Runes of Magic’s Item Shop

I very well know that free to play game aren’t getting a lot of love, but bear with me here.

I’ve been playing Runes of Magic for quite a while now, as you may have noticed. RoM is a free to play game with an item shop where you spend real money to get ingame items, like mounts, jewel to upgrade your armor and weapons, cosmetic features, et cetera. To some people that’s the devil himself, for some other, like me, it’s just another way to make some money for the companies behind the game.

I’ve been playing Runes of Magic for the last 8 months. I started out last february and up until now I’ve spent a grand total of 15$, yep 15$. Quite often Frogster America will give us some discount on diamonds and items in the shop. Usually they go for the double diamonds weekend. The mounts, exp and tp potions, daily quest reset ticket are hits each time they go on sale.

What I like about the items shop in RoM is that you don’t absolutely have to buy from it to keep on moving on in the game. Sure, as you get to the higher levels you’ll have a harder time leveling and advancing, but with a little patience you can get enough diamonds for free to upgrade your gear even more. Between level 1 and 40 (since that’s the highest I’ve got) the only necessary things in the shop are the permanent mounts, that’s an absolute must.

For your information, 395 is about 20$ at normal price. I agree with you that’s wayyyy too much for a mount. But if you can wait a couple days you’ll be able to get one for about 200 diamonds. You just have to buy them when they’re at +100%.

Also, you can fill some poll to get free diamonds everyday at a rate of 16 per poll, that’s just another way to get more diamonds. Every week day there’s the Daily Offer and during the weekend it’s the weekend deal. Every week there’s a week long special too.

So there you have it, a basic run down of the item shop in Runes of Magic.

I think they did a pretty good job with the shop, but like anything else it could use a little tweaking with the prices, but as for now, I’m quite happy with the way I play the game. If you’re a casual player with a little money to invest it’s a pretty good game to go for.

One Shots

Hey, look at that! Massively took my screenshot for their One Shots post today, I’m kind of proud now

http://www.massively.com/2010/08/18/one-shots-that-cant-be-comfortable/

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