Whens RO Gona Die?

Started by Guest, Sep 27, 2007, 10:42 PM

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Estamated Death Time of RO

1-4 Years or Less
5-9 Years
10-14 Years
14-18 Years
19-23 Years or More

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I don't want that update...
Whatever they say, lvl 150 is dumb...

Skeith

Well, maybe its used to balance them out, they could be weaker, who knows. And besides most servers are customized, and if they dont like that 150 cap, they can change it to w/e they like.

Kurogasa

QuoteI don't want that update...
Whatever they say, lvl 150 is dumb...

Yep. I think they are purposely breaking the game so people move on to Ro2. This has been done in many other games when a new version is coming out(and doesnt really work all the time).

Look at some of the new gears as well.

Guest

agreed lvl 150 seems dumb to me too

Lantis

Hopefully RO2's server files leak. :P It will speed up the emulation process. There are a couple of projects around already.

Skeith

Quote from: Kurogasa on Oct 14, 2007, 03:10 PM
QuoteI don't want that update...
Whatever they say, lvl 150 is dumb...

Yep. I think they are purposely breaking the game so people move on to Ro2. This has been done in many other games when a new version is coming out(and doesnt really work all the time).

Look at some of the new gears as well.

That makes alot of sense, lets spend hours, and man power creating these sprites, scripting new classes, WoE castles, etc. just so people can move on to RO2....../sarcasm

Guest

its true some games start out free then on their second verison they make it so u have to pay so they atempt to make ppl lose populatrity in their first copy of the game so they can pay for the second version


PS: me hate RO2 its not as cute Dx

Skeith

Yea when I first saw the RO2 characters I threw up in my mouth a bit.

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RO2 Sucks :'(  !!!    !!! !!!       !!!
Let's stay on RO1 :)

Guest

YA! RO 1 FOREVAAAAAAAAAA

yC

omg did i see lvl 150? are you serious? gravity is doing that? show me the news please i can't believe it ...


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yes a lvl 150 super hunter ...

MWright967

No one here has given the correct answer unfortunately.

Let me give you a brief history of RO (I've played private servers for roughly a year, and the game since it was released)

The original RO was released in the late 90's, but not to the US. Around 2002-2003, iRO was released. It was EXTREMELY popular in Korea, Japan, and England (Go figure?). The game was actually one of the most highly played games in Korea, and believe it or not, they signed a deal with Domino's Pizza to put an NPC into the game which you could enter your credit card info, address, and your order, and they would deliver it to you, I'm not s*** you.

RO was a huge success. There are, literally, millions of players believe it or not, mainly in countries other than the US.

The real iRO servers have about...100k people on them. Due to the lack of player body and utter failing of RO2, they've started to focus on RO again, as with the addition of the kafra shop, 11.3, etc...

Private servers? They make up a small fraction of the RO world. I've guesstimated, by using charts from server listing sites and connections, that roughly 30 new US private servers are made daily, and about 5 die. That doesn't sound so bad to me.

Despite what you may think, and what it looks like, RO is an extremely huge game, with even more players than Diablo II, which is huge.

This game will never actually die, unless computers advance past it somehow. Gemstone 3 has been around a hell of a lot longer than RO, and its stilled around with a few thousand actually PAYING for it. It is extremely rare that a game EVER dies completely. A game never loses more than 1/4 of its maximum player base, because its the cycle of life. Those who die, are replaced by those who are born. People who leave the game out of bordum, will be replaced by those who have never played and seek enjoyment.

Ragnarok is one of those games that, no matter how crappy the graphics may seem at times, or how old it is, its an enjoyable, fun, and action filled game. Thats, personally, all I really care about.

If you really asked me, in my heart of hearts, how long it would be around? 70 years. Games are the books of the future. No matter how old the get, people will still play them. My guess is 70 years since, by that point, computers may actually have trouble reading such an old script.

That is my sensus of the entire matter.


pfja1st

i hope ro will never die, even if modern time comes. i'm still a noob, i wana play more n learn more, i hope we will be stuck in dis tech time of 2007! /heh