Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!
1 January 2012

Dear Taboreans,

The Runes of Magic team would like to wish you and your families, friends and guild members a wonderful new year. They look forward to lots of new exciting content, challenging instances, engaging quests and epic battles in the year ahead.

They also wish you good health and a successful year for your life outside of Taborea.

They thank you for an unbelievably great year in 2011!

Here is a brief overview of the different things that happened over the past action-packed 12 months:

January 2011

• The second Runes of Magic novel “Asiya – Legends” was announced.
• Flo & Andy asked for your own ideas for their comics and received numerous suggestions.

February 2011

• The results of the Christmas charity campaign were announced. A total of €82.000 was donated by Runes of Magic and Bounty Bay Online players, which was given to Save the Children
• Four new unseen costumes were introduced in the game for the "Gaming goes Fashion" project.
• The closed beta for Chapter IV was announced

March 2011

• For German users, the Runes of Magic "Fire Demon" Pizza was launched with “Call a Pizza” and became available from 01.03. along with the in-game pet "Pizza Bakers Companion".
• Runes of Magic celebrated its 2nd birthday - the community managers and the community had a lot of fun together
• Froggie found shelter - the results of the competition earlier this year were presented and Froggie lived happily ever after in his new home

April 2011

• They hope you enjoyed their April fools joke about the release of "Flo & Andy - The Movie".
• Numerous lucky players were given the opportunity to participate in the closed beta of Chapter IV
• Easter arrived and the Wabbits hopped onto the Runes of Magic servers

May 2011

• The first video appeared of the Redhill Mountains
• Sismond's diabolical plans were unveiled
• The release of Chapter IV was announced for 6/16/2011

June 2011

• The first RoMCast with Lead Community Manager Mike "Silberfox" Kiefer and the English Community Manager Matt "Zalmah" Rider appeared
• Chapter IV opened the doors and let you into the “Lands of Despair”
• A large-scale class feedback project was launched and considerable community feedback was gathered, analysed and reported by the community management team

July 2011

• The SteelSeries Runes of Magic mousepad was launched
• They launched “Goldrush in Taborea”, a large raffle where you had the chance to win a real, solid gold bar.

August 2011

• The month of August was almost exclusively focused on the GamesCom
• They launched the FrogCast and featured a special second episode “Road to GamesCom”.
• The sweepstakes ticket contest for GamesCom began.

September 2011

• A completely new event descended upon Taborea; Patch 4.0.2, Fairy Tale.
• They launched the brand new multi-tasking tool “OverWolf” especially for Runes of Magic, allowing you to Skype, record videos, visit Facebook and more, without leaving the full screen mode.
• Rock Taborea – Machinima contest featuring the Van Canto song “Betrayed” began, where our community could make Runes of Magic music videos and have a chance at winning some great prizes.

October 2011

• A new Polish server joined the European family: Perun
• Their FrogCast for October featured the the RoM-stage presentation from GamesCom 2011
• Oh, and let’s not forget…. Halloween!

November 2011

• Patch 4.0.5 "Souls of the Past" featured the latest instance "Tomb of the Seven Heroes" and introduced the beautiful "Tergothen Bay", and the level cap was raised to 70
• The Arcane Transmutor video tutorial was launched for newer Runes of Magic players
• The competition "Around the World with SteelSeries” began, allowing you to win a Runes of Magic Mousepad, Mouse and professional gaming headset.

December 2011

• Their new program "Score for More" began, giving you the opportunity to earn points for various activities and win numerous in-game rewards, including some very cool new mounts.
• The official Runes of Magic Sapphire graphics card became available for the German market, which included a cute companion.
• The open beta for Runes of Magic in Browser began, and will run until 9th January 2011.