( - SOE) - Letter from the Free Realms Producer - 04-05-2011 03:52 PM

Letter from the Free Realms Producer

Hey all! It’s been a while (too long!) since we’ve posted a big update to talk about the state of the game and to give everyone a quick sneak peak of all the cool top secret stuff coming up. With last week’s launch of Free Realms for the Playstation 3, now seems like an excellent time to do just that!

So let’s start with Free Realms PS3. Like I mentioned, we launched it last Tuesday and we’ve been thrilled with the feedback so far. Currently, Free Realms is one of just a small number of MMOs available on PlayStation which means we’re now able to reach an ever broader group of players who can join in on the fun. If you have a PlayStation 3 and haven’t tried Free Realms on it yet, we’d highly recommend checking it out!

But that was last week. I know what most of you guys really want to know is, what’s coming up next? Well, in the very near future we are going to be releasing our new farming feature. The team has been hard at work on this for a while and we can’t wait to release it so that everyone to jump in and play. In a nutshell, players will be able acquire a farming lot (just like getting a housing lot) and once you have it you’ll be able to clear it, decide what kind of plants you want to grow and then get to the farming! It’ll be a great new way to make coin (by tending to your own farm or helping out friends) and to get some sweet new items that can’t be found anywhere else!

We’re not going to stop at farming though, later on this spring and summer we’re also going to be releasing ranching (where you can raise your own pets) and diners (where you can run your own restaurant) – both of which you’ll be able to grow useful items for on your farms. If that wasn’t enough, there are also new rides. I bet if you check the marketplace in the next few updates you’ll start to see some cool new bikes showing up! We’ll also have new minigames, lots more housing fun, more contests where players can get their own housing creations added to the Free Realms world and a few other surprises we can’t spill the beans on quite just yet!

As I type this, we are quickly approaching seventeen million registered players. That’s a pretty big number, and what it means is that there are a lot of folks out there excited about Free Realms.**And all that does is just make the team here even more pumped up to keep working on it. The next few months are going to be pretty exciting, so stay tuned!

Nick Parkinson

and the whole Free Realms Team






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