If you have played the popular Runes of Magic then you know it takes forever to download, install, and update.
This was a major problem particularly with the free to play Runes of Magic MMORPG reaching 1 Million Players.
As you can imagine there have been a lot of complaints about the download, install, and update process.
But it looks like Frogster America, Inc may have finally headed my advice and solved the problem. By using BitRaider, Runes of Magic will stream the download process allowing players to start more quickly. Only the needed parts of the game will download in the background with additional content downloading unseen.
Frogster Chief Executive Officer Lars Koschin hopes to reduce the process to under five minutes. The hope is that this will bring even more players into the game and overcome that first hurdle. It looks like it will be a few weeks until the new download process is available.
May 15, 2009 at 06:40:20
Well, they better solve the lag problem as well. So far, Frogster’s cleansed their hands and said that it was the user’s ISP at fault.
There were some possible ways to get around the problem, but it was too taxing on the players who just wanted to play a good game.
Jul 7, 2009 at 15:52:59
im installing at the momment it still takes ages
i dunno what it would have felt like for u guys 
drinking tons of coffee u guys must have….im still waiting patiently but this is friggin annoying =(
Aug 11, 2009 at 04:23:45
i had the game for 1 day then there came the problems the game wase freezt i couldn’t play it any more it stopt running and today i have the problem thad mij computer can’t find any thing of runes of magic any more no main start screen nothing whate hell is thad
Sep 9, 2009 at 17:34:14
I’ve spent an afternoon longer then I would like downloading this, for a 3.4gig file it went suprisingly fast, that’s not my issue, Like hundreds of others, I had CRC problems with the rar, and numerous Retry Abort Ignore messages with the 4 part file.
Seems to me like Frogster is just some small time company who clearly has no experience with gamers,
You’d think such sever problems they have been having since it’s release would have been fixed by now? no. They simply don’t care and would rather point the finger at you, the user, instead of their crap programmers.
I will now delete my ROM file that now after hours of fixing, I finnaly got it patched and ready to go, just crashes abnormally, Ironic how I can play any game out there to date, but not this one.
Frogster, I hope one of you eventually see’s this post and does something about it, realize your errors.
For now i’ll go back and play EQ 2, A company who will bend over backwards for you, Sony.
Small time companies like Frog will never get big with crap like this happening.
P.S: Sorry to sound like a rant, but it is, quite upset about this wasting my bandwidth 3 times now, and numerous hours I wont get back.
Sep 20, 2009 at 12:15:28
The game is not bad for free BUT you could spend a large part of your time just trying to get the game to run with downloading, updating and patching.
Frogster don’t even bother put the latest binaries up on their site – so if you spend hours to download the binaries you have to spend hours again to patch them. They just released new content- Elven Prophecies – but they still have the old binaries for download. Go figure.
Sheer mismanagement, after all I’m sure they don’t get server bandwidth for free, so this has to be increasing their costs, and driving away would be players.
You can probably find many other FREE games out there that are just as good or even better, and do not have this problem.
My advice is to spend your time on some other game.
After all you could probably download 2-3 other free games in the time it takes to download Runes of Magic, patch, retry patching and downloading again from scratch (if something goes wrong – which does seem to happen since the game doesn’t appear to do enough validation).
Dec 7, 2009 at 18:30:16
This game is really pissing me off it took like 18 hours to dl the 5.8 gb file i’ve installed it and now it seems as if it has to download a million more files and install them all after the game is already installed. I’ve been waiting over 4 hours now and its still not fucking done yet, I’ve already lost interest in this game I don’t even want to play it now.
Dec 13, 2009 at 10:40:33
I hope this long ass download is worth it (lol) took like a hour for the first part download and i have a very fast computer………..god………….
Dec 26, 2009 at 02:44:03
I have an error when i am updating! it says Writing data error, extracting process aborted! ; can some1 help me?
Jan 18, 2010 at 02:53:23
Okay so, I’ve been waiting for this game to download for hours now and right now it’s taking forever to update.
It keeps getting stuck on 78-80% and then restarts again.
It’s really pissing me off.
Jan 22, 2010 at 08:55:07
I have the same problem like Emmuurr. At 78-80% the game install a patch and then … he install it again … and again … and again … and forever …
Jan 22, 2010 at 10:41:11
im having a problem wen it loads and starts downloading an update it downloads it but the update% justy stays at 30% anyone no wats wrong?
Jan 29, 2010 at 13:22:23
yeah its taking fucking forever bought to find better free games, any suggestions
Jan 30, 2010 at 22:24:31
I don’t know about everyone else but 8 hours of installations download then 2 hours of installations then 5+ for update I hope this game is awesome
Feb 1, 2010 at 09:40:47
can anyone tell me what to do i cant play the game. I have the start game screen and there are two bars one is for downloading and the other says update but every time the download bar finishes the update bar stops moving and somthing comes up saying extract to folder. HElp plz
Feb 6, 2010 at 04:21:30
I played it before but formated my PC.
now when its updating it gets an error and just downloads it again and gets the same error
this is the first time i saw a infinite loop in a download process.
gues what ‘its really annoying
Feb 11, 2010 at 09:05:57
The problem I’m having…
I get past the download and then the installation, doesn’t take much time at all, maybe 15minutes for those two things. I patch for “Fall of the Demonlord” and while I’m patching for “Elven Prophicy” I get some type of file problem. I tried fixing it by changing the file to one that does work, but then it just goes into a continues patch of the same file for like 6 hours. I don’t know how to fix this problem, I give up on this stupid game and screw the people who made it, I hope they all burn in hell, or at least learn how to config files correctly!
Feb 17, 2010 at 23:13:42
Ok the problem im having is not the dl length but i have installed it and when i click to open ROM it starts to dl the patches and then it says some error and is forced to close the program… if anyone could help it would be great!!!
Feb 20, 2010 at 22:05:17
The reason is that the client needs 10k updates so yes, its going to take a long time.
Feb 22, 2010 at 05:18:33
SOmebody help???i patch the rOm.ph but when it goes in loading it says their have been a critical error any one help???
Mar 8, 2010 at 08:17:10
This game is god awul. I spent ages dowmloading it anad installing it, and then it justs stopped when it was updateing, and now it won’t do anything. I got rid of it.