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Latest revision as of 23:57, 24 June 2025
This page is used as a reference when researching Ragnarok Online preservation topics, as there is a great deal of conflicting information between private server sources and official sources.
1994[edit | edit source]
- Gravity Team is formed in Korea.
1999[edit | edit source]
- Arcturus, Ragnarok Online's predecessor in many ways, is produced in cooperation with Sonnori Corporation.
2000[edit | edit source]
- 1st April 2000 - Gravity Corp is formed with $420,000 ($775,938 in 2023 USD) in capital, later recorded as $670,000 ($1.23 million in 2023 USD)
- June 2000 - Gravity Corp begins outline of design concept for Ragnarok Online with a team of 20, a budget of $420,000 and an estimated completion date of June 2001 (1 year), and formal paid service scheduled for September 2001.
- 9 August 2000 - Gravity Corp wins Grand Prize and Graphic Award from LG-Donga DIFECA 2000 for Arcturus.
- September 2000 - Design concept is completed for Ragnarok Online
2001[edit | edit source]
- January 2001 - Character and background design begins for Ragnarok Online
- May 2001 - Gravity launches Beta 1 test for Ragnarok Online.
- July 2001 - Gravity launches Beta 2 test for Ragnarok Online.
- 15 July 2001 - Gravity Corp provides an investor presentation detailing the Ragnarok Online game.
- 1 November 2001 - Korean Ragnarok Online Beta begins
2002[edit | edit source]
- 28 January 2002 - Korean Ragnarok Online Service surpasses 1 million members, with around 30,000 concurrent users on the game.[1]
- 27 July 2002 - Korean IPs are prevented from using iRO, and non-Korean IPs are prevented from using kRO.
- 29 July 2002 - Korean Ragnarok Online Service is commercialised, Gravity begins charging for Ragnarok Online. [2]
2003[edit | edit source]
- March 20, 2003 - Ragnarok Online Japan (ragnarokonline.jp) is hacked and announcements are made in-game, with hackers referencing group Apez.
References[edit | edit source]
- โ Kang, J. (2002) โ๋ผ๊ทธ๋๋กํฌโ, ํ์ 100๋ง๋ช ๊ธฐ๋ก (โRagnarokโ reaches 1 million members), DONGA. Available at: https://archive.is/p4DGn (https://game.donga.com/12594) (Accessed: 16 November 2023).
- โ Kang, J. (2002) ๊ทธ๋ผ๋นํฐ, ๋ผ๊ทธ๋๋กํฌ์ ์์ฉํ ์๋น์ค 7์ 29์ผ๋ถํฐ ์ค์ (Commercialization of Gravity and Ragnarok begins on July 29th), DONGA. Available at: https://archive.is/p4DGn (https://game.donga.com/12594) (Accessed: 16 November 2023).
