Free Realms

The game was free-to-play with leveling restrictions, with access to additional content available through a membership fee. The game allowed the player to fight, interact with other players, take up jobs, and more. The game's servers were shut down on March 31, 2014, in a closure of three other SOE MMOs that year (Vanguard, Wizardry, Clone Wars Adventures). SOE gave as reason that it was necessary to devote resources to other games, and later, to move away from games oriented to children, when SOE President John Smedley stated in a Reddit ask-me-anything that "Kids don't spend well and it's very difficult to run a kids game. Turns out kids do mean stuff to each other a lot."

• Title — Free Realms • Developer — Sony Online Entertainment • Publisher — Sony Online Entertainment • Engine — ForgeLight • Platforms — Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3 • Released — Windows April 28, 2009 Mac OS X November 2, 2010 PlayStation 3 March 29, 2011 • Genre — Massively multiplayer online, adventure • Modes — Multiplayer

Free Realms contained many of the staples of MMORPG's at the time, such as an open 3D environment to explore and quests to complete for usable rewards. Unlike most MMORPG's, Free Realms set out to appeal to children as well as adults with a family-friendly design and muted combat visuals, such as a lack of blood or explicit death; whirling stars would appear above a fallen enemy's head when defeated, indicating unconsciousness. The player could choose between two races, pixie or human, and take up any number of the fifteen available jobs on a single character. Jobs could involve combat or trade, though not all jobs did, and were leveled individually through questlines unique to each job. Players in Free Realms were given a personal apartment for free; larger player homes were obtainable through membership or individual purchase. Homes could be decorated with over 100 unique items such as a stone head, dance floor, and rocket ship.

The base game was available to download and play free of charge. Free Realms offered an optional membership for a single player, which allowed for 3 characters to be created per account, plus other benefits such as member-only quests, jobs and items. Free Realms also employed the Station Cash currency, usable across several SOE games, which could purchase items and features as microtransactions, as well as pay for membership. Versions of Free Realms for Mac and PlayStation 3 were announced at SOE Fan Faire 2010. The Mac version was released on November 2, 2010. The PlayStation 3 version was released on March 31, 2011 on the US PlayStation Store, September 11 in the EU, and was accessible via the PlayStation Network. The PC version was accessed via a browser plug-in paired with the Free Realms website, Candy Stand, or Miniclip. Before Free Realms was shut down, SOE planned to offer a "family" membership that would allow multiple logins through one account at the same time.

A Free Realms tie-in comic series was published by DC subsidiary WildStorm, beginning in 2009 for $4.99 per issue. The series held twelve issues, each of which contained a unique one-time code redeemable for an in-game virtual reward. The comic was written by J. S. Lewis, writer of the Grey Griffins series of young-adult fantasy books, with art by Allen Martinez and Jon Buran. The comic featured Dane Kensington, an aspiring Brawler who set out on an adventure in hopes of becoming stronger.

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