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Lobotomist
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Game is nice and everything but it's not like it's a revolutionary sandbox.
My SWTOR referral link for those wanting to give the game a try. (Newbies get a welcome package while returning players get a few account upgrades to help with their preferred status.)
https://www.ashesofcreation.com/ref/Callaron/
My SWTOR referral link for those wanting to give the game a try. (Newbies get a welcome package while returning players get a few account upgrades to help with their preferred status.)
https://www.ashesofcreation.com/ref/Callaron/
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It was always going to be a niche title, and these days there is a whole bunch of similar niching going on, stretching an already limited audience pretty thin.
1.) The graphics are bad I mean really bad, if not playing for graphics its an okay game graphic wise, however take the time to compare this game to other Mobile Phone games such as "Heroes OF Incredible Tales, by Nexon, you can clearly see there is a huge graphic difference.
2.) The client is 32 bit which causes issues for some, having a 64 bit client performs better, in 2013 64 bit systems were already being used there is no reason to why this game doesn't have a 64 bit.
3.) P2A, Pay 2 Advance, the game can be argued its not Pay 2 Win, but because of how the currency exchange, and in game system works the more accounts you have with things like alchemy, potion crafting, food, and mounts the more profit you can make out of the game in general and likely even pay for your subscriptions itself.
4.) PVE, I personally found boring compared to other games such as Tera, although Tera has the same 32 bit client problem, and ESO seems more of a challenge and more fun.
5.) Hacks, and Bots, this game is full of cheaters, sure the developers ban them, but currently since launch the game has no Anti-Cheat, no reliable way to actually ban anyone from the game, as well as several different cheat clients out there.
. Only recently have the developers started to even try to do anything about the players using fraudulent information to purchase gold / flip to silver and trade but what they are doing is not enough, and the economy has already been ruined the only way to fix it is big restrictions to prevent cheats, bots and fraudulent purchases, and a whole economy reset.
6.) The game has no free trade, 4.5.1 forbids freely trading items for nothing in return or they will assume you did RMT and you may have your account banned, to my knowledge (No Game) out there has ever done this.
7.) The issues with the over-population and not having servers properly configured to handle the load of people in the first place
8.) Not enabling 64 bit or the ability to hide other players in town creating lag on lower end systems as the game client itself is 32 bit.
9.) Housing, they removed a lot of the old housing models since early alpha to beta and left to my knowledge 2 house in the game that players can build with a crappy upgrade system.
10.) Worse than Arche Age, the crafting system is great, or rather okay, but when it comes to farming, and the ability to grow crops this game gets it all wrong, Arche Age for example as much as I hate Trion Worlds, got this part right with farming, raising mounts etc, something that Albion Online needs to seriously work on because it all makes no sense really how it is.
11.) Another part of P2A is having to have 3 or more paid characters to be able to mnage farms properly and keep a steady income just from farming everyday, or one character premium minimum.
Over-All, games like "Crow Fall" and "Ashes OF Creation" seem to have better concepts when it comes to sand-box based by allowing players to create their own map / housing with things such as farming, forests, etc, and this is where Albion Online falls off right here, even Dark Fall being an older game has better performance, full loot pvp, and its not really that bad, although its more enjoyed as part of a guild and not really for solo players.
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So far the game itself is very fun for me, but I also haven't experienced enough of it to give it a good actual review. I don't really know what Frammshamm is talking about, I go to martlock every time I play and use the portal and never have a queue.
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I imagine the developers do it that way because it's "unfair" for newbies to be killable, but it has the very unfortunate side effect of fishing and luring people in and having them not realize what they're getting into until they're already invested in the game, which is just mean and jerkass-ish, even if possibly unintentionally so.
Me personally, although I doubt this is the reason for most others, I immediately decided not to get a founder's pack and not go anywhere near the game when I saw that even purely-cosmetic founders pack items that offer no in-game advantage were freely lootable, basically relegating them to town-only bragging rights instead of something you could actually wear whenever you want. Clearly the devs cared more about all-loot PvP than my ability to customize my character's appearance and dress how I want to, to which is caring a bit TOO much about all-loot PvP for me.
Some sandbox... not even letting me dress the way I want without worrying about losing those exclusive clothes forever.
The game feels very lazy as well. Every aspect of game design seems half assed. From crafting, housing, etc to everything. Maybe its because what others are saying, they want to make this a mobile game. I guess it would make sense then, but from a PC gamers standpoint, the game is shallow and lazy.