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Thursday, April 6th 2017, 10:29pm

Roms future?

8 years ago, I played this game like it was the best thing ever. To me, it was. I really enjoyed it to the point that it was the only game I played and that I spent a TON of money on it. The community was strong, the game ran great, the story was awesome, the events were great. When max level was only 50, it seemed that the gameplay ran really smooth. As time went by and content was added more and more, it seemed as if the gameplay became choppy, and a lot more lag involved. It became increasingly more difficult to play due to lag, and the community began to dissolve. Now, this may seem like a rant, but my point is... What is the plans for ROM, if any. My opinion is that since other games have evolved and made major changes such as graphics, stability, etc... is ROM considering doing anything to bring this game back to glory. Where as I know that it has made LOTS of money over the years, is that money going to be put to good use so that it can make more money in the future (smart business idea) . This game has always had the best basic idea structure for gameplay, story, and other things, so it needs to make things better and stick around for many more years. To me, this game could make one of the strongest come backs ever, if it was done right. I play other MMOs and always compare certain aspects to ROM. This was my all time favorite MMO, but I always quit after a while because NOTHING changes. Please think about this and make me and other people want to come back again. Just my 2 cents.

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Thursday, April 6th 2017, 11:10pm

Unfortunately nobody can answer your questions about future plans in Runes of Magic. As far as I know there is nobody (GM, CM, etc.) who can tell us if something will be changed, what future plans are, and so on and so forth. The only thing they can do is forward our suggestions and say it's being "discussed". If what I'm saying is incorrect, then PLEASE prove me wrong. I would actually prefer that over my current understanding of the way things work around here.
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Thursday, April 6th 2017, 11:10pm

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this game could make one of the strongest come backs ever, if it was done right.

If being the key word. It seems like a decent amount of people share this belief with me. The problem is the fact that we literally share ideas that would really make the game better and they're either ignored (transport crystals, memento revamp, eoj revamp, instance revamp) or half-assed at best (Lv99 Leather set).
There is almost no communication between the community and the devs or publishers. We have no idea where it breaks.

From past examples it seems like our good little Polog brings our ideas to the table and they're just brushed aside. Basically Runewaker never even sees most of the amazing ideas that the community has come up with.
The game is dying because of all these issues, THEN THEY MAKE OF IT ON APRILS FOOLS HAHAHAHA SO FUNNY GUYS. YOU'RE KILLING ME LIKE YOU'RE KILLING THE GAME HAHAHA.

TL;DR or actually just translating an emotional rant to somethng coherent and easier to understand: The community knows what's wrong with the game for the most part. So be willing to listen to us and be willing to communicate AND cooperate or just close the servers already.
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Thursday, April 6th 2017, 11:18pm

The game will be around until 2020. If people actually will still be playing it is highly doubtful

Rumors are that EU servers are more populated so you may want a fresh start there.
Here in the US players have given up hope on bugs & exploits being fixed and mostly moved on to other games.

I check in once or twice a week to check on old friends, those few that still remain

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Friday, April 7th 2017, 10:39am

Actually a lot of EU servers are also quite empty, only about 5 EU servers have cleared the latest ini, 1 of which wasn't German, first boss is so easy I'm sure most guilds/servers can run it though.

As for my personal opinion, i think it is unlikely that runewaker will completely rework the game into newer graphics, largely based on the amount of time it would take. I also think that polog does a great job pushing forward feedback, but somewhere hits a brick wall, i would assume this wall is runewaker. The sad thing is, to change stat pulls on an item, for mems or eoj, or add a transport crystal to an instance, would take ten minutes at best, because all the scripts/dB tools are already there.
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Saturday, April 8th 2017, 10:12pm

WoW did a graphics update no problem... now I know that's Blizzard and they are probably more capable. I re downloaded the game yesterday. Community is dead. Don't really even know how this game is still going. It would not take much to fix it, but it starts with runewaker actually listening and then doing something. I have never even seen them respond to anything. They build a game, made a lot of money and seem to not even care. I even sent runewaker an email, to see if they would respond... NOPE. I know I am just wasting my breath. The design aspect of this game was truly amazing. If they just put effort into it, then it would be great again. oh well.

