Times are tough. Money's tight. The recession's kicking in, and with every passing day that active MMO subscription starts to look more like an expensive luxury than an essential outgoing. Sound like you? Then Taiwan-based Runewaker Entertainment's got you covered, because it's crafted a beautiful free-to-download, stylised, high-fantasy MMORPG that doesn't require a subscription fee. That's right. It's absolutely free.
It's called Runes of Magic, and it's currently in open beta, so you can try it for yourself, for free - not that that's any incentive, since the full game will also be free. Don't let the whole "free" thing put you off, either. It looks and feels very much like a full price, full fat MMORPG. It's a lot like World of Warcraft, actually.
Gameforge wants to maintain a level playing field for users and mitigate any P2W elements that may disrupt the integrity of Runes of Magic.
A lot has happened in gaming, especially free-to-play gaming, over the last decade. Nobody could predict just how prevalent it’s become, and how some of the biggest games on the planet – League of Legends, Fortnite: Battle Royale, World of Tanks, and more – are all free-to-play.
Gameforge — the leading publisher of popular free-to-play multiplayer online games including Guardians of Ember, SoulWorker, Aion, and Metin2 — celebrates the 10th anniversary of renowned developer Runewaker’s popular free-to-play MMORPG, Runes of Magic on March 19.
