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June 25, 2013

  • The next baby pet pal, Teeny Wrex, is available in the Marketplace until July 1st.

June 20, 2013

  • Update #102 has been added to the game.
  • The Cyber Cycle has been added to the Marketplace.
  • The Message envelope is now part of the top bar with the other game settings.
  • You can now choose what nameplates you see, e.g. other players' names, guilds, and/or titles.
  • Friends list maintenance should (hopefully) fix the problems that everyone was having.
  • All new characters must choose a name from the Name Wheel. If you want a personalized name, you have to buy a name change with Station Cash.
  • All personalized guild names must also be purchased with Station Cash. The new-guild default is "*GuildCreator Name*'s Guild".

June 11-12, 2013

June 4-5, 2013

  • If you're thinking of purchasing membership, check out the Summer Pass special. You get 3 months of membership, plus a Star Lawn Chair, for $9.99. Sale ends June 25th.
  • An adorable baby tiger pet pal named Little Fang is available until June 10th.
  • Seven new Player Studio T-Shirts and a Laptop housing item have been added to the Marketplace! The players that created the items, both old and new, now have their names displayed in the items' descriptions.
  • Nik-Nak confirmed that the recent Marketplace updates allow non-members to purchase and use rides. However, this change does not affect promotional rides nor in-game-acquired rides, e.g. Slobbersaurus and Skeletal T-Rex.
  • From June 7-9, everything in the Marketplace will be on sale for 50% off! See the Free Realms News article for more details.
  • You can receive a bonus SC 500 , if you redeem a pre-paid Station Cash card purchased from any 7-eleven store. This information was sent out by 7-eleven to their email subscribers. Redeem your cards from June 9th to 15th.

June 1, 2013

  • The June Member's Pack was distributed. It included a 200-slot storage upgrade and a Storage Vault housing item, so you can have a Robgoblin Bank branch at you house.
  • All of the boomboxes are on sale for 50% off, today only.

May 28, 2013

  • Several different styles of earrings have been added to the Marketplace! In their own slot, so you can wear them at the same time as any head item! They are available for either gender!
  • There are also 3 more dress styles in the Marketplace: FR Item:, FR Item:, and FR Item:.
  • The daily/weekly sale item feature has been changed a bit:
    • Limited Time items will be on sale for a week (Monday through Sunday). Some are items that were removed in the Market clean-up; some are new items; some are packaged in a different form than normally seen.
    • The Weekly Bag of Awesome will bundle the sale items for an even bigger discount, but will only be available on Monday.

May 21, 2013

  • The Birthday Bash has been removed for another year.
  • The original Wilds Farm is now in the Coin Shop instead of the Marketplace.
  • There is a Lawn Chair ride in the Marketplace. This allows your character to sit down. The chair turns and hops, but unlike normal rides, you can't move in it.
  • All Style Cards are now infinite use! Part of this seems to be that the prices have been raised and they can't be sold or traded any more.
  • There was briefly a Domo Poster in the Marketplace, however, it was quickly removed. No word on whether it was an error or if it will return.
  • All SOE games are having a Summer Kick-Off Sale from May 25th to the 27th. For Free Realms, that means that the parachutes have returned to the Marketplace and they're on sale!
  • Steve "Shock" George has posted his latest Development Update.
  • The VIP Program has been removed from the game. All of the items are still available, you just don't have to worry about a VIP level to be able to purchase them. FR Developer, Nik-Nak, posted this explanation on the official forums:
Part of the marketplace revision showed that it was silly to lock station cash items behind a membership requirement. As an extension to that, it was even more silly to lock SC items behind a long-term membership requirement (the VIP requirements). So in the short term, those extra "locks" have been removed.

As for the long term, we need to take another look at what we can do with the VIP system overall. It had some cool rewards, but there should be more to it than buying Membership and then waiting. Waiting, not surprisingly, is just not a fun mechanic.

Don't get me wrong - rewarding long-time players is a Good Thing (TM), but that reward shouldn't be a new way to spend more money.

May 14, 2013

  • The Hover Ring ride is now in the Marketplace. This is the first in a series of 5 rides that will inter-connect to form a 6th ride. The "connected" ride will be gifted to you, if you purchase all 5 rides of the series.
  • Free Realms has a new Community Manager! His name is Virrago. We would like to welcome him to our world!
    • We would also like to wish Amnerys well, as she moves on to being Co-Community Manager on the EverQuest franchise of games!

