I tried playing on the live server but I was turned off by the cash shop junk and how top heavy the game is, everyone is level 100+ with fab gear and it felt lonely at the bottom. Plus Prontera is a mess and lags my game given how many people are vending there.
So I'm trying out this small private server called Payon Stories. And I made a swordsman. The game feels just like I remembered, well sort of, because I played during the private beta before features like blacksmithing were added in. When I played cards were new so I need to learn a whole bunch of stuff but it's fun! I'm aiming to make this character a hybrid knight and farm mummies in the pyramid dungeon or orcs.
Wow I spent so much time on RO back then. Really tempted to hop on again now
From what I gather Gravity is taking legal action and suing private servers so I don't know how long these will be a thing. Live seems like it's fun to play if you can put some cash into it.
If they're anything like WoW pservers they're all based in countries that wipe their ass with IP laws.
Back when I played private servers weren't even a thing and you had to sign up for the beta and get allowed in. The GM used to fuck with people too her name was like "God Poring" or something.
I spent way too much time on this game, but I made at least one life long friend on it.
And it was the first place I ever met a trans person. Her screen name was kirademi and I will always thank her for letting me ask my stupid teenage questions about trans women way before I had an inkling that I might be trans. I owe it to her though because she helped me understand and empathize with trans people from a young age. I haven't spoken to her in well over a decade at this point but I hope she's doing great wherever she is.
I miss playing mid rate and ultra high rates though. I catch myself reminiscing about the stalker class and the professor class, they were probably some of my favorite mmo classes because of their pvp class specific abilities and versatility. When battlegrounds came out on the last midrate I played, I rolled support and control on both jobs because they were nearly unkillable when spec'd correctly.
I loved that gane as a kid, but I really can't deal with the mindless grind as an adult. Which is a shame since I kind of wanted to experience engame classes one day.
I have fond memories of playing the game on this likely long dead private server and I barely had any awareness of the game mechanics. All I knew was that I could farm monsters to get cute pets to drop, and that's what I did, going zone to zone collecting all the tameable monsters.
tbh that's really all I need in an MMO I think
The pet system seems cool I haven't played around with it. Like I said this is new to me because in the beta it wasn't there, sounds like a good memory.
If you really want to nostalgia yourself into the next dimension, do this while the anime plays on your second screen.
I used to have Frasier on when I got home from school and logged onto RO, lol, what a weird combo.
