'Forgotten Runiverse' Game Wants You to Crash Its Servers—And Earn Towards the Airdrop

The Forgotten Runiverse game launched its “Crash the Runiverse” event Tuesday, asking players to engage with its fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game—aka MMORPG—to push its servers to the limit as it prepares for a global launch. 

“The goal is simple: stress-test our servers to their absolute limits and try to crash them,” the project wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter).. 

The event will be open until January 17 at 5pm ET. After logging into Forgotten Runiverse’s browser-based world, users will be instructed to follow the onboarding process, begin a search for in-game items, and talk to fairy character Selene.

For their participation in the event, users have the opportunity to earn from a pool of 21 trillion Quanta, an in-game currency that will eventually be directly redeemable for XP, the recently announced ecosystem token for the Forgotten Runes Wizard’s Cult NFT project and the Forgotten Runiverse game.

All Quanta earned will be distributed when Forgotten Runiverse officially launches into its Global Early Access. Beyond earning Quanta, users can also roll pieces to four different cosmetic armor sets that are exclusive to the Crash the Runiverse event. 

Crash the Runiverse is the third major event hosted by Forgotten Runiverse, following its Eve of Memory and New Foundations events in 2024. Players from the previous events will also be eligible for the Quanta airdrop.

The latest event implements improved party, chat, and other UI optimizations, but a much larger set of new content is expected to come later this year. 

Forgotten Runiverse launched its open beta access in August after migrating to the Ronin blockchain, an Ethereum sidechain gaming network and home to popular games like Pixels and Axie Infinity. Players in the MMORPG can join forces to battle through player-vs-player and player-vs-environment adventures based on the Forgotten Runes lore.

Edited by Andrew Hayward