Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) today announced that Free Realms has exceeded 10 million registered players. The kids-focused MMO launched back on April 29, 2009 and SOE is engaging in a birthday celebration for the title, which kicks off with a festive, month-long in-game celebration.
As a result, players will see party decorations in various areas of Free Realms and there will be celebratory live community events, two new combat minigames, party hats and commemorative t-shirts for player avatars, among other things. SOE also said that a new series of 15 birthday quests will be added, and "players are urged to participate in a large scale cake fight in order to help prevent the ruin of the Free Realms birthday bash by Cakenstein, a colossal monster made from cake recipes gone wrong."
“Reaching 10 million registered players on the eve of Free Realms’ first birthday is an incredibly exciting event for SOE and our passionate online community,” said John Smedley, president of SOE. “Millions of gamers have confirmed that the genre we pioneered over 11 years ago with the original EverQuest continues to evolve and expand to include new styles of gameplay that reach a wider audience than ever before.”
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April 2, 2010
Hi,SOE has a slate of engaging, high-quality games currently in development across new genres for all platforms and audiences. SOE is running a Double Station Cash Weekend where players pop into select retailers to purchase Station Cash cards.
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April 5, 2010
lol @ pioneering with Everquest. I guess it was the first 3D MMO, but it was a hideously bad game and it was not the first commercially successful graphical MMO in the west (that was Ultima Online).
I suppose in a decade they'll claim that Free Realms pioneered free to play on 3D MMOs. While not strictly true, the scale of their success has eclipsed their contemporaries enough that I'll consider that a fair claim. What they are achieving is pretty impressive.