Review Submitted By: Danlo
Author Status: Player
Started on Realm of Magic: 2001
Submission Date: Apr 7, 2007
TMC Listing: Realm of Magic
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Danlo]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
I have defended the Realm of Magic in previous reviews, but this
time, they have gone too far. First of all, they implemented a
system of levelling which disadvantages those who are too good at
it. They have a system of xpquests, whereby if you can finish them
in a time shorter than 7 minutes, aka 95% of them, you receive a lag
between quests. As a consequence, this is approximately 40% the
efficiency of the only other method of levelling, which is killing
monsters. They have only about 8 zones which are worthwhile of
levelling, which as a result, if you pass level 40 (about 10 days
of work), your time is spent clearing those same 8 zones nonstop.
The second problem, apart from the monotony of their levelling
system, is that the administration constantly implement changes
which affect only 1/4 of the playerbase. Hence, you have utterly
unbalanced characters. The older you are, the more advantage you
receive from the continuous changes. For example, I remorted twice
in my character. The immortals(admin) of the game refused to allow
me to return to my base class, having been caught as the wrong class
at the time of their implementation. With NO prior warning.
They finally allowed me to remort, after clearing from my bank
account 18 qts, 240 qps and 18 million gc. In terms of gameplay,
these values are the result of years of work. The immortals have no
consideration of the impacts of their implementations, and their
capriciousness determines how well one can achieve in one's char.
Not the least, but this game does not have anywhere near the
playerbase it claims to have. At any one time, it has no more than 8
players online. Generally, 3 of these are immortals. If community
is what you play for, don't even bother.
Danlo
