I also started with RO Alpha years ago
It was so great, but I was all alone.
Then all my friend tried it, and they were always better than me (they were like nolife), so I had bad characters and loose the will to play with times as I wasn't playing but only trying to follow them.
I tried some new classes on my own server (nobody else on it, only me).
I played every days for about 2 years, then tried EuRo a little, but it wasn't the same. more like GRo where nobody talked but in german. it was like a dead game where nobody were talking, it looked like a bot game.
I tried it again one year later, but the mood wasn't there anymore.
Ro is still a great memory for me