I was trying this server because it has some interesting ideas and to try to be fair and not make this review revolve around what I personally find really distateful I will put in bullet points what I liked about the server or what I considered are the strong points in it that made me want to try it:
- While the server is custom and not entirely classic at least some of this customizations are well thought
- You get some starting gear when you create your character and the early levels are made easier
- They are going to buff the Taekwon, Ninja and Gunslinger jobs to make them on par with rebirth, they will give them a rebirth form
- A lot of quality of life stuff like a bank or a warper with an actual well thought mechanic involved not just @warp that feels like cheating
- While the server is x3 it has ways to increase exp gain by playing so it doesn't feel as painful to level up
- There is a mechanic that was added that makes mobs drop some fruit that can be exchanged for some headgear or consumables like battle manuals or gym passes, it is really clever, it incentives people to play and makes it another goal to achieve while farming normally
- Bosses are instanced to prevent griefing, you can even summon bosses with certain items, those bosses summoned don't drop cards and I think some of their drops are reduced but the normal ones are basically a competition in which every party gets their own instanced boss and whoever kills it first wins
Now the bad stuff:
- The server seems to be very powercreepy maybe even on renewal levels or zero levels
- Some of the changes seem very imbalanced
- There seems to be FOMO events and more on that later
- The game isn't classic at all and to be fair it doesn't advertise as such but it does stray away a lot from Ragnarok classic imo so that is a bad on my list.
- "Options" on gear are very bad for the economy and the overall feel of the game and adds another level or random crap on an already rng heavy game
- Finally the point that made want to publish this review is that the game is P2W, and essentially works like this: there are donation costumes or loot boxes that contain costumes and said costumes can be sold for zenny to the players, which means that a person only has to slide their credit card and buy this stuff and sell it to players to essentially convert real money into zenny. If the costumes could not be traded this review wouldn't exist but I really can't stand all this servers that make money out of someone else property, you don't have the right to monetize this game, you don't own the rights, and I am tired of this people acting like they can just make money out of this game, private servers existed to provide a better experience than what warportal or gravity offered us which was full P2W crap servers infested with bots and tons of other problems and now the private servers do the same crap but is even worse because they don't own the property, I really can't stand this people anymore and on top of that this costumes seem to be filled with FOMO and they even dared to make loot boxes so you get the gambling addicts too, such scummy practices.
- I am going to add that many of the toxic a****** from OriginsRO are on this server so if you liked OriginsRO but detested the politically correct, passive agressive cowards that plagued that server, deranged leftists, well too bad because they are there, and they are still the same hypocrite scumbags that unless you are part of their sect they immediately jump all over you making fake accusations and passive agressive attacks to then call an administrator to ban you, you have to play by their rules type of sectarians.
The typical gaslighting to defend s*** P2W games is going to be spewed by the defenders of the server, the typical mental gymnastics that people with no shame use to defend P2W crap in games is going to be used, it is pointless because the fact remains:
You can convert real money into zenny, meaning someone with the money will pay to get ahead of others and it is even more scummy because the people buying will get a costume while this P2Winner will get real zenny advantage to be ahead of everyone else, this opens up many alleys for zenny buyers too, people do this on servers that is not allowed what do you think they are going to do on servers like this? They will obviously take advantage of this it's a no brainer, and this completely ruins the game,
Ragnarok is a game about farming when someone can just slide their credit card and earns what he hasn't worked for in-game it kills the mood of the game it just isn't fair for all the people playing hours and hours to get their money when an rich a****** can just slide their card and make more than someone farming, it really defeats all the purpose of the game.
And that is my review of the game, P2W kills games.
If you think I am liying or the defenders of this practices appear and come with their attempts of minimizing the situation, you know damage control or downplaying the situation I'll leave you with some proof that this is not only common but it's very well known as truth in the server and it is not rare at all, tons of people actually do this and it is pretty lucrative:
EDIT:One of the things you can use zenny for on this server is to basically guarantee drops at a certain amount of kills, so this means p2w people not only do they get more resources to work with they also have an edge on the amount of drops they can get because they can basically guarantee items dropping for them with zenny, this is a mechanic available to everybody but the p2winners will have an edge on using this mechanic because they can generate zenny faster by just sliding their credit cards:
EDIT:The mental gymnastics of this people:
I'm going to add that I have received some criticism I think is fair : that expecting a pserver with better infrasctructure and customer support than officials is an idiocy, it would be if I really expected that, I know is unrealistic and I am not against the donations themselves I am against them giving an advantaje to people in game, which makes this whole thing more infurating to me because the devs KNOW what they are doing, they knew people were going to use this avenue to p2w and they knew they could cash in with this but then they have the balls to use a clear textbook example of a red herring fallacy saying: "we just sell cosmetics", yeah nice way to deviate the attention to the core of the issue which is people converting real money into zenny, which essentially at is core is zenny buying is legal on that server and it will be exploited not only to do the standard p2w crap but to actually sell stuff for real money, RMT are easier than ever on that server. I know pservers donations are ok but the moment they become a transaction in which is no longer a donation but an outright shop I have a problem, and more so when this directly translates into ingame advantage.
