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From Fanboy to Uninstalling - How i reached this point.
Forget the Ques - Forget the game crashes - forget the lies about DOS attacks (Maybe non-IT people believed that; but anyone with half a techonological awareness should know better) -- Forget the piss-poor community; and community management.
Forget all the issues that caused this game to really have one of the worst launches i've experienced - I can move past all that.
What i can't move past however; is this land situation - The whole purpose to my 150 dollar Archuem pack; waiting 5 years to play Archeage-
I sit back; and i realize - I'm in a situation i would be in if i never paid a single penny - The patron status; and founder pack were rather irrelevant to the condition of the game as i see it now.
Oh; i can -own- land if could find some; but i can't - None is available; zero - Nothing.
I can buy it from another player; yet they openly scam you (You pay for the land; and they will not give it to you after payment is recieved) and TW has no intentions of doing anything about it.
So what is the point? I'm at a level now where it's just grindy; and routine - and i wanna mix it open with the whole point to archage - Farming; Trade; construction - Yet even with a founder pack; due to no availability to even place a small garden farm; there is nothing else to do but grind. - What is the point?
I loved this game in alpha; promoted it to my friends; talked about it all the time. - Now between the launch; and this i only have one word to describe this "Journey" so far - Heartbroken. This was supposed to be the game to bring me back into MMORPGS full swing like the glory days -- Instead i'm more frustrated with this MMORPG than any before - and i've played nearlly every single MMO in existence.
Maybe you (the reader) care; maybe you don't -- I just felt i had to type this somewhere -- and i can't on archeage forum - They perma-banned me when i asked if reparation was going to be made for the loss of play time on head start the reason i was given was "Ban-Evasion" - and i can't even dispute it as the e-mail function is "disabled by admin" -- So i had to vent here - Thanks for listening.
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First off, unless you refuse to leave one of the 6 headstart day 1 servers, you are not out of land. I placed a thatched farmhouse last night on a day 3 headstart server. It will likely be in PVP territory, but fears about that are broadly exagerated.
Secondly, there are tons of places to place an 8x8, you're not trying hard. If absolutely necessary you could place one in a temporary scarecrow farm with an extremely minimal drawback.
As for scamming, only buy completed houses that have the golden key icons at the corners. That's a secure transaction. Or use a reputable escrow agent, these are popping up on various servers.
All is not lost.
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Except you are forgetting one thing....Who is the thief?
What these games "All of them" are doing is nothing more than making cash shop sales and people who make these cash shop purchases "very large ones at $150" expect something in return,there is no assumption at all.His point is that he feels like nothing more than a regular freebie player,i don't know too many people who just hand over 150 bucks to feel like a freemium,again who is the thief?
You know what the real sad scenario of all of this and it is shared by many as we have all read the many threads.The sad reality is i don't think hardly anyone really has any unhappiness with the game,it is more so with the way the game is handled.
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Trion didn't go into his bank account and force him to give them $150. They certainly weren't thieves. He's just having buyers remorse for blowing a lot of money on a mediocre product. That's his fault. I mean, this game was releasing as F2P. Everyone had an option to wait and try it out for free before they spent any money at all. This idea that they are thieves for charging whatever they want is just born of stupidity.
Except you are forgetting one thing....Who is the thief?
What these games "All of them" are doing is nothing more than making cash shop sales and people who make these cash shop purchases "very large ones at $150" expect something in return,there is no assumption at all.His point is that he feels like nothing more than a regular freebie player,i don't know too many people who just hand over 150 bucks to feel like a freemium,again who is the thief?
You know what the real sad scenario of all of this and it is shared by many as we have all read the many threads.The sad reality is i don't think hardly anyone really has any unhappiness with the game,it is more so with the way the game is handled.
If you paid the $150, you got what you paid for, why is that so hard to understand? You gave $150 so idiots like myself do not have to pay for anything, thank you for your kind video game service and contributions to people like me who keep their money and take advantage of free garbage available on the Internet.Riddle me this, did YOU get land? I notice people WITH land seem to have a different attitude about the game.
