Please join us on Saturday November 15th at 4pm EST for the opportunity to chat with the developers behind Runes of Magic, the upcoming free to play fantasy MMORPG which aims to redefine quality standards for free to play games.

Community Manager Jörg “Kerensky“ Koonen will be on hand along with other devs to give you answers straight from the source.

Join us today for the Runes of Magic Dev Chat.

This game is what i have been waiting for, for a very long time. Since i left UO renaisance i have missed so many aspects of that game and cant help but compare just about every game i play to it. The comradary, the housing, the skills set, the freedom. These have all made up what ive always considered the best MMO ever, but only one thing was lacking that was graphics. They did try and bring the UO graphics up a bit but they still fell short, then with graphics there is that problem with not enough users haveing the rig to run the game.

WoW was lucky in the fact that nobody minded the cartoony graphics everyone was used to from the RTS titles, so when people started playing it they fell right in love with it. Plus no one had any problems running the game so they didnt need to spend any money and getting there friends online playing wasnt hard cause none of them had to upgrade anything to play it.

Now Runes of Magic has come into the picture, the only downfall i forsee for this game is the lack of following, it doesnt have any past games im aware of to pull a fan base from, which was the key behind WoW's success. But it has everything any good MMO has ever had, it has simple but attractive graphics, it has skills which the player gets to customize, it has multi classing, it has housing right from the start. Most importantly about the housing is the ability to customize them, make them your own display and show off your spoils, trophies and valuables from your adventures. This is partly what brought on the multiplayer aspect of UO, was the conversation pieces that players would display. They cause envy, they cause drive, they create goals for lower level characters. The value of having a customizable house is almost infinite, plus its a refuge for people to go to when they want to get away from the constant grinding.

Just imagine, you been grinding levels, quest, and your crafting for about 2 hours and you really need a change of pace something to change it up a bit before you go back to "work" so to speak. Now you go to your house and begin rearranging your special items in ways that will bring "oooohh's from peoples mouths as they enter your humble abode. The sudden sense of accomplishment you gain from this is enough to let you go back to the grinding work of leveling, crafting, and questing if nothing else to look forward to the next trophy you get to mount on your wall.

I personally feel this game will be underrated and overlooked, like so many games out there have been. People dont realize what this game really brings to the table, they look at some pictures and make assumptions about it without actually reading anythign about the game on the website. I just hope that people can realize that not just the names we know can be good games, but anyone at anytime could come out with the next big game that sets the new standard for games of all genres.

Thank you for your time.

the above post was the opening to a thread i posted in gen discussion forum, there have been a couple replies to this thread and i really think the devs need to see these replies to get some idea what the people are looking at for this game to come through with.

On another note i would love to be involved in the dev chat but there is nothing that i can see that tells me where to go for the chat itself, i assume the chat link at the top which uses and IRC interface in which unfortunately i know very little about.  So if someone could post a link directly to the RoM dev chat that would be immensely helpful and convenient to probably more people than you think.

thank you

If the game is a good solid game, It will sell itself.

How do yo rate your texture use/game world design?...answer same old same old.

How do you rate your combat?...answer same old same old.

Is there anything that separates your game from any other?...answer not really.

Is there  any reason i should play your game?....answer:not really

Hmm asked my questions to pre launch as to not embarrass the DEV and his game.

I think what has happened is that so many developers started making MMO's ,when they saw how many players were getting into it 5 years ago.Now there games are all coming out and ALL resemble each other and offer nothing new to excite anyone.We will be anticipating the new wave of developers that have learned from the past 2 years of bad releases.

This not to say there game or any other recent game is down right bad,it is just they are all the same old same old and people are tiring of it.

so im sitting in the dev chat for this game and its not a "chat" at all its just a Q&A.  this is rather dissapointing, i understand that there needs to be some sort of control over the chat that is posted up but you shouldnt call it a chat if its not a chat.  sitting here waiting for slow responses is irritating and reflects badly on MMORPG.com, get it together guys

This is how all of their chats work.  It's not going to change.  Maybe they should change the name to "Q&A Session" but this type of thing is expected with any MMORPG Chat.

Is there a transcript by any chance? :)