Ragnarok Online Hates Me

Blog No. 197: Thursday, 6/16

JT and Piper are trying to get me into this platforming game called Ragnarok Online. For those not familiar with it, here's a basic synopsis of it in the form of a picture:

Anyways, I said, "Sure, sounds like fun!" only after I had them beg and plead for me to play. XP

So, when I got home Wednesday night, I thought I should start the downloading the programs and stuff. I went through the steps one by one; downloading the game, downloading the Valkyrie server (the free one), and open all the Ragnarok programs to patch.

That's when I hit my first problem.

I double clicked on the little Valkyrie icon to patch its stuff, but then, as it started up, an error message popped up saying "Failed to patch [Random combination of numbers and letters]."

I tried looking online to see what was the problem and the Ragnarok FAQ basically said that it was a problem in the download, that the program didn't download everything correctly. So I uninstalled then reinstalled Valkyrie. Then I opened it up once more for it to patch, then the same error message arised...

So I called it a night and figured I call Piper in the morning.

When I called Piper, she was all, "Dude, the Valkyrie icon doesn't need to patch!" -->Even though she, JT, and Ragnarok Online had said, "Open up EVERYTHING and let it patch before gameplay." But she was right! The game started up and everything went alright...

Until the game didn't want to log me in with my password... Frustrations...

I didn't understand it. It's the same password I used for my Meebo and KoL accounts! I must have typed in my password over fifty dozen times, in every variation of the password I could think of multiple times. I typed in my login and password to the online Kafra Shop over the internet and that worked! Then I tried looking at my account online and tried to change my password. Thing was, it required my old password to change it to a new one and, although I logged on to see my account with that same password, the password changer still did not recognize it. So I could log on to change my account, but I couldn't log on to change my password or to actually play the game...

After some more frustrated yelling at inanimate objects, I clicked on the link for forgotten passwords, which I only found after filtering through the FAQ, and it sent me an email. As it turns out, the password I typed in would have worked if I forgot to type in the last character of it. The password I thought I typed in only differed by not having that last character...

So frustrating...

After a few deep calming breaths, I started doing the training camp thing in the beginning of the game. After awhile, I kinda got bored. The only way to level up was to attack cute little creatures by clicking on the monster... again and again...

And again...

So I logged off and decided to look at the RO website once more to look for what class I wanted to be. Right now, I'm just a novice, but after novice I get to choose from a few different jobs, like mage, acolyte, swordsman, theif, monk, and archer. After a bit of searching, I thought that the ninja job was pretty cool.

Then I headed to bed. XP