September 30th, 2008
I came across this wonderful animated gif while browsing through the Ragnarok Online Philippines forums. It features two characters from the hit MMORPG, a novice and an acolyte, talking to each other. In the latter part of the animation, the female acolyte, in a puff of smoke, changes into a red spandex-clad superhero (heroine).
In my […]
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September 29th, 2008
Ha, told you I’d get in! Now, my problem isn’t trying to get in, it’s doing my best to stay in the game. Let me explain.
As you may have noticed, my wife also plays MMORPGs, and it’s been quite a while since she has taken a liking to any of the new games I’ve been […]
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September 26th, 2008
Something’s seriously amiss in these screenshots I took from the highly successful Ragnarok Online:
No, the names—Vanilla Cake, Mocha Cake and Pandan Cake—are not the only telltale signs that the three characters, thieves, are all bots. Movement and attack pattern also give them away. They all move in the same path and attack the same monsters.
Are […]
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September 6th, 2008
First off, I’d like to apologize to the thousands upon thousands (yeah, right) followers of this space for the seemingly long lull this past week. Truth is, I’ve been slaving in front of the PC to bring you more Asian MMORPG goodness than you can handle.
Well, it has been both a very productive and unproductive […]
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August 31st, 2008
Some things never change. Player characters in the popular Korean-made MMORPG Ragnarok Online still litter the streets, not to engage in idle talk with fellow players but to hawk their wares. What else is new? Apparently not much. Check out one server, and your already taking a glimpse at what’s on the other servers. Every […]
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August 24th, 2008
Below are the latest screenshots of the two Tika Waylans that my wife and I started on Ragnarok Online Philippines’ Valkyrie server about a month or two ago.
Oh, how they’ve, uhmm, grown. I case you’re wondering why we’ve chosen to keep them in their first jobs (swordie and merchant) instead of having them upgraded to […]
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August 13th, 2008
As is always the case when I’m talking about Ragnarok Online in the Philippines, the Waukster beats me to the punch. It pays to be the head honcho of the local online games operator with dibs on the game. Fortunately, Carlo Ople, the Waukster himself, is always in a very generous mood, and I’m 100 […]
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July 3rd, 2008
Actually, it’s more of a screenshot essay.
Anyway, like I said in an earlier post, I’m playing Ragnarok Online again, and enjoying every minute of it. It’s soooo hard to start over. But I have, in the past, hopped servers several times that I should already be used to it. When Ragnarok Online was introduced in […]
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June 22nd, 2008
Yes, the wife and I have decided to call Ragnarok Online Philippines our temporary virtual home until the Guardians of Perfect World Philippines’ Tiger Server rethinks its policies or hell freezes over. Oh, you missed my tirade about the spat between me and another clan officer? Don’t worry … I took it all the gory […]
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June 9th, 2008
Just as I promised myself before I left Leyte for Manila, I visited Level Up! Games and had lengthy discussions with some of the local online games industry’s most charismatic personalities: Jake San Diego, Mon Macutay, Kiven Codamon, JC Medina, and Carlo Ople. I also had a short chat with Keith Morales, brand manager of […]
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