The Realm (Jewel Case)
by Codemasters
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Product Summary
Brand: CodemastersFormat: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2001-10-10
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me
Publisher: Codemasters
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Video Game Reviews of The Realm (Jewel Case)
Customer Review: Fun for all of 5 seconds
Summary: 1 Stars
I will be honest here in saying that from about '98-'00, '02-'03 and ending with an account I played for less than a year and recently terminated that I have experience with this game. I mainly joined because my boyfriend and other friends of mine loved the old Sierra games, so playing was for nostalgic purposes. During my first years playing the game was still "operated" by Sierra, and although not the most advanced, it was a good place for friends to hunt together. The battle system is very simple and turn-based, and you can extend the battle time to painfully slow to give yourself ample time to use your most devastating moves. With that said, many people hunted in groups and leveled new players up so quickly that you could earn tons of money. There was nothing there for a person who was level 1000 or anything close because nothing new was implemented (although there were tons of inactive spells and creature designs), so came the "townie" culture that many complain about. My boyfriend even became one, earning millions from selling rare items retrieved from quests and playing trivia. The few mods left from the Sierra age were pretty decent when it came to discipline unless you were making obscene references to sex, booze and/or narcotics. Things at that point became really boring, really fast. All of us decided to cancel our accounts and go on to other MMOs.
The second time my boyfriend convinced me to play was after Codemasters had taken over the game. He had some hope that maybe the company would turn it around and finally implement from where Sierra left off. Well that was another waste of time (and money). Almost all of the updates were security patches. The new mods and guides were horrific. I made a semi-innocent joke in public chat once and was sent to jail, only to have a mod ask me if I knew why I was there...and while I was typing a response I was silenced and then suspended for 3 days. From what I hear the punishments became much worse than what I had experienced and that's a shame. Even mine was going overboard. So we waited patiently for any worthwhile (after all of that time I don't consider some hats and a couple of new weapons a big deal) changes and nothing happened while we went back to being quick millionaires. I cancelled my account but for some reason Codemasters wouldn't process it until they got another month out of me (reminded me of AOL).
The third and final time, Codemasters decided to give this "project" the boot. Now it's still operated (believe it or not) by a company called Norseman Games. It's the same old tripe, but to make matters worse they promised updates they didn't deliver, and where this had been a $5 per month chat room for many (or a place to mess around when the server on their favorite MMO was down), this company has the audacity to think about charging MORE! They're out of their minds. It's just really sad when a company would rather give you a goofy useless hat to wear instead of implementing one of the many inactive spells that people had in their books waiting to be used. I have never seen anything like it before on any other MMO and although I will always have a fondness for Sierra and my early gaming years, I have to say that this is a horse with a broken leg that should've been put out of its misery around 7 years ago.
To Bottom Line it: Don't waste your time or money!!! You can play better MMOs for free! People who say this game is good are probably only talking about the fact that it's basically an avatar chat room, and either said nothing at all to anyone or kissed the mods' behinds because any non-mainstream thought will get you in trouble.
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