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Firefly Says Stronghold Kingdoms Free to Play
Firefly Studios, developers of the hugely popular, multimillion selling Stronghold series are delighted to announce that their latest project, the castle MMO, Stronghold Kingdoms will be free-to-play.
Stronghold Kingdoms is a unique MMO offering where players can fight, trade, farm and negotiate their way to success, aided by the carefully considered use of the game’s ‘strategy cards’ system.
Each month, players will receive a number of strategy cards. Each card has an impact on different elements of the game: agriculture, warfare, trading, religion and so on. Extra packs of strategy cards will be available to purchase to further aid players’ designs on conquest.
“Strategy cards are integral to the game. The skilful use of a card can be the difference between winning and losing a confrontation”, commented Simon Bradbury, creative director of Firefly Studios and lead designer of Stronghold Kingdoms. “Strategy cards bring a new tactical depth to classic Stronghold gameplay in an online world of tens of thousands of players.”
“Stronghold has been played by millions of gamers all over the world, but to create even more lords and ladies we decided from the outset that Stronghold Kingdoms would be free-to-play.” said Eric Ouellette, [CEO] of Firefly Studios. “We are convinced that most players will enjoy the many benefits that purchasing extra packs of strategy cards each month offers them.”
To sign up for the open beta, due to launch later this year and to view the teaser trailer, log on to
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DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME, EVER!! The company is a rip off, believe it or not. Their stand alone CD/DVD games, are great, but SH:K is nothing more than a micro transactional rip off. If you can not be hard core active you will be wasting your money and time in this game.
The launch day for Beta was horrible. Bugs were not fixed from previous alphas, and the lag is STILL horrible. The game is set for those with time and money to succeed and they do, trust me, when others are still trying to get their first 100 pts, there are others going on for their first 10k points, all those, have the money to play. You can not start out where your friends are, you are forced to start where they want you to start, and some times that puts you right near a player with time and money who eats you alive.
This game could be good, if not for the micro transactions. If you can�t buy the cards, the �free� cards they �give you� are junk and don�t help you that much, not opposed to the ones you can buy.
Trust me when I say this.. avoid this game unless you have the money and the time to put into it. Firefly bit the big one on this, they�ve lost a ton of peoples business for this, and it�s getting worse.