Those of you looking for a lag-free MMO experience with PvP (and are tired of Age of Reckoning) need look no further. Runes of Magic will be lavishing latency love on the Australian/New Zealand market, starting today. You can download the client here, which they’ve kindly slimmed down to about half its size at 3.5GB.
Runes of Magic is free to play and free to download, relying on the microtransaction model. You can pay to save time – speeding up grind quests and transport – or just for cosmetic stuff. It’s your standard MMO fare, with the same classes & abilities you’re used to. You do also have the ability to combine two classes later on – and at this price, who can argue?
Kotaku AU will be interviewing Tony Tang, Business Development Manager at Runewaker Entertainment, and Tobias Gerlinger, CEO of Frogster Pacific, later today. Any questions you’d like to ask these gents?
Jon Polti
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 10:31 AMBleargh… looking through the class list of that game is so dull! Some of the concept art was nice, but everything to do with the actual game looks generic as all hell.
foxbane
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 11:51 AMWell it is more or less a wow clone with a touch of guildwars
CRAZY ASIAN LADY?!
Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 1:38 PMYou say that as though it’s supposed to be a bad thing!
Blake
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 12:16 PMIf you have a US / EU client you won’t be able to log in until it’s patched (should be in the next few hours apparently) there is however a workaround, have a sniff around their forums, it’s not hard to find if you care.
Otherwise download the AU/NZ client (it’s smaller anyway) and have fun :D
Kris Butler
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 4:26 PMhave they increased the max res/crappy graphics yet?
when i tried it i couldn’t get it over 1680×1050 and it looked like shite
Blake
Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 6:49 AMI ran the us client, and the aus/nz client at 1920×1080 out of the proverbial box.
Riavan
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 9:42 PMI played this game ages ago and it’s probably the best free to play game I’ve played. With Lord of the rings is free 2 play now as well, I’d have trouble deciding between the two.
Craig Oats
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 10:59 PMI’m pleased with this. Haven’t played RoM in about half a year. But lower pings and a local community will be good. Logged on this morning and created a couple of characters. Yet to start playing though.