Greetings and salutations,
You’re likely viewing this having recently visited Vale School of Magic. This article was written to address some of the concerns about the recent changes to the game as well as to discuss the future direction of our community.
Why were the spells renamed?
Why were classes, game-passes, components, and potions renamed?
What happened to galleons?
What happened to my items?
All valid questions. As some of you are aware, The Society of Magic was selected by Roblox to participate in the Featuring Games program opportunity. This lucrative opportunity has granted us the privilege of being on the Roblox Front-Page of games for the duration of January. As part of this wonderful opportunity, we agreed to conform to specific copyright standards.
As many of you know, Vale School of Magic is influenced, loosely, by J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter World. However, as we’ve grown over the last year and developed our game, it came to our attention that similarities, while useful in attracting awesome fans like yourself, are also liabilities. By law, we cannot copy the concepts and ideas that Harry Potter introduced. However, there are no copyrights on magic as a broad concept. So we’ve made great strides to innovate our game and make our story unique.
Spell names had to be changed as we worked to make unique abilities and powers of our own invention. Game-pass names, classes, components, and potions were also changed in this effort.
Worry not, we’ve published a new document (linked at the bottom) listing ALL the available spells and their effects, to make this transition easier for you. Additionally, we will be gifting each and every one of you THREE FREE EPIC level chests as an apology for this big change.
Galleons were renamed to Gold. They have not been removed. You can still buy items, wand components, wards, and all the fun stuff you were able to before.
What’s next? What are you planning this month?
We’re looking to add-in community ideas! We’re taking the feedback from you and everyone else playing our game to inspire new updates and features in the next few weeks. We’re new to making games and we’re learning about ourselves and about you. We want to do the best we can to make sure you have fun and you enjoy your experience with us. We want to expand on our new Adventure map world and add in tons of new Findable Spells, quests, NPCs, and puzzles. Please be patient with us as we work to fix issues and add cool new stuff.
What’s after?
We’re focused on the now, addressing issues and smoothing out our game. Our goal is to add what you guys want and to improve Vale as a game. We have future projects, potential new games planned, and will be beginning work on them soon. However, they are not the priorities right now.
Thank you for being a part of our journey. I apologize for any bumps or hickups that have been made or will be made in the future. I hope you can forgive us and stay dedicated as a fan of our community in the future.
Yours truly,
RedByDesign
NEW GROUP HANDBOOK WITH SPELL INFORMATION AND MORE:
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/the-society-of-magic-official-handbook-v-1-8/222396