Ragnarok Online

Ragnarok Online
PEGI Ratings
ESRB Ratings	Crude Humor, Fantasy Violence, Language, Mild Blood, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol

Ragnarok Online is a game created by Gravity Interactive released on the Personal Computer (PC) platform which is loosely based upon the Ragnarok comic, or Manhwa called Ragnarok which outlines elements which were used in the game. It was originally released in 2001 with a public alpha, and later with two beta releases in April and May of 2001. Due to its success, its scope expanded quickly into a paid service, operating beyond Korea into a Japanese server and an international server based in the United States, as well as other regional variants based in Europe, India and Oceania which were run by a licensing model with third parties.

Various discontents around actions taken by companies running Ragnarok Online servers, as well as general curiosity, led to the foundation of a long-lived and storied community of reverse engineers who managed to reverse engineer the game and create Server Emulators which mimicked the official service Gravity, and those who then used these server emulators to create their own versions of Ragnarok Online known as Private Servers which provided a publicly accessible, almost universally free-to-play and community-supported versions of the game which ostensibly used Gravity's own game client.