Free Realms Just One Step Closer To 10 Million Registered Players! +New Items!

Besides a slight delay in the game update, news broke this morning that Free Realms now has over 9 million registered players!

“With Free Realms, we’ve been able to reflect the needs and wants of our players by keenly listening to their suggestions and feedback,” said John Smedley, president of SOE. “We believe the persistent exercise of capturing in-game research inside Free Realms has been a huge contributing factor as to why we’ve attracted over nine million players in less than a year. It truly helps us give our players a game where they can do and be whatever they want.”

We are now even closer to having 10 million registered players, and I'm sure SOE will hold a huge celebration for that!

Update!: Here's what Pex has to say on that:
"I think we had planned to do something for our ten million mark. We may reach that goal in time for our one year anniversary on April 28th. We'll have more details as we get closer to both those dates."


Also in the press release, there's also small mention to upcoming things in the game!


Introduced last month, Rides not only look cool and come in multiple color choices, but they allow players who have purchased a Membership to hop on the back of a T-Rex or Dragon and travel anywhere in the overland world at 150% of their normal speed. Building on this player-driven feature request, Horses are the next Rides scheduled to be released, with more types of transportation in the works. The development team is also set to introduce new Owl and Groundhog pets, as well as an exciting new 3-D minigame in the near future.

Can't wait to see when those come!