Runes of Magic (now in Open Beta)

[schild]

http://www.runesofmagic.com/us/index.html

[schild]

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[SnakeCharmer]

Ass.

[Draegan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckdX5ucE_M&e

Super WOW clone.

[sidereal]

Wow, that is incredibly cloned.  The dying boar sound and the whole minimap section of the UI take me right back to Goldshire.  Except it's click-to-move.  So TOTALLY DIFFERENT.

[K9]

Isn't posting this sort of stuff MBW's job?

[schild]

Yes.

[Katal]

If WoW were a Gucchi handbag, this game would be it's Korean imitation. 

[Rake]

They have 6 grades of fake in Korea ranging from can't tell the difference to can be spotted from a mile away.

Wonder what grade this game will reach?

[Katal]

I personally think it's more of the latter.

I could only stand it for less than 10 minutes. Character creation hit me hard, the heads are incredibly disproportionate to the rest of the body (and you can even make it more so). You can get either get a face that looks like a pretty boy or a messed up stoner. Movement felt terribly awkward.

[raydeen]

But is has OVER 600 QUESTS! And GRIPPING PVP BATTLES!

Eh, I'm d/l'ing it. Will more than likely hate it but I gotta admit, I'm getting to the point where I'd rrather play the free KMMOs than most of the ones being released over here. At least with the free stuff you know what you're getting into.

[Mrbloodworth]

Isn't posting this sort of stuff MBW's job?

I was unaware.

[NiX]

I was unaware.

We've come to rely on you for something, it can only be a good thing!

[Lantyssa]

Isn't posting this sort of stuff MBW's job?

I was unaware.

How soon our Signe has been forgotten. 

[Signe]

I only do cute ones, though.  This one isn't cute.  Hardly any pink!  My tolerance to cute seems to have increased, though.  I can't find many cute enough to offset the terrible anymore. 

[Draegan]

Your ability to find new and unique smiley icons has not diminished however.

[Mrbloodworth]

I only do cute ones, though.  This one isn't cute.  Hardly any pink!  My tolerance to cute seems to have increased, though.  I can't find many cute enough to offset the terrible anymore. 

That's right, she does the cute ones, and i do the ones that may never see the light of day and are completely out of the box to the point of potential fail. Oh, and indi stuff.

 

[Salamok]

no need for green there ;P

[raydeen]

Just tried it out. The only thing I'm not liking so far is that I can't find an option to invert the mouse Y axis. I'm one of those weird ones that gets all fumbled up with the concept of up meaning up and down meaning down. I blame all those hours of playing Star Raiders on my Atari 400.

[damijin]

PVP system actually sounds pretty rad to a former Lineage player. I'm going to give it a whirl.

No games that I know of in the subscription realm are toting anything close to guild based open pvp, including the major offerings from Koea (Aion). So... yeah, WoW with open PvP? I'll try it. Seems to let you decide to flag PvP or not, which could mean nobody does it. But I suspect that this game will service a very small niche, likely of PvP friendly players, and they have good incentives to make PvP look appealing.

[tazelbain]

Prefect World says it has GvG territory control.

[damijin]

yeah, but something about pandas on ravens throws me off for some reason.

[Ard]

It's also a not very good, money intensive game, past like level 30... and since levels go up past 100, if memory serves...
And lets not forget the furry fan-service.

[Fraeg]

DL'd and played last night for a few hours.

holy clones batman.

That said,  for a free german MMO (who expect you to buy the shiny stuff via paypal).... the UI and character response was better than Warhammer Online.  The very limited world pvp I saw looked more interesting than Warhammer Online.
 

[Delmania]

But is has OVER 600 QUESTS! And GRIPPING PVP BATTLES!

Eh, I'm d/l'ing it. Will more than likely hate it but I gotta admit, I'm getting to the point where I'd rrather play the free KMMOs than most of the ones being released over here. At least with the free stuff you know what you're getting into.

Grippling?

[Hoth]

It's not a german MMO. Frogster ist just publishing a translated and slightly upgraded version of Radiant Arcana.
Releasedate will be 19.3.09.

