Game Crashing

no, Gameforge bought the rights to publish runesofmagic in europe and NA from runewaker. TD22 has the rights to publish it in asia.

In short, the business model of GF is to sell Dia.

runewaker has developed runes of magic and provides new content and support as long as GF pays for it.

In short, the business model of RW is to sell a compiled piece of software and provides support/updates and gets paid for it.

the source code of the client is owned by RW (it was leaked a few years ago through an ex RW employee together with some rough information about the business model that have indicated that the publishers have no insight into the sourcecode -> kinda obvious when you think about it... if gf had the source code legally, they won't have to give RW money).

it has more to do with networking and lag than it does programming .

thats not memory leak caused by runes of magic .

they are not responsible for for errors caused by add ons , but this is not a gamigo business model that eats worlds .

here they at least try to support and even add content to the game .

if you want help post some system specs , tell us where the fault is .

got bad add on problems ? tell us witch ones . we will lobby to have them removed .

yes you can work in the software industry and still not get why it crashes .

ill give you a hint , it aint rom .

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it has more to do with networking and lag than it does programming .

nope

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thats not memory leak caused by runes of magic .

not entirely but mostly

addons can cause a lot of problems and without addons, you'll crash less BUT you'll still crash

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I'd think that RW is paying GF for having the game posted on their platform. Isn't that so ?

No. Gameforge PUBLISHES the game, the same way a book publisher publishes a book. Runewaker wrote and owns the code that the game runs on. Gameforge gets money by the sale on in-game currency(diamonds) and operates the servers the game runs on. They in turn lease the software from Runewaker.

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This model is pretty unfamiliar to me. At the company I work for, we are being paid by businesses to deliver the full service for an application that they are requiring: planning, specification writing, coding, testing, deploying, maintaining. But, even though we write the code, the payer has full rights over the project (even the code). They can, anytime, dump us and find another 3rd party to maintain/modify that software

A company from Taiwan (or Korea, Japan, the US, etc.) has created an MMO that it now wants to run all around the world. While it may be able to run servers in their home country/region, often times it does not have the expertise, credentials, or resources to run, advertise, monetise or maintain the game overseas.
Hence Game Publishers like GameForge come in who will pay you a certain amount of money per year to be granted permission to run your game in Europe. GameForge has server infrastructure in Europe that can run the game servers, staff that speak the language of the community (mostly), it has established marketing channels, a wide array of payment methods and has the experience of running a game in a market with different culture, customs, and laws.

You will even see that on the Steam shop pages for all kinds of games, e.g.:

A small game developer studio may be able to create a game but lacks the manpower and know-how of selling and marketing it worldwide. So, they find a publisher who, for a cut of the money earned, will take over all that.

As such, GameForge really is just an intermediary that takes care of the game servers and communities, while development (sometimes) happens @ RuneWaker in Taiwan.

If we get a fix it will happen during weekly maintenance or a festival patch. Crashing has been an issue since beta, so you will turn blue if you are holding your breath.

Also- people who run the game in Linux say they don't crash. I suppose if you want to go full-on geek, you can give that a try. Personally, I'm too lazy.

Runewaker has had 15 years to resolve it. They know what causes it. It's been discussed on the forum over and over. A crash "reduction" about 18 months or so ago helped a little, but not much. It is a fact of the game. Live with it or play something more stable. A re-compile to 64-bit might help, but they aren't going to do that because some folks are still playing on old versions of Windows.

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A re-compile to 64-bit might help, but they aren't going to do that because some folks are still playing on old versions of Windows.

It is possible - not even rare - to distribute binaries for multiple architectures

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It is possible - not even rare - to distribute binaries for multiple architectures

That requires RuneWaker caring. They probably have no more than 2 people working on it. Even then, it's probably a part-time gig for them.

This may be a little offtopic but since when are political usernames and profile pictures of dangerous organisations allowed?

As for RoM crashes: They occur due to memory issues that occur due to the extremely outdated 32bit architecture. They will never be fixed as that would require a complete rewrite of the entire client.

RoM has not seen any actual new content since 2014, the so-called chapter 7 patch itself is just a collection of reused assets without adding anything new.

you can call yourself adolf hitler if you want , ill allow it . you can use a picture of isis for all we care but there had better not be a skew number in it .

there is nothing wrong with 32 bit . it built the intranet . it ran just fine and still does .

your machine may need to be downgraded ... lol .

the subject is game crashing , mine does not . disconnects and crashes are not the same thing .

access violation the memory instructions cannot be read ? = disco .

a crash writes a log . post em if ya got em .

the latest update is still new content no matter what files they used to create it .

There is no possibile to log in, even to "Gameforge Client". Everything is empty.

Look there: http://www.runesofmagic-status.com

Error 403 on this link/page.