Today's the day! The crowd over at Sony Online Entertainment are throwing open the doors to their new casual, fun for all ages MMO, Free Realms, and you're all invited. For those of you (maybe all, what, two of you?) who haven't noticed the deluge of Free Realms news we've put out since beta started, SOE has sent along a special video featuring their mascot, Chatty the Squirrel. At least, we think that's a squirrel.
Regardless of just precisely what the madly-coiffed mammal is, one thing you cannot deny is that Free Realms boasts a lot of fun mini-games, a variety of things to do, and the always welcome price tag of free. So while we're waiting for the servers to come up later today, why not enjoy the new Free Realms official launch trailer behind the break. It was voted 'most likely to earwig you with that catchy theme song' by its class.
Reader Comments (31)
Posted: Apr 28th 2009 6:27PM (Unverified) said
@Brian!
Do you really need to post your views in every Free Realms thread?
This site does not write for you but for an auidence. It's launch day for a new game and plenty of folks are excited about Free Realms. Get over yourself already.
Do you really need to post your views in every Free Realms thread?
This site does not write for you but for an auidence. It's launch day for a new game and plenty of folks are excited about Free Realms. Get over yourself already.
Posted: Apr 28th 2009 8:34PM (Unverified) said
Tuesdays suposed to be launch eh, page still says under maintance....sigh.
Posted: Apr 28th 2009 8:44PM Pingles said
Indeed. It's very distressing. I wish they would at least update the page to WEDNESDAY so I could stop refreshing it...
Hold on....REFRESH....nope...
Hold on....REFRESH....nope...
Posted: Apr 28th 2009 9:37PM Joystiq Login Bugs SUCK said
To be honest I have yet to see Massively publish anything that would me me consider the game is going to appeal to any adult who doesn't have a fetish for the tweens playing it.
Poor job at reporting guys. Try as you might to convince me grown men will love this game this still seems like a paedophile's playground.
Poor job at reporting guys. Try as you might to convince me grown men will love this game this still seems like a paedophile's playground.
Posted: Apr 28th 2009 10:23PM AlamoeJones said
you know it's free so it costs nothing except a 2 min. download while you do character creation. you never know until you try something, just take 5 minutes out of wow and give it a shot...you might be pleasantly surprised.
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Posted: Apr 28th 2009 10:24PM Pingles said
Calm down. It's just a bunch of arcade, puzzle and simple-combat games in a cartoony world. Why can't that just be fun? That's been pretty clear from every article Massively has done.
Perhaps you should run to a therapist and find out why you're seeing more in it.
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Perhaps you should run to a therapist and find out why you're seeing more in it.
Posted: Apr 29th 2009 12:30AM (Unverified) said
Sounds like someone needs to stop projecting his interests on the world at large.
Jay, seek counseling.
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Jay, seek counseling.
Posted: Apr 28th 2009 11:43PM (Unverified) said
I would think SOE would know after all these years that the right thing to do here is to update that maintenance page message to say Wednesday and let folks off the hook. Not a great start making us refresh a web page throughout the day with no news.
Posted: Apr 29th 2009 1:01AM jpo said
Meh....typical job of SOE's piss poor customer relations. They never cease to amaze me with their complete lack of care and respect for the customer.
It takes what....like 2 minutes to update the web page with accurate information?
It takes what....like 2 minutes to update the web page with accurate information?
Posted: Apr 29th 2009 3:23AM (Unverified) said
Wow, I think they might have beat the gun by a few minutes, if you're going by PST. Which...I'm not...seeing as it's 3:00am. But, oh well.
I agree though, SOE probably should have moved the release date to Wednesday (today).
I agree though, SOE probably should have moved the release date to Wednesday (today).










