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Runes of magic is pretty good
Lobotomist
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From all free to play MMOs i tried , there was never one that i managed to play longer than 2 hours before uninstall.
I must say that Runes of Magic is something else....
I have been playing it like crazy for past two days. And i keep logging in to play more.
What is so special about it?
Well nothing...It is just a simple World of Warcraft clone. But its very good at copying...
Actually it is clone of every sucesfull feature found in western MMOs , slapped on WOW skin.
If it was a P2P MMO, this would be pretty bad. Not original...But ROM is F2P MMO. And actually (at least so far) item shop is certanly not a requirement for play. It will make you more powerfull , or give you some more quests or so. But you can skip it and play for free completely as long as you wish.
So if you are as me. Sick and tired of paying subscription for half developed MMOs. But still like to play something.
Than check ROK, its actually pretty good
Maybe even better than big part of subscription MMOs on todays market
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I thought RoM was OK but nothing special....In the end it was just another quest your brains out and not much else...... Held my attention for about 10 days and 20 levels.
The correct words are RoM is pretty good for a "free to play game".The Honest truth is if RoM was 15 dollars a month it would be an average game at best.The funny thing is how people view change when stuff is free.Rom is Incomplete game-It is missing battlegrounds and guild versus guild combat(promised features),2 classes,1 new race and couple other stuff.It graphics are dated and game class balance needs some work.
It may sound like i am bashing the game but it is probably the best free to play mmo and a very solid game but the best feature of the game is that is free.If you where stick a monthly price tag and put it in same group as wow,war,lotro, eq 2 or vanguard .It would automatically be at the of line behind all of those games.The best way of descibing RoM is a bridge game,If you are looking for a game to play while waiting for a real good mmo to come out.Play Rom until that game comes out,when you get tired of that game go back to RoM and play it until a better game come out.
You are not right actually, maybe at lower lvls someone can think that, but at lvl 50 you need the cash shop, it's not optional...becomes a must if you don't want your character to be near useless because it doesn't make you powerfull against free users, it makes you godly. And yeah...you can skip the cash shop like in any other F2P, but your character will be useless believe me.
The game is not bad, it's one of the most decent F2P mmorpgs, but the cash shop ruined the game and anyone lvl 50 knows that, it's the most unbalanced game i've played ever and it shouldn't be called F2P, it should be called Pay2Win.
Said that, i'm not agree with the above post, if you plan on playing the game for a while without spending a single cent the game is not for you, if you will play it for 2 weeks only...then it's fine, or if you are rich and don't mind wasting at least 400$ to enchant a bit your equipement then the game may be for you aswell.
So i don't recommend this game to anyone, it's just my opinion but if you play it you will see that what i said is true and the game is not worth it...i mean...who the hell is going to waste more than 500 or 1000$ to enchant your equipement? it's pretty retarded when you can pay 15$ a month and play a P2P without that shit going on.
If you are casual player you can play quite a lot until lvl 50.
So its good for at least couple of months.
If you are hardcore competitive player... and look for a maximum in the MMO you are playing.
Than ... well F2P games are not for you anyway
I can tell you i leveled from 30-50 mostly by doing daily quests...so if you are casual and play 1-2 hours a day thats enough time to do the 10 dailys quests and you will hit lvl 50 in less than a month, not months
And btw, i can't imagine casual players playing a F2P for months because P2P mmorpgs are way less hardcore than F2P.
Cash shop kills ftp games. I'd rather them put subscirptions than this so na it's not worth playing unless you will use the shop.
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I was having a lot of fun with it untill I encoutered the gross power of fully upgraded weapons.
The power of somebody who spend little to no money is almost a fraction of what somebodu who drops down the 280 bucks it takes to fully upgrade your gear.
At that point I realized it would be painful to play on a PvP server and having people who spend 280 bucks(the estimated amount according to a rather popular guild on the forums) roll over you without much effort.
after 6 or so years, I had to change it a little...
Hmmm.... so you imagined you can play on PVP server. In Item shop game. Without buying items. And still be competitive?
Interesting...
