Runes of Magic US / AU

lol.

Lol indeed. Ill recap some Rom history...

-Diamonds on the AH- taken away, drove some f2p out. (not much though).

Last year's Diamond Fiasco- Advertised 5x diamond sale, people bought a lot. Apparently, it was a mistake, and people who had bought dias (some paid hundreds) got them taken away with no compensation. Those purchased with credit cards canceled the payment, which in turn got their account banned. Many left the game.

-New games came out. Some of them "better" and cost less (in terms of progression). People who left tended to be dia buyers.

-Ch3 scout class imbalance. Scout was the class to be, if you weren't a knight, a priest, or a scout, most parties wouldn't invite you. This drove away many M/P (who were at one point, the OP, flavor of the month combo). Those who didn't want to reroll or switch to their priest side and heal, left.

-Missing chest/housemaids- All of a sudden for no apparent reason many house chests disappeared. Some chests contained a lot of cash shop items worth a lot of $$$. Very few got their chests/items back. A lot didn't, and still haven't. Many left.

Economy- Dias rose to 15k, then 20k, then 40k, then 60k all in about a month's span. Gear rose to the hundred million. Stats that sold for 300k just 6-8 months prior were on the AH for 2-5 mill. A lot of people couldn't adjust, they left.

-Most recent: siege war. A guild v guild, cross-server PvP hour has been unplayable for about a month now. Many play this game (including myself) because of sw. Many have already left. Im considering it.

so sum it up
- bad tech team
- poor customer support
- poorly coded game
- to expensive to play
- poor management

please don't ask for sub categories...I don't want to waste that much time.

Just to add to list, unreasonable so called 'sales'.

We are now paying more for V rune then we used to pay for VII rune back when FA existed.

CS is not adjusting to changing time, and already expensive game is becoming even more expensive.

Quoted from "RadRashad;511911"

What the hell has happened to this game?????

Quoted from "turboreaper666;511943"

so sum it up
- bad tech team
- poor customer support
- poorly coded game
- to expensive to play
- poor management.

Quoted from "RoMage;511949"

Just to add to list, unreasonable so called 'sales'.

...already expensive game is becoming even more expensive.

To answer your question, in a word... It got frogstered.

Quoted from "Ravesden;511920"

Lol indeed. Ill recap some Rom history...


-New games came out. Some of them "better" and cost less (in terms of progression). People who left tended to be dia buyers.

This turned out to be a big one when a certain game came out. about half the population tried R.... and never looked back. But there has been several large releases going on. And I expect that had GW2 come out at the time of the diamond fiasco I woulda let my account get banned and just gone and played that instead. While we have the assurance via romcast that this sort of thing will never happen again, that person doing the romcasts no longer works for frogster... so you know... in any event it all leaves a very leary taste in one's mouth. I still have fun in RoM. Have tried 2 other games and am still planning atm to play Rom, but perhaps one of the others too. I learned my lesson here though, keep FTP games free and you will have a lot more fun than if you buy stuff just to have it taken away or randomly disappear.

-FA(Frogster America) closed and now the american "community" falls under FU(Frogster eUrope).
-rouges and mages skills got the attribute % modifiers, other class got...
-there is a huge gap between endgamers and new characters, with nothing to bridge the gap(ie honor parties)
-instances/world bosses are soloable
-hyperinflated prices. expecting anyone farm gold for 25 hours to buy ONEEEEEE nonstated, nonplussed, noncleaned piece of gear?
-customer support=?
-go play eligium/other game
-the list goes on...

I'll sum it up in one big mistake:

They started selling power in the cash shop... and now they can't balance the game at all anymore.

Quoted from "Silenteye7;512008"

I'll sum it up in one big mistake:

They started selling power in the cash shop... and now they can't balance the game at all anymore.

true :/

Several things have been happening lately at least on Reni.

1 The diamond buyers have lowered their prices somewhat (the going rate is now hovering between 25k and 35k per during the sales).

2 Auction Hall prices have also been slowly dropping although there are aropund 1 or 2 moneygrubbers still attempting to sell gear for highly inflated prices.

3 Some of our "Endgamers" have deicded to actualy start helping new players instead of ignoring or even heckling them. That is a good thing but more should do this also. Without new players RoM WILL DIE.

4 Some very nice additions to the game have ciome about recentl. The big one that it seems everyone liked was original suggested by me. Here is a link to my original post about it: http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=67460
Althouigh Runewaker has gone further than my suggestion which made it even better.

5 Frogster is ATTEMPTING to figure out wth is wrong with Siege. Not sure how long this will go on but Siege is broken and has been for a while now.

6 GM's ingame. I have seen more GM's ingame since FEU took over than any other time.


For now that is all I can think of but hopefully more people will take notice and start to do something isntead of think only of themselves.