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Ok, 2 months played and $30 spent. My thoughts.
Felyza
Member Posts: 1
I've been playing for 2 months. I've spent $30 in the item mall. (It uses the item mall schema from most Asian companies. Free, to play, but you can purchase items to assist you, add new features, etc)
For the first two days, I learned the layout and play style. Tiny bit of a learning curve, even from most Asian click to walk type games. Not too bad, all things considered.
Found out that multiple accounts are fine, and even encouraged. I created 3 alts, to be specialized.
After the first month, I'm very low on the player power scale. I'm very weak compared to most other players, yet I'm completed 90% of the in game quests, and down to the 'grind'.
After 2 months, I'm average player power (its skill based, not level based), I'm 'rich' (money is very very easy to earn in this game for a trading-oriented character). I've spent about $30 now in the item mall to add more skill experience to my character, and on in game pets.
At the 2 month mark, I've been active on the official forums, attempted PVP (which the mechanics behind are QUITE broken... if a player killer is put into the in game prison, its for a horrible length of time. My character had a sentence of 600 real life hours. I opted to delete the character and start a new one. The only ways to serve time are sit or bet time (which can add or remove 24 minutes per bet, uses the game Cows and Bulls). This was after killing only 4 people.)
My latest post to the official forums is a request to players on how to return the fun factor. At the point I'm at, its sitting in 1 spot for several real life hours killing the same 4 NPCs every 2 minutes hoping for 1 item to drop.
The game was very fun for the first month, was dragging by month 2, and now that I'm about to hit the 3 month mark, I'm shopping for a new time-waster.
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its possible to escape from the prisons mate.. if you get tired of the wait.. just go Rat bashing for their teeth to get threw the sewer!
This was my finding also. Actually, this has been my finding on 4 out of every 5 MMORPGs I have played. The exceptions being those that weren't fun even for a month.
MMORPGs are virtual skinner boxes.
http://www.nickyee.com/eqt/skinner.html