Would you all agree with me, that this game is actually a pretty damn good one? Because it really is, trust me. "RF online, a great game with lack of attention" I think that statement is right on the money. What really happened though? What's the reason behind it all?When you see RF (Short for Rising Force), you will see great graphic, great gameplay, great set of equipments, great war (endless actually), everything pretty much revolves around greatness but for some reason all that greatness just aren't enough. Can't say I'm surprised though, I used to be one of the hardcore worshiper of RF but something drove me away from it. I was actually a level 50 Corites, (templar knight) and I spent a lot of my time (and money T_T) playing this game. I even played from the beginning, since it reached my country and to be honest I was entertained by it. Not just me, a lot of people were very enthusiastic to play the game when it first arrived. But now, well yes, the game is still around and yes the updates are still coming, but also yes that the issues are growing larger and larger, in other words HUGE player turnover. Don't you think something is going on too?
-Development
The Full title is Rising Force, known as RF Online
Its genre is Sci-Fantasy (mixture of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
CCR is the developer, a Korean Gaming Industry.
The first version of the game was released in South Korea later followed by Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Brazilian and English translations. Launched its retail phase in North America/Europe on the 21st February of 2006 hosted by Codemasters and ended its license with CCR on 10th November of 2008. It is believed that Codemasters and CCR was unsuccessful in terms of reaching an agreement, there by ended the contract. It was later found that the agreement was for Codemasters to not just Host the game but also have the right to actually run and modify it, this was brought to the table because Codemasters felt that CCR was moving too slow thus created a bunch of unressolved issues within the system. But it seems CCR had other Plans in hand. by the 18th January of 2009, CCR relaunched the game for EU/US server, and it's still going until now.
When it first came out the game was a pay to play but now it's officially free to play nation wide.
Now RF is actually about to launch its newest update, The War: Bellato Strikes Back. This Patch will strike the EU/US market in 16th July of 2009, while Indonesian market is recently still having a taste on the Legend of Elven Patch only to find out, that the Legend of Elven Patch also include The War: Bellato Stikes Back Patch where character max level has been increased to 65. I also found that there are a lot of different patch names. The whole patch thing is pretty confusing haha, let's not think about it too much.
-Feature
The setting is a distant future in a planet located in Novus System, where magic exists alongside high technology. There are 3 races to choose from (Cora, Bellato and Accretia). Each race has unique skills and equipments.
The overall features includes, race battle (Chip War), variety of classes, cross classes, political system, economical system, gigantic PvP system, raids (Pit bosses), guilds, instance dungeons, guild battle (soon) and sport system.
Source: www.wikipedia.com
-View
Instead of the usual Future section, I'm going to do a View section. It's almost similar to Future Section, but instead of just focusing on the game's future, I'm also going to convey the overall view of the people from all over and create a conclusion based on it. Plus, starting from now this View section will replace the Future section.
Now, back to topic, from what I've gathered across the web, I've managed to find a bunch of information involving RF issues. It really seems that RF is fading away, there are too many issues to deal with. Here are the 5 possibilities of why RF is moving downhill, just for you:
Possibility 1, it is possible that people don't like to be forced into PvP mode all the time. RF is basically a PvP based MMORPG. Some gamers prefer to succeed in a game without having to worry about PvP at all times.
Possibility 2, it is possible that people just don't really like the overall system implemented on the game. Maybe because the system is too brand new, and some people can't get used to it. Some of them even think that the system is already imbalanced from the start.
Possibility 3, it is possible that people believe that they are getting ripped off by the game, even though it's free! You spend too much time to level and yet you only get a little from it.
Possibility 4, it is possible that people believe that the game is just too generic and boring! What they meant was, slow paced travel around the world; little variety in items, classes, quests and enemies; and Bland environment, not much to look at.
Possibility 5, it is possible that people are sick with cheaters in the game. They are the real source of imbalance. They ruin the economy and the overall system in long terms. People are starting to lose hope about this.
It's true that RF is truly an amazing game, but these issues have got to go, that is if RF ever wants to recover. But the sad truth is, looking at the current condition I believe that RF will not be able to move up the MMORPG rank ladder no matter how much little changes they put onto it, that is unless they make some BIG changes. Like Complete Visual Make Over, Several changes on the System or maybe some Big Marketing event or even something Bigger, I'm afraid without those, RF will only stay the way it is right now for a long period of time and dissappear completely in the distant future. C'mon RF team, you still got a chance to move up, I suggest you take it, FAST! Still the choices are completely in your hands CCR.
I created this article in the hope that this can be useful for CCR's effort of development plus to point out how people truly feel about RF. Thank you, may CCR move forward.
For you guys who interested to try out the game, visit these sites:
-For Indonesian Version
-For US/EU Version
All free...
-Chriss-
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