Free Realms Going Live!

[wdwdreamin]

Wanted to make sure this didn't get lost in the other thread.

For those of you who don't visit the FR forum, they have announced that the game will be going live this week. There's some important info relating to this so read on:

Some of you have seen the signs. The NDA being lifted. Cryptic twitters from developers. Unexpected fan site announcements. Some have speculated that the next stage of Free Realms is here...they are right.

Since our initial closed beta announcement, we have been flagging more and more beta sign ups for access to the game. We have also been working with an affiliate site, Miniclip.com. The Free Realms beta has been open to the millions of players from that site as well as any new registrations made on our home page. While we did not announce it, we are already well into our open beta period.

Starting Monday, April 27th at 8:00am PDT we are going to be pushing a big update to the web and game servers. The servers will be unavailable all day Monday as we do our final tests and checks. At this time all beta characters will be deleted.

The servers and website will be brought back online Tuesday, April 28th. At this time Free Realms will be live! Just log in, make a character and play. Memberships and Station Cash purchases will be enabled at this time as well.

The party we have planned at Seaside today is going to be our last opportunity to celebrate as members of the beta. I hope to see as many of you there as possible for we can now call the "End-of-Beta Beach Bash"!

We are very excited to make this great leap and we have many, many beta testers to thank for getting us to this point. As a special thank you to all of our beta testers we are going to be giving you a unique in-game item when we go live on Tuesday. Be sure to check in on Tuesday!

Stay tuned for more information.

 

[Goofy05]

Wow! That was quick! I haven't even figured out how to complete the tutorials! LOL Guess it won't hurt me much to have to recreate my avatar, eh?

 

[Diva of Dragons]

Shortest Beta ever and I still can't run the game.

 

[BriarRosie]

Shortest Beta ever and I still can't run the game.

Same here. I found they had known issues with Internet Explorer and suggested I download Firefox. I did that, then got a message that my computer doesn't seem to be compatible for optimum running of the game. My guess? My graphics card? I bought my computer in 2003, and I did upgrade RAM to 1 gig. So that's the only thing I could think of.

It's probably time for me to get a new computer anyway, as mine is starting to slow down considerably.

Maybe at that time, I could actually play this game.

 

[goldengourd]

Well, it hasn't made it back on-line yet. Interesting that they didn't not send out any notices that beta was ending, just that one announcement on the forum. There seemed to be so many little problems with the game, quests that wouldn't complete, items that weren't were they were supposed to be or didn't react like they were supposed to, graphics that would load wrong, etc and so forth. I would have expected one more layer of testing, to get their long list of know issues resolved and see if they had them all, before launch. Too bad, it was obvious playing beta level that it will be pretty minimal for the 'free' level, but it was too hard on my eyes (made me dizzy) that I won't pay to play.