Runes of Magic

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User Score
5.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 57 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 57
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 57
  3. Negative: 18 out of 57

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  1. Zeph
    Dec 25, 2010
    7
    This game is just like WoW, of course, we all know that. But we also know that WoW is a 6 year old game, and Runes of Magic plays like a 6 year old game with the god awful grinding. Once you get past the cool world and atmosphere, the game will get boring. Oh yeah, the download is ridiculous too. I think it was 8GB or something for the first two chapters alone! And only a helpful discThis game is just like WoW, of course, we all know that. But we also know that WoW is a 6 year old game, and Runes of Magic plays like a 6 year old game with the god awful grinding. Once you get past the cool world and atmosphere, the game will get boring. Oh yeah, the download is ridiculous too. I think it was 8GB or something for the first two chapters alone! And only a helpful disc from a magazine alleviated the time it took to actually get into the game for the first time.… Expand
  2. MellerYeller
    Jun 2, 2011
    7
    As far as free MMOs go, you won't find one better than this but when you compare it to retail quality MMOs, it just feels like a watered down version of WoW with graphics made purposely bad to look like it. It's obvious their target audience were people who said "I want a game like WoW but I don't want a monthly fee"

    The game does have a few nice touches like Siege Wars PVP, dual class    As far as free MMOs go, you won't find one better than this but when you compare it to retail quality MMOs, it just feels like a watered down version of WoW with graphics made purposely bad to look like it. It's obvious their target audience were people who said "I want a game like WoW but I don't want a monthly fee"

