Philippine Ragnarok Online logo under Level Up!.

Philippine Ragnarok Online, also known as pRO, is the first official Ragnarok Online server published in the Philippines. It was published by Level Up! from 2003 until 2015. It is best known in the Philippines as the first officially licensed MMORPG in the country.

The game launched using a subscription-based business model. As the free-to-play model increased in popularity in 2006, the game would eventually add its own free-to-play servers by 2007.

pRO was eventually shut down in 2015 due to its declining popularity. Accounts from the pRO servers were migrated to International Ragnarok Online (iRO) on its Thor server.

Philippine Ragnarok Online, abbreviated as pRO, is the first officially licensed MMORPG to be published in the Philippines. The game began its free-play open beta on June 2, 2003, with the launch of its first server, "Chaos". The beta ended in August, and the game launched commercially in September of the same year. It launched the "Lydia" server on November 3, 2004.

On February 13, 2015, Level Up! announced that it would close the game on March 31, 2015. A new server in International Ragnarok Online (iRO), in cooperation with GRAVITY's Warp Portal, was established in April 2015 to accommodate players who wanted to continue playing the game. A migration program was started to help players move their assets to the new server.^[1] The new iRO server was named Thor.

In an interview with Jake San Diego, General Manager of PlayPark and Level Up!, he stated that the company never intended to close the game. He claimed that "the performance of [the game] was deteriorating through the years". Because of its decline, the developers of the game chose to service the Philippine players through international servers based in North America instead. San Diego also denied rumors that Level Up! was unable to pay the necessary royalties for the game.^[2]

The game managed to attract 10 million active subscribers. Gary Escobar, Product Director for Level Up!, stated that the game had over 57,000 concurrent users at its peak. Regarding the game's server popularity, "Chaos, being the first server, was the most populated followed by Loki. The third was a toss-up between Iris and Fenrir. Urdr, being a PK (PvP) server, was the least populated".^[3]

Under Level Up!, pRO held the annual Philippine Ragnarok Championship national tournaments. pRO also participated in all of the Ragnarok World Championship international tournaments organized by the game's developer, GRAVITY.

1. Philippine Ragnarok Online Moves To A New Home. February 15, 2015. Philippine Ragnarok Online news author. Philippine Ragnarok Online (Level Up!) website. Retrieved on 2023-08-02.
2. Level Up General Manager Reveals Reasons for Ragnarok Online’s Closure. March 06, 2015 at 08:58 AM. Esports by INQUIRER.net author. Esports by INQUIRER.net. Retrieved on 2023-08-02.
3. Leaving a Legacy: Philippine Ragnarok Online as Told by the Level Up! Team. March 02, 2015. Esports by INQUIRER.net author. Esports by INQUIRER.net. Retrieved on 2023-08-02.