Runes of Magic

[Silenced Parrot]

A new game nearing it's release in December, currently in Closed Beta but will soon be opened up to public testing I believe. Not only does it look somewhat decent as far as MMO's go, it's going to be completely free to play.

From a game play standpoint, it looks fairly solid. A mixture of WoW's controls and combat with the ideas that made FFXI unique. With fairly decent graphics and hopefully a smooth frame rate with little to no server lag, this game actually looks good, and as it gets closer to December I can't help but become a little excited about it. I just pray that it doesn't end up being like Runescape or Ragnarok.

Anyone else heard of this game, or even interested?

Here's the site: http://www.runesofmagic.com/en/index.html

[Hanami]

I'm missing races there... but seems to be okay for me. I might try it when it comes into open beta, I like MMOs. And I hadn't heard about this one, thank you.

However, Shaiya (from Aeriagames), which I haven't tried, seems okay too, and it has good graphics, same as the one you're talking about... Hmm... maybe I should try both of them, they are both free to play... but I have a career to study!

If you happen to play it when it becomes open to normal public, please tell us your impressions.

[Silenced Parrot]

Hm, true. The lack of races is concerning.

Upon further investigation though in March-May, somewhere in there, they will be releasing a content patch with elves I believe. I'm gonna check out Shaiya though, it looks cool.