    The game does have a few nice touches like Siege Wars PVP, dual class system, housing, and leveling up is done by completing quests rather than aimlessly killing enemies with no real goal in mind. The game can be great fun when playing socially with other people but alone the "get x amount of y" fetch quests get tedious    … Expand
  3. aazru
    Aug 26, 2012
    6
    If you have nothing better to do it is a good time sink. But there are better ones out there by now.
    A lot of good ideas dragged down by bad execution. -1 A horrid power creep. -1 Lack of competent balancing team. -1 B2w model. -1
    A lot of wasted potential.
  4. Necromancian
    Sep 5, 2013
    7
    Honestly I have been playing this game for 3 years(and 2 months of the 3rd chapter) and still playing. From my past experiences i can say that:
    Runes of Magic is a great game. It's a fun copy of WoW and a really fun MMORPG to play.Many User friendly players.Reduced prices though, many huge cities or casltes have been fixed and bug removed. Player versus Player, Player versus Monster, Free    Honestly I have been playing this game for 3 years(and 2 months of the 3rd chapter) and still playing. From my past experiences i can say that:
    Runes of Magic is a great game. It's a fun copy of WoW and a really fun MMORPG to play.Many User friendly players.Reduced prices though, many huge cities or casltes have been fixed and bug removed. Player versus Player, Player versus Monster, Free to Play. Free quests. The Idea of choosing from 3 classes are a solid gold and having a combo of two class's skills into 1, Can really create a unique character like what I did for my Character.
    It is fun, though many spammers, hackers during PvP. 1 or two cities not fixed. Dalanis is 1. Constant disconnection which have never been fixed. Now if you can run it at max settings it won't disconnect so often. Only 2 cities or when near many players.
    Never had or heard a person hacking others account.Though if you are dumb, use your money on diamonds.If your wiser than other knuckle heads below in the comments you will learn that you can get diamonds for cosmetics by their gold. They have devised a system that you can trade in your gold for diamonds.*(Diamonds are a type of Real money currency required for purchase of certain stuff)*
    You can level up fast but the requirement of armor is tremendous which makes leveling up a lot less faster.
    There are many Instances, Raids etc. If you are lucky you can do the instances with other higher levels who can finish it. No matter how high a level you are there is always room for something to do. You can always improve your armor and buy more better ones to be more better.And there are people who can run instances for you to get upgraded(as in with armor and weapons and stuff). The auction house concept and way they created it is a good concept I must say.But the sad part is that it needs constant maintainance as after every 30 days if your items are in the mailbox, It dissapears forever never seeing the light of it.There are many types of game currency.All of them can be earned accept Diamonds
    New races and classes are not a big hype as the release of the Elven race and its classes.
    Yes it has a lot of spam bots but the developers made the effort to cancel their spam and 'report spam' them. And yes the communications between Game Master to player is horrible. You almost never get a reply. Class balancing is almost done being fixed now. Its a free MMO if you know how to play MMO's unlike Rundas342. And yes during 2011 there was a time when your first chest was missing and when they gave the chest back not all was there.I have heard a lot of complaints on this and I was the lucky few to get all my stuff back.Only about 35%-45% of all players got their first chest back with their stuff. The patches are getting more noticeable nowadays. They patch most of their bugs.(but have not patched the leveling ground Dalanis. I swear i have crashed more than 10 times just getting from one end to another in the damned castle.Otherwise all is fine). And the worst part is the part that they didn't fix the siege wars between guilds.Has been BETA from since its release.
    It is now more possible to play but havent fixed the way and how humans level.(they are slower levelers because they only have two zones to level from.They made getting to the leveling zone much harder which is good cause you dont get noobs and all just spamming or disturbing the others.) All clases have been fixed. It still has a lot of bugs. And it takes up about 40 Gigabytes of space after a bunch of patches for me since its all patches of the 3rd chapter 4th and 5th chapter too.Other wise like about 10 GB.
    Here and there patches are being made.The wait to download the game is really long but i do not understand. A graphics card which have been purchased at 2005( not at all high end. Mid class) could run RoM at max graphics.Ohh and my graphics care is in American Currency is worth 142 and probably few cents in Dollars.Now that graphics card of mine is broken and using a graphics card with built in motherboard. It still runs perfectly fine. But recomended to get a 4GB ram or 2 2GB rams as game takes up lot of ram. The biggest wait for download but then, Hey!
    They created it to be a copy of WoW which is free.
    Costs less than WoW(Or nothing at all like I said if you know how to play your cards right).
    A WoW player changing from WoW to RoM will definately enjoy it.
    But due to all its problems I have faced, I doubt the game will get my hopes up.
    Its great for me as I am still a RoM player but about you guys, I listed the pro's con's and neutrals of this games.Play according to your rating and whether you think you should play it. I rate it as about a six.Probably even higher.There are more to the system that makes it more complicated and easier at the same time.I really like this game even though for its crappy problems as the people there are friendly, The game makes you want to try, try again and there is always room for extras    … Expand
  5. switchkong
    May 31, 2018
    5
    I am giving this MMO a 5. It is a great game with awesome graphics and fun quests. A lot of effort was put into this game and it was nice to allow it to be free to play. The big thing that irks me though is the freaking turn speed. In WoW, Rift and SWTOR it takes 1 second or less to turn 180 degrees, which is fast. However for some reason in RoM, the turn speed is 3 seconds. 3 longI am giving this MMO a 5. It is a great game with awesome graphics and fun quests. A lot of effort was put into this game and it was nice to allow it to be free to play. The big thing that irks me though is the freaking turn speed. In WoW, Rift and SWTOR it takes 1 second or less to turn 180 degrees, which is fast. However for some reason in RoM, the turn speed is 3 seconds. 3 long seconds. Ugh. It just flat out ruins what could otherwise be an enjoyable experience for an MMO. Turning in a plethora of quests or turning to fight an enemy behind you just takes too long. In the other MMOs I mention it's literally boom, whack, done. Fast. No delay in what needs to be done. There are no options in the settings to change this either.

    One simple but crucial part of the game's mechanics brings down what could be a good and decent time killer.    … Expand

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Metascore
71

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14
  1. Cynamite
    80
    Granted: This is not WoW, but Runes of Magic is the ideal entrance into the MMORPG world, since it's completely free.
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  2. Eurogamer
    60
    Runes of Magic is by and large a robust, enjoyable game. As a free-to-play title, it's impressive. Although Western gamers will still have their reservations about amorphous RMT versus those nice straightforward subs, Runes of Magic is something of a landmark: it won't dislodge the subscription-based model in the West by any stretch of the imagination, but it does demonstrate that free-to-play doesn't necessarily mean rudimentary, shallow, cheap or totally brutal in the integration of RMT.
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  3. Cheat Code Central
    84
    By all indications, Runes of Magic is only going to get bigger and better. Although it's available for free, if you love the game, you should feel obligated to support the developers by visiting the Item Shop. If you're a purist, keep in mind that you can purchase items that are purely cosmetic. Consider that your price of admission to a wonderfully enchanted world.
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