[Falconeer]

So it's WoW with loot dropping in PvP? I could play it.

[Delmania]

So it's WoW with loot dropping in PvP? I could play it.

Complete with buxom females in skin tight armor!  Only thongs offer that much protection at such little cost!

[Fraeg]

It's not a german MMO. Frogster ist just publishing a translated and slightly upgraded version of Radiant Arcana.
Releasedate will be 19.3.09.

ahh okies thanks.

It is free* and I am enjoying myself, haven't dabbled much in the pvp (just duels) but yeah from what I understand item loot ala EQ zek servers where you can loot one item.  For a freebie it is incrediblly polished, and I really like the art.  some of the combat animations and sounds are a bit too anime for me.. but I am having fun.   Can't see playing this heavily or for very long.. but given a choice of logging into WoW or playing my little seductress, the sexy wins.



*- if you want the shiny stuff you pay $$

[Mrbloodworth]

Played this last night, its not to bad. Just make sure when you sign up, you sign up on the USA site (or whatever region your in).

[Signe]

I looked at this game.  It's WoW with a cash shop.  You can level rather quickly and have multi-classes and multi-professions, but OH MY GOD, crafting is grindy as hell.  Just terrible. And, evidently, the cash shop won't just be selling ego items, either.  You'll be able to have things like permanent mounts only if you pay real money.   

It also has the most gold spam of any game I have ever known in my entire life.  Srsly.  And it's not even released yets!  I guess there won't be a wipe for launch.  There is an ignore type function which is very simple - just click the name in the chat box and choose blacklist - and I hope there is no end to how many people you can ignore.  In the couple of hours after I started, I must have blacklisted at least 10 spammers.  I have no idea how many since then. Lots.  Sometimes I wonder if the developers are also the gold sellers.  You can just zap however much gold you like in to existence.  You wouldn't even have to bot!  It would be the perfect cover!

Personally, I wouldn't pay anything to have anything in this game.  It's not good enough.  I can only see playing this game until the sub-par  WoWiness gets boring (weeks, maybe) or only being able to rent horses for 15 minutes or so starts to annoy you (days).

[Valmorian]

So far the only thing I really like about this game is the ability to multi-class your characters.  The rest of it is like Wow without any inspiration or design.

[squirrel]

Yeah, it's generic and uninspired but it's not ass.

The multi-class system seems pretty cool in that you can effectively switch between the two classes as your main class and get different secondary class benefits.

Leveling is so far relatively fast (hit level 10 on my primary class in <2 hrs.)

PROS:

• Multiclass system is cool and somewhat unique
• Leveling not terribly slow
• FREE
• PvP system seems ok (rep rewards and factions)
• Stable and complete

CONS

• Totally uninspired generic setting
• 90% of the quests so far are variations on kill 10 rats
• Graphics sub-par (WoW TBC level, can't compete with LoTRO or AoC)
• Little too Asian for my tastes - big eyes, purple hair, etc.

Dunno that I'll play it for long, but it's pretty good for what it is. And the Cash Shop (RTM) advantages aren't game-changing. You could be pretty uber for very little $.

[Mrbloodworth]

I dug that mounts are loot drops, i thought that was an interesting twist. I got a mount (for a day) at level 1. The slotting system also i found interesting, you can basically make your own gear, and choose what stats.

[Azuredream]

There's a horadric cube-esque crafting device called the 'arcane transmutor' that I really enjoyed. There are power stones you can buy (or drop from monsters) with +stat modifiers that you can combine with gear to transfer the item modifiers onto the power stone to make a mana stone, then mana stones three at a time to transfer all the +stat modifiers on the mana stones onto to the item. You only have a limited amount of 'stat slots' on the item and no stat can appear twice on the same item, so you have some control over what stats transfer over to the item. You can also combine 'runes' in the transmutor to make better runes which are used in the item sockets. It's a little confusing but once you try it firsthand you can see how it all fits together. It's good fun to see what kind of items you can make with it and it's much more fun than the  crafting system they have in place.