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Free Realms Forums has just received the answers from YOUR questions you sent in during the March month. Now here are the answers! All bolded are the questions and all normal font are the answers.

Will items that are bought with station cash or a membership give that player an advantage over other players playing the game or will these items be just cosmetic?

We sell a mix of items at the Station Cash marketplace. Some items are cosmetic, like potions that turn you into a cat for a period of time. Others do affect your gameplay, like weapons that have greater damage. That doesn’t mean you can’t beat the player who buys items in our competitive minigames, though. Player skill also has an effect, especially in the more action-oriented minigames.

Is there really only one combat class for non member players? Will it be possible to buy the member only classes with station points?

There are two combat jobs that are free: brawler and ninja. At this point, you can only unlock the other combat jobs if you become a Member.

I was wondering when the game would be opening to everyone who registered to beta?

We’re in a very small closed beta—we haven’t opened it up beyond just a few people yet. If you’re registered for beta, you will probably see an invitation sometime over the next few weeks.

After beta, will we have to start all over again? Like if we are a high lvl ninja for example, will we start all over after beta?

We haven’t planned when we’ll perform the final character wipe, but there’s a good chance it will be at the end of closed beta. We do a lot of tuning during beta, and that means invalidating—and sometimes even removing—items, jobs, pets, etc. Those kinds of changes require us to wipe the character database.

Do you get anything else with upgrading, besides going to more lands?

You can find a full list of Member benefits on the Free Realms website: http://www.freerealms.com/memberBenefits.vm

Will Free Realms be a big file to download?

Right now, the initial download is well under 100 MB. The rest of the game streams to you in the background, while you play.

Early on there was mention of a "Family Membership". Is there still going to be one and if so can we get some more details on what it includes.

At this point, we don’t plan to offer the family membership at launch.

How soon after launch can we expect to see new content or how often do you plan to add new content?

We’ll be adding new content to Free Realms all the time. It’s one of the biggest benefits from having the game stream its content to you. We’ll be talking more about our post-launch release plans in the next month or so.

Because one character can be all things...why is more than one character on a membership available?

The one thing you can’t do with a single character is change your race or gender—it takes a new character to change that. Plus, it is great to be able to have a second character if you want to remain anonymous with your first character, or if you want that character to have a focus. Because we have leaderboards, it’s possible to set a goal for yourself that you want character A to be famous as the best pixie kart driver in Free Realms, but you want character B to be all about playing with your pet and socializing.

When new races become available, Will we be able to change our currant character to the new race or are we expected to start a new character from scratch?

You’ll have to create a new character to change your race.

Is the Destruction Derby mini-game going to make it in the game for launch?

Demolition Derby is playable in our beta build, and we expect it to be in for launch.

Is there going to be Housing?

We plan to add housing shortly after launch.

Is there a guild functionality?

We plan to add guilds shortly after launch.

Are there more classes that you haven't announced yet?

I think we’ve talked about all of our jobs at different conferences and in interviews, but they aren’t all listed on the web page. When you get into beta, you’ll see them all listed on your job browser in the UI.

Do you plan to release more playable Races?

We do, but we don’t have anything we can talk about publically yet.

Will there be any apis to FreeRealms info?

We may externalize some of our data feeds after launch, but we don’t have any plans for that at launch.

Will there be any web interfaces to stuff like spore?

Every character in Free Realms gets his or her own profile page, kind of like ........ for Free Realms. We’re very interested in more integration with things like web apps and even mobile apps, but we’re not really thinking much about that until after launch.

When will be able to enjoy the official Free Realms forums?

We will open the forums to beta players during beta, and open to the public at or just before launch.

What's your favorite part about being part of the free realms staff?

Free Realms is a great game to work on. We have a great team, and that’s probably my favorite part of the process: being a part of a really talented group of people who are all passionate about Free Realms and want to make it the best game we can.

Given that this will be a multi-platform title, will the pc version support a joystick or gamepad?

We won’t have native support for joysticks or gamepads at launch.

So far, all of the gameplay videos I have seen show single player, how will teaming up with other players work?

You click on another player to send him/her a friend request, or to invite him to join a group. You can chat in a private channel as a part of the group, and you can play multiplayer minigames like kart racing and combat together.

Will ps3 players and pc players play on the same server as each other
and if you account for pc version will allow u to log into the ps3 version?

We’re going to work that out when the PS3 version gets closer to launch. I’d love to get them all on the same servers, and also for you to be able to take a character into either environment. We just have to see how that works out technically, and make sure players on one system don’t have advantages over players on the other system, for our competitive content.

When will the Free Realms Download be available on the Playstation Network?

That’s the plan right now, although there is a still a lot of work to be done on the PS3 version and that could change before it launches.

Is the game free realms in beta or not?

Free Realms is in beta right now, but beta isn’t just a single gate that you open for everyone. Beta is a series of stages where you let certain types of players in at certain periods of time, based on what you’re testing. You generally invite more players over time, and start small. Right now, Free Realms is in the small, early stages of beta. We expect to invite lots more people in over the next several weeks.

If it is in beta how can i get a beta pass to test this game?

Go to FreeRealms.com and sign up for beta! It’s that easy.

Will there be in-game mounts such as horses etc?

We would like to have mounts in Free Realms at some point, but we will not have them at launch.

Will there be pvp or will it all be questing and slicing up monsters?

Free Realms has several minigames that support competitive play, including dueling, kart racing, chess, checkers, and demolition derby. The leaderboards also turn other minigames into competitive sports—can you get to the #1 spot in mining?

"Thanks for your questions!"
-Free Realms Staff
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Interesting info...thanks!