tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post4854902244640803545..comments2023-06-19T10:45:56.724-04:00Comments on Player Versus Developer: First Impressions of Runes of MagicGreen Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15564045048380177626noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-89312355178628367022010-07-25T05:32:40.305-04:002010-07-25T05:32:40.305-04:00I played to level, oh, 30 or 35. Then grind got to...I played to level, oh, 30 or 35. Then grind got too much. There where not enough quests to level both classes, so you could level one class, and had to level the other on dailies only. That's no fun.<br /><br />Cash items also got very tempting. For example when you die you loose some XP, but you can buy potions to get rid of that debt. When you're levelling on dailies only you're more than happy to get every help you can get for XP. Same with traveling. You can buy tokens to instant-travel to places. When you're doing the same daily 10 times you're more than happy to zap back to the quest giver to repeat your quest and save a few minutes horse riding.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-65839514091247508022010-07-22T13:42:16.844-04:002010-07-22T13:42:16.844-04:00I have been playing for a couple of days now. The ...I have been playing for a couple of days now. The mount does seem mandatory, but you can buy diamonds from another player for in game gold or whatever. Of course that takes getting to know the community to know who you can trust.<br /><br />we bought some of the gift cards from Walgreens to buy diamonds with and got a free 30 day mount with each of them. So got the diamonds + the mount which was nice.<br /><br />Considering most games cost $50 to buy + 10-15$ a month, spending $10 here and there on this game doesnt seem like a big deal to me really. After all, its how they stay in business.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-12050785159099084282010-07-19T19:10:10.726-04:002010-07-19T19:10:10.726-04:00I found in the times I've tried RoM that it ne...I found in the times I've tried RoM that it never quite seems to grab me. I like the character development system, it's pretty unique and RoM gets less credit than it deserves for that. It also moves along a brisk pace at low levels. <br /><br />However, I don't think I've ever made it past the low teens without losing interest. The fantasy setting is a little too generic to me, and I don't like the art style of the character models. Though, to be fair, I haven't tried it since they added elf areas. I might find those more engaging.Yeebohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08028940396189544294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-42114243343141745822010-07-18T14:11:08.422-04:002010-07-18T14:11:08.422-04:00RoM is bad about releasing buggy or just broken co...RoM is bad about releasing buggy or just broken content. Customer service is not good, either. Recently they managed to delete guilds from the servers, and not even have the decency to acknowledge something is wrong (bear in mind, they push cash shop items for people to buy for guild housing). A previous time when they reset peoples talent points (a separate sort of xp used to buy abilities), they severely shortchanged the amount of TP they gave back to the characters. (And here, this is another thing they try to sell items for getting extra TP.)<br /><br />Count yourself lucky in that you were only unable to get to the payment page; when I tried to buy some diamonds, the transaction failed for some reason... and they permanently banned my account. The ticket I filed was closed without any word, as well.<br /><br />Just say no to RoM... at the very least, don't give them any money. It's not safe to do so. Burn it instead, at least you'll have ashes.Indynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-49699471975526372672010-07-18T14:01:29.221-04:002010-07-18T14:01:29.221-04:00I've got a lot of opinions on RoM from having ...I've got a lot of opinions on RoM from having played it for 10 months and being in an end game raiding guild...<br /><br />Some positive, but a lot of negatives too.<br /><br />Uhm, first of all there are a lot of sales on diamonds, so its a bad idea to buy them when they're not on sale, but, their prices when not on sale are<br /><br />5$ for 100 diamonds<br />10$ for 200<br />22$ for 500<br />40$ for 1000<br />75$ for 2000<br />130$ for 4000<br /><br />There used to be ways to buy diamonds on the AH with gold, or sell gold for diamonds, but they cut that out.<br /><br />I played to level 52/52 without spending a dime but once I started end game I had to pay at least 20$ a month to appropriately run dungeons. and that was with selling my gold for diamonds.<br /><br />i used to get an error from trying to buy diamonds from their main page... I believe i fixed it by going directly to the frogster america homepage and buying my diamonds from there. <br /><br />i could go on but the last thing I'll comment on is the class combinations. sometimes they're great, sometimes not. priest/knight is a powerful class, but rogue/mage kind of sucks. it depends and you should do your research up front.<br /><br />Thats the thing about rom, some classes really do suck in the midgame unless you spend tons of money.Hunterhttp://huntersinsight.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-56784666250939977182010-07-18T12:04:17.739-04:002010-07-18T12:04:17.739-04:00I enjoyed it and got to level 25. At that stage th...I enjoyed it and got to level 25. At that stage the travel was really rather noticeable and when you group and people have to wait for you ... to.... slowly... walk.... to the instance you feel a certain social pressure to stop freeloading.<br /><br />I felt I either had to buy a horse or I had to stop playing.<br /><br />To be fair it's only the horse that's really mandatory, I'm sure if you pick a non-crucial role you can go all the way to raiding with no more expenditure than a horse. And the game is certainly $10 of fun. I just had too many other games I also wanted to play at the time I hit that paywall.Stabshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716211705647213383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-26418994891011612072010-07-18T09:07:50.974-04:002010-07-18T09:07:50.974-04:00First! IBTL! Oh wait...
Interesting read. I tried...First! IBTL! Oh wait...<br /><br />Interesting read. I tried to check out RoM over a year ago and couldn't even get the client to download, for whatever reason was the problem way back then.<br /><br />One would hope that in a year and then some they're improved on that. May have to give it a go -- EVE is all very well but I miss stabbiting stuff with pointy things. :(Ysharroshttp://stylishcorpse.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com