Digimon RPG Online is back
Brief game explanation
Digimon RPG Online, also called DRO, is a monster collecting MMORPG developed by MoveGames and only available for PC. The game is based on the third season of Digimon: Digimon Tamers. There are four Tamers: Takato, Henry, Rika and Jeri.
There are seven partners which you can start with: Impmon, Dorumon, Renamon, Monodramon, Terriermon, Veemon and Guilmon. If you don't like your partner you can change it into another one later on using a T.F.U.
Guilmon, Renamon and Terriermon are always available on the first three options. The fourth option changes weekly and let you choose between the others aforementioned.
The game consists of a character which can tame several species of Digimon and battle with them in a turn-based combat. You can use three different skills, traits (passive abilities) and cards (consumable items) during combat.
Battles award you with EXP and BITs (game currency). Every 10 levels will make your monsters digivolve: 11 (rookie), 21 (champion), 31 (ultimate) and 41 (mega).
There are several ways of evolving such as: card digivolution, jogress digivolution, armor digivolution and so on. Burst Mode evolutions are one of the strongest in the game, for example, MirageGaogamon BM:
Historical retrospective
DRO released in South Korea in January 22nd of 2002, it was the first Digimon MMORPG. It was impossible to legally play it outside of South Korea, because KSSN (Korean Social Security Number) was necessary for signing up. So most of western players haven't had the chance to try it out back then. The game is still being updated to this day. This is what their website looked like back in 2002:
The second server launched September 25th of 2008 in China. It also was illegal to play on if you were not chinese, because you'd need a chinese ID to create an account. Unfortunately, the server was closed soon after and many players wouldn't have any other Digimon MMORPG to play for a couple months. This is what their website looked like:
Those three videos are trailers from DigimonsWorld Youtube channel, depicting both chinese and south korean servers:
After the chinese server closure, Digimon Battle Online, also known as DBO, was released for the west. It was launched in April 14th of 2010. Finally the game was in English and available for all audiences including China and South Korea. Unfortunately, this server closed aswell, probably because of DMO launch and the use of illegal programs such as bots and exploits.
The next video is a DBO trailer.
The global rerelease of the game is scheduled to June 29th of 2022. So look forward to this date.
Rerelease expectations
Each server was unique in its own to better portray the community's playstyle: leveling up in DBO was specially easier than DRO and some quests, such as Robust Quest required less drops. So the western version of the game may be a bit different from its source for better or for worse.
DBO and DRO are really far from each other update-wise nowadays, so most information out there about the western version is extremely outdated. DRO has several new mechanics compared to DBO, such as cloth upgrading, special traits, special evolutions and so on.
The game has a cash shop in which you'll be able to buy several items from cards to loot boxes and gachapon coins. Some Digimon are virtually impossible to earn without cashing in, such as ZeedMillenniummon. So pay-to-win players will have an edge compared to the free-to-play players.
The game will probably be released at Steam and maybe with a standalone client. The next image shows a translated image from cafe naver, which is a korean-only forum.
Have fun playing!
A special thanks to both Teixeira and Cusoca for letting me use their digimon lines' images. And to VihKun for updating the community on any news about the game.
Text made by: Sotin
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