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Free Realms
Free Realms is a MMORPG for children on the PC and eventually the PS Triple. It was created when John Smedley took a fuckton of LSD after playing loads of WoW, EQ2, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, and Cooking Mama. The story consists simply of: "be a hipster that beats the shit out of seagulls and drives cars into things." Notably, this game looks like Nintendo made it, but no, SOE did.
Gameplay
The gameplay of Free Realms is ultra-casual and obviously targeted at 12 year old girls. Everything is colorful and almost patronizing (for example, if you do not quickly find three blocks to match in the Bejeweled-style games, it does it for you.) The game also downloads things over time, like Guild Wars does, and is almost completely instanced (meaning you fight monsters and do other fun, useful activities away from people in the overworld area.)
The instances are also minigames. Be it fighting frogs, racing karts and crashing them, harvesting weird fruits to cook with, you can choose to be alone in a world of sugar-hyped kiddies.
SOE also encourages socializing, which usually means talking about Webkinz.
Races
There are currently only two playable races (something Free Realms does not share with EQ2.): humans, which are metrosexual-looking preteens, and pixies, fairies with huge bobble-heads.
Jobs
Free Realms has a system where you can change your job at any time. It's kind of similar to Final Fantasy XI, except the jobs are completely out of place. You'd expect combat classes like an MMORPG, and to an extent, crafters, but out of fucking nowhere, you can pick a class that can smash cars into other cars. These are all playable up until level 5 and Jew.
- Archer - Shoots arrows.
- Adventurer - This class is the default class. It only levels up by collecting floating tokens, bubbles, flowers, and other household items. It can also dress up like a metrosexual.
- Blacksmith - Make weapons for people! Hurray!
- Brawler - The typical fighter class. They wield huge hammers and throw rocks at shit. When playing this class, you button-mash as much as possible.
- Card Duelist - Play card games with virtual cards or cards bought IRL ingame. The whole thing has been done already in EQ2.
- Chef - Plays like a combination of Bejeweled and Cooking Mama. By going back to the kitchen, you can make all sorts of food using what appear to be common herbs.
- Demo Derby Driver - By using controls that are shakier than Michael J. Fox's handwriting, you can run cars into each other and watch them fukken explode.
- Fisherman - Same thing as Animal Crossing.
- Go Kart Driver - Mario Kart with the same controls as the demolition derby class.
- Medic - You can either heal people or hack the shit out of things with a bonesaw. Sound familiar?
- Miner - Basically the chef class except everything's replaced with rocks.
- Ninja - This class is supposed to be based on stealth. From that it can be deduced that most Free Realms characters are completely colorblind to the colors represented in the pastel clothing of the ninjas.
- Soccer Star - A semi free-to-play class. Play soccer to annoying-as-fuck music!
- Pet Trainer - While this class is free to play as, the pets that are trained aren't. Dogs and cats with their own personalities cost two USD. The gameplay is just like Nintendogs, further adding to the idea that this game is a giant "NO U" from Sony to Nintendo.
- Warrior - Viking helms, axes, and leather outfits.
- Wizard - The typical magic-using class. Users with this class dress like a cross between WoW and Harry Potter characters.
It's Over One Million!
Hate to pull out that old meme, but Free Realms got over one million players within a month. In fact, this was actually record-breaking. This news alone caused pains in the rear-ends of people who insist MMORPGs should be "hardcore" and WoW players. SOE came and made parties on May 15, 2009.
To give you an idea of how faggy these parties were, we have provided some pictures below.
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Yup.
Holy Balls! TWO Million?!
Two weeks after the May 15 parties, FR hit two million players. WoWfags sat in a corner to raid Ulduar for the 100th time and to listen to Linkin Park, unaware that FR and WoW are two totally different types of MMOs. Right after FR hit two million, SOE marked The Matrix Online to be shut down in late July of 2009 - but who cares?
—Lethality, Massively user and obvious fucking WoWfag who takes MMORPGs srsly; |
THREE Million?
On June 12, the game reached three million players. Smed must be flexing his trollface at the userbases of MMORPG.com by now. It continues to grow.
The Dares
The theme song "It's Your World" was done by The Dares, a California-based pop-rock band. They probably smoke a fuckton of pot, as one could assume by watching the video just below this text. You can listen to the theme song here, but you'll probably gouge your eardrums out twenty seconds into the song.
E3 Concert
On June 2, The Dares held a concert at E3 while it was broadcasted ingame in Free Realms. This somehow got them an award for being the first ever to perform a live and ingame event at the same time. Snowhill (a place in the game where the concert was held) was swamped with Twilight fans, kids complaining that they weren't the Jonas Brothers, people spamming "&%^&%^%^&^%^&&^%^&%&^^&^^ LOLLLLLLLLLLL", and faggots from E3 itself.
Station Terms of Service
Since children are playing this game, SOE has rights to look into your system as you play it. This makes trolling in the game hard, but not impossible. This complete bullshit though due to that fact that most games have children playing on them.
—Data Miners... |
Trolling
Really? You're on ED and you don't know how to troll twelve year-olds? What the fuck is wrong with you?
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External Links
- Official Website.
- Free Realms vs. Club Penguin
- Free FR codes so you can run around in a goblin shirt and carry dynamite.
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