Is it possible that iRO alters damage formulas that is suited for iRO mechanics rather than follow kRO/jRO's gear descriptions?
No, we do not alter damage formulas. We actually cannot, it's an exe setting that the studio sets. It's possible for us to request changes from the studio, but that doesn't mean that they'll give it to us. I'd suggest doing bug reports because I know our formulas are different from what kRO has for the individual skills, but the overall damage and defense formulas are the same.
What prevents kRO/Gravity/whoever is responsible from delivering updates that should've been delivered a long time ago?
Believe it or not, we actually go through a QA process. WE're applying the updates as quickly as we can, given the capacity of our QA team, HQ's QA team, and developer studio's time they can devote to us. We ARE catching up on the updates, and this next month we should be getting 16.1, including the achievement system. We originally said we wouldn't get it, but now we are! So we're gonna get the achievement system, the 16.1 instances, then the America theme town for June. Then catch up on the smaller updates for the rest of the year, like the Nightmare Dungeons, the Guilde Warehouse, all the quality of life updates. Especially the Bowling Bash fix and the Position Bug fix, 'cause that would be great.
Why hasn't iRO added the Malangdo enchants for other weapons (like RTE and noble cross)? Even if kRO hasn't given you the patch for this, can't you add it manually just like how you add newer costumes to be enchanted? Even NTFactory NPC says that we go to Malangdo to have our noble cross be enchanted.
It's not something that's that easy to add, I don't even know what the exact enchant list for those are, and we most likely don't have the item data for those enchants. It's on our requested update list. We're going to request it, but we can't just do it ourselves.
Will you ever bring the Poring King quest back?
Yes! He's actually one of my favorite monster sprites, it's the really large Poring with the battle scars and the swords sticking out of him.
What are the exciting updates to look forward to this 2017 until next year?
16.1, US themed town, 16.2, the missing Nightmare Dungeons, we're hoping to also request the Bowling Bash fix, the Position fix, the Guild Warehouse, and a lot of the other small updates.
When will iRO have more liberty in making custom items?
We can request custom items and we've done so in the past. Actually, one of the big things we requested is the US themed town! It spawned off our original idea for the 2015 anniversary event, and it's become its own update to the game. So I hope you will enjoy it when we get it, because it came from our community.
Could we get an update to iRO's MVP table? Monsters that give MVP reward on kRO don't on iRO, like Entweihen Crothen, Naght Sieger, Bakonawa, etc.
We can definitely request it.
Do you still plan on releasing a Guild Warehouse update for iRO, and if so, when can we expect it?
Later this year, and yes.
Some instances are missing parts of the instance script on iRO. Could we get those updated too? (Examples: Bakonawa Lake, Charleston Crisis, Horror Toy Factory)
It's one of those things we can request. As far as I know, we're at where we should be with the updates. But I am aware we're missing some updates and changes, so we can request them. I suspect that for most of these, we received a first generation version of these instances, but not the later ones.