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| Ragnarok Online | |
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| Developer(s) | Gravity |
| Publisher(s) | Gravity |
| Designer(s) | Kim Hakkyu |
| Artist(s) | Lee Myung-jin |
| Writer(s) | Lee Myung-jin |
| Engine | AEGIS |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
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| Genre(s) | Massively multiplayer online role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
Ragnarok Online (Korean: 라그나로크 온라인, Rageunarokeu Onrain marketed as Ragnarök, and alternatively subtitled The Final Destiny of the Gods) is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) created by Gravity based on the manhwa Ragnarok by Lee Myung-jin. It was released in South Korea on 31 August 2002 for Microsoft Windows and in the Philippines where it became hit among Filipino Millennials. The game has spawned an animated series, Ragnarok the Animation, and a sequel game, Ragnarok Online 2: Legend of the Second. The player's characters exists in a world with a player environment that includes NPC's (Non-Playable Characters) that can be interacted with, monsters spawning in maps that needs to be defeated to level-up and to acquire items, continuous updates includes changes with the passage of time based on real world like day and night and weather and game patches included culture from different nations, one of which is the Malaya Patch in 2007 which is based on the Philippine islands and includes Poring variation or skin, Nurse Poring. Major changes in the features and history of the world take place as episodes in the RO timeline. Ragnarok is heavily influenced by Blizzard's Warcraft (1995) which is an RPG or role-playing game and have multiplayer mode which subsequently developed into a 5V5 Player Battle Arena in the form of League of Legends. It is also based on Norse and Scandinavian Mythology and its name itself is based on an event in the final days where Gods will battle evil like the Apocalypse in the Bible. Ragnarok similarly in Apocalypse means the destruction of the world or Midgard in Nordic era which is believed to be a mythology up until now.
- ^ Gamespot (3 January 2013). "Technical Info".