This review is completely botched. Two main factors were sevrely misrepresented. The game is NOT completely free, nothing in life is free so it should never be listed as a pro factor, expecially when there have been numerous articles done on how much of a rip-off the game is in forcing players to have to use RL cash in order to attain end-game gear and items. 

If anything, this game is the most expensive f2p IP on the market. 

Secondly, the community in that game is anything but friendly. Unless of course you are a regular player there of course. Otherwise, the game could easily not only match WoW in similar design, but a similar immature and vulgar community as well.

Overall, a really disapointing article.

Friends tells me it is the best WoW clone yet, and it is free.. err very very expensive to play for real.

That is all the reasons I need sorry :)

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Originally posted by Gregross111
runes of magic is a pile... some Tawaineese copy of wow that offers players the chance to become powerful then other players by purchasing things with real money, no thanks all stick to realms online, The real free to play RVR game.

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The best I would rate this game is 5/10.  Yes there is a dual class system in place.  You level up your primary then change to your secondary and level up all over again. 

To say that RoM is a grind fest is an understatement.  Everything is leveled up seperatly. Your primary skills, your secondary skills, even every class of crafting like mining are leveled seperatly.  Yeah it's free to play, if you want to walk everywhere at one of the slowest paces in any game. 

Now that I have come off as hating the game I will say that I actually enjoyed playing it with my wife.  As for the "friendly people" I didn't see people being any less or more friendly than any other game.

My biggest complaint about the game is the complexity in grinding out everything you need for high end armor.  Not that I have tried but watching my wife spend days trying various things and in the end she just hired someone to make armor for her.  She was so frustrated by the armor system she quit playing the game.

Originally posted by kzaske

The best I would rate this game is 5/10.  Yes there is a dual class system in place.  You level up your primary then change to your secondary and level up all over again. 

To say that RoM is a grind fest is an understatement.  Everything is leveled up seperatly. Your primary skills, your secondary skills, even every class of crafting like mining are leveled seperatly.  Yeah it's free to play, if you want to walk everywhere at one of the slowest paces in any game. 

Now that I have come off as hating the game I will say that I actually enjoyed playing it with my wife.  As for the "friendly people" I didn't see people being any less or more friendly than any other game.

My biggest complaint about the game is the complexity in grinding out everything you need for high end armor.  Not that I have tried but watching my wife spend days trying various things and in the end she just hired someone to make armor for her.  She was so frustrated by the armor system she quit playing the game.

The dual class system is one of the best things about RoM. Leveling two classes is not like leveling one class twice; there are plenty of quests for both sides, plus you can quests on your first class and then turn them in on your second class (within 10 lvls), giving you huge XP and leveling your second class much more quickly than your first.

You can also rent mounts for in-game gold. They are cheap, and faster than many mounts in other games. Combined with the teleportation system and small map sizes, I can't really understand why anyone would complain about this. Oh, and if you want to buy a perm mount, they used to often go on sale for 199 diamonds...isn't that like two bucks if bought during a double diamond sale?

Also, the armor system, although complex, is very enjoyable once you take the time to learn it. I understand it's not for everybody, but I certainly wouldn't consider it a general downside of the game.

Unfortunately, all the other criticisms are pretty much spot on: bad customer service, expensive to stay competitive in PvP, horrible class balance, bugs left unfixed, etc.

So... What about the actual important parts, like the quality of the content?  The main thing that turns me away from these F2Ps (and even a lot of P2Ps) is that the content is shit.  Shitty writing, shitty encounter design, shitty monster AI, etc.  I don't care about mediocre graphics, or anything else technical that obviously will suffer because of a smaller budget.  But well written quests (a la LOTRO), good encounter design, etc. those will hook me and keep me around.

Being a former end game player... it takes, yes, alot of irl money and time to keep up with the best. With some of the mid 2010 patches came an easy slide to endgame called "pearl events" by most. These events have you work as a group to kill mobs in a time period and the boss to gain "pearls" which can them be exchanged for "mementos" to buy stats and gear which also can be obtained from instances..

So in other words, people would sit at these events all day, build up their gear and know absolutely shit all about the instance, but still think their badass with all this gear they earned sitting around. People who like to pve(like me) did actual raiding to get my own gear and stats.. This is single handedly what changed the game in a big way..

Before this, it took many many many instance runs to get the perfect stats and gear to become a decent player, but now its just afk, get gear/stats from events, know nothing in instances, but have all the endgame gear and not put it to good use... lame and sad.

Final thing is... you can get to lvl cap in like 2-3 days if u spend a shitload of $$$ and become better geared then some endgamers which is pathetic. Yes i know this game is free, but once u really decide to get into this game you'll end up dishing out, it takes wayy to damn long to get endgame if you decide to stay f2p your whole time on RoM.. so ya, uninstalled and glad its gone!!!

i going to try the game out what's ur in game name?

Re-Review:

Pros: You choose.

Cons:

Endgame will cost $$$.

Huge advantage of p2p players over f2p.

Instances (engame dungeons) are very hard, almost undoable if you are not imba geared ( geared = spent $$$ in cash shop or use hacks, bots, exploits to make gold/diamonds).

Totally class unbalanced game - scouts are overpower class, mages are dead. Last 2 introduced instances Kawak's Tomb and Raksha temple are in 90% done with scouts, knight and priest.

