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Free Realms : Cheffin' Ain't Easy
Posted Sep 11, 2009 by Jon Wood
MMORPG.com Free Realms Correspondent Pamela Blalock continues her series detailing the jobs available in SOE's hit F2P game with this entry on the chef.
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As one of the professions in Free Realms, the chef is a fun distraction from combat. As a chef, your primary concerns are with harvesting food and then cooking it. You harvest food at farms around the world and they are marked on your world map from the beginning. You cook at cooking tables you'll find throughout the world with your harvested materials.
Without an auction house, what you make will probably only benefit you and your guildmates. However, don't let that discourage you from cooking up a storm! What you do make is valuable to combat and other production jobs equally. Whether you're giving people that health boost they need or making them faster in production, you're helping other gamers. Some food makes you smaller in appearance and some makes you bigger while increasing your health as well!
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This game brings to mind Casual gamer vs Hardcore gamer. I would not think that many hardcore gamers would cough up to playing Free Realms?? I could be wrong. I guess from my POV as a hardcore gamer I would have to say that even something like Cheffin' in FR would only hold interest for the casual gamer.
From a business point of view its brilliant, If you can bring in the casual players and the young players. Your talking about a huge nearly untapped market. Plus some of these missions would actually be fun in larger more adult games if they spiced them up. I notice most mini games are so bland in MMO's. Could you imagine the potential if they had ones like in Final Fantasy?
Why is the guy in the screenshot sporting a glowing, blue woody?
rofl, I thought the same thing
rofl, I thought the same thing
Same here, what an awful choice... or alternately, what a perfect choice of screenshot.