The Chapters End, The Story Begins

The Chapters End, The Story Begins 28 May 2013

After Ayvenas left Taborea to itself, five chapters were written down and experienced. However, the Eye of Wisdom recently discovered a change: more and more pages keep appearing that cannot be attributed to any single chapter.

Dear RoMmunity,

Patch 6.0.0 will see Runes of Magic return to a purer version. We have decided to no longer use the term ‘chapter’.

Why?

Runes of Magic will be re-fashioned as a unified brand. In other words: previously, the RoM logo was adorned with a chapter design, this will no longer be the case.

Up till now we had large content updates which were then followed by several small updates which all fitted into a main theme (e.g. Dwarves). In the future we are planning to spread content over more patches. So there will no longer be an enormous patch and then lots of smaller ones which change the current event, but there will be regular mid-sized or small patches which continuously expand content.

This means for you that you can discover new things more often, and for us and Runewaker it means: more flexible work.

In the past, single chapters were worked on for months at a time to ensure delivery of a comprehensive package. This has lots of advantages, especially in the early days of a game. But in a game, things that would preferably be done on the side start to gather – the older game, the more pronounced this is.

You can think of it as like somebody’s CV: at the beginning is the toddler group (beta), kindergarten (Chapter I), primary school (Chapter II), high school (Chapter III), bachelors (Chapter IV), masters (Chapter V), and then they’re in the world of work where they learn new things in each position but never get a large chunk of knowledge as in the previous stages of life.

To ensure you continue enjoying Taborea we will of course keep working on regular updates:

Patch 6.0.0. ‘The Mysteries of Syrbal Pass’ is planned to be with you on 04 June 2013.

The Runes of Magic Team

here is a trailer for Patch 6.0.0