Trion sold the founders packs on the basis of exclusivity. The promise of having a better shot at getting land than the folks who didnt. No one bought the founders pack for ANY other reason to get land.
I doubt anyone appreciates your attitude or post on the subject.
I don't even know what to say to this really.
I'm not looking for appreciation. I'm trying to bring clarity to a post that was just terrible. He claimed Trion were thieves. It was a ridiculous claim and your attempt to try and support the idea that Trion are thieves is just as ridiculous.
Besides that, people DID buy founders packs for many other reasons than the promise of getting to the land first. Your claim that everyone bought the founders pack for that reason alone is just an assumption likely based on your own projection.
Seems like a fairly safe bet to assume that he has some.
People love to glorify the wonders of open world housing. But it's always with the assumption that they'll be among the lucky ones that manage to get it and that get to show it all off to everyone. (and especially to those who are too poor or unlucky to get it xD)
Then if they happen not to get it... well, I remember some of your posts from several weeks ago. They were a good example of what I'm talking about.
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Lesson learned OP, now it is time to walk away. AA is a crap game anyways so you won't miss it, it didn't fail before for no reason.
With that said, what made you become a "Fanboy"?. This was not a new game, and it had failed twice before releasing here. Not criticizing, just wondering.
Wow.... the attitudes of the AA defenders is more than enough to keep me out of it.
Nothing is wrong with the game, must be the players, right?
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he never called trion thieves... he said players are scamming other players out of land sale purchases.... advertising land for sale, taking your money but not giving you the plot and trion are doing nothing to discourage that happening.
I did read your post OP. Mistake #1 was fanboying any game... especially MMORPGs... especially if they come from South Korea. Do you honestly think they [insert any Korean developer] care if they ban you once they got your money? Nope. Get excited for a game? Sure. Follow on a game you are interested for year(s) before release? Sure. Blindly fanboying any game. Nope.
Wow, it's just like the early days of Ultima Online where it was fast impossible to place a house anywhere.
A major difference is that Ultima Online didn't sell $150 founders packs
...maybe because most at XLGames are unable to read English that they didn't pay attention to and learn any of the lessons from UO or something.
I really wish more people understood this. Archeage isn't some unicorn and rainbow frou frou game where everyone gets the same cool stuff just for turning up. And it was never touted as one. It seems the days of people working together to accomplish things in MMOs are over and these days everyone just wants their own private rabbit hole with a chat room to play in.
Oh give me a fucking break, the 4 day head-start was SOLD as an assurance to get your land.
However Trion LIED about a DDOS attack, Did NOT provide enough hardware at head-start to provide for early sales numbers, and STOLE millions and millions of gamers hard earned money.
Hell Trion knows they screwed up, and they know they broke the law.
Hence why they are now giving refunds hand over fist to try and get themselves out of hot water with the CA AG's office.
I play on Aier, which usually has the queue tag up (though I don't see them due to being Patron).
My guild regularly buys up or calls out the land that becomes available around us to pass on to guildies. We did this with 2 16x16 plots yesterday. This happens regularly. We have NEVER been 'scammed'.
Land IS available, even on the older servers, it seems to me that the sub text of what the OP is saying about land is "I want it as part of my Patron, I don't want to pay another player for it"
Look, the bottom line is that land is a finite competitive commodity in an openly competitive game. Complaining about not having it is like complaining good gear. I am sure if someone was here saying that they deserved that as part of their Patron people would tell them to stfu and play the game to earn it.
Actually UO also added shards at a much faster rate as needed as well. The housing issue was mostly because new players coming in were all piling onto the heavy population shards.
Hence why when everquest launched they actually had rolling server locks to keep people from rolling on high pop servers.
They were watching UO and learning from its successes and failures, something game studios no longer seem to do.
These last two guys get it.
The OP boils down to a long winded drama rage quit because he has to buy or earn something in the game.
He quit because he thinks he is entitled.
Trion have done the same with this game.