In EU, there are no bans for bots, goldsellers, scammers and hackers.

No GM's on EU forums.

Poor or almost non-exist support.

Thousands and thousands hacked accounts.

Some cash shop items are "scam", like jewels to upgrade equipment. 

+ more and more really bad things.

As far as the review goes, it's lacking and shallow.  Honestly if you guys are going to do re-reviews really dig into a game, otherwise whats the point?

Anyway as for my thoughts on this particular title, I'll start by saying RoM had potential.  However what potential it had has since been squandered away with little hope of it seeing the light of day ever again.

Frankly IMO RoM simply exists to make other decent F2P games look bad IMO.  I played the game from beta till summer of 2010 and finally just had to call it quits.  The community at the time was toixic.  Huge amounts of content was simply broken, from quest to instances etc.  The investment needed to really play the game was absured.  Class balance, while never a strong suite for online games in general, was so perversely bad it it was nearly unbearable.  Yet despite all that was wrong what did their dev's do, kept rolling out more broken content instead of fixing any of what came before it.

If someone asked me to recommend a good F2P game I'd prob direct them to any of Nexon's titles, PWE's Forsaken World, DDO, LotRO, EQ2X, or even Allods.  RoM wouldn't even be a consideration, which is sad considering I did truely used to enjoy the game before it started to spiral downhill.

i would say...RoM tried it, but it didnt go as planned but they had to bring it out on the market because they needed the money....feels like that to me

You aren't forced to go to the Allods boutique but you can get gPotatoes for free which enables you to enjoy the game even further. So far, I haven't needed to grind. In fact I think there are t o many quests but they aren't all "Go kill 100 folves" but are more exciting and have engaging storyline that you actually want to read and so far whilst playing, I haven't met a spammer or troll. Allods was review to early.

I played RoM for about 2 week then got bored because I could find anything to do. For the 6 hour download and the 1 hour patching time, it's so not worth it.

Originally posted by cappytoi

 

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Originally posted by nonperson
As far as the review goes, it's lacking and shallow.  Honestly if you guys are going to do re-reviews really dig into a game, otherwise whats the point?

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if I was inclined to go back to a fantasy MMO Runes of Magic would be where I went. I played RoM on a pvP server for about 8 months and stopped playing shortly after the Chapter 2 Elven Legacy expansion came out.

Its very good and I guite liked the multiclassing, the cash shop is also mainly full of convenience items with a couple of things that might give you a minor edge in PvP if you rolled on a PvP server.

Good game, good community & interesting world with loads of content & areas to explore. Whats not to like ?

I dumped this game after support could give a poo less about screwing up the look (unplayable and un wareable error) of the armour I paid for from the cash shop. Never playing this peice of doggy duty again.

Originally posted by Alx_Starfire

I dumped this game after support could give a poo less about screwing up the look (unplayable and un wareable error) of the armour I paid for from the cash shop. Never playing this peice of doggy duty again.

 yep, u pay out the ass using irl $$ to be good for a month or two before rom decides to make a new patch withb etter stats and ull have to remake ur entire gear.. This game is just a major money grabber nowadays, and btw on the pvp servers u can drop gear u spent hundreds of irl dollars on and sell the money go down the drain... really stupid

 

Originally posted by Gregross111

Screw allods and runes of magic , Everyone should check out Realms Online, its the re release of regnum online in north america , but NGD isnt the ones running the show its a new dev called Game samba they have awsome customer support, good GMs , population is steadily growing on a brand new server called raven, RVR is already kicking off , good PVE sandbox feel until the RVR starts , its a great game and  its 100% free heres the nice part, it has an item shop but the items you can purchase from it give you absolutely no edge over anyone in combat, you cannot buy "I want to be leet" potions , its all just cosmetic and stuff to make the game easier to reach end lvl , mounts etc, nothing like raid gear u can buy with real money or anything like that, if you never want to spend a dime you will have the same gear as the ppl spending money its that simple check it out we could use some more peeps on the new NA server raven! ,

 

it doesnt matter who runs realms / regnum online.... the game is still bad.... even king of kings 3 is more fun

Originally posted by Soliloquy

Originally posted by cappytoi

 

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Originally posted by nonperson
As far as the review goes, it's lacking and shallow.  Honestly if you guys are going to do re-reviews really dig into a game, otherwise whats the point?

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Wait, did we get 1 of them to admit this is just an advertismenet for the game?!

Could it be?!!!

This was a fun game to me for quite a while, but beware like others have said the end game is expensive if you are going to fully enjoy it..

And their mall is enticing with daily and weekly sales added to 50% to 125% free diamonds that are occasionally on sale will cause a buying fury!

In the end i was easily spending 25 bucks a month on this game and sometimes more..

However if you dont mind endlessly grinding for gold and being under equipped at times then this game can be played even into the endgame totally for free..

Originally posted by zellmer

Originally posted by Soliloquy

Originally posted by cappytoi

 

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Originally posted by nonperson
As far as the review goes, it's lacking and shallow.  Honestly if you guys are going to do re-reviews really dig into a game, otherwise whats the point?

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Wait, did we get 1 of them to admit this is just an advertismenet for the game?!

 

Could it be?!!!

No