Levelup Games is Dying

Another sign of a dying gaming company is the presence of the Google Ads in the Levelup! Games official website. . Though the company is still currently the major pay-per-play company in the Philippines, the constant decrease of population of its flagship game, Ragnarok Online is obviously contributing in Levelup! Games’ decrease in revenue. Google Ads, are targeted advertisements from Google’s program called Adsense. Advertisers pay the Publishers (Which in this case the Levelup! Games website) to display these advertisements and in turn get paid for it. Though it is not an issue that the company implemented this, it’s starting to contradict their rules and regulations regarding their games. Commonly, these targeted Ads displays “Selling online games currencies” Which does not only includes Ragnarok Online’s zenny, but other MMORPG currencies as well. It is clearly stated on their Policies that these kind of trades are illegal. The policy clearly stated that:

What is Illegal Trading?

Illegal Trading is to exchange Ragnarok Online items, zenies, or accounts with real money or goods; or to swap Ragnarok Online items, zenies, or characters from one account in a server for items, zenies, or characters in another account and server.

Current List of Illegal Trades:
· RO item for real money is illegal
· RO item in one server for RO item in another server is illegal
· RO account for real money is illegal
· RO characters in one server for RO characters in another server is
illegal
· RO Load for RO item / zeny is illegal
· ISP Card for RO item / zeny is illegal
· Cel Card for RO item / zeny is illegal
· Zeny for real money is illegal
· Zeny in one server for item / zeny in another server is illegal

*Taken from Levelup! Official Website.
http://www.ragnarok.ph/dv_illegaltrading.php


Bots, which the company is allegedly trying to eradicate are being promoted on the Ads as well.

It is an act of desperation? Judge by yourself.

Just my two cents