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Runes of Magic
Released On: Mar 19, 2009
71
5.0
All Platforms
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
71
64% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
29% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
71
64% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
29% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
By all indications, Runes of Magic is only going to get bigger and better. Although it's available for free, if you love the game, you should feel obligated to support the developers by visiting the Item Shop. If you're a purist, keep in mind that you can purchase items that are purely cosmetic. Consider that your price of admission to a wonderfully enchanted world.
Runes of Magic states a great opportunity, if you like role-playing games. It's free and really one of the best MMORPGs out there.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 45 User Ratings
5.0
24% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
40% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
36% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 45 User Ratings
5.0
24% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
40% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
36% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
The games great. People may have had bugs n stuff but my game is working excellent. Had no problems with hackers or anything. Theres ALOT to do almost like WoW but its free
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I love this game because of people in it who met and even married :) It's wonderful time eater and fun giver.
I found a lot of friends and reached good place in ranking playing totally free i still play this game and will play till the end :D CHEERS RUNES OF MAGIC ;)
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Have you been playing World of Warcraft for such a long time, that streets in Stormwind or Orgrimmar have been named after you? Why not try a free alternative? Runes of Magic is really impressive. There is no pressure to buy anything, it's easy on beginners and at the same time a complex game thanks to the rune system and dual classes.
Certainly one of the most intuitive and easily enjoyable free to play MMO in the market.
Runes of Magic won't win a price for originality. If that's something you can look past, Runes of Magic will get you going for hours and hours.
And there is no excuse for not trying because the game is completely free. Just download and play.
Runes of Magic is by and large a robust, enjoyable game. As a free-to-play title, it's impressive. Although Western gamers will still have their reservations about amorphous RMT versus those nice straightforward subs, Runes of Magic is something of a landmark: it won't dislodge the subscription-based model in the West by any stretch of the imagination, but it does demonstrate that free-to-play doesn't necessarily mean rudimentary, shallow, cheap or totally brutal in the integration of RMT.
A free MMO whose ingenuity does little more than simply streamline what we've seen elsewhere. [July 2010, p.104]
i'm not to crazy about the new partner up they choose, because but all games need to do that i love that it is free and that its watered down, i don't mind i think it could use some upgrades but overall i like the game.
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Honestly I have been playing this game for 3 years(and 2 months of the 3rd chapter) and still playing. From my past experiences i can say that:
Runes of Magic is a great game. It's a fun copy of WoW and a really fun MMORPG to play.Many User friendly players.Reduced prices though, many huge cities or casltes have been fixed and bug removed. Player versus Player, Player versus Monster, Free to Play. Free quests. The Idea of choosing from 3 classes are a solid gold and having a combo of two class's skills into 1, Can really create a unique character like what I did for my Character.
It is fun, though many spammers, hackers during PvP. 1 or two cities not fixed. Dalanis is 1. Constant disconnection which have never been fixed. Now if you can run it at max settings it won't disconnect so often. Only 2 cities or when near many players.
Never had or heard a person hacking others account.Though if you are dumb, use your money on **** your wiser than other knuckle heads below in the comments you will learn that you can get diamonds for cosmetics by their gold. They have devised a system that you can trade in your gold for diamonds.*(Diamonds are a type of Real money currency required for purchase of certain stuff)*
You can level up fast but the requirement of armor is tremendous which makes leveling up a lot less faster.
There are many Instances, Raids etc. If you are lucky you can do the instances with other higher levels who can finish it. No matter how high a level you are there is always room for something to do. You can always improve your armor and buy more better ones to be more **** there are people who can run instances for you to get upgraded(as in with armor and weapons and stuff). The auction house concept and way they created it is a good concept I must **** the sad part is that it needs constant maintainance as after every 30 days if your items are in the mailbox, It dissapears forever never seeing the light of it.There are many types of game **** of them can be earned accept Diamonds
New races and classes are not a big hype as the release of the Elven race and its classes.
Yes it has a lot of spam bots but the developers made the effort to cancel their spam and 'report spam' them. And yes the communications between Game Master to player is horrible. You almost never get a reply. Class balancing is almost done being fixed now. Its a free MMO if you know how to play MMO's unlike Rundas342. And yes during 2011 there was a time when your first chest was missing and when they gave the chest back not all was there.I have heard a lot of complaints on this and I was the lucky few to get all my stuff back.Only about 35%-45% of all players got their first chest back with their stuff. The patches are getting more noticeable nowadays. They patch most of their bugs.(but have not patched the leveling ground Dalanis. I swear i have crashed more than 10 times just getting from one end to another in the damned castle.Otherwise all is fine). And the worst part is the part that they didn't fix the siege wars between **** been BETA from since its release.
