Anyone else hugely disappointed?

[DT]

After playing the first one which was one of the best MMOs I've ever played because it actually required skill and serious knowledge it's a huge letdown for me that they didn't try to innovate after already failing with Gate of the World.. This is Anime World of Warcraft and DPS/Gear based? Why?

I'm sad that after years of personal hype and knowing they had such a huge amount of fantastic assets that could've been used.. It's just another WoW clone. The combat system can't compete with Guild Wars 2, let alone TERA and Neverwinter. What happened to the ACTION component of battles? Why is it another "Mash 1, 2, 3 and wait for cooldown, rinse, repeat"?

Anyone else feel the same?

[Shrimps is bugs]

My biggest complaint was just how stiff the controls felt.

[Mysterion]

i feel exactly the same...

[Leo]

MMOs break down into only a handful of sub groups now because of the success of WoW and the overwhelming fail rate of rivaling MMOs.

WoW-likes are just so easily sold to the average consumer base now, and all those fans who played and loved WoW are easily pulled into the farmiliarity being emulated in a new format.

They're also easy to pick up, and pull in revenue. Ragnarok Online 2 had been built up and completely scrapped several times over before it came to this point/product, this seemed like their way of getting back into the market easily for the time being, but hopefully they can develop some of that originality over the next few years. I can't say if I'm willing to commit that to such a generic game but for now its a welcome distraction.

It is quite sad, even SquareEnix took their more classic combat style and mmo system away after converting to Final Fantasy 14 1.0 - and even more so in 2.0 ARR they completely caved and copied the WoW-like format for ease of access.

WASD, Tab, Shift, Spacebar are the go-to controls on a PC game, and the MMO format of adding 1-10 is sadly, very likely, here to stay..

[kyogen™]

99% of Ragnarok 1 players are completely disappointed about this, so you're not alone.

[dragn951753]

I need to download RO to see what all the hype is about. This is my first MMORPG and it is pretty fun. Never played WOW, don't plan on it either.

[kyogen™]

Diposting pertama kali oleh dragn951753:

I need to download RO to see what all the hype is about. This is my first MMORPG and it is pretty fun. Never played WOW, don't plan on it either.

RO1 is the reall mmorpg imo.

[Kira]

I cant even get past hackshield LOL but from the moments i spent ingame = Fiesta on low budget.

Yeah it accuses me of using "Undefined hacks" ??? on a fresh install of windows 7 with all aux services closed (tested it on other comp). So idk what the developers were thinking.

[DT]

Yeah.. when almost all of your long-time fans think your decade old game is better than your new one.. Something's up. Did they get a change in Management?

[קיינמאָל סוף 211]

RO1 is still the best! even though it is just 2D but the gameplay is just awesome, back there in the Philippines RO1 is still up with thousands of players though the economy is too much wasted that I'm forced to quit playing. Wonder if there is still some games that's like RO1, I wanna try to play that! =))

[DT]

The only 2D in RO1 were the sprites, and those were one of the biggest appeals. It just wouldn't have looked as badass with bad 3D models.

[Neph]

I know the feeling bro...
I was waiting the opportunity to play this game since it was annouced, but now that i have played for 4 hours... dunno dud, i just feel like i need to get bat to Ragnarok 1....

[lordkyos]

I must agree with most of what is said here, I too am an ex-RO player and this is a dumb down version of the chars, the mage is under powered, the thief class is slow, acos dont feel as cute, its a bit of a balldrop, with that said however, they did a good job with reincarnating the old world into this new skin.
Its so nice to walk through towns with familiar names and fight all the same mobs that we of old grew oh so accustomed to. Why do the damn treees have to block my view, have they not heard of tranparent foreground.
Some of the new skills I like, in default; as always, I built a Thief>Sin first, the combo system is a nice idea, but the execution is one dimensional. This whole concept of bound items galore is horrible, i open pandora boxes, and get sweet gear for my future Monk and I cant trade it out, ♥♥♥, BIG time!
I will continue to play and hope that the future heralds more of the familiar, more successful past.
IMO: WoW was always crap and I totally preferred RO1 and have still found myself back on the old server; or a high rate private, just for the nostalgia.

[Kinesis]

I know this game has failed me when I had to re-watch avatar the last air bender (great show btw) while I SLOWLY grind my way up to 50 (I started at level 40 managed to watch every episode and all of invader zim, still wasent 50 by then.) Did all the kharas,monster hunters, ect it is just SOOO long and boring that I actually need something to entertain me while I grind.. That is a huge failure for any game when you need something to entertain you while you play..... Got over 500 hours now still only 1 level 50. And the game is Just Sooo stupidly top heavy all the content is at level 50. I mean zones in level 1-45 have all of 3-5 mobs in them, most of them recolored recycles. The level 50 zone has almost 10 in it alone all uniques. All the content is at level 50, but by the time you slowly gind up there your just sick of playing the game from all the tedious mindless grinding...

[Kuray]

Why don't you give up this game? The job class balancing of this game is totally messed up. Rich players can easily dominates the game too. I'm understand that any MMO requires income to support it's business and VIP subscription is quite acceptable. But what's happening in RO2? You can pay tons of real money for the gambling boxes for the +abilities costumes (80% palm tree stuff). A lv 25 player can pay with real money to buy the pandora's key to get the purple weapons with unbalancing attack power and abilities (better than the lv 45 weapons)...

You think that you can got those items from the aution house or other players with the game money? The answer is NO, or at least is difficult for you to do that. You have no way to get the zeny from RO2 other then the quests, and you still have to use the zeny for the potions/job learning/food ...etc For the high level players maybe there's another way to find more zeny, but the costume's special +abilities for them is just "nice to have" as they already got truck load of status. For the purple pandora weapons? No sorry you have no way to get them unless you're willing to spend 1xx zeny to buy a pandora key and try your luck... several players told me (I have tried myself too) it's hard to get the class weapons even we're willing to buy the keys from the online store as you can still get tons of junk items > normal weapons > accessaries > green weapons > blue weapons > purple weapons > purple weapon suit for your job class.

The storeline? Frankly I have read some and I have skipped some from the NPC dialogue, all I can comment is it's not as good as some of the other MMO... some quest NPC will simply give you a simple instruction like "I want to get xxxx", "I need xxxx" and thats it! Some even ask you to pick up something that is just next to them! It's totally non sense!

The gameplay? All I can say is.. "PLEASE FIX THE BUGS FIRST!" It's frustrating when you're trying to click on a button of a dialog box, but it simply close suddenly and your character run to somewhere just like a mad guy and it's happening because there is something clickable behind (or even it's not behind) the dialog box! It's hard for you to click on a specified object / npc / mailbox..etc while you're in a place with many people or monsters. When your teammates attacking by several monsters and when you're trying to help them... ok the assist attack key always failed to work? Okay you try to use your mouse to click on them but you have to bet your luck that you can select the right one, if you select something wrong you have to tab tab tab and since the game queued up your keypress request... there's a low chance that you landed your 1st hit to your target while you're wondering why your 2nd hit is landed on another unwanted monster just because the system try to help you to finish your last "tab" after your 1st hit...

Hope that RO2 can get some improvements in the future... Anyway I have no more comments on this game as I have stopped to play already and I just pre-ordered the FF14 online with my friends as it will be released within this month. I have downloaded and tried the benchmark character creation and the beta version from youtube seems good enough to me and it is for a monthly fee only... NO gambling boxes NO real money abilities and NO real money power up! : )

[Funeral Under Moonlight]

Meh, it's not the worst MMO I played. I only play it to pass the time while im watching netflix or something.