your loot -- which seems fair, but when you learn it's tied to your character's strength stats and many jobs have absolutely no use for strength otherwise, it becomes silly. Only swordsmen/melee based characters are meant to reasonably carry loot while fighting in a dungeon? Even the EXP scaling was a terrible grind. If you fought monsters you could "sustain" fighting in terms of damage in/out, you were getting super low exp and had to kill thousands, or tens of thousands of them to level up a few percent. If they are dangerous enough and you slip up and die: you lost a percent of exp. I remember that amount of exp being like...1-2 hours of "leveling" for someone close to level 90. Even worse when you're in the upper 90s. People would literally spend a week just to gain 1 level. And notoriously back then, to get from level 98-99 (old cap), it required the same amount of exp as half of the journey between 1-98 took.

[@WalterWorldGames]

I played up until Juno was released and I remember considering it a good day when my 85 hunter got 0.5% per hour leveling on Anolians, in Zenhai Marsh (three maps east of Comodo). At some point I realized it would simply take too long for me to get my aura, so I decided it was time to move on…

[@mendics]

thank you for being one of the few who show how badly this game has gotten. People love to parrot their love for this game by remembering the good old days, high on copium with nostalgia glasses on trying to ignore why the game has fallen off. I played pre ren, renewal years, on and off, and eventually finally decided to quit few years ago with no desire to ever return again. The only nostalgia i have left for this game is the bgm, i'm so done with the game. It has a lot more wrongs than rights than people want to admit. It has aged poorly, and has no future, especially with the way gravity ran it through the ground. I blame korean gaming culture for this, p2w, rng and grinding like a second work is the norm for them, global community is a second citizen to them, they have had this issue back then and still now, they'll never learn. Look at lost ark, bdo, etc etc, the list of dead, struggling korean mmo is a meme within the mmo community. They have not fixed their image of this for a decade. I see it not changing.

[@rpgdreamer8690]

Kind of reminds me of maplestory and how some people say they missed old maplestory. Question is, if maple stayed the way it was back then, would it have turned out like this game? 🤔

[@runningdecadeix4780]

It's obvious that Ragnarok has a lot of flaws built into its foundation as a Korean MMORPG with tons of grinding. But the gameplay can still be a lot of fun until you eventually reach the level where the extreme grinding, pay to win, etc. becomes unavoidable and by then it's just too much. But the most memorable thing about the game for me is its aesthetics. It's just amazing. The art style is so beautiful; the pixel art is gorgeous; all the cute characters, cool designs, equipment, monsters, the animations, the environment, the mix of 2D sprites and 3D. The music and sounds, too. The whole aesthetic and vibe of Ragnarok is one of the best in gaming IMO and I really wish we could see it replicated again, in a more user friendly game or remake.

[@TehMarche]

@@rpgdreamer8690 maple corrupts its playerbase by feeding constant FOMO systems, FOTM classes, new bosses, new areas, new symbol daily to grind, etc every 4 to 6 months. they also get compensation very often. in RO? LMAO. you're lucky to get a patch in each year with almost nothing. remember how long it took for the devs to fully "implement" and "fix" 3rd job/renewal? almost four years. and even then it was still an absolute mess. samsung(gravity) has always doomed RO and private servers has always been the driving factor for playability. if it wasn't for free RO pirated servers, this game would have disappeared around the 2010s for sure.

[@veeshadow]

That's why RO mobiles do well. Yes those games might be cringe If you don't play them yet... Play them and you realize a lot of stuff actually can be done on RO itself but it doesn't. I don't mind with gacha and P2W if said gacha can be grinded by F2P features and has reasonable pity amount... Genshin Impact is also one example that RO can be like that despite that game is not MMO by fondation (they only add online function for playing with friends)

[@KoeSeer]

pre-renewal system is a co-op needed. Unless if you're agi-luk assassin/hunter. even then, you probably need to bring priest along to buff you with gloria/agi.

