Russia’s largest provider of online entertainment, Astrum Online Entertainment, has grown the audience of its most successful browser game, “Legend: Legacy of the Dragons”, to over eight million players worldwide since its initial Russian release in 2006. This new milestone follows a period of impressive audience growth that saw the game reach five million players in July of this year.
The European subsidiary alone, Astrum Online Entertainment GmbH, has contributed over three million players to this result. The office is operating the game in German, English and Turkish languages, has recently launched the game in Poland and Spain and is preparing for the expansion into France and Italy.
“'Legend: Legacy of the Dragons' continues to be our most successful in-house title,“ says Alexander Vashchenko, CEO of IT Territory, LLC. „The game offers a unique blend of immersive quests and challenging, large scale battles, while maintaining high accessibility for players that are new to online RPGs. This combination works perfectly when acquiring new audiences to the genre.“
Vsevolod Leonov, VP Global Business Development of Astrum Online Entertainment adds: „The impressive growth of ‘Legend: Legacy of the Dragons’ and the continuing success of our other games prove that the free-to-play MMO market is the way to go in online entertainment. We are looking forward to build on this success in the upcoming French and Italian launches and the expansion in further territories in 2010.”
About the game:
Legend: Legacy of the Dragons is a free-to-play, award winning fantasy browser-based MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) anyone can play in their browser, without installation. Players pick a side and form clans in an eternal battle between the Human race and the nation of Magmars, where customizable characters of various classes and professions fight for supremacy. Massive battles featuring up to 500 players per side, a dynamic combat system, powerful weapons, spells and armor sets and a world featuring hundreds of epic quests and thousands of collectible items – this constitutes the essence of “Legend: Legacy of the Dragons.“