Free Realms Celebrates 3 MILLION players

by: Jake - posted: 6/12/2009 12:18:00 PM

Free Realms has officially hit the 3 million player mark. (And only 7 weeks after it's launch!) Congrats, Free Realms!

SAN DIEGO, Calif. - June 12, 2009 - Sony Online Entertainment LLC
(SOE) today announced that more than three million unique users have
registered for Free Realms (www.FreeRealms.com), the free-to-play,
family-friendly online video game that launched on April 28, 2009.
Recently awarded recognition by Guinness World Records for conducting
the first concert to take place simultaneously in the real world and a
virtual space during E3 in Los Angeles last week, Free Realms
continues to redefine the scope and pace of online games.

"SOE worked diligently over the past four years to ensure that Free
Realms would take the online space by storm," said John Smedley,
president of Sony Online Entertainment. "We are pleased to be able to
provide such a vast, in-depth and, most importantly, fun world to an
average of 500,000 new gamers per week."

To celebrate the rapidly growing community of players, SOE will grant
its first three million Free Realms registrants the "3M Pet Party
Pack," filled with goodies for use with their virtual pets, both cats
and dogs. In Free Realms, players are free to do or be anything,
including donning the job of pet trainer to raise a pet! From the
in-game Marketplace, players can choose from more than 20 different
types of playful dogs and cats to train, feed, groom and dress up.
Players have until Friday June 19, 2009 (11:59 PM PDT) to redeem the
"3M Pet Party Pack".

Free Realms also features 14 other fun jobs to master, as well as the
Free Realms Trading Card Game: a full-featured trading card game,
playable both digitally within the Free Realms online game and offline
via physical card decks sold wherever you buy trading cards.

To support the initial release and launch of Free Realms, nearly one
million Station Cash game cards were made available across five major
retail chains. Free Realms players can pop into select retailers to
purchase Station Cash cards, which are used to redeem Station Cash and
buy virtual goodies or upgrade to a Membership status in the game.

Free Realms is rated E10+ for Everyone 10 and up with content
descriptors of Crude Humor and Fantasy Violence. To play Free Realms,
visit: http://www.FreeRealms.com.

Press assets: http://www.soepress.com/product.asp?s=72

About Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) is a recognized worldwide leader
in massively multiplayer online games, with hundreds of thousands of
subscribers around the globe. SOE creates, develops and provides
compelling entertainment for the personal computer, online, game
console and wireless markets. Known for its blockbuster franchises and
hit titles including EverQuest®, EverQuest® II, Champions of Norrath®,
Untold Legends™, and PlanetSide®, as well as for developing Star Wars
Galaxies™, SOE continues to redefine the business of online gaming and
the creation of active player communities while introducing new genres
on various entertainment platforms. Headquartered in San Diego, CA,
with additional development studios in Austin, TX; Seattle, WA;
Denver, CO; Tucson, AZ and Taiwan, SOE has an array of cutting-edge
games in development.