[@kozmicaos]

I played since BETA launch, for way more than a decade. I loved RO, but the grind in this game is INSANE. As much as I made precious memories (because the people I met, some are my friends to this day) I will never waste again a second of my life grinding like I used to do in RO. The grinding is a way to slow progress, so the players feel engaged for a longer time, which increases the chances for the players to expend money on the game. It's a strategy for most classic MMOs. But, as I grew older, I realized that my only real currency was not money, but TIME, and RO demands LOTS of it. So I reached a point in my life that I couldn't grind anymore, because my currency (time) gets less and less as it passes by. So I quit. That's what happened with most of my friends that also quit. We all love Ragnarok to this day, but the grinding is absurd and I don't have the luxury to expend the rest of my life with it. What I think, in a deeper sense, is that me and my friends grew old, while Ragnarok quite remained the same, like a "Peter Pan" that refused to acknowledge that life changes: it didn't grow with us. We "outgrew" Ragnarok, the game that is an eternal child demanding full attention. Then, as old players quit, the new generation of MMO players prefers modern games/MMOs, then RO gets empty, therefore, for the remaining of RO's players, that makes even harder to grind (honestly, grinding alone is a torture, I could only tolerate it because me and my friends would voice chat during our gameplay). This pattern of MMO's death also happened in other MMOs in a similar way, like Anarchy Online (a masterpiece of sci-fi MMO in my opinion). It's truly sad, but it's a part of life. (sorry for broken English, not my main language)

[@shad5325]

gravity should make a worldwide server starting neq for all the players , i would happily get back to it after 10 years

[@WeTheNorthRaptors]

also dont use flywings, get a giant faceworm snake skin(1m each) and exchange them in merry badger inside eden to get a 10 day-belzeebub wing(teleport)

[@rangertheon4141]

For me I usually just go to a private server to get a community of a mix of new and old players

[@englishbyproxy3429]

People complain developers don't need to make it mandatory for 1-player games to be online. We've been doing it voluntarily for 10 years

[@mem0ryfoam]

I felt the same way. I was told at around the 150 mark, that's kind of the breaking point where you can potentially start really getting stronger and there's some quest gear sets etc that are decent. Thing is, just as you mentioned, it's not how I enjoyed ragnarok back in the days of alpha/beta/and release in 2003 for NA. So unfortunately, I've kind of thrown iro to the side and delved back into the pserver world again on a nice classic server with a little bit of custom content, no cash shop as of yet (tho talking about it for cosmetic only) and they really push for party leveling and not just soloing the whole time, though that can also be done just like before. It's been a great time, but it is classic in the full sense, it is 1x just as it was back in the day, so the grind is there, but I've really enjoyed it because I'm once again playing with people and making good friends in game. Completely feel where you're coming from though for sure.

[@imnotyourking]

This sounds like Payon Stories xD

[@javierortiz82]

server?

[@matheuslemos2346]

This video is timeless, as a player of Brazil Ragnarok Online, we face the exactly same issues since a loong time.

[@weirdo911aw]

I suggest you check out the Return to Morroc server. Overhauled but keeps the same grindy philosophy of classic servers

[@kappasigds]

Its really hard now. People use to make step by step guides for you to level to max. Also maximizing gear makes a huge difference in the game. Just swapping out accessories or shadow gear can turn around a whole build. Since there is no guides and very few vids to copy you really have to learn a lot by yourself. Go to izlude and shoot at eggs until you maximize your damage. If you see a person in izlude that plays ranger don't be shy. Ask for advice. Ive met so many people that were kind and would open their gears for me or look at my gear to tell me what im doing wrong. Ranger is a very popular class. Im sure someone can help you out.

[@macb3741]

I saw an ad about this, and thought hol-f-sh. But I first checked this out, its sad to see the game has zombified like this. The community was what made this game exceptional. It's the only thing in my life that got me addicted to something. But this was when I was a young teen haha. Seeing you leveling, its just grinding to grind. You're not doing anything wrong, these mobs were made for 2-3 man parties. The only thing i would like to do is do MVPíng with a friend, but like you said, ''time'' is what we dont really have anymore. Thank you for showing us this honest opinion.

[@Tonyrayray]

Hmmm I like how the high tier T.i monsters were at 70k max hp last week. And now they are 200k+ .