Well i was talking about PVE server. And you dont need upgraded weapons to go trough PVE quests...
Hmmm.... so you imagined you can play on PVP server. In Item shop game. Without buying items. And still be competitive?
Interesting...
Well i was talking about PVE server. And you dont need upgraded weapons to go trough PVE quests...
If that is the case, then I see no point in playing on a PVP server, which makes the game not worth playing for a lot of us.
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just w8 for the item shop to get started, it will ruin the game 100%
just like alot of other FTP mmorpg's.
Basically clicking away text windows ruins every MMO, try to have fun instead of rushing things. Without story and lore all there is left is a bunch of mechanics.
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Yea..whats the point anyway
I have absolutely nothing against RoM, I am no lawyer but I think Blizzard could sue the makers for using some of WoW's art.
Aren't all fantasy MMO's the same now anyway. You get a sword and shield or a staff or a bow, you kill a few things get some new spells/skills/abilities, gain a level then do the same shit for the next 39, 49 or 99 levels gradually filling out more item slots on your charcter. (You even have to pay for invetnory slots in RoM!!). You get you first rarer item or mount to keep the player interest.
I'm done with Mythical Legend World of Dark Empire Lords in Dungeons at War in a Kingdom Story Quest Online!
Definately the best F2P MMO out there right now!
A great little distraction for those months when you're skint!
Definately the best F2P MMO out there right now!
A great little distraction for those months when you're skint!
I love it. I don't have much time to play video gamesa t the moment. So F2P MMOs are...Priceless!
You are not right actually, maybe at lower lvls someone can think that, but at lvl 50 you need the cash shop, it's not optional...becomes a must if you don't want your character to be near useless because it doesn't make you powerfull against free users, it makes you godly. And yeah...you can skip the cash shop like in any other F2P, but your character will be useless believe me.
The game is not bad, it's one of the most decent F2P mmorpgs, but the cash shop ruined the game and anyone lvl 50 knows that, it's the most unbalanced game i've played ever and it shouldn't be called F2P, it should be called Pay2Win.
Said that, i'm not agree with the above post, if you plan on playing the game for a while without spending a single cent the game is not for you, if you will play it for 2 weeks only...then it's fine, or if you are rich and don't mind wasting at least 400$ to enchant a bit your equipement then the game may be for you aswell.
So i don't recommend this game to anyone, it's just my opinion but if you play it you will see that what i said is true and the game is not worth it...i mean...who the hell is going to waste more than 500 or 1000$ to enchant your equipement? it's pretty retarded when you can pay 15$ a month and play a P2P without that shit going on.
i'm going to have to disagree with everything on this. Being someone who is in a guild with a whole bunch of lvl 50s, their gear is awesome, and its only +1, highest is +3. You need the arcane transmuter, which would take good stats from other equipment, and then jam it onto a item so you'll have a single item with a kabillion stats on it. You can get arcane transmuter charges using the ingame tokens, or getting diamonds from the auction hall. My roomate who i sit behind while playing myself has +3 gear, but bought the items ingame.
At lvl 50, you do need to up your gear, but you don't have to buy it from the shop, you have the option of not touching item shop gear at all, and people in my guild have chosen that route and still have good gear. Plus, most of the cash shop stuff i see is just perma mounts.
I'm not telling you to recant your opinion, thats your opinion, but don't dissuade people from playing. Some people feel like they might have to use the cash shop, but there are those who don't and still have good gear.
No one holds the rights to UI and other graphics unless they post it. They have used the same graphics, but they're not using the same models.
just w8 for the item shop to get started, it will ruin the game 100%
just like alot of other FTP mmorpg's.
its a shame this game came out on the coat tails of alot of F2P games. Shaiya, for instance, demanded exp potions to lvl up, me and a friend hit a huge wall around lvl 30 where we had to buy potions. This game though, you can hit end lvl quick. If you look on my quotes i've been posting, you can spend in-game tokens for most of the cash shop items. Also, there are ingame items to make your gear stronger, which are the same as the cash shop, but you don't have to buy it. and now you can buy diamonds on the auction hall (though some people are being greedy in-game with it, but thats how some people are
) I feel, personally, that this cash shop really hasn't harmed the game, and yes people are going to buy the stuff, but you can't stop them, nor are they ruining the game.
