Sometime around Dungeon Runner’s shutdown, the blokes at NCsoft talked about how somewhere around one third of players who signed up for Dungeon Runners free accounts never got past the client download. Considering Dungeon Runners lists one gigabyte as a requirement on the box, I can only imagine how much the issue transcends to other free to play games , like the late Chronicles of Spellborn (eleven gigabytes).
Runes of Magic, coming in at a whopping seven gigabytes, wants to lower the barrier to entry, while cutting some fat in the process. In an announcement on the main website, Frogster announced the release of Runes of Magic Slim, a much smaller client that carries essentially the same data. This half-sized, 3.5gig client was made possible through the magic of compression, and retains all of the functionality of the original Runes of Magic client, plus increased optimization and performance.
More on Runes of Magic as it appears.
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