>>1317144I have played RO for years and still like it. If you like games with a variety of players, active guilds, competition, PvE (player vs environment), PvP (player vs player), and arena combat in an MMORPG setting, then this can be fun. Every week there are battles where alliances, guilds, and players defend castles against others attacking it. An overall summary of some of the aspects of RO is at wikipedia.
RO player characters exist in a world with a player environment that gradually changes with the passage of time. Major changes in the features and history of the world take place as episodes in the RO timeline. However, one important thing separates RO from all other major "free" MMORPG. The official free version on the Valkyrie server is truly free. Unlike other mmorpg, RO allows to you "go max" without ever paying; you can have max weapons/armor, all standard, transcendant, and 3rd class levels, all character types, all skills, travel anywhere on all maps without paying money for access. There is also no time-limit of play. The valkyrie server is the free to play one, so download that:
http://iro.ragnarokonline.com/ While downloading, read the player-made wiki that has all the info to help you get started:
http://irowiki.org/wiki/Main_Page 