[@DynamiteDominique]

Ragnarok online was my first mmo back in 03. I remember starting and there was a girl character that that spawned next to me. They asked if I was new and I told them I was. Turns out they were too so we decided to stick together and try to figure the game out. when we made it to the first town, she said we should try to find someone to help us cuz the beginning didnt give us any gear to work with. So, i just gold begged in the corner like a bum. Some dude a chocubo looking bird told me to quit begging and go out and make the gold myself. then went back to being a statue. called him an asshole and dipped lol. I ran into her again while running from the dude, she found a group that was willing to help us. I remember they took us to some desert place to farm. they obviously did most of the work. We decided to rest so they could get some health back and decided to chat for a bit. they asked why I wasnt sitting down and it would help me heal faster. I pressed the button and said I couldn't, turns out I was just under the level we got to sit. They laughed and said its fine, they'll wait longer for me. there hasnt been an mmo besides maybe gaiaonlines zomg game that ive played with a community that engaging with each other. Ragnarok just feels dead, i don't see events being hosted, new dungeons or things to do. I mean I think Iro is behind jro and kro, and its been that way for years. why the fuck do i want to climb a treadmill for gear and loot for content i know is several years old, and they just pump shit into the shop to buy that made all your grinding useless. They had some fucking audacity to go after private servers when those owners probably put more effort into the game and community than gravity ever did.

[@JJJohnson441]

I remember back when I first played. Same experience. Community helping one another. On my server, we traveled from Payon to prontera by foot (newbies were too poor to teleport using kafra). We helped one another to fend off wolves and other aggressive monsters on the way. Some acolytes healed random people who got attacked. Some dropped arrows and potions for people. It was just walking, but it was that experience that made it memorable.

[@3qti877]

😂

[@mobytrice]

I remember playing this way on turtle island leveling to 99 as a hunter. This was waaaay before they introduced ascended classes or whatever they're called. Unfortunately I was in a different time zone than the majority of my guild and was playing on Chaos when everyone was asleep. Never got to really experience iRO properly even though I hit 99 and never did MVPs.

[@dragonfx310]

What a throwback! Spent so much of my high school days on this legendary game. I'm glad I found your channel.

[@joshuajirehsalomon6885]

Maybe they should increase the exp bonus when in a party and minimize releasing op cash gears.

[@ShiloBuff]

Ragnarok Online was the most nostalga and fun experience I have ever had. But that was back in the original days and also on private servers. The social aspect was amazing.

[@samehedi]

(player from 2004 here) my take on this; without a party, leveling like crazy is just not fun and that is okay. instead enjoying the mood, the scenery, building different characters, trying to make them overpowered in some way or simply said, fooling around and immersing myself in the game was what made it fun. back in the day, it was all about our small party. the big guilds weren't that interesing but like you said, one needs dedicated friends to form a fun party. easy back than, impossible nowadays. my tip for you woudld be; stop leveling and instead start having fun again. or maybe run your own server, back in the day it was quite easy and for endgame feeling or testing it was a lot of fun.

[@frattihasi]

this is the reason i don't play official servers anymore. firstly, the community on those pesky, illegal pServers is way more helpful, supporting, active and overall more party-focussed than on official. if i wanna play a singleplayer-game, i play something on my playstation. secondly, the bigger problem is gravity doesn't know it's own game as it seems (questionable rewbalacing shit that makes things worse), and tries to milk money out of it with the most balance-broken stuff imaginable in the cash-shop. most (non-cashgrab) pServers are way more balanced and completely ignore overpowered gears in cash-shops/etc and try to make the game as it was 15 years ago: just fun...

[@deaelbowe4146]

The teleport attack only really works if you can kill in one hit. Maybe you can try bounty board quests or the illusion dungeons. But love your videos. They are great content.

[@DeadKay24]

That’s what I did yesterday lol. I did bounty board till lvl 70 lmao I don’t see why is so hard xd

[@oct91988]

This was such a huge part of my childhood, played in chaos too in official Philip server whew I used a battle priest so I am used to being 1 player

[@samita137]

Thanks for all the content! Last time I played this game was 2003. Really sad to see how empty it is now, can't believe how empty south prontera looked, that place used to be PACKED. It was always a hard game to level up in, specially when solo, this however looks even crazier. Economy sounds insane too, back then good gear would be in the 10-50 mill range, billions sounds insane, but maybe it's easier to make money now.