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Sunday, April 9th 2017, 4:51am

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Actually a lot of EU servers are also quite empty, only about 5 EU servers have cleared the latest ini, 1 of which wasn't German, first boss is so easy I'm sure most guilds/servers can run it though.

As for my personal opinion, i think it is unlikely that runewaker will completely rework the game into newer graphics, largely based on the amount of time it would take. I also think that polog does a great job pushing forward feedback, but somewhere hits a brick wall, i would assume this wall is runewaker. The sad thing is, to change stat pulls on an item, for mems or eoj, or add a transport crystal to an instance, would take ten minutes at best, because all the scripts/dB tools are already there.
I actually deleted a super salty comment about closing all servers except the German ones from my previous post...
I believe the game's graphics for this game are ok IF YOU WERE ABLE TO PLAY ON THE BEST SETTINGS W/O CRASHING EVERY 5 MINUTES.
I agree with that hypothesis. Polog brings things up to the table and they're just like "w/e"... Idk if it's Runewaker though. Wouldn't Polog bring things to Gameforge? Then Gameforge asks Runewaker for changes. Basically I believe Runewaker never even hears/sees anything.
Idk how to agree more with your whole post...

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WoW did a graphics update no problem... now I know that's Blizzard and they are probably more capable. I re downloaded the game yesterday. Community is dead. Don't really even know how this game is still going. It would not take much to fix it, but it starts with runewaker actually listening and then doing something. I have never even seen them respond to anything. They build a game, made a lot of money and seem to not even care. I even sent runewaker an email, to see if they would respond... NOPE. I know I am just wasting my breath. The design aspect of this game was truly amazing. If they just put effort into it, then it would be great again. oh well.
Please don't compare Runewaker to Blizzard. Blizzards clearly cares about all their games. Again... does Runewaker even know? It seems like the wall is Gameforge.
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Monday, April 10th 2017, 10:04pm

I last played ROM about 5 years ago, thought I'd install and see if it's worth playing. So far, I've sat through about 10 patches, after doing a fresh download/install. They can't update the original download to the latest version? After seeing this thread, I'm wondering if it's even worth it.

Oh well........

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Monday, April 17th 2017, 10:21am

Max level of 120
+30 enchantment jewels
6 rune slots for each piece of equipment
New item shop overhaul that takes 5 minutes to load up
All instances now cost 99 diamonds to enter
All fusions have a chance to fail destroying equipment, manastones, and runes
Phirius tokens have been deleted and anything related to Phirius tokens as well
Used copyright strikes, take down notices, and deleted any news related to the NPC named "Cedric"

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Monday, April 17th 2017, 4:50pm

GM's have said Gameforge has a contract with Runewaker to run this game till 2020 but if tomorrow Runewaker decides to shut Runesofmagic down does that contract mean anything? does Gameforge have a contract with Runewaker saying they can't shut the game down till 2020? or can they shut this game down at anytime?
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Monday, April 17th 2017, 6:42pm

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or can they shut this game down at anytime?
Hmm, I think if the contract has already been fully paid, the devs don't have any right to close the servers down.

Although, it still doesn't guarantee RoM' s future. I've seen this happen to 1 MMO game before, it probably depends on the terms of contract, but this game was forced to shut down when dev decided to stop supporting (developing new content) the game.

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Monday, April 24th 2017, 8:29pm

o.O

Fewer sales running for shorter periods and what seems to be becoming frequent cancelled weekly maints and my only question is: what future?

Certain things just trip all the alerts and those 2 alone are tripping mine.

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Thursday, May 11th 2017, 1:04am

Has this thread run it's course? Daily populations on both US servers leading up to and after siege seem very low again since the small bump in activity from the last expansion release. I don't expect miracles or even that GF will commit to any serious changes to resurrect the US game population but I'm hoping they will merge the last 2 US servers soon or at the very least provide those few people who still actively play the option to transfer characters and/or resources.
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