Codemasters releases one big patch to keep you happy

Aug 22, 2008 08:37 GMT  ·  By

If you are one of the players who enjoy Codemasters' massively multiplayer online game ArchLord, you will be really pleased to hear that now Codies' title is bigger and better than ever - everything for free! And knowing that about 750,000 players have registered accounts there, I'm sure this announcement will be followed by a real party!

This brand new expansion, named Episode 3: Spirits Awakening, is said to add an extra 30% game content (don't you just love exact figures?), including 3 brand new zones to explore and no less than 80 new skills and abilities. A pretty big leap, I might say, and I am sure the fans will agree - we all know that consoles would never offer such big changes for free.

Ed Relf, director of marketing at Codemasters Online said, "This is an exciting time in the ongoing development of ArchLord. ArchLord has never been more popular with almost 750,000 players now playing with this number increasing almost 20,000 new players each week! ArchLord is going from strength to strength and we are assessing the need right now to open new servers just to cope with the increased levels of demand for this great, free MMORPG".

ArchLord is a free MMORPG that uses, like most of the MMOs out there, a microtransaction system. In the game, the player is challenged to raise armies and compete against others to become the only ArchLord and practically control the entire game. I doubt there are other titles that offer so much power to their players, in such a fun way! And now, thanks to this new update, even more things are possible!

Episode 3: Spirits Awakening is available for free via an automatic online patch (for those who already have the game) or included within the full game download from the official website, for the new players. So it's a piece of cake to get that much new content!