Im not gonna say much, but item shop aside, this is one of the worst mmos I have ever tired.
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First of all when i played RoM they disabled Diamonds from trade so they couldn't be bought by Auction House, and anyway getting AT charges by doing daily quests was retarded, 10 charges every 3 days of daily quests farmed...sure...you can make 1 good item after a year= 365 days of daily quests farmed every single day.
Anyway, once i hitted lvl 30's at RoM i was already bored of this game, all i did was log in to do 10 daily quests, log out, wait 24 hours and repeat until lvl 50 and past lvl 50, then i did some instances and it was pretty much a boring game with terrible upgrading system and terrible cash shop. It feels like you are playing a combination of WoW + some features from other games, but the result was a boring game.
If all you did over 20 lvls, was dailies, then it's no wonder it was boring for you. It also makes me wonder what kind of equips you had, since you obviously missed all the quest rewards.
Seems to me it's your own fault it became boring. And it couldn't be too bad either, since you played all the way to max lvl.
Ppl don't seem to understand 1 thing: RoM is a PvE team focused game. You might complain all day about how OPed are the CS users because of their uber gears, but even if you'd be given for free hundreds of diamonds you still wouldn't be able to create the same type of gear yourself - wanna know why? CAUSE YOU WOULDN'T BE HAVING THE GEAR TO UPGRADE if you're a selfish dumb egocentric lonewolf, that's why. It is IMPOSSIBLE for a solo player to get all the cyclop set, for example, without the help of a good guild & a good team. So really, the best thing you can do 1st is joining a powerful & helpful guild. RoM's community is pretty tight and many players are willing to help - especially when it comes to their guildies. You might not be mopping the floor with the Kalin Shrine bosses anytime soon, but your friends and guildies might help you build a decent set of gear out of a few (lucky) drops.
Playing with friends is never a bad idea, but if you're a solo player, you're a "selfish dumb egocentric lonewolf"? I don't know what the heck you've been smoking, but it surely ain't good for you.
The cyclop set isn't the only good gear in this game, and do you have any idea how hard it is to get? It will take THOUSANDS of instance runs for you and those you group with to get full sets of the best versions. And regardless of what gear you start with, cyclops or anything else, you WILL have to spend shitloads of money on cash shop crap to get the best upgrades.
Even a solo player is FULLY CAPABLE of getting good gear in this game. But it's all the same - cash shop, or live without the best upgrades.
Btw, before you go on with your braindead robotic instance repeats, know this: a level cap increase of around 5 levels is already announced, so I doubt it's possible for everyone in a full group to get complete sets before it gets outdated.
Aren't all games like this about doing the same routine over and over? Maybe the genre isn't for you?
If i did mostly just dailys it's because the game was boring, not because i dislike mmorpgs, i've played many P2P and F2P, so that's why RoM has nothing special to me, i didn't do only dailys and my equipment was decent but at the same time a crap, i played on a PvE server on a good guild with many 50's and the game was the same shit, log in to do 10 dailys to get SP and money, go to the dungeon if possible to get some purple stuff and nothing else. I quitted without spend the 600 diamonds i bought from Auction House when they were for trade, 5-6k daily tokens and a couple of millions...so if i didn't even use a single of those diamonds imagine how good the game was to me...
What was the point of playing anymore if you already did your dailys? no point to me....farming the low lvl dungeon to make weird low lvl epics and maybe rings? or set up a party to go to cyclops dungeon? boring.
Maybe it's just me that i got tired of playing the same crap all over again and again, i'm simply waiting for something new and different like MO, Tera or something like that, otherwise i rather don't play mmorpgs at all because the current mmorpgs market it's all based on the same old stuff...they don't put any effort or imagination at all to make a new mmorpg, just old stuff with sightly better graphics and worse quality.
I understand the point, but I think you're kidding yourself if you think the next MMO will be any different. Sure it will be fresh and new and at first, but even with PvP it's going to be repetitive. That's how these games work.