Gold: R.O.S.E. Online
Editor: FreeToPlay
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Publisher(s): Level Up! Games
Phase: Terminated
Website: http://www.roseonline.ph
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Level Up! Games Inc. is pleased to announced that starting April 18th, 2007 Phillipine R.O.S.E. online (English) will start Free-To-Play with the new Junon Polis Item Mall until further notice. This is big news to those who have been waiting for its f2p debut from its long p2p status; however, they also announced that this is an experimental setup to see if the free to play business model actually works. Those with remaining subscription time will be credited with MOONIES in their account. Hopefully everything goes well and if you do love this game please support it by buying items from the item mall or spreading the word of it being f2p. Like the multifaceted rose in The Little Prince, The Seven Planets of ROSE Online have many aspects: Beauty and passion, danger and romance, plots and planets. Those who explore the beauty of ROSE must also be wary of the thorns hidden within! The Gods Story revolves around Arua, Junon and Hebarn. The actions of the three Gods influenced everything in the Planets of the Seven Hearts.
In 2006, ROSE online had a massive make over called Rose Online Evolution which changed GUI, skill sets, materials, crafting system and adding new maps, etc. The basic goal in Rose Online is to level up as many times from killing monsters and collecting items. Currently, the level cap is set at 210 which is way over most mmorpg cap of 100. One unique feature are the seven planets. As of right now there are 3 planets available with level restrictions Junon (level 1-135), Luna (level 41-160) and Eldeon (level 90-210). It is rumored that a new planet called Orlo will be added sometime late this year of 2007. There are 3 ways of transportation accessible and they are through carts, castle gears and flying vessels. Start off as a Visitor and as you level up you can become switch into jobs such as Muse, Mage, Cleric, Soldier, Knight, Champion, Dealer, Artisan, Bourgeois, Hawker, Scout or Raider. Collect gems and sockets to boost your stats and become the best PvPer!
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Pros: It's good to know that pROSE and jROSE is changing to f2p which will undoubtedly bring in more players to enjoy this tremendous game and hopefully more people to buy items from the item shop. Nowadays more and more p2p games have to resort to item malls and ROSE online is definitely going to be one of the best games for the f2p industry.
Cons: P2P players might not like this. There are private servers out already that are free, but phillipine ROSE online will definitely be the largest up-to-date free server for the english speaker.

JJ wrote:
But this can't be F2P!!!
It's P2P already!