Ragnarok Online 2

Status : Open Beta (Korea)

Genre : Fantasy

Developer : Gravity Interactive

Client and Patch Download : http://download.mmosite.com/pages.php?gameid=345

I suppose I speak for many if I say that this week has been a much anticipated week, the launch of the first open beta for Ragnarok Online 2. Even if it is not yet an international beta, there`s quite a lot of people present in this beta from the international community.

The game was off for a rocky start though, supposed to start off at 4 PM Korean time there were quite a couple of delays and it was not for about 12 hours after that that the servers actually reached some stability making it possible to login within a minute every try. Just like with any beta I suppose that you can classify those first hours as the biggest stress test, my conclusion for RO2 on this one would be that they failed. But of course this doesn`t say anything about the future of the game, it`d be a good thing for Gravity to rather have it fail now than after the launch of the game ending up with the same issues.

Ingame on the first day it wasn`t much better, but fortunately enough this problem resolved itself rather quickly I must say. It`s still quite busy now ingame, but seeing as to how anyone can play freely this isn`t a major surprise and also something I don`t really mind. Compared to the first hours though players are starting to spread out a bit more now as they gain levels in different paces and start playing at regular times instead of all having waited for all to login at once which happened after the doors of beta opened.

Asides from that in order to beat the stability issues they have been adding more and more servers to reduce the stress on individual servers, started off with 6 currently it`s on about double of that already to pick from.