ArcheAge: Unchained Team Provides Update Regarding Paid Expansions

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ArcheAge: Unchained Team Provides Update Regarding Paid Expansions

In a letter to the community posted to the official forums, the ArcheAge: Unchained team provides an update on their recent announcement to charge a, "low global access fee" for "new upcoming large updates."

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kathiley

How many people are left on Archeage NA/EU?
Would seriously like to know that. Not that I want to go back to Archeage ... I had my time ... but that's one of the games, where I serioulsy don't understand how the game can survive and keep up with developing new content.
Even KR has/had a very low population some years ago.

Haki88

Free to play game with paid expansion^^ They failed from day 1.

sfo77

burn in hell gamigo

jahlon

We all got played by Gamigo when it came Archeage Unchained.


The ran in, took the money, and ran away. Counted it, realized it wasn't enough, so they ran back in.

The sad part is, people will give them more money.

actionbrown

player controlled economy = gold seller economy pvp =gold seller controlling zones and resources.
Love to see a pve version of this game fish on the sea no attacks running merchant ship no attacks speed boat with player skiing on the back.(hell yaah)

Haki88

jahlon said:

We all got played by Gamigo when it came Archeage Unchained.





The ran in, took the money, and ran away. Counted it, realized it wasn't enough, so they ran back in.



The sad part is, people will give them more money.

Really? From all the people you came here to say that? This company lives from promotions nothing else and you helped aau to get some promotion on youtube (paid or not paid who cares).

You never said game sucks, game is bad, you just defended them and kept saying "they need to fix this", i mean really? They need to change 90% of things including mod behaviour on discord, CM who is laughing when so many people are dissapointed, servers, grind fest, bugs, exploits etc etc etc

You could start saying these things from day 1, but then you wouldnt get opportunity to stay in contact with that director... and now after months and months you say "The ran in, took the money, and ran away." You could see where game/gamigo is going with all that in less then 2 weeks but you continue uploading videos like everything is great except "some" things.

All i want to say is: Speak the truth nothing else.

Celcius

Next time I lie to someone about something, I am just going to say that I had to "Pivot" away from the truth. That makes everything better!

mcrippins

I just don't understand all the hate here. Companies put out paid DLC all the time. This is nothing new. AAU is still NOT pay 2 win. The only difference between this company releasing paid DLC, and another company, is that these guys probably actually need it to keep the game alive. Same with the Battlepass. Every game company is doing some form of this now. Where's your anger for them? It's ridiculous.

Xatsh

The archepass model could of worked, but they needed to increase the playerbase, add more costumes not just rehash ones that were out for years, add more mount skins/glider skins, housing items and so on. And I do not know FIX THE DAMN GAME in reasonable time (Days to a week max) and not tell us to wait for patches that launched in Korea to fix it coming to NA/EU 6 months down the line.

The major issue is the game in my opinion is not the payment model, the incompetent publishers, or the bugs. But the game itself. Archeage got its draw because it was a sandbox style mmo with some themepark elements. You could progress how you wanted, do what you wanted to make money, you could be a PvPer, PvEer, you could be someone who just played the economy and farmed if you liked that.

That game mentioned above is dead, it dead with Hiram. The sandbox style game that we all liked is now a subpar/mediocre at best Themepark game with a few sandbox elements left mainly housing. The economy was removed, you have to do dailies every day for hiram (only viable progression path), dungeon are trash tier except 1 boss rush. Guilds are negated completely. Trade has been gutted. Open world has been replaced by isntances on most content. They actually removed old content from the game.... because it was not working right in newer patches instead of fixing it. Auroria was completely gutted and replaced with the joke that is faction castle. Aka they took a trully great game, arguably one of the best ones out there and removed everything that was good about it to try to make it more appealing to casuals and make it work with the lower population which was caused by horrific p2w killing the whole population.

And all they did was Port the garbage p2w version over to AAU with 0!!! changes. And they wonder why it failed horribly.

Both XL and Gamigo should go bankrupt they are both trash companies. Anyone wanting to play Archeage should not play it on the official servers.

Albatroes

I think the funniest part is this will have 'tiers' (because of course they will) and fresh start will be apart of the later 2 tiers only.....which means they'll charge for a fresh start every 'dlc' lol....top it all off, they have to gall to charge more money when the game is still buggy as hell, both versions. Lets also not forget this: https://mmoculture.com/2020/02/xlgames-kakao-games-acquires-majority-share-of-archeage-developer/ As Kano eluded to when this happened, Gamigo is probably just trying to milk what they can before they lose publishing rights entirely.

cheyane

It's a pity because the farming, crafting and trading part is so well done with all the different goods from all the different zones the ingredients and recipes, it could have been a great game.

jahlon

Haki88 said:

jahlon said:

We all got played by Gamigo when it came Archeage Unchained.





The ran in, took the money, and ran away. Counted it, realized it wasn't enough, so they ran back in.



The sad part is, people will give them more money.

Really? From all the people you came here to say that? This company lives from promotions nothing else and you helped aau to get some promotion on youtube (paid or not paid who cares).

You never said game sucks, game is bad, you just defended them and kept saying "they need to fix this", i mean really? They need to change 90% of things including mod behaviour on discord, CM who is laughing when so many people are dissapointed, servers, grind fest, bugs, exploits etc etc etc

You could start saying these things from day 1, but then you wouldnt get opportunity to stay in contact with that director... and now after months and months you say "The ran in, took the money, and ran away." You could see where game/gamigo is going with all that in less then 2 weeks but you continue uploading videos like everything is great except "some" things.