[@Flippirino]

I've randomly thought about getting back into this game randomly And seeing videos posted of it in 2023 is quite astonishing to me I'm glad to hear and understand that it is still going but without anyone basically

[@221barman]

Omg this was my childhood! This game was my gateway to mmorpg. Incredible. Wish I could still play this.

[@NamiRaikura]

I loved this game back in the day, it was so easy to make new friends because of how interactive it was. Years later, like after the pandemic, I learned there was a mobile version of this game, so I hopped on it out of curiosity, feeling somewhat excited because of nostalgia, and I thought I'd be making some new friends again. But nope, I was wrong...is it just me? Or do people nowadays just don't talk to each other anymore on MMORPGs? Or people are just super weird, or just wanna RP all day. I dunno, I just kinda miss how it was before, playing online in general.

[@CANELA-cnm]

Yeah.. I miss the times where we needed to make friends to succeed in Ragnarok. Everything just felt so good, the music, the monsters, the vibes... spending the whole night with your friends suffering to achieve the most simple stuff... Nowadays it's literally a single player game, you can do anything by yourself. :/

[@gabosilva3073]

This thing was the drug back in those years. Playing alone is fun indeed, but entering a guild, get to know the people you're playing with and WoE's where the shit. Would love to play again tbo

[@animejanai4657]

The problem with marketing the game is that it basically doesn't get mentioned in gaming magazines and game sites. A lot of review articles occur because of paid placement, so that's not going to happen for IRO Gravity.

[@timoge7226]

i used to play RO back in the days and i remember hours of grinding is the main activity in this game. you made 6% exp in 2 minutes you where farming there for the showcase. i think that's pretty good leveling speed, tbh i think it's way to much exp you are getting there. with that pace you'd be level up in 20 mins. even if you have to go back to town and shop for potions you can easily get your level up in under 1 hour. i don't get it what's to complain about the situation

[@wlwl2]

I agree with most of what you said. They've changed it recently so you can do the main quests or illusion dungeons to level up. Then once you're at a high level you can start doing instances like OGH or Faceworm Nest.

[@mrtimjitsu]

I was a member of Denuo Convena back in 2004-2005 and I miss those days where you would walk through the streets of pretty much every city and it was CROWDED. Now it's sad to see how empty the game is.

[@Mason10839]

I agree with you, especially the maintenance part same situation in TWRO(Taiwan server), seven hours once a week but still got lots of issues and bugs😂 The only difference is in TWRO still have many players to join party together.

[@idontwatchtv]

I think Gravity is going all in on the Mobile Market with all the different RO Mobile iterations and I think they'll just let RO1 be funded by the whales until it gets to a point where it is no longer profitable and shut it down. Probably that's why they started with the pServer Lawsuits so they scare players away from pServers and are hoping they hop onto either the RO Mobile Gaming or RO1 and become a whale for it. But yea this game gives an insane nostalgia hit, been playing since 2006. If you're into a bit of lore with the game check out the Requiem of the Lost Webcomics. It's all about the famous Biolabs Monsters/Lighthalzen Lore that I believe majority of RO Players enjoyed.

[@Just-A-Casual]

Pre-renewal was not a single player mmo. The current market for MMO is a single player mmo, that's the problem. Old school RO was a true MMO. You can solo mobs all you want, but MVPs had to be done with groups because solo'ing was basically impossible (with a few exceptions).

[@TehMarche]

this is what happens when gravity kills private servers. now NOBODY wants to play ragnarok servers

[@ILoveYou-uj3vs]

Yup👍 Even the official right now looks like a private one. But with cash grabbing system.

[@ENZEED]

i played this game first time when i was 9 years old. i discovered i dont really like pvp and GW but i love the story and the monster grind quest. its 2023 now and im still searching for a server with good story mode and single player experience because i love the ragna gameplay and music

[@PlaystationTalks]

my cousin just passed away 4 days ago... we played ragnarok the 1st time it dropped my cosin even paid for my sub.... man fukkkkk.. i have not played in awhile but with him pasing away i feel soo alone and fuk man.... he was just here at my house and he gets sick and hospitals just dont give a fuk.... me and him gamed soo much now hes gone we were planning to play ragnarok again soon cuz he just got his own place he was soo fuking happy to game again cuz he was always on the move..... fuk man....

