

The oldest race is the Gaia, and to assist them, the gods of Creation and Extinction brought two more races into the world. The US test server for Epic 4 testing was called "Siren". Previously five servers were merged into two, "Fenrir" and "Bahamut" were merged into "Baphomet" "Naga", "Tortus" and "Pantera" became "Undine" (PVE). Later "Baphomet" and "Tyrant" were merged into "Betrayal". Previously there were four servers in service, "Tyrant", "Baphomet", "Undine" and "Unicorn" (PVE). There are currently three servers in service namely, "Betrayal", "Undine" and "Unicorn". Open Beta ended with the official release of the game on 3 November 2006, entitled Epic 3 (the previous being Epic 1 and Epic 2: The Epic of the Absolute Creature). Closed-beta characters were deleted at the beginning of Open Beta however, characters created during Open Beta were not deleted before the game's release. Those who had previously downloaded the Closed Beta version of Rappelz were not required to re-download the Rappelz client to play in Open Beta however, extensive automatic patching was done by the client before Closed Beta players could enter Open Beta. The Open Beta version of Rappelz launched on 2 October 2006, with two separate servers available: "Tortus", the normal PvE server, and "Pantera", the more PvP/PK-oriented server. The current installment is called "Epic 9.7: Sky Fortress" (7th part of Epic IX). Įach major installment of the game is referred to as an "Epic". Rappelz is set in a medieval fantasy world, dominated by three races: the Deva (who represent light), the Asura (who represent darkness), and the Gaia (humans that possess an affinity with nature). and its subsidiaries Gala Networks Europe and Gala-Net Brazil have been acquired by Webzen, Inc.", however, it is still being developed by Gala Labs and Gala Japan As of 6 February 2013 it was confirmed by Rappelz GMs that "Gala Net, Inc. A new version was released 15 July 2010 by EagleGame in the Philippines, but the PH/SEA version closed in 2016. The game was released under a different title known as Hope of Nations ( Arabic: أمل الشعوب), and was commercially launched on 16 March 2009.

The game was also published in Arabic for MENA gamers by the Emirati company Game Power 7.

As of October 2008, Rappelz was also being published by the South East Asia based game publishing company AsiaSoft as RappelzSEA but was later dropped by the company on 1 September 2009. until 2020) in English, French, German, Italian, Polish and Turkish, on their Bora Island games portal. It is published in Europe and North America by Way2Bit Co. The game is developed by the Korean company Gala Lab, formerly flavor. Rappelz is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
