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Ragnarok online Free 2 Play settings.
Much ado has been presented about Ragnarok Online becoming Free 2 Play soon. Well it is true, and here is a bit of information to help clarify what to expect from the changes.
We will be switching to a Premium account rather than Premium Subscription method, it too will be 30 days (or 90 and 180 days respectfully) and the same price as the current Subscription is. We will transfer remaining daily/hourly subscription into the new Premium account status when we switch to Free 2 Play.
You will add the Premium account to individual game accounts via the same method as now, by logging into WarpPortal and “Power-Up”
30 day Premium 700WP
90 day Premium 1900WP
180 day Premium 3350WP
This new method is ideal for returning veteran players as they certainly will be able to play with friends and such without restriction for WoE and what not, and help play. Of course they will need to make a WP account, bind the RO accounts to it and then update the RO passwords to get access.
Both servers will inherit the same refine system from Premium servers now (Elu = safe to +4, e.Elu = high rate and then HD are protection with normal elu rate). Further prices will be updated to all match Ymir, with rental items entering into the shop on all servers.
Premium Account Free Acct
Experience 150% 100%
Drop Rate 150% 100%
Storage 600 300
Penalty on Death 1% 3%
Access to Special NPCs All + special Normal
Access to Special Areas All + special Normal
Multi-Client As Many Premium Accts 1 Free Account
There will be one special restriction between Ymir/Yggdrasil and Valkyrie to help keep the abuse in check.
On all servers, all characters that exist will be available to play with or without Premium.
On Valkyrie you can create 3 characters by default, however to create characters in the other 6 slots requires an active Premium account.
On Ymir the default creation number of characters to create is 0, a Premium account will open all 9 slots to creation.
It is highly likely that in the future special events will allow players to invite friends and bypass the 0 creation restriction on the Yggdrasil and Ymir server.
It is intended to have the F2P change occur by April 6, but all known bugs need to be worked out before such a large change occurs, this may meld into the Brasilis launch as well.
We will certainly have a discussion and answer questions about this when the forums return soon.
Questions received from Facebook and this blog, and answers.
Q. How will upgrades work on all servers?
A. All servers will be equal, premium status will not change this.
Safe upgrade with normal Ore from 0 -> safe (+4 on armor +7, +6 +5 +4 on weapons respectively)
Enriched Ore gives higher than normal upgrade rates when going from safe and higher, but a risk of breaking is still possible.
Q. Kafra shop prices?
A. All servers will use the current CHEAPEST price, which should be the Ymir prices on items. Rental items will be available on all servers.
Q. What about if I’m a returning player, what happens?
A. Returning players can login and access the game account and all characters that exist on the account, with no restriction on server, or premium status. This is the big benefit of this for our veteran players, that all old accounts become valid accounts for login.
Q. Storage on Ymir will shrink from 600 to 300! But what happens then?
A. No items will be deleted or made unavailable, they will be in a “remove only” state so you can take items out but not put them in if you are over the default storage amount. Aside from making the account “Premium” you could login another account and use its storage to extend what you have.
Q. Is it really wise to have a system for so long and then take it away.
A. Change is touchy, but the intention of the old seperation between Premium/Free SERVERS was the same as what we have with this update, except we remove the tie to server and instead make it unique to accounts.
If you have always preferred to play by ’subscription” you can continue doing that, but instead of being a “for access subscription” it is a for added benefit Premium package. On ymir if you have an active premium on your account your game play should be precisely the same as now from the exp/drop storage etc. But there will now be more NPCs and maps being added that you get better access too. This should be a win scenario for veterans.
Q. Multi-client restriction?
A. Current design: Yes, you can have as many premium accounts logged in on one PC as you wish, but only 1 non-Premium account can be logged in from that PC at a time.
Q. But I have more accounts than that on Valkyrie, how will I play?
A. This is an unfortunate issue that came about due to no way to limit the amount of clients opening on Valkyrie when we opened. Players were used to having tons of accounts with 1-2 characters apeice instead of fewer accounts filled with characters. That was not a design intention, one that is possible to correct now.
With that said, this part of the update is the one that is most likely to be reviewed to be changed (possibly more non-prem logins) in some form or removed all together.
Q. If multi-client limiter is put in, will it be tied to gateway?
A. As much as we want to see our gateway become more fun and useful and adopted further by our community, at this time we are not planning on directly tying game login to it, by extension of that it will not be a part of any client restrictions.
The limitation of how many Premium vs non-Premium accounts that can be opened, will need to be completely controlled via the client/server architecture, thus be transparent to the players.
There is some other news that we want to share regarding this update.
All regular servers will launch from one client. No more having to use different launchers to get to your desired server (Sakray is not a regular server).
Yggdrasil will shift to be like Valkyrie, with 3 character slots open for creation rather than 0 like Ymir.
We will be offering Free Yggdrasil -> Ymir server transfers, without restrictions, starting 3/21 until we make this system change around April 6th.
As soon as the form is finished being created it will be announced on the patch notices, websites etc to get in your transfer request now.
If you opt to stay on Yggdrasil (which is a fine choice) you will still be able to play on the server, you will likely be the new upper class characters on that server when we begin having new users play there.