[@kaligath6616]

I would have gone back to this game i played it when it was beta but all i would be doing is coming back for the nostalgia and nothing more... It makes me feel so old though...

[@Zsaber64]

Watching this video guess cured me of wanting to redownload this game after not playing for 15 years. Thanks!

[@BrianVaughnVA]

WoW is the same way. EvE, GW2 and Elite Dangerous are the only games where people LOVE playing together.

[@mac2805]

For 700m you could buy +9 wolf officer hat and +7 prism ranger scarf, you can now 1 shot everything cause your No limits have 100% up time, add 200 for a temporal dex boots and 120 dex you will no longer have casting time of arrow storm. White wing is very outdated in my opinion and should not even cost 3b as a set.

[@jimmypham1230]

Be it as it may, nothing will ever replace this game in my heart. It comes and goes but when I play again, best nostalgia ever

[@anthonyferrante8808]

I remember when granps was just an event in ID3 not easily accessible everyday. the lucky boxes were the end of grinding

[@flugzeugtagerauenbeleuchtu468]

I've returned to Iro four months ago and have been having a blast. There's a thousand people on at any given time. Server seems quite lively to me.

[@Renzuken3]

All I remember was that there was way too many hours of mindless grinding needed to get to the higher classes and abilities and I just ran out of steam and quit

[@BriahnAznable]

My girlfriend and I played til like 120ish during the lockdowns for some good good nostalgia and I agree 1000% with your complaints. Had fun leveling up just the two of us but it’s just a fundamentally different game than it was 20 years ago. We went back to it again for fun a few months ago and it felt like a ghost town for sure… Ragnarok will always be special to us and it was such a weird mix of nostalgia and sadness seeing how different it is now. Wish they’d do something more for the new player experience since 90% of gameplay was us looking up guides. I just think there’s too much emphasis on monetization that left the game a mix of confusing power levels Even with my own complaints there will always be something fun about that early grind though 😊 Late game is just a mess though. If even 5% of those AFK shop people/bots played then things would be so different, makes me bummed remembering Prontera back in the day

[@TheGodPoing]

i can't believe nothing has changed 10 years ago.

[@povoljan13]

That's why I keep going back to playing low rate private servers. Though they don't last long but I still enjoy the starting from scratch, leveling up in parties with my friends and killing mvps in a party.

[@lukintagi]

I like this ragnarok, since I'm not a people person, I prefer to do it all by myself. I used to play 15 years ago, and I hated that i had to be in a party pretty much for everything, to k1ll mobs, to get equipment

[@immutablecantrip]

so many good memories from this game when it came out over 20 years ago. sad to see the state of it

[@saynotop2w]

I stopped a while, and sad to see that the one last bandaid they stuck on for multiplayer functionality, Gramps TI, stopped working. That was the only thing.

[@randomgaming5332]

you can create your own server, on your pc for single player and you dont need gravity for that

[@teddycat1212]

Good luck leveling your sniper :3 I recommend u doing quests if bored xD. Sometime Juno party available when ppl have free time. The crash issue...well its due to sprite missing, u can ask community forum for help, but u need technical know how abit to solve it...gravity not helping/fixing those oooof.

[@nilom.barnesjr.8813]

I feel you. I just started playing this game a few days ago and meeeen its soo hard to level up if you dont have any source of zeny or anyone that leeches you...

[@Nuh]

Its not just that its not marketed, but that even returning players can't get the thing to work. Many people, myself included, can't get the launcher to patch correctly without editing registry files. No "new" or even "returning" player will go through that nonsense, when there is dozens of MMO's out there that will will work by pressing 1 button.

[@feirynchandra4809]

sigh.. i remember way back at 2004, we still have a lot interaction between players, transaction, or even a simple begging for blessing and heal from a passing by priest and acolyte XD

[@magiusfantasia5506]

As someone who used to play RO back in the early 2000s.... It pains me to say this but the official servers feel like a dead game. I've heard nothing but complaints from players who play on those official servers. Private servers are kind of where it's at sadly, but even then those same private servers have their problems. I'd honestly just love to play a version of RO that's just right before Renewal. This game doesn't need anything ADDED to it, it just needs some good fixing.