May 10, 2013

  • The next installment of A Hero Rises is now available. It's located in Wilds South this time. It has introduced quite a number of new items (armor, weapons, shards, consumables, pet pals, and housing items). This includes an all new level 6 weapon that can be won from a new daily quest.
  • New sticker quests have been added to the Cobblestone Village page of the Hero's Journal.
  • To make up for the problems with last month, this month's member pack was chock full of 719 dark gray marble housing blocks in all different shapes.
  • The Mother's Day Bouquet and Mother's Day Sunflower have returned to the Market. However, the Heart Mom T-Shirt did not.
  • The playgrounds in Seaside and Queensfields have been removed. However, the Pirate Ship with the treasure chest from the former has been moved to the southern cove, and the treasure chest from the latter is now under the bridge in the cave. Bruce is still standing in the field selling the Music Blocks also.
  • Because of the above, the Playgrounds category has been removed from the Game Guide.
  • There have been a number of changes to the in-game UI.
  • The Activity Calendar has returned to the Welcome Screen.
  • Update Notes are now available on the Welcome Screen. This was Update #99.
  • Warpstones (and their surrounding points of interest) are now locked until the warpstone is discovered.
  • All health and energy potions have had their reuse time increased from 5 to 15 seconds.
  • The gates for Bandit Hideout, Danger Peaks, and Den of Secrets have had their locations adjusted.
  • Wandering battle NPCs have been replaced with battle gates that wander much less.
  • Flair shards effects will no longer be displayed incorrectly when using Milo’s Magic Staff or Easter Eggstravaganza Basket.
  • Players are again able to exit the Rumbledome after completing the battle.
  • Some changes have been made to the Seaside landscape, in anticipation of the next Hero Rises chapter.
  • The option for Lifetime Membership has been removed.

May 2, 2013

  • The Realms Shake Boombox has been added to the Market.
  • The April Member's Pack should have been distributed on April 29th and 30th, to anyone that was missing it. If you still did not get it, then submit a ticket.
  • Player's Studio for Free Realms now allows creation and submission of weapons.

April 24, 2013

  • Three different styles of dresses have been added to the Market:
  • There's a Double SC event on any pre-paid cards purchased at 7-11. Redeem them on April 27th and 28th to get the double amount.

April 19, 2013

  • Virrago posted that the old official forums have now been archived as part of the new forum!

April 11-14, 2013

  • Log in to the Trading Card Came on each of these 4 days and you will receive prizes. Play at least one game in a tournament during this time period and you'll also receive a 5th prize. You can get more details by reading the Free Realms article.

April 1-4, 2013

  • The April Member's Pack has been released. However, there were some problems with distribution. If you have not received it, then you should submit a ticket.
  • Last month's member t-shirt is now available in the Market.
  • There's a new Hootenanny Boombox as well.

March 28, 2013

  • The Birthday Bash has returned for this year.
  • There is a new Easter event! Go see Alyssa Eggelyn, on the southwest side of the Pixiewood strip, to get you started. She'll be hanging around until May 2nd.
    • Like the 12 Days of Snow Days, do a quest each day to get an egg and its dye for free. If you miss a day, you can still complete the quest, but you'll have to purchase the dye in the Marketplace.
    • There are 4 quests, so 4 egg presents to open on Spring Eggstravaganza Day (March 31st). Plus, if you have dyed all 4 eggs, you'll receive a large Bonus Egg as well.
  • There's been a couple more job changes, as per Nik-Nak: "Ninja: An opponent must have been hit by a Ninja with Dragon's Boon within the last 5 seconds to be a valid target for Dragon's Boon. Warrior: An opponent must have been hit by a Warrior with Counterattack within the last 5 seconds to be a valid target for Counterattack. This was mostly done to combat AFK farming in the overworld, but it also has some dueling repercussions."
  • From March 29th to 31st, there will be a Double SC weekend! Look for Marketplace sales during those 3 days as well.

