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Simple Question: Are you having fun?
Totally unbiased question. Not interested in cost, the opinion on the game store, or problems that the game has at the moment. I am genuinely interested in the question: Are you having a fun time playing the game?
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If your having trouble answering this question, or would like to expand; here are some specific questions myself, and I am sure others would like to hear if you have time to post:
Have you lost track of time while playing, if so; how long?
Have you encountered a "memorable" moment?
While at work / school / or doing a chore, have you found yourself thinking about getting to play ArcheAge?
Have you stopped playing a different game in favor of playing ArcheAge?
Would you recommend this game to a friend?
I appreciate your feedback and I am sure others will read what you have typed as well. Some may even base their opinion of the game or if they will play the game on what you say. I greatly and sincerely appreciate honesty both positive and negative.
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Yes. I took this game off my radar because of the PvP. But friends bought it and I tried it. The questing is meh but the farming and trade run aspect is pretty addicting. Plus I'm an explorer so I lose track of time wandering everywhere.
Yup.I've never been a big crafter but this game has hooked me with its farming
and crafting aspect.Glider is easy to upgrade and fun to use as well.Still
playing as ftp but will take Patron status when game releases.
I would also add first lvl 30 to the list but i agree.
LP is just bad system.
Just because I answered most of the questions as no doesn't mean I hate the game. It just didn't grab me and keep me interested in the earlier levels like some other games. I know others like this game and that is good, hopefully it will make it and who knows, maybe my playstyle will change in the future and I will give it another shot.
I spent a fair amount of time in CB4 and I enjoyed the time spent.
I would say, though, that a lot of that enjoyment came from two things for me.
1. A sense of nostalgia. A lot about the game reminds me of "old school" games I've played in the past.
Although it was fun to re-experience some of that, I know that once the sense of nostalgia wears off, I'm likely to wish the game had embraced many more of the modern MMO innovations.
2. A vast, seamless world provides a nice breath of fresh air to a genre too populated by instanced content and loading screens between zones.
This is also a double edged sword. Although I enjoyed the wide open spaces, the game world also feels extremely generic. I know eventually the wide open spaces will feel more and more a mechanism for travel related time sinks, as exploring to "see the wonders of the world" is pretty much missing.
In summary, I had more fun that I expected, but I also see many warning signs pointing towards ongoing enjoyment of the game being a more flash in the pan affair, rather than a long term prospect. Compelling game play can trump aesthetics and cumbersome mechanisms, but the hill the game needs to climb is steeper and many will find it not worth the effort. The game might surprise me and provide me with more than a month or two of play, but the annoyances are already annoying after an extended weekend and I know they will only feel more so as time drags on.
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If you are into ganking and getting ganked then you would enjoy it long term otherwise not so much since it is all together a different game once you leave safe areas after lvl 30.
Strange that you would bring this up but having only played in Alpha I'm finding ganking and getting ganked to be much less of an issue than I thought it would be ....once I passed the original idiots zone of Cinderstone Moor exploring and levelling seemed to be the main focus of the folks I encountered
I doubt it will stay that way once people settle down. I don't have a problem with it though because i like open world PVP, i simply mentioned this because people often do not realise this till they get attacked and then it leaves a bad taste in their mouth.
I've had fun thus far. Made it to around 10-15 on 4 characters just to see the zones and test the waters on a few different builds. I don't plan on paying the sub or whatever it is for the bonuses... I already play a P2P mmo so I don't want to sub to a second one just yet.
on another note I am a bit worried people seem to say end game you will need a LOT of labor points to do well.. anything. This is a concern in the back of my mind. But I haven't gotten to the so called end game yet so ..
To be honest I'm much happier that there are two defined sides with separate races ,,,,,after what happened in ESO where the developers caved in and allowed everyone to mix I've decided 3 sided combat and separate sides defined by different races is a must have feature
I enjoy neither. I've enjoyed the challenge of playing on PvP servers in other games, but I'm usually a "live and let live" sort of player.
The game world here seems big enough for my type of PvP, but I'll have to see how it plays out. I despise PK zergs and high powered gankers hunting low powered prey. If either is prevalent and impossible to avoid, that would limit my time with the game.
If I do play, I will buy Patron for the first month. I figure with no box price, $15 to give a game a good shot for 30 days isn't too much to lose if I decide not to play longer. I can already anticipate, however, that there are a number of reasons why I might not play beyond a month. If I was playing another MMO at the moment, I'd probably just pass entirely.
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Short Answer is "Yes".
Thank You,
Well i had fun with it.
I find it's a bit to mutch orientated on the crafting.
Some say without patron wou don't stand a change.
I tought ah we kill the stuff and other make the stuff we use.
Bought the 44 euro founder and i found out that is correct.
The armors are a bit lacking moost of them look the same.
Problem i see is that endgame when u are 50/55 why would i keep using/buying patron.
Dont need the labor points that mutch, i think that this game will be filled with l55 end game peep thats dont have patron.
Thats why i hope they dont make DE/FR PVP/RP and more of that crap servers.
Every server needs both of them
RP "hey look at my flowers do you wanna buy them" (scared of anything pvp related)
and the
PVP "Yho sucker u killed the wrong guy i am gonna pwn u" (crafting is for drones i play online for teh KILLING)
Types.
I Bought it.and i like it so far i got to level 45.
And its the first game where PVP stand for "killing your own faciont members"
I get attacked more by peeps that think they are "PRO"
U walk by them and as you have your back to them they rurn blue and shoot the crap out of u.
Since this game relay's heavely (to bad since it will kill the game) Stuns and knockdowns before u can react it to late.
What i find so damn funny is that the RP peeps want a special server for it.
Witch makes no sense to me. if its RP then u need fighters to thats the Role Playing.