[@captainsunbear5472]

i played on iro for 2 years during the pandemic lock down. What made me finally quit too was also the constant critical errors.

[@ThatLuckyBear]

Recently logged in and solo'd two characters to 99 and peaced out. I don't think I could handle 100+

[@Interesantes91]

I think monthly payment mmorpgs should return and that nothing inside could be purchased with real money. That encouraged getting together with more people to overcome challenges, meeting with people is what gives life to life and real entertainment. Now I think you're only there for the memories... Ragnarok origin was recently re-released and although it is good gacha and p2w, it has something of that of generating a community of the original ro, I have made several friends since I have been playing, a little more one month

[@zb3485]

i still think that this game - on active server - is the best mmo ever...its so unique...i only played tight-knit private servers tho, where everyone knew everyone...WoE on small server is incredible

[@KilluaPatolico]

A cross platform feature would help with the party issues, allowing people to play on mobile... plus auto join party of course, but the op gears have to stop.-. Anyways, there is a new game coming out in this year called Waven, it will be my substitute for ragnarok, i recommend to you guys give it a shot =P

[@lorenacarlos1685]

I played Ragnarok M Eternal Love 4 yrs ago, Gravity's Mobile RO....they profited hugely from that game...players were willing to spend thousands of dollars there for gears and gacha. I too spent a lot of money...but stopped playing cause i didn't want to spend anymore. I started playing that IRO Ragnarok Online a week ago but i've no plans of spending money...i prefer to play F2P. Gravity has another, new RO mobile game by the way, called Ragnarok Origin.

[@Salty010]

now days RO origin and ROM eternal love are fighting each other giving free gift code, to keep player interest its total win for player hahaha2 so far I only spent money buying monthly card since you can offline farming, really help soooo much no need to open pc or emulator etc

[@Xile611]

love this video yeah alot of us who grow up playing RO back in the early 2000's are adults now. but just like those of old who miss the old MMO days of their favorite game. times changed attention spans for people are much shorter.

[@BloodyHowl69]

This is why I play private servers, especially in a language I do not know.

[@lmaAsian]

Population and management issues aside, that point about the warp attack warp attack warp attack play pattern being boring is so true and is the biggest flaw of RO's gameplay imo. Fly wings were a huge mistake because players will always gravitate towards this sort of degenerate playstyle that sucks the fun out of the game simply because its the most efficient way to grind. If they didnt exist, players would have to actually traverse the map to hunt mobs and parties would have a reason to stay together in a group while training. At the very least, they should have a huge cooldown put on them after being in combat so that they cant be abused like this while still being useful for their intended function as a semi fast travel mechanic.

[@TranceCore3]

I was thinking about playing this game again, but IDK if I'm willing to grind like that. Plus you're cooking this game lmao all the points are valid.

[@drnaruud7814]

gramps is really the only party play youre gonna get when you get to the 3digit levels. and theres scarce groups that actually grinds. be it fields/duns or even BB grinding. MVPing is now a solo thing. nd the instances. . . ugh.

[@raeliean]

a few thousand players.. while according to google; The estimates for World of Warcraft daily players range from over 700,000 to 1,650,000 players

[@XJ9LoL]

RO had so much potential as an mmo. But the drama with the start of the game being sabotaged over the subscription based gameplay and then gravity having the shittiest business model for servers with paying money for content was dumb. So much potential, just wasted. Just a pay to win game. 5:30 welp, that's all the game is. You get a cash shop item that makes X skill do 10000000000x damage and spam it. pretty sad

[@DockLobstah]

This game defined high school for me.. I played during the beta!

[@fighterz7985]

For critical errors, try to download the game again and install. I also experienced so many sprite errors before when I used the version 2 years ago.