It is now more possible to play but havent fixed the way and how humans level.(they are slower levelers because they only have two zones to level from.They made getting to the leveling zone much harder which is good cause you dont get noobs and all just spamming or disturbing the others.) All clases have been fixed. It still has a lot of bugs. And it takes up about 40 Gigabytes of space after a bunch of patches for me since its all patches of the 3rd chapter 4th and 5th chapter too.Other wise like about 10 GB.
Here and there patches are being **** wait to download the game is really long but i do not understand. A graphics card which have been purchased at 2005( not at all high end. Mid class) could run RoM at max **** and my graphics care is in American Currency is worth 142 and probably few cents in **** that graphics card of mine is broken and using a graphics card with built in motherboard. It still runs perfectly fine. But recomended to get a 4GB ram or 2 2GB rams as game takes up lot of ram. The biggest wait for download but then, Hey!
They created it to be a copy of WoW which is free.
Costs less than WoW(Or nothing at all like I said if you know how to play your cards right).
A WoW player changing from WoW to RoM will definately enjoy it.
But due to all its problems I have faced, I doubt the game will get my hopes up.
Its great for me as I am still a RoM player but about you guys, I listed the pro's con's and neutrals of this games.Play according to your rating and whether you think you should play it. I rate it as about a six.Probably even higher.There are more to the system that makes it more complicated and easier at the same time.I really like this game even though for its crappy problems as the people there are friendly, The game makes you want to try, try again and there is always room for extras
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As far as free MMOs go, you won't find one better than this but when you compare it to retail quality MMOs, it just feels like a watered down version of WoW with graphics made purposely bad to look like it. It's obvious their target audience were people who said "I want a game like WoW but I don't want a monthly fee"
The game does have a few nice touches like Siege Wars PVP, dual class system, housing, and leveling up is done by completing quests rather than aimlessly killing enemies with no real goal in mind. The game can be great fun when playing socially with other people but alone the "get x amount of y" fetch quests get tedious
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The game is fun and amazing but at the end of the game (Last level) the item shop seems to become a nesesity in order to survive. Those basic gems used to level up your weapon and gear are availible in the item shop, the ones that have a chance to fail and trust me they do. As for the ones that are free ingame for ingame gold, the fail rate is 98% its horrifying. Another thing, bugs and spam bots. The games developers have failed to remove advertising bots from the game, and also the basic bugs. They expand the game while leaving the bugs behind! its ridiculous!
And to top it off, in 2011 they had a technical problem,sort to speak, every players 1st storage chest was "magicly" gone, as in it was purged without the GMs knowing, they tried to fix it but not everyone got their items back, complete that is, i have not gotten mine up to this date and this began in september by the way. Their ticket system is also pathetic as you get a reply by one of their mail bots.
This game may have good graphic but heres the reality
1. Its VERY expensive
2. It has spam bots and to many bugs
3. The communication and time reponse from GM to developer is horrible
4. Class balancing still has not been fix, their is always 1 class in this game that can destroy the rest
If you really want a "Free to play" MMORPG this is not one, it is advertised as one but in reality its very expensive, you will save a lot of money if you play a suscription game than this,
I played it for 2 years and it was fun but when these bugs escalated, it was the last straw. This is my rating, hope you remember it becuase if you play this youll be understand what i mean.
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Horrible customer service .... the email I used to sign up for this I didnt have anymore so I never got an email telling me I had to log in or my account would be lost. After spending on the diamonds to buy things in game I was a little upset that my char was just gone and this is a direct quote from the ticket I sent in asking about it ... "Unfortunately, what is done, is done, and the possibility of retrieval or reimbursement is non-existant. We apologize for the inconvenience." and thats not supposed to upset me more? geesh
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Summary Runes of Magic is a fantasy MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game), in which words can create, but also destroy. Here you can explore and discover a magical world full of wonders and ancient riddles. Encounter arcane and dangerous creatures and solve the mystery of a long-perished kingdom. You have access to a dual class...
Rated T
for Teen
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: Mar 19, 2009
Developer:
- Runewaker Entertainment
Publisher: Frogster Interactive
Genres:
