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Happy New Year!

01.01.2012

Dear Taboreans,

The Runes of Magic team would like to wish you and your families, friends and guild members a wonderful new year. We look forward to lots of new exciting content, challenging instances, engaging quests and epic battles in the year ahead.

We also wish you good health and a successful year for your life outside of Taborea.

We thank you for an unbelievably great year in 2011!

A brief overview of the different things that happened over the past action-packed 12 months is waiting for you if you click on “Read More”!


January 2011

  • The second Runes of Magic novel “Asiya – Legends” was announced.
  • Flo & Andy asked for your own ideas for their comics and received numerous suggestions.


February 2011

  • The results of the Christmas charity campaign were announced. A total of €82.000 was donated by Runes of Magic and Bounty Bay Online players, which was given to Save the Children
  • Four new unseen costumes were introduced in the game for our "Gaming goes Fashion" project.
  • The closed beta for Chapter IV was announced


March 2011

  • For German users, the Runes of Magic "Fire Demon" Pizza was launched with “Call a Pizza” and became available from 01.03. along with the in-game pet "Pizza Bakers Companion".
  • Runes of Magic celebrated its 2nd birthday - the community managers and the community had a lot of fun together
  • Froggie found shelter - the results of the competition earlier this year were presented and Froggie lived happily ever after in his new home

 

April 2011

  • We hope you enjoyed our April fools joke about the release of "Flo & Andy - The Movie".
  • Numerous lucky players were given the opportunity to participate in the closed beta of Chapter IV
  • Easter arrived and the Wabbits hopped onto the Runes of Magic servers


May 2011

  • The first video appeared of the Redhill Mountains
  • Sismond's diabolical plans were unveiled
  • The release of Chapter IV was announced for 6/16/2011


June 2011

  • The first RoMCast with Lead Community Manager Mike "Silberfox" Kiefer and the English Community Manager Matt "Zalmah" Rider appeared
  • Chapter IV opened the doors and let you into the “Lands of Despair”
  • A large-scale class feedback project was launched and considerable community feedback was gathered, analysed and reported by the community management team


July 2011

  • The SteelSeries Runes of Magic mousepad was launcher
  • We launched “Goldrush in Taborea”, a large raffle where you had the chance to win a real, solid gold bar.


August 2011

  • The month of August was almost exclusively focused on the GamesCom
  • We launched the FrogCast and featured a special second episode “Road to GamesCom”.
  • The sweepstakes ticket contest for GamesCom began.


September 2011

  • A completely new event descended upon Taborea; Patch 4.0.2, Fairy Tale.
  • We launched the brand new multi-tasking tool “OverWolf” especially for Runes of Magic, allowing you to Skype, record videos, visit Facebook and more, without leaving the full screen mode.
  • Rock Taborea – Machinima contest featuring the Van Canto song “Betrayed” began, where our community could make Runes of Magic music videos and have a chance at winning some great prizes.


October 2011

  • A new Polish server joined the European family: Perun
  • Our FrogCast for October featured the the RoM-stage presentation from GamesCom 2011
  • Oh, and let’s not forget…. Halloween!


November 2011

  • Patch 4.0.5 "Souls of the Past" featured the latest instance "Tomb of the Seven Heroes" and introduced the beautiful "Tergothen Bay", and the level cap was raised to 70
  • The Arcane Transmutor video tutorial was launched for newer Runes of Magic players
  • The competition "Around the World with SteelSeries” began, allowing you to win a Runes of Magic Mousepad, Mouse and professional gaming headset.


December 2011

  • Our new program "Score for More" began, giving you the opportunity to earn points for various activities and win numerous in-game rewards, including some very cool new mounts.
  • The official Runes of Magic Sapphire graphics card became available for the German market, which included a cute companion.
  • The open beta for Runes of Magic in Brower began, and will run until 9th January 2011.