Runes of Magic US / AU

Wasn't sure where to put this. Figured this was a safe bet.


After reading and thinking about Polog's "RoMmunity Letter III" post, I've been left with some thoughts and comments that ive heard echoed from other players for nearly as long as I have been playing RoM. I'd like to share them with GameForge and RuneWaker in a clear and civil manner in hopes of creating some mutual understanding.

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Anyone who knows the legend behind the world of Taborea knows it revolves around a story that was brought to life.

In all my time playing RoM, the number of people I've met who have ever bothered to read a quest for story content, I could probably count on one hand. I used to, and then I spent several zones standing between Morrok Wallinder and Callaway Callume passing messages back and forth because apparently they weren't on speaking terms. As story content goes, this is extremely weak and booring story telling, combined with quests along the lines of: "Collect 10 bear paws" (Coincidentally, did you know that apparently, according to RuneWaker, the majority of bears have one paw or less shared between their four legs?) make the questing quite boring and unenjoyable.

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We know that in announcing the start of a new ‘Chapter’, people immediately start conjuring up ideas of extra classes or races, or maybe entirely new features.

s/conjuring up/dreading/. To be quite blunt, RuneWaker has a reputation amongst the players. It is extremely unfavorable and usually contains the sort of language that many people would not use in the company of their mothers. This is a big problem IMHO, If the players can't trust the developer to release working, reasonably bug-free content, it doesn't matter how hard GameForge tries to smooth it over.

Further, lets take a look at some of the "features" that have been added to RoM over the years.

Dreamland - more grinding, relatively little rewards
Tempest Heights - more grinding, rewards have gotten better, but still not good
Energy of Justice - more grinding, best rewards (instance stats) were removed.
Chaos Vortex - Rewards were irrelevant by the time it was released.
Arcanium Chamber - more grinding, and exceedingly difficult
Arcanium Arena - even more grinding with good rewards taking very long to get

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But before we launch any new content, we always want to ensure that the game’s current contents run well and offer a great gaming experience.

I'm sorry to inform you that from a player's perspective, past performance directly contradicts this statement. How many zones since Wailing Fjord released with instances bugged to the point that they were either: not even opened, closed shortly after maintenance, or simply incompletable? Also, if memory serves, at least one Instance was so badly broken that it didn't open until AFTER the NEXT ZONE released with another instance so badly broken that it was closed.

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But this is just the beginning. We’re still working hard to bring you new special features and make Chapter VII a real treat for the players.

Please don't announce/release them until they work as intended.

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There’s plenty for you to look forward to. Our choice in the word ‘Chapter’ wasn’t without merit.

I believe I can speak for all of the remaining players when I say that we want to agree with and believe this statement. Eventually.

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Have you told your friends about Taborea? We want to bring RoM to a wider audience, and we’d love to have your support!

Honestly, yes, I have told friends about RoM, and how they should avoid it entirely in it's current state. I would be lying to them if I told them that I believed RoM was a game worth their time and money. If you want players to recommend this game to their friends, GameForge and RuneWaker are going to have to make it a game we can feel good about recommending to our friends. But with long standing performance and stability issues, combined with more and more bugged/broken content being released, that just isn't something people are comfortable with.

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It’s precisely for this reason that we decided to launch our trailer contest. It was very important to us that we invest the available budget in our community, rather than spending it all on a trailer from some video production company. Running events like this reinforces the sense of community,

Reinforces the sense of community for who? I ask that anyone who believes this contest has "reinforced the sense of community", please say so in a reply.



AntonTakk