Ragnarok Online 2 is the sequel to Gravity Co.'s massively-successful Korean MMORPG. The game was originally announced in 2005, and used to be known as Ragnarok Online 2: The Gate of the World. But after a testing period beginning in 2007, development was scrapped in 2010. The project later resurfaced as Ragnarok Online 2: Legend of the Second, and on February 22, 2012 it entered an open beta phase in South Korea.