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Philippine Ragnarok Online Weekly Update (5/7/08)

First, let me apologize to everyone for not posting in the past two days. I was actually out of town for the Level Up annual outing so I wasn’t able to write anything while I was there. Don’t worry, I’ll make it up to you this weekend. I’ll be posting a lot of interesting articles [...]

RWC ‘07 Videos On LIVE ‘08 Website

We’ve uploaded the videos of last year’s Ragnarok World Championships in the Level Up LIVE 2008 website. To those who don’t know, our good friend Joey Alarilla went with us to Seoul, South Korea, to cover the tournament and the Gravity Festival. He took these videos and they were actually featured on Inquirer.net! Thanks again [...]

Ragnarok Geo Sweepers Quest

Here’s a new in-game event for everyone to enjoy! It’s actually very simple - you go out and literally wipe out Geographers for their drops and you can turn them in for bonus EXP and other items. It’s really nothing complicated so I won’t bother elaborating on the details. Here’s the official announcement as posted [...]

Petition: Free Shuttle Service for Call Center Agents

First, I’d like to thank everyone who signed the CHEAPER MEDICINES BILL online petition. The law was passed last week and we’re now just waiting for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to sign the bill. This is really a great milestone for the country and I look forward to more affordable medicines for future generations. Thank you [...]

Philippine Ragnarok Online Weekly Update (4/30/08)

So… was the EXP bonus extended? The answer is a BIG YES. We were able to convince Gravity to approve one more week of modified EXP since we announced the Ragnarok World Championships last friday. That means that you can enjoy the bonus EXP combined with the Premium Service for one more week! Make the [...]

Ragnarok Community Update (4/29/08)

Philippine Ragnarok Online has been having major update after another for the past few weeks. However, we still have a lot more lined up for the most successful MMORPG in this country. We’re only a few weeks away from the launch of Episode 11.3: Nameless! Anyway, I’m getting ahead of myself. I went through all [...]

Cheaper Medicines Bill Petition

Good morning everyone! I usually don’t do political posts anymore here at Waukster but I’m really pushing for this so I might as well do it here. Since I started this blog, I’ve always done my best to keep all of you informed with all the latest happenings for our games. Now let’s turn the [...]

PHILIPPINES TO HOST RWC 2008

IT’S OFFICIAL. The Philippines will be the official host to this year’s RAGNAROK WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS. You read that right! More than 10 teams from around the world will fly in to Manila, Philippines so that they can compete in the biggest online gaming tournament for Ragnarok Online. This is the announcement that our Marketing Director, [...]

Warhammer Gamers Competition [Sponsored Post]

World of Warcraft has always been known as the number 1 MMORPG in the world. They’ve raked in billions of dollars already in revenues and they continue to expand to other territories around the world. They’re have been a lot of games that have been touted as the WoW-killer but no other game has more [...]

Waukster Online in the Top 30 Philippine Blogs

This was a really surprising article that I found on Pinoy Money Talk. Apparently, Waukster Online is in the top 30 Philippine blogs based on the new Alexa Ranking system! Since I never really go out of my way to go to blog conferences or anything, this is really shocking, lol. The only people I [...]

LEVEL UP LIVE 2008 MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT

In an interview with Reli Carpio in Inquirer.net’s Hackenslash gaming blog, LU Marketing Director Jake San Diego revealed that there will be a major announcement about Level Up LIVE 2008 in the coming days. I already know what the announcement is but I won’t spoil it. This is definitely one of the biggest things to [...]

Philippine Ragnarok Online Weekly Update (4/23/08)

First, let me get your attention. We’re having an BONUS EXP MOD for 1 WEEK when the servers go up after the scheduled maintenance. Baldur, Tyr, and Freya will be on 2x while Valkyrie/Valhalla will be on 3x. This is to celebrate the launch of two new contents - the Premium Service and War of [...]

LEVEL UP LIVE 2008 ANNOUNCED!

The biggest online gaming event in the Philippines just got bigger! Level Up LIVE 2008, has officially been announced in all websites of games published by Level Up. It will be held in the World Trade Center on October 18-19, 2008. It’s roughly 208-209 days away as of this writing.
Level Up LIVE 2008’s theme [...]

iRO Launches Mini-Stat Reset Service

A player sent me an e-mail yesterday about a new value added service that International Ragnarok Online launched recently. I wanted to get your comments on this if we should also do it here for the Philippines. Feel free to also discuss this in the Ragnaboards. The new service is basically a 20-point stat reset [...]

Ragnarok WoE: 2nd Edition April 23, 2008!

Like what I said in my previous post, we’re having a major update on April 23, 2008. Yep - that’s this coming Wednesday. Not only will we be patching the Order of Odin Premium Service, we will also be patching the War of Emperium: 2nd Edition, AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. This was originally included in the [...]