[3][4] Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard released a closure statement on the 8Realms website[5] as follows: "We have decided to withdraw 8Realms from the market on the 1st of July for a number of reasons, chief amongst those was to focus sharply on our three priorities for this year namely continuing to grow RuneScape, developing a great Transformers MMO and the launch of another game that is currently a closely guarded secret.

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If you enjoyed 8Realms then I think you'll probably love War of Legends, a strategy game based on ancient mythology where players take the role of a Feudal Lord in charge of a kingdom.

Resources are required and serve as a limiting factor for building and researching to progress through the ages, which can be gathered by internal production from settlements or acquired from occupied tiles multiplied by custom houses.

Military power is used for conquering resource or luxury tiles and will play a vital role in the end game race.

Unique to the browser based online strategy genre; once a winner is declared, the contest is officially ended and everyone will have to start over in the next round (server).

In the first generation of the VIP game engine, an additional social tab is added which gives a summary of statistics on cultural, civic and military progress.

In the second generation of the VIP game, the social tab is replaced with a leaderboard, allowing the user to compare with their in-game friends.

Once a player reached 100% culture of the last age (Modern in the closed beta), the endgame phase would trigger, which was called The Race of Glory.

Success was depended not only on raw military power, but diplomacy and politics is also essential to gather allies and manipulate enemies to fight each other.