Runes of Magic US / AU

You can tell this is going to be epic fail when the message which opens a topic only has 1 on-topic sentence. [Removed]

The on-topic comment is:

Most special sales are not in token shop. As it should be,

Removed unnecessary comment ~Majik

Rustyx, i remember the days you were doing this to me and well played lol ;-) but as usual, you are right

alot of the good plussing sales ARE in token shop also...not any "special" sale, but the +16's have been in token shop along with dias at least a couple times when they have been on sale...

Cike is right.

The OP has a point.

While Runes of Magic calls itself Free-to-Play, they are only Free-to-Play in the most lenient sense of the term.

Outside of the overworld (and sometimes not even there) F2P players have to move mountains to even come close to anyone who buys diamonds. Part of RoM's success plan is to make sure its players (F2P or not) are dependent on the Item Shop, and by extension, diamonds. Phirius tokens are a limited resource (unless you buy diamonds for reset tickets, of course) and the items that can be bought with these tokens are few and expensive.

While most 'special' sales (limited time items) ARE indeed offered in the phirius token shop during the promotion, Gameforge may just be desperate enough to play the scarcity card and force phirius token using players to buy diamonds in order to get what they want.

My speculation is that Gameforge is indeed desperate. It would certainly explain forcing players who want +16 gear to buy diamonds and the rather frequent 100%, 120%, and 140% diamond sales. [Removed Explicit Comment]



Edit : Please keep your comments clean ~Majik

And posts keep vanishing... Pretty sure I posted here about this topic and saying GF is advertising other MMOs, why is that a problem that my post needed to be deleted?

it is true the gems are usually up for tokens ... when they sell the stacks of 5. They aren't now, so it is a different sale, so I wouldn't expect them to sell them for P tokens.

I hope it is not a trend, since I used to get said gems from tokens, but also buy with diamonds.


Again F2P does NOT mean you can expect to get everything, be at the top, or higher than paying players. It means you CAN play all the content in the game without paying. Since it doesn't REQUIRE +16 gear to join a group in the instances, therefore it is not something you HAVE to have for free. You don't HAVE to be able to be in the top 10 for p attack for free for the game to be considered F2P. Sorry that is a misconception which has been propagated over the last two years with the current F2P population.


Everyone used to know that this game was P2Win... what did everyone forget that? I for one, know it, expect it, am ok with it..... Regardless of the fact that some people have managed to F2Win. These players succeeding in F2Win have made everyone else think that should be a normal expected result for being F2P in this game........... Which was never the design and usually is NOT the design of F2P games. It is merely a delusion to think that everyone who is F2P can achieve this status... Some can, but only some.

Quoted from "Murkalael"

And posts keep vanishing... Pretty sure I posted here about this topic and saying GF is advertising other MMOs, why is that a problem that my post needed to be deleted?

Belated response...

I've said it before and I'll repeat it here again: If you signed up for the RoM newsletter you WILL receive "advertisements" or announcements from Gameforge regarding their other games. If you do not want to receive those announcements, unsubscribe from the newsletter.

I happen to find using the "Delete" button in my mail program to be relatively fast and painless.

It's not about the ads, it's about someone that felt that was necessary to delete a post without any reason at all. I'm a moderator from a huge Brazillian emulation site and I usually warn someone if his/her post is innapropriate before I delete something and I deal with way more people than here with a wide range of age and behavior.

Quoted from "Murkalael"

It's not about the ads, it's about someone that felt that was necessary to delete a post without any reason at all. I'm a moderator from a huge Brazillian emulation site and I usually warn someone if his/her post is innapropriate before I delete something and I deal with way more people than here with a wide range of age and behavior.

I removed your post for three simple reasons. Firstly, you were spreading incorrect information in your opinion that GF is/was trying to kill off this game. Secondly, you tied that incorrect information with announcements sent out by GF for their other games. Thirdly, your post was off-topic in regards to the discussion in this thread.

There's no mountain, just a molehill.

Here we have the beautiful Mt Molehill; majestic in it's solitude.

On topic... If you want things to be free, feel free to game elsewhere. However, you will not find any game that is 100% free, so good luck to you. Recently, this game has become worth my monies again, and I plan to keep spending. If they eff up, I sure as heck will be one of the first, loudest, and most annoying pains in their rears until they fix it, but when they are doing well, I am also one of the first, loudest, and most annoying to say good job. Recently, they have managed to keep me quiet in the complaint department (where I had a permanent room set up for the LONGEST time), so if I ain't complaining...it must not be all that bad. :shrug:

Quoted from "883Brock"

Now you are not selling the enhanced plussers in the token shop during the sale. There is no way I'm spending 69 diamonds for a single plusser only to have it fail multiple times on the way to +16. It seems to me that there is real intent to end this game by those who run it. I'm not sure why. Perhaps is is no longer profitable and they want us to decide to kill it instead of themselves. I was debating whether I would abandon this poorly supported game for [Removed Other Game Name] Thanks for helping me decide. I think 4 years was enough to devote to this game.

Well i understand your frustration but faming with 10-20 alts for every sale 3000 piri - 4000 piri per alt was a lot of lost money for the company. I know because i abused myself this "exploit" in the elf starting village with 6 alts on 3 accounts, but others were sure to do it professionally creating items not only for personal use but mainly for sale.
Maybe getting a +16 is too expensive, maybe plussing is too random,, but creating exploits is smth that is not desired.
This is why some games use limitations like No of accounts allowed / real life user and / or no of characters per account.

Ghostwolf i agree with you, now get out of my chair, that is mine mine mine!!!