Whats with this game!? i got beta on this game, they failed to send my cd's so i was forced to download the 5 sections from some off the wall ftp server, after long awaited ours, they didnt match up or somethign right, so it wouldnt work, service wouldnt help me out, so i had to sit beta out, so i see they offer a free trial now, im thinkin cool, id really like to check this game out, i download it again... it still doesnt work, im running a pretty decent system, so i know its nothing on my end, and yet again, support isnt there for me, is this bad luck just with me? does the support department on this game spell out failure?
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hi, remember horizons doesnt handle billing, they use ibill and let me tell you as a former subscriber i had one heck of a time getting thru to them i didnt want to subscripe anymore, some one at ibill named Marie thought she was a goddess and didnt have to do anything i was trying to ask her to do. she said she was a supervisor.
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In my opinion a FREE trial should not require a credit card number period.
They can hardly call it a Free trial if a person must subscribe and then cancel before they are billed.
It sounds like a scam to me.
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It is a scam lol.
After the 7 days they bill you, then if you don't want to play anymore you have to cancel your subscription going thru a third party billing system making it difficult to get your money back so in the end they get atleast one months payment out of you and you end up cancelling or keep the subscription and give them a chance............. not many do this so I say this "you've been screw" ........... hell I liked the game at first been playing it for 3months now I'm sick of it and its been a week since i've tryed to cancel my account with them, this game and company makes me sick, hell for some reason i can't even get on the site to check if my account has been canceled and my emails keep coming back "unfound address" trust me i got the email addy right.
7Day trial = Scam I admit I got scammed and so have you cheers.
First of all Horizons were doomed when they layed off the only one who knew how to do this game and then they re-vamped the game and pushed it through beta to release over a really short period.
I were in the cb and man, they did not listen to us at all, mostly, then I continued on to retail because I did not really wan't to give up on this game, played for months and then I dropped it, they really screwed everyone on this game.
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Onnireg- Earth & Beyond
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Onnidrah- Horizons
Onnidrah- Neocron
Onnidrah- Shatterd Galaxy
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Ok,
Well that certainly is strange.
Horizons is the first MMorpg I even played, and I really like it.
With the merge of the three servers in europe I hope the game play en interactivety will increase.
As for the trial.. I was never asked for a credit card numer when I started on the trial.
There was a free CD-key on the website which just gave me a free 7 days.. I could have continued using that key forever.. but there isn't a lot you can do starting every 7 days from scratch.
For further payments I use a simple bank transfer (no credit card) as far as I know.. horizons is the only MMorpg allowing me to do so.
As for the bills coming in spontaneously afther your 7 days without asking you?
It clearly says so in their terms and conditions..
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There's actually been two versions of their free trial. When they originally began offering the 7 day trial it would automatically end after that 7 days and if you wanted to continue playing, THEN you would subscribe.
Now it automatically subscribes you after the 7 days. So to not be charged you must cancel before the free 7 days are over.
I know nothing about the billing issues that others have brought up. I have never used the free trial so I have no experience with it to share.
Another poster mentioned that you should get to level 30 first to see how good the game is. I have two points to make on this issue.
1.) If you have to get to level "X" before the game is fun, well, then the game is not fun. It's either going to be entertaining from the start or they're not going to retain my subscription.
2.) I was one of the folks who pre-ordered Horizons so I have had access to it for some time. It is important to note that I have not been subscribed this entire time. I have unsubscribed and resubscribed a few times to check on the game's progress. My character achieved adventure rank 58 (though he may have dinged 59, I forget ). I assure you that the play experience is the same through the entire game up to that point.
Technically I still have access to the game as I post this and I will probably continue logging in so that I can speak with guildies from time to time. However, this last subscription to Horizons was indeed the last. The game is cancelled and I'm going to ditch the game and the box.
After all this time I am still experiencing the same technical problems that I had so many months ago, I crashed to desk top four times in a row, they "fixed" a buff so that it's one tier off and unusuable until 10 levels later (a bug, but one that darn well shouldn't have happened), my frame rate stinks (generally 15 fps or less) and an assortment of other issues still bugged me.
They've had more than enough time and more than enough chances. I don't have faith that Artifact Entertainment will ever get their act together. As long as these people are leading Horizons the game will never rise above its current situation - meaning "situation" in a general sense.
Lastly, for you people who chose Horizons as your first MMORPG I ask you to please try another MMORPG. I want to appeal to your practical, intelligent, human natures when I say that you have nothing else with which to compare your experience. Horizons is not what you should be getting with a MMORPG subscription. The server down times or crashes, the massive database lag, the CTDs (Crash To Desktop), the unimaginative "quests" (Kill X ammount of creature Y), a game world in which you can STILL travel vast distances without seeing a monster or animal... and so much more.
This is not the way that it should be. There are plenty of free trials available. Just grab a couple and play their freebie trials. See for yourself how you are getting the brown side of the stick. It is truly within your own best interest.
I don't want to knock you if you new MMORPG players eventually decide that you prefer Horizons over whatever else - that's cool if you found something that you enjoy. Just do yourself a favor and experience what else is out there.
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I beta tested the game for 2 months before release and played it for 5 and it got really boreing fast.
I wouldnt bother trying to figure out why you cant play the "free" trial and cut your loses.
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the game is finished. More and more people are leaving every day.
On the North American side we saw 900 people on order immediately after merge. Now at most I have ever seen is 500 people max during primetime hours.
EQ2 and WoW will kill this game. If they don't than the follow up of WISH will be the final knock out blow.
8 months of doing nothing with the game and 11 months of mismanagement has brought horizons to where it is now. Tulga games which is just basically AE and the same people a company created to bypass its debts has taken no steps to remedy the issues that are sending AE the name only into chapter 7 bankruptcy. So unless the new AE has a couple million dollars to float the game for 6 months games like EQ2 and WoW are going to take the player numbers below 10,000 which doesnt pay the bills. The latest AE financial numbers can be found on a thread on the VN Horizons boards.
Simple economics are going to kick in very soon with this game.