At the Game Developers Conference still in full swing Frogster has secured the rights to further territories and language versions of Runes of Magic. The management team of Frogster Online Gaming has been granted the exclusive rights for all further European language versions of Runes of Magic for Europe as well as the exclusive licence for the for the Spanish language version for the USA and Canada. This means that the Frogster Group is now holding, along with the Korean licence, all of the licences for Europe with the exception of Turkey. In securing these licences, Frogster has risen to become the de facto almost sole publisher of the international blockbuster MMORPG in the western hemisphere.
In its first week of sales in German retail, Runes of Magic has simultaneously moved into the top spot in the GfK (Society for Consumer Market Research) sales charts. The German boxed version of the MMORPG leapt straight from out of the blocks to the top of the chart for PC games in the segment below 28 Euro, knocking the genre king, World of Warcraft, from the throne. Taking the PC title sector as a whole, the virtual fantasy world peaked in second place according to units sold among current full-price titles. “Although Runes of Magic is available worldwide as a free download, we have been able to create a very successful boxed product for the German-speaking market by assembling an attractive item and collector package”, commented Rolf Klöppel, Frogster’s Head of Marketing and PR, discussing Runes of Magic‘s chart entry in the industry magazine “GamesMarkt”. “Within incredibly short time we have managed to create a hype around Runes of Magic which is reflected by having 700,000 registered players already. Following on from the successful online marketing, we are now experiencing a strong impact on the retail market.”
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27 comments so far
Really didn’t see that coming.
March 26th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Haaa nice joke ;] Such a big shitty game isnt even 100 times worse that WoW… its like… 1k times worse?
April 11th, 2010 at 4:30 am
LOL this game is way better then wow
April 20th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
This game really enjoying than wow , wow gets classic doesnt it ?
May 14th, 2010 at 8:54 am
Yeah, nice joke. Let’s count..how many WoW clones are out there? LotR, Aion, RoM…more? I’m sure there are plenty! Now, since they are all the clones, how can they be better than the original? Also, since this fake-o-fail is free, I’d like to remind you about countless WoW Private servers ALL around the world. I hope you don’t think that cloning is better than privating?)
June 17th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Runes of Magic is way better than WoW from te start bcause it looks better is FREE and is more fun
July 17th, 2010 at 5:47 am
Your all nubs it’s best mmorpg – go die with your wow bullshits. Every time you wowers see a game, your acting like nubs “WoW clone! wow clone” Go get a brain. nabs
September 3rd, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Parte poutsa karioles.
September 3rd, 2010 at 1:40 pm
I agree with the guy above.
September 3rd, 2010 at 1:41 pm
WOW is a bit more rounded in the terain and buildings department I think but Runes of Magic is more fun and the caracter creation is more open and more variations exist. The whole idea of buying a game and then paying to play it kind of defeats the feeling of owning a game. WOW is a very good game and Runes of Magic is also I have played them both. Given all the aspects I would say that Runes of Magic beats WOW but it was rather close.
Regards
Knight
October 8th, 2010 at 7:14 am
HAHAHA, everyone that says “Rom is a wow clone, much worse than the original”, can you ask yourself a question: Have you ever played RoM? Maybe you must try it before complaining!
November 27th, 2010 at 4:36 am
I have played both, and I can say that RoM sucks hard compared to WoW.
December 3rd, 2010 at 2:15 pm
This is definitely an ordered review (poll) by Frogstar or whatever the name of the company is. If you pay some cash to a 2peny site like this one they will say that packman is the best …game ever in the whole gaming industry. So don’t eat every piece of news from a 2-bit website like this one or start debating on the matter.
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January 17th, 2011 at 7:05 am
I’ll try not to take that personally, this was not a paid post fyi.
And in it’s day, Pac Man was da bomb!
February 7th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
“I have played both, and I can say that RoM sucks hard compared to WoW.”
You’re a liar. You say this right after WoWers have been called out on criticizing games they haven’t played. The stats on how many people are enjoying RoM speak for themselves.
February 22nd, 2011 at 11:54 am
c’est world of warcraft cataclysme wrat bc et wow vanila les meilleur jeux world of warcraft the number one !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! les jeux de blyzard !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 3rd, 2011 at 11:59 am
lol Pbuiauns calling this site a 2-bit website. wat a jackass if it so 2-bit then why is he logging on 2 it hahahaha.
i use 2 play WOW but i quite due 2 asshole players lol u screw up once in that game & all the noobs who think they r pro jump all over u lol ….now i like RoM better cause i found that the players help out more & it dosnt have noobs trying a acted all pro plus i like the skill set up on RoM
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February 13th, 2012 at 2:47 pm
now wow, with cataclysm is a complete shit. it’s easier, repetitive and especially, NOT AN RPG!! i played it for 6 years and i can say that wearing a DEMIGOD armor with fire, smoke and all the other stuff, it’s funny for about 10 minutes and it’s not fantasy, it’s more based on influencing noobs with apocalyptic armors.
April 16th, 2012 at 5:07 pm
YEEAAA SURE ABOUT THAT ¡KEEP DREAMING!
claro que si…campeon xd
May 6th, 2012 at 3:05 am
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