Frogster has announced that they now hold the publishing rights to Runes of Magic for all European langauges as well as the licence to publish the Spanish version in North America.

Berlin, 26.03.2009: At the Game Developers Conference still in full swing Frogster has secured the rights to further territories and language versions of Runes of Magic. The management team of Frogster Online Gaming has been granted the exclusive rights for all further European language versions of Runes of Magic for Europe as well as the exclusive licence for the for the Spanish language version for the USA and Canada. This means that the Frogster Group is now holding, along with the Korean licence, all of the licences for Europe with the exception of Turkey. In securing these licences, Frogster has risen to become the de facto almost sole publisher of the international blockbuster MMORPG in the western hemisphere.

In its first week of sales in German retail, Runes of Magic has simultaneously moved into the top spot in the GfK (Society for Consumer Market Research) sales charts. The German boxed version of the MMORPG leapt straight from out of the blocks to the top of the chart for PC games in the segment below 28 Euro, knocking the genre king, World of Warcraft, from the throne. Taking the PC title sector as a whole, the virtual fantasy world peaked in second place according to units sold among current full-price titles. “Although Runes of Magic is available worldwide as a free download, we have been able to create a very successful boxed product for the German-speaking market by assembling an attractive item and collector package”, commented Rolf Klöppel, Frogster’s Head of Marketing and PR, discussing Runes of Magic‘s chart entry in the industry magazine “GamesMarkt”. “Within incredibly short time we have managed to create a hype around Runes of Magic which is Seite 2 von 4 reflected by having 700,000 registered players already. Following on from the successful online marketing, we are now experiencing a strong impact on the retail market."

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700,000 players across 6 (last time I logged in) servers doesn't add up.

Originally posted by bobfish

700,000 players across 6 (last time I logged in) servers doesn't add up.

Maybe because it says registered users, and not all of those will ever be online at once.

It still doesn't add up, WAR has less users than that but more servers.

In a free to play game they count anyone that even had an inkling of signing up for an account.  The key term is "registered" which in this case is meaningless because it does not represent those actually playing the game.

It is an ok game, but it has really lame pvp, i.e. your success in it relies on your ability to spend money on your character.  All else is secondary.

There are a lot more servers than 6, NA version has 4 alone, International I believe is 4 as well, and German version has a lot more servers.

since they just bought the rights for other territoris and languages they will ad for sure a lot more localized servers. right now they just have german, na and international servers. there will be also french, spanish and some more.

I play rom often.  Its good for a f2p. 

Frogster knows they're sitting on something big.

Originally posted by Greatness

There are a lot more servers than 6, NA version has 4 alone, International I believe is 4 as well, and German version has a lot more servers.

Okay, I did my homework, Germany 4, England 2, France 1, plus the 4 NA servers that is still only 11 servers, which using WAR as a comparison would be 110,000 real players.

That isn't a bad number, so I fail to see why they need to use an inflated figure like 700,000.

Originally posted by bobfish

Originally posted by Greatness

There are a lot more servers than 6, NA version has 4 alone, International I believe is 4 as well, and German version has a lot more servers.

 

Okay, I did my homework, Germany 4, England 2, France 1, plus the 4 NA servers that is still only 11 servers, which using WAR as a comparison would be 110,000 real players.

That isn't a bad number, so I fail to see why they need to use an inflated figure like 700,000.

germany has 6 servers ;)