[@Karthage922]

Its interesting to me, seeing how many people have the same kind of feelings for Ragnarok as I do for Mabinogi, in a sense

[@yabuki2923]

This is so sad to see... I tried to play on the actual server and it was like what you showed. Now, I just play on a private server of about 30 people with a few real life friends. so, i'm lucky 😇

[@gizmozd]

I was too anxious to socialise and find a party, so 90% of the time I was grinding solo on High Orcs. Damn, I must’ve killed dozens of thousands of orcs XD

[@cipski_0075]

what you said is true, it wasnt like this when it frist came out..i remember the days where i would get a 12 man party just to hunt down mobs on sphinx .. but the longer it gets the shittier it becomes

[@quinnthedemon7650]

its also sad when you chance upon someone that decides to go along with your adventures, only to find, in the long run, that the two of you have conflicting schedules, making it hard for you two to be both logged in at the same time.

[@ragueto89]

Go to a nice 99/70 pre-renewal server and have fun.

[@toscho1338]

sadly gravity closed them

[@RH-mk3rp]

And people thought OSRS plyers who aim for 99 rc or agiltiy were crazy. What a very interesting way to progress in the game lol.

[@DragonHeart-cm1tx]

I've been playing this as a single player for 2 years now. But that is because I have my own offline private server. I love it! However, it doesn't have Gramps nor Bounty Boards, I do miss them. 😢 To compensate I can set my own XP and drop rates. I can make shops that sells any item, card, or gear. I have even created my own gear. 😮

[@chuganoga1908]

I always wondered what was this game an old friend of mine was playing back in the day. Just figured out it was Ragnorak and I’m so upset I missed out all these years :(((

[@floofy1]

Since Ragnarok Online for SEA. region died, the game has since moved onto Private Servers and even those are dying... Its really sad. I was an avid RO player and spent most of my time MVPing and PVPing until the servers died out and moved onto private servers and finally moved on from RO. It's sad. I played Tree of Savior and it had some good RO vibes but it's not the same anymore. Most of the RO peeps are playing their mobile games nowadays. Which are cash grabs of course.. RO was ruined by Gravity. No doubt about it. The Runescape gamers are way luckier than us. I did play Runescape but not as huge as RO!

[@mateusb09]

I wouldn’t say this is restricted to ragnarok, I think most modern mmos nowadays are basically single player experiences with random players walking back and forth on your screen. Also, the most recent updates just worsen this issue even more (automated LFG systems, overfocus on instanced dungeons, absence of open world content, etc). Even when they implement a housing system it’s instanced bullshit rather than openworld. Pair this with social media (where people interact outside of the game via discord rather than inside it) and you get the perfect recipe for the scenario we are living now We still have some heavily social mmos, like Albion. But I understand it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, since there is a hardcore element on this game

[@veeshadow]

The major problem is you can't expect everyone to be online at same time. Most mobile games add weekly instances that you need to be online at happy hour everyday so majority of players will recruit at that time. When you able to make friends or join guild then you exchange social medias to schedule yourself and not ignore our IRL... If anything, modern MMO lack ways to create social features that will be replaced by other apps anyway. With Discord we can chat, see someone livestreaming, and voice calls. Voice call is even buggy on RO mobile and they disable it with no further info when to implement again...

[@ivanbratsche]

Hello, its nice to see content creators on this game, i have been getting a lot of publicity of gravity for mobile games, like a lot of ragnarok games and all end up dying

[@hagenisse]

So I've had an urge to play a fantasy game like RO, so I've been trying to find out where to play after learning european servers are awful to free players. And as much as I'd try iRO, I'd rather try the "pre-renewal" or older version where people needed to group to play. Then I learn that the best alternatives for private servers, is either one where it's super buggy or one where people multibox/play with alts. So... I gave up. Does this entire game's playerbase play on nostalgia? It's awful. I just wanted to play the game on simple terms, find a party and level up. I guess this video you made is the reality for the state of the game. It's like every other "MMO" where noone wants to play together.

[@AmberEvelyn]

I recently made a guild and discord focused on party play in iRO. There's an invite link in the description on my newer vids. It's a great place to easily find people to party with. I've been actively promoting it on my KZbin so it's been super active lately!

[@RodolfoDM]

I think private servers have more active players, used to play as you said for nostalgia reason on Nova Ro, was really nice, with custom monster hunter content, was really fun. Other thing is that i feel like glass cannon characters have an easy lvl up till some point then struggle, but classes like Royal guard starts to shine at those lvls, i remember my RG with Thanatos 1h spear overbrand with all the RG Buffs i healed HP while killing a group of mobs.