Runes of Magic expands with Ravenfell

by Shawn Schuster Apr 9th 2009 at 12:00PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Screenshots, Game mechanics, Patches, Free-to-play, Runes of Magic

Good news for those high-level Runes of Magic players out there as Frogster just announced the release of its newest zone Ravenfell. This zone is set in a Caribbean/pirate setting and is available to those players who are levels 45-50. It also introduces several new quests, bringing Runes of Magic's total quest count up to over 1,600.

In addition to this new content for veteran players, the newbie tutorial area has also been revamped with this patch. It introduces a more streamlined starter area and optimizes the localization of zones, items and quests text, which basically means the translations make more sense. "This content update meets the wishes of our players by further expanding the high level area." says Runes of Magic PR Manager, Philipp Senkbeil on the new features being built-in so shortly after the game's launch three weeks ago. We also anticipate a new dungeon called "Treasure Trove" which is set to appear in the near future.

Check out the five newest screenshots from Ravenfell in our RoM gallery below.

Gallery: Runes of Magic Gallery

Tags: content, frogster, high-level-content, patch, ravenfell, rom, runes-of-magic

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

gwarf said on 2:02PM 4-09-2009

Nice, Booty Bay. Well now all they need is hinterlands!

Hardy said on 3:39PM 4-09-2009

Yeah, what a total rip off... I mean it's not like a pirate/Caribbean setting ever existed before WoW... Man...Such jerks they are.

Amana said on 11:59PM 4-09-2009

@ Hardy:
Erm I don't think gwarf was being quite as facetious as you elude to.. RoM's art, design, and zones are most certainly worth a good-natured poke in the WoW-rib. C'mon.

Runes is really starting to take a slide in my eyes. Where once I was forgiving of it's many bugs, localisation issues, missing sound effects and economy, I'm now at a point where it's putting me off 'free-play-RMT' for good.

In my opinion, the developers (Runewaker) and vendors (Frogster in this case) are arrogant, shortsighted and extremely cash-greedy.
While I understand that a profit needs to be turned, they seem to be going about it in an incredibly short-sighted and aggressive manner.

Enough in fact, for me to become largely unhappy with the whole situation at large and uninstall, to move back to a fully paid sub in another game. (Uninstall being the only way to unsub/quit from a F2P!)

Shame really. It had promise (for me). If their vision was a little less short-term I would've stuck around. Ah well.