Did you know I used to play Ragnarok Online? It is an multiplayer online role-playing game from South Korea. Yeah, I’ve been addicted to it in 2005 that even in my dreams I was playing Ragnarok. One time, I answered a phone call while I was half asleep. The phone was ringing just right above my head, so I grabbed it, and said hello as usual. However, I mumbled about ragnarok items after. Only when my caller asked me “What are you talking about Reah? What’s a muffler?” that I got back to my senses.

Anyway, while waiting in Farm Town’s marketplace last week, I remembered the emoticons in Ragnarok Online. Especially the crying emoticon. It would be fun if farmers in Farm Town could show a crying emoticon if they are pleading for a job, or a thanks emoticon when they get hired.

Ragnarok Online Emoticons

For me, emoticons was one of the best things in Ragnarok aside from the real game. So that players could  socialize better with other players. Here’s some videos I found in YouTube showing Ragnarok players communicating with emoticons, or at least reacting with emoticons.

Adding this kind of animation in Farm Town though may add to the bandwidth being used in the game, but I still hope Farm Town developers are considering such feature in the future. And oh, letting the farmer/avatar  sit too would be cool.

For the meantime, I will use the Ragnarok Emoticons app to bug my friends in Facebook.