All i want to say is: Speak the truth nothing else.

So you do realize everything you just said, is exactly what I did.

Let me catch you up on some stuff.

Picture it, April 2018, the launch of 4.5 Archeage Fresh State, and there I am pulling in 300 viewers on Twitch, talking about all the things coming in Fresh Start, finding errors in their build, talking to The Blue Muzzy in Discord about what we are finding, and then less than 24 hours before the launch, finding out we aren't actually testing the build we are going to launch on.  Finding out the build has serious flaws.  Pointing out we found P2W in the 4.5 build, I did the best I could to try to call them out.  It got carried by Massively so you can check yourself https://massivelyop.com/2018/04/05/archeage-players-fear-pay-to-win-practices-will-infect-new-progression-server/

When it all went to shit, I stopped making Archeage Content.  I had said on a Stream I would not make Archeage content again until Trion no longer owned the distribution rights. Then several months later, Trion sold their Assets off to Gamigo, and since Trion was no longer the publisher, I went back.  

When the decided to do Archeage Unchained, Khrolan and I spoke.  A major problem I had was that it was the bullshit Trion team with the bullshit history they had.  He gave me his assurances things were going to be different.  So of course as an Archeage Content Creator I went back to the game I enjoy, and that I've seen success at as a content creator.    

I started making videos, building the website, and streaming.  I took all the communities concerns and tweeted to Khrolan directly (https://twitter.com/Paradox_GameNet/status/1174440064459378689) and given the history and reputation I have as a content creator for asking the important questions that represent what the community want, they spend almost an entire livestream answering these questions.

Now, before you say "I didn't say it on day 1" I very much did warn people what to expect.  There is a video clip of me comparing Archeage and an Abusive relationship, and saying three months we we know we are going to get boned.  We know it, but the game is that damn good.

Guess what?  When they fucking derped launch, I was highly critical of their bullshit.  There are a number of videos on my YouTube, including one I literally called "What the eff Gamigo"

So yes, I did help them get AAU promotion.  Are you saying I shouldn't have promoted a game that I thought at the time, using all the resources I had, might be a good version of Archeage, while at the same time continuously showing the "archeage advertisement" clip I had made?  

When I was promoting it, it looked like it was going to be a fresh brand new Archeage.  The very moment it stopped looking good and turned into a ball of shit, I called it out for being a ball of shit.


Now, if you want to back through my YouTube and go video by video, review by review, feel free.  It will be blatantly clear when the started fucking up, because I started point it out.  

I'm not really sure what else you could expect from a content creator that has no inside information.  

Iselin

Celcius said:

Next time I lie to someone about something, I am just going to say that I had to "Pivot" away from the truth. That makes everything better!

Yeah "pivot" is much better than "alternative facts"

Just remember players: it's your own fault because you didn't spend enough... that'll teach you.

vegetableoil

They should just make an expansion and sell those instead of pay to update, an update is technically just a fix to the game. my 2 cents.

lucyluffy101

Archeage Sea Server is going to launch in June 11, it is first self-published by XLgames international. ArcheAge pre-character creation event is set for May 28. If you p2w in the Sea server people gonna know you are American or foreigner and if you complain a lot about p2w they gonna laugh. They don't care sandbox or themepark mmo, they gonna say we like bought who cares. They know American have more money and complain a lot.

Albatroes

vegetableoil said:

They should just make an expansion and sell those instead of pay to update, an update is technically just a fix to the game. my 2 cents.

Unfortunately, Gamigo is calling this update and 'expansion.'

alkarionlog

jahlon said:

We all got played by Gamigo when it came Archeage Unchained.





The ran in, took the money, and ran away. Counted it, realized it wasn't enough, so they ran back in.



The sad part is, people will give them more money.

not everyone, we told you so they would fuck with you guys later, you choose to ignore, now I just see the things happen way we told AGAIN

this time just learn from it, that is all I ask, stop beliving in promises and check history

alkarionlog

DMKano said:

Gamigo has no idea how to run games period.



They have no staff that has a deep understanding how to run a mmorpg like ArcheAge- the Archepass was obviously a flawed idea from the start - and this is the brainchild of Gamigo- it's a great example of how utterly clueless they are.



They thought - hey look at Fortnite and their Season Pass - we can do the same with Archepass... except they completely failed to understand why this wouldnt work in ArcheAge, yes they are that clueless


Gamigos time is running out - both as a company as well as contract with XL is running out this year.



rumors are that XL already has the next publisher for ArcheAge secured and are ready to ditch Gamigo as soon as contract runs out

so in the end more fools will fall for it, if the only problem was gamigo, with is not

Riotact007

DMKano said:

cheyane said:

It's a pity because the farming, crafting and trading part is so well done with all the different goods from all the different zones the ingredients and recipes, it could have been a great game.

Agree 100% - there were lots of parts of ArcheAge that were done really really well - but instead of focusing on these parts and made them even better - what did they add.. umm dailies?



Pitiful

not to mention, diving for treasure, fishing was amazing and even composing your own music for your toon to play.
AA could have been the game played for years but greed ruined it. Let's hope they learn a lesson.