User blog:ZeroTigress/Whaling in RO

Been keeping up with news on the game Anthem and so much of it echoes the current situation with Ragnarok Online.

This practice of holding back content in favor of baiting whales in the RO community has been a long issue of contention with GRAVITY, although it has been becoming more obvious since players discovered that we were falling behind in updates since at least 2010. Although some efforts by the iRO CMs were made to get caught up in updates, all that dissipated back in 2016 when iRO started introducing jRO-created gears in Kafra Shop loot boxes. We went from getting maybe a handful of old updates a year to, if we're lucky, 2 or 3 updates a year.

This is not lost on us veterans, as I myself have been among many who pointed out what has become nothing more than empty promises after empty promises.

Source: WarpPortal Forums

With Europe and Taiwan region players blocked from accessing iRO servers, it's really up to those of us who are left to make it clear that we will not continue to pay for an outdated version of a game that should be up to par to current MMORPGs on the market if they seriously hope to compete. But unfortunately, it seems the whales of the community continue to throw money at a game that is seriously showing signs of rot from how severely outdated it is compared to the developers' servers in Korea. No matter how hard we try to save iRO, it just seems that it's destined to be doomed to bleed out. Perhaps my previous blog predicting a server closure may actually come to be judging, from the poor state of things on iRO.