Reception
| Reception | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 69.9% |
| Metacritic | 71% |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Eurogamer | 6 out of 10 |
| GameSpot | 7 out of 10 |
| GamesRadar | 5 out of 10 |
| GameTrailers | 8.1 out of 10 |
| IGN | 7.9 out of 10 |
| PC Gamer (UK) | 48% |
| PC Zone | 50% |
| VideoGamer.com | 7 out of 10 |
Runes of Magic has been compared to World of Warcraft and also referred to as a clone, but Eurogamer's Daniel Etherington discounted this and stated the view "misses the point." Wesley Yin-Poole of Videogamer.com stated "The guys at Runewaker have clearly constructed Runes of Magic with World of Warcraft running in the background." He stated that despite being "somewhat of a WoW clone" and free-to-play, Runes of Magic contains elements which World of Warcraft does not, and that the latter's developers "would do well to consider." Online gaming website Massively's Shawn Schuster highlighted the range of crafting abilities in the game, as well as the ability to gain proficiency in them all without penalties. "Runes of Magic has these features we see in a triple-A MMO, yet it's a free-to-play RMT-based game." Jeremy Stratton has also written several weekly articles on Massively, with his "Lost Pages of Taborea" column, between March 23, 2010 and October 10, 2011.
According to Frogster 20,000 players created 100,000 characters on the first day of the game's open beta; December 15, 2008, rising to 450,000 characters by February 2009. On May 14, 2009, Frogster announced that one million users in Europe and North America have registered to play Runes of Magic. On August 16, 2010, after the launch of chapter III, they announced that Runes of Magic had exceeded four million registered users.
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