March 20-21

  • Series 5 of the TCG, Rumbledome, has been introduced. You can watch the webcast for more information.
  • The chat and whisper issues should now be fixed; bugs were squashed in a couple of quests; and the Bandit Hideout has been moved, along with its teleport spot on the Atlas.
  • Free Realms now has a brand new Official Forums. You must register a user name, even if you were a member of the old forums. If you're unable to do so because someone else took the user name you had on the old forum, please contact the forum Administrator. The old forum will remain open until April 20th, as read only, but then it will be removed.

March 15

  • A new storyline, A Hero Rises, has been added to the game.
    • It introduces a new way to keep track of current and completed quests, the Hero's Journal.
    • Because of the new storyline, the way that all new characters enter the game has been changed.
    • Existing characters can still join in by looking for the Hero Rises ad on the new Welcome Screen, to be teleported to Briarheart.
    • This brings more overworld combat to the Realms, some new quests, and new combat clothing drops from the OWC NPCs.
    • It has also given us a new Hide ability, in case we get caught in the new combat area in a non-combat job.
    • Part of the changes means that Crossroads is now called Cobblestone Village.
    • You can read the news story for more information, including the fact that this is just the first round!
  • Nik-Nak has given us some information on job changes: "Existing players probably didn't notice the changes. And there are many.
      1. 2 more combat jobs are now Free for all players - Medic and Archer join ranks with the Brawler as jobs that can now reach level 20 for all players. That Just Happened. Tell your friends.
      2. New players no longer start with all jobs - You start with Adventurer, Brawler, and Card Duelist. By the end of Cobblestone Village you will have unlocked Miner, Blacksmith, and Chef. From here, the message boards will point players to the different Job Trainers and the start of the Job questlines. This both helped us streamline the new player experience AND let us fulfill a frequent player request.
      3. Some jobs now require level 20 in another job to unlock - In order to unlock Warrior you first need a level 20 Brawler. In order to unlock Ninja you first need a level 20 Archer. In order to unlock Wizard you first need a level 20 Medic. This only affects new players.
      4. Some Archer and Medic gear requires membership - These jobs now works like the Brawler. Level 1, 4, 8, 12, and 16 gear is unchanged, but all other levels are reserved for members only.
      5. Modified Some Job Stats – Increased Warrior's max health at all levels, increased damage of all ninja sword basic attacks, increased all damage of all wizard wand super attacks.
      6. Increased out-of-combat health regeneration rates for ALL combat jobs - It should take less time to heal up after fights if you're not in a fight with something."
  • The Chat Bar has been moved to within the Chat Box. Unfortunately, this has also caused some problems with whispering and clicking on a player's name.
  • The Game Dock has a couple of new buttons, since removal of the Chat Bar freed up some space: Card Game and Hero's Journal.
  • A new Saint Patrick's Day questline has been added! Visit Lucky Chance McXander in Merry Vale and help him find his lucky gold coin. There are 4 quests and they will remain available until March 31st.

March 7-8, 2013

  • The Festival of Hearts event has been packed away for another year.
  • There's a new Helicopter pet pal.
  • The Welcome Screen has been changed.
  • Last, but not least, Free Realms has another new Producer. Steve "Shock" George introduced himself in a thread on the official forums. We want to wish Clint "c0braje7" Worley all the best as he leaves the Realms.

February 28 and March 1, 2013

  • The hotfix added the March Member's Pack, so that it can be distributed on March 1st.
  • February's t-shirt will also become available in the Market.

February 13-14, 2013

  • An Achievement system has been added to Free Realms. You can now earn titles and other rewards for accomplishing any number of things, like leveling your jobs, having your pet do tricks, and winning a game of cards against an NPC.
  • There were a couple of changes made to the UI during this hotfix.
  • There was also a TCG hotfix, so that you can now start the Series 2 questline after you've finished Series 1.
  • This weekend, all of the houses, lots, and housing items will be on sale for 50% off, including the VIP housing items. The President's Weekend sale runs from February 16th to 18th.

February 7, 2013

  • This month's Member's Pack has been distributed.
  • January's t-shirt is now available in the Marketplace.
  • There's a new Boombox in the Marketplace.

January 31, 2013

January 24, 2013

January 17, 2013

  • Snow Days has been removed for another winter.

January 10, 2013

  • The ability to train your flying rides to glide has been added to the game. After training, they will glide like the Parachutes do. Go see Troy Ridewrangler in Seaside to get started.
  • The 4th limited edition poster is now available as a TCG tournament reward: Crackshot.

January 3, 2013

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