News archive
November 2008
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11-28-2008In Taborea not everything is about battling monsters and conflicts between multiple factions. Many a hero have found that working at a forge, behind the cauldron or with thread and needle can be much (more) rewarding. Gatherer and crafters can easily make a living without the need to spill blood or inflict pain - miners and gatherers can make a ...
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11-27-2008Good news for all RoM fans! There's a new, huge patch coming on Friday morning 3am GMT / 04:00 CET with an incredible 300 megabytes of updating goodness. (Have a look at the patch notes and see for yourself what great changes are coming.) Don't be surprised when you see the next patches - this is only the first part of a ginormous update and ...
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11-26-2008With the Open Beta coming soon and a larger influx of players expected to join our boards, we are currently reviewing and taking organisational steps to streamline and improve our assistance for the Runes of Magic community. One of these changes is that from now on our "RoM-Supporters" are now called "Mentors". We want to avoid ...
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11-26-2008The Runes of Magic Team proudly presents the crème de la crème of the Cape Contest entries. After reviewing around 200 entries we the jury have decided that there are too many really good designs to finally decide on a winner. We have therefore created a voting page where you can decide which cape design will be sent to Runewaker and then finally ...
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11-25-2008Dear friends, We have good news for you. You can now invite a friend to the Runes of Magic Closed Beta! Our beta testers have already received an email, detailing the necessary steps to do so. But here a quick overview of how it is done: 1) Log-in to your account on the Yusho Account Management System https://account.yusho.de/ 2) Click on ...
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11-21-2008With heavy steps you move through the Ystra Highlands, those lands of snow and ice. Penetrating those dangerous ground ever deeper you're being driven by the urge to find new adventures. The tracks you have found flash once again before your inner eye, showing huge, nature-gnawed bones casting their tips to the sky above. Those pictures seem to ...
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11-20-2008We have added a new batch of wallpapers to our site: A map presenting the first zones of Taborea. Have a look and download the version that matches your screen-size, so you already familiarise yourself with the beautiful lands your are going to explore soon in the Open Beta. We have wallpapers in the following resolutions: 1024 x 768 1280 x 720 ...
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11-19-2008Silberfuchs and Kerensky are truly devious. During a stroll through the forums, they have hidden two images in some random postings somewhere on the boards. You can now go through all of the boards and when you've found the images and figured out to which place in the game they refer, you can win your spot in the closed beta. All you have to do is: ...
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11-18-2008Two interesting updates arrived in the news room today. #1: MMORPG.com Chat Log available MMORPG.com has kindly posted the chat log of Saturday's live chat with the community. Head over to their site and have a look at the numerous questions and answers. Link: MMORPG.com chat log #2: Community Design contest As our forum resident Dasadorah pointed ...
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11-17-2008This week in the limelight of our attention are two major news: MMORPG RoM Forums MMORPG.com now has their own Runes of Magic forum category! The General Discussion is already seeing a fair amount of postings. After the successful dev-chat on Saturday, 15 November, MMORPG's Community Manager Kunou has opened a thread where players can ask questions ...
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11-14-2008As some already might have noticed, our forums are intermittently unavailable or unresponsive. We are experiencing technical difficulties and will have to take down the boards for maintenance. At the moment we do not have an ETA when the maintenance is over, but we will keep you posted. Thank you for your patience.
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11-12-2008This goes to all the artists of Runes of Magic - Fame awaits! Now is your time to leave your mark on the game: You have the chance to create a cape that Runewaker will put into the game! Simply download the template, draw or paint and send us your creation! Our jury will then decide whose cape design will be added to the game. The competition ends ...
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11-11-2008On Saturday 15th November 2008 at 9pm GMT / 10pm CET yours truely will be available in MMORPG.COM's live chat, talking a bit about the development of RoM. You are gladly invited to join us and have a chat with me, Kerensky, and others from Frogster's RoM-Team. Link: MMORPG.com Link: MMORPG.com - News Posting Link: RoM-Forum
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11-11-2008The German community beat us to it - they started designing a forum signature for my highly esteemed colleague Silberfuchs. I ask you to create a signature for me as well. We can't let him have a user-created forum signature and not me! Not only will you be able to permanently showcase your artistic talent but the "winner" will also ...
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11-07-2008Tonight will see the end of this year's Halloween event. If you missed the event, don't worry - there are more to come in the future. Next time we celebrate will be in mid-December, when we present you our Winter Event. And if that's not enough, we will be running many more ingame Events written, organised and run by our Eventmasters. We will ...
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11-06-2008This week we have a few interesting news items for you: Tentonhammer reports on RoM Tentonhammer's editor Danny "Ralsu" Gourley took the opportunity to have a go at Runes of Magic and has good things to say: "Only after it was satisfied that the foundation for Runes of Magic was polished and solid did Frogster admit a large number of ...
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11-04-2008Director of Product Management Daniel "Danatros" Ullrich got good news about the latest development of Runes Of Magic and our plans for the 3rd phase of the Closed Beta. The most important details in a nutshell: The Stresstest was a success Opening of PvP server for CB 3 No wipe after open Beta Read all the details here. Link: 2nd Letter ...
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11-03-2008Ladies and Gentlemen, we are proud to announce that the Runes of Magic servers will be online again in a few minutes for the start of Phase 3 of the Closed Beta You will then see two servers: Server 1 is running on the same ruleset as before (PvE with optional PvP) Server 2 is running the Open PvP ruleset. The data of server 1 have been copied to ...
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11-03-2008At 9.30am GMT / 10.30am CET the servers have been taken offline for maintenance and data analysis. We will keep you posted when the servers return to service. When the servers are back, we are entering Phase 3 of the Closed Beta. We expect that the Open Beta will start early December. If you want to take part and haven't done so yet, register here ...
