Ran Online

Ran Online (stylized as RAN Online, Chinese: 亂Online) was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Min Communications, Inc., the company that had also developed Remnant Knights.

After starting the first official service in Korea in July 2004, RAN Online continued to expand globally. Servers were opened in Taiwan and Hong Kong in May 2005, Japan in September 2005, Malaysia in October 2005, Thailand in November 2005, the Philippines in January 2006, Europe in September 2013, and North America in November 2013. Because it was free-to-play and had low system requirements, RAN Online remained popular in the Philippines in 2011, and was listed among the most popular MMO games in the Philippines in a 2009 study. On August 12, 2019, its official Facebook page announced the game's closure. Meanwhile, in 2018, Wavegame published RAN with the name "New RAN Online" in the Southeast Asia region. However, it shut down on June 30, 2021. In 2023, a few private server developers reopened the game, but it is still unstable to play due to a lack of old data. In the same year, Min Communications CEO Kim Byung-min issued a serious warning against illegal private servers and noted that the company has no plans to sell service rights or release a mobile version in the future.