Free Server Valkyrie!

Oooh... how long have I longed to play Ragnarok Online? A long time... the dream was forced to just be a dream. Money was the ultimate obstacle. But guess how overjoyed I was after checking the game's site today? I smiled. Ragnarok Zeny has got a new server and it's free to play. This is Valkyrie.

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The world is becoming generous, isn't it? Well, I'm currently downloading the game which is a whole bunch of 1.34 GBs. That's a lot for the ordinary 50kb connections, but luckily we have broadband. With FDM* the download speed is up to 636kb/s!

Ah, it isn't finished yet. A little under 20 minutes of waiting remain. Well, I might as well tell you about how and where to download Ragnarok Zeny, if you're a little tired of searching for everything I write in Google.

*Free Download Manager, a very fast and compact download manager that is, to my joy, freeware. No ads or similar.

Downloading Ragnarok with the new Valkyrie server

The game download can be found on the game's own site. It is quite big, so there's an option to download a little bunch of files at a time instead of the whole installer. The download page can be found here. It doesn't really matter which download button you choose but make sure it says "Ragnarok Zeny - DOWNLOAD". If you're more comfortable with downloading it with a torrent, there's a bittorrent file available. It can be found in the same page, just a little lower.

After you've downloaded the installer, install it. It should be very simple, just pressing next, accept agreement, next, next...

When you're done installing, download the Valkyrie server installation file on the same page. (It's blue with the text Ragnarok Zeny - Valkyrie on it.) When downloaded (it isn't that big), run the .exe and choose the path you installed Ragnarok in. Mine was installed by default in C:\Program Files\Gravity\Ragnarok Online, so choose to put the installation in there. Then press "install".

*excited*

Now, run Ragnarok Zeny, it'll patch some things... just wait... (I'm doing this thing while I'm writing, so this is an entirely new experience for me.) It finished, now I'll just press start and a setup screen pops up. I choose to accept the default settings by pressing ok. Whoa, I'm greeted with a laggy menu. Oh no, oh no... I accepted the agreement and closed down the game. I closed down some applications and tried again.