Rollback: The Aftermath

The rollback happened later than what was scheduled; it was scheduled for 11:00 yet at that time Valhalla is still online, and the actual rollback started at around 11:30. And also it was faster than what I expected. It only lasted for about an hour.

Yes, experience, premiums, items and money were lost but not as much as other expected. In no way did experience return to, well, nothing, and money return to 0z for most but many did lose great amounts of money, equipment and experience.

I, for example, together with amparolicious, was leveling a night before the rollback  with my Blacksmith and his Wizard character in the Geffen High Orcs. I leveled my job two times while amparolicious leveled even greater due to his premium, and at times the party not having shared experience — this really makes me mad. Both of us lost all our experiences from Leveling starting May 30 to June 1 — June 1 is the day before the rollback, and that is three days of lost experience.

Besides experience, people also lost a lot of money, and my Blacksmith lost 2.6 million Zeny due to this rollback. The items that I sold and traded were returned though. This is because, as amparolicious explains, the rollback is pretty much like the system restore that you have on your computer. It’s not like a reformatting that many of us thought. But nevertheless, reformat or system restore, it was a HUGE trouble for pRO Valhalla players.

I would also like to point out that, according to the LU announcement on the night before the rollback, they will reimburse ROK’s that were consumed during the period of May 30 to June 1. And guess what, it was already 3 hours after the rollback, and there was no ROK reimbursement whatsoever.

Many people were infuriated. Even I was furious. Think of it the money that you spent on buying LU load was thrown to waste. But salvation came a few hours afterwards; the players’ ROK Points were returned.

But that’s not the end of the nightmarish rollback event — and it truely complements LU’s 6^th year anniversary especially in terms of its service and response to events like this which are truely of their creation — it seems like people’s ROK’s were not returned fully — that is in its full amount — and there are still some waiting for  all of their ROK’s to be returned — one example of this is amparolicious. And also, it seems that only ROK would be returned not the load spent on Premium game time between May 30 to June 1.

This event really got our morales down — think of the time that we spent on leveling went to waste — so amparolicious and I decided to create new characters all together: I, an FS Priest, and amparolicious, a musical bard.

And finally, it was already 21:00 and a server-wide GM message was put up by GM Anael, the great, and, according to him, all ROK’s have now been reimbursed. That made us excited, and, as soon as we finished our AFM’s and my Job Manual through leveling, I warped as back to Prontera. We went back to Prontera, and checked our ROK points, and, contrary to the GM’s statement, they were not there. So were forced to return back to our leveling spot, and in there I managed to see a furious player’s shout that LU/GM’s must not give false hopes for there are always legal action that they [the players] can make.

Lastly, I would like to report that GM Anael, the great, spawned thousands of Anubis in Veins, Rachel, Louyang and another city that I forgot. <sarcastic>Sure, that really is a great way to compensate for LU’s troubles.</sarcastic>

Could this be true?

While my Blacksmith character — [BS] Lilac — was vending in Prontera, I happened to notice that someone shouted that GM Anael was on South-West Prontera so I was curious to find out who he was, and got information on him. Then I found this http://anaelsprofessinalism.blogspot.com/. It’s a Blogspot blog committed to expose his “proffessionalism” or rather unproffessionalism as the blog’s author explains.

The case is about some person creating a character by GM Anael’s name — and was silenced 30 minutes later — to somehow irritate the GM in a prankish way but was surprised on how the GM responded unpleasantly.

I don’t know if this is true but the blog’s screenies are rather authentic. And yeah, the name ·Anael™· is the GM’s in-game name.

And also, another could-this-be-true scenario is the sale of MVP cards starting on June 3. The anouncement was made a couple of times on the Valhalla server. But I believe that this is rather true. I wish that the cards won’t be way too expensive though.