This game was not on my radar at all since I am not a PvPer. But I got a CB2 key and tried it with a Founder friend. I was pleasantly surprised and found the PvE aspects of the game to be very engaging. So I Foundered up the gold pack, played in CB3, CB4, OB, found a guild and was fortunate to have decent access during Headstart. By last night, I had a level 25 main, a house, a farm, a farmhouse (with no place to put it) and packs ready to deliver tonight.
I've helped a couple friends who came over from Rift and all have found it fun. The one thing they all say is "there is so much to do!"
The game is great though its a lot more niche than the vast majority of "Sanbox nao" people realise.
Sandboxes are the majority of what the vocal minority want in my opinion, and Archeage will carve out a respectable western audience for its self.
However, Trion are dropping every ball they have with this game, it wont ever get them uber riches, but it will sustain them in a way Rift with its reliance on player churn rather than retention never would have. That being said, they are doing their best to piss off all of their target groups with this game, the people who enjoy it will end up doing so inspite of rather than because of Trions handling of this game.
Its sad that one of my formerly most loved MMO companies (say what you like, the way they aggressively pushed content out for Rift and their initial commitments were laudable) have descended into this seemingly money hungry sneaky publisher is sad, I worry, because the rapid 180 screams of financial woes that needed such an approach rather than a company trying to simply push its profit margin a bit higher.
Unfortunately it seems that they have gotten a little too greedy and a little too disconnected from their core fanbase as of late, and I do worry what it will do for their long term health as a developer/publisher.
So while Archeage lives up to the Hype for those who knew what sort of game it really was, it wont for the people who want to play it like the majority of the last 8 years of MMOs. While it will do ok, it wont be a mega hit, and I just hope it gives Trion the financial freedom to get back to being the plucky little kid running with the big dogs, rather than the greed based entity they have started to morph into.
It's way too early for this kind of poll. Give it a few months and recreate it then. One needs the honeymoon phase to wear off before they can have any semblance of objectivity.
All I see is hundreds of thousands of people enabling this type of FB/Browser game mechanic that will set a horrible precedent for future games. Some of us that have been around a while thought 2004 was a bad year for MMORPGs. 2014 will be known as the beginning of the end.
It doesn't matter if, as a patron, you never run out of LP. That's not the point. The point is that the mechanic still exists for subscribers.
Then there's the fact that many if not most F2P players will leave the client up when not playing in order to regen LPs, making it SEEM like AA is a smashing hit because it skews Raptr and xFire numbers so much. You think those numbers mean little now, just wait.
I can't believe I seem to be the only one willing to put my foot down and not enable this type of mechanic in a full-blown MMORPG. Times have really changed.
I have not played it my self, but one thing did live up found out even more that how many people are lazy in mmo in general and very cheap, so they end up trolling.
When is an MMO not hyped up by the so called media? Instead of letting people play it and and choose on their own people come to forums to watch people bitch and each other about the game. Just go play the game already and find out for yourself if you like it or not. Dont come to a site to tell you if you will like it or not.
Originally posted by jusomdude It hasn't for me so far, but I only played a little of the open beta... waiting til it launches today to give it a better shot.
This right here. ^ I got in during open beta and so many people a lot of things wouldn't load and couldn't see the npc's or anything. I've been monitoring the download on my system at home all day, so hopefully in the next coupe days I will get a chance to play. Doubt tonight since I am in EST time zone and I'm sure it will be huge que's and/or up and down servers. Looking forward too it, just wish no tab targeting, but never been a deal breaker for me.
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Voted yes.
This game was not on my radar at all since I am not a PvPer. But I got a CB2 key and tried it with a Founder friend. I was pleasantly surprised and found the PvE aspects of the game to be very engaging. So I Foundered up the gold pack, played in CB3, CB4, OB, found a guild and was fortunate to have decent access during Headstart. By last night, I had a level 25 main, a house, a farm, a farmhouse (with no place to put it) and packs ready to deliver tonight.
I've helped a couple friends who came over from Rift and all have found it fun. The one thing they all say is "there is so much to do!"
The game is great though its a lot more niche than the vast majority of "Sanbox nao" people realise.
Sandboxes are the majority of what the vocal minority want in my opinion, and Archeage will carve out a respectable western audience for its self.
However, Trion are dropping every ball they have with this game, it wont ever get them uber riches, but it will sustain them in a way Rift with its reliance on player churn rather than retention never would have. That being said, they are doing their best to piss off all of their target groups with this game, the people who enjoy it will end up doing so inspite of rather than because of Trions handling of this game.
Its sad that one of my formerly most loved MMO companies (say what you like, the way they aggressively pushed content out for Rift and their initial commitments were laudable) have descended into this seemingly money hungry sneaky publisher is sad, I worry, because the rapid 180 screams of financial woes that needed such an approach rather than a company trying to simply push its profit margin a bit higher.
Unfortunately it seems that they have gotten a little too greedy and a little too disconnected from their core fanbase as of late, and I do worry what it will do for their long term health as a developer/publisher.
So while Archeage lives up to the Hype for those who knew what sort of game it really was, it wont for the people who want to play it like the majority of the last 8 years of MMOs. While it will do ok, it wont be a mega hit, and I just hope it gives Trion the financial freedom to get back to being the plucky little kid running with the big dogs, rather than the greed based entity they have started to morph into.
ahahahahahha i bet you will play tomorow .......
All I see is hundreds of thousands of people enabling this type of FB/Browser game mechanic that will set a horrible precedent for future games. Some of us that have been around a while thought 2004 was a bad year for MMORPGs. 2014 will be known as the beginning of the end.
It doesn't matter if, as a patron, you never run out of LP. That's not the point. The point is that the mechanic still exists for subscribers.
Then there's the fact that many if not most F2P players will leave the client up when not playing in order to regen LPs, making it SEEM like AA is a smashing hit because it skews Raptr and xFire numbers so much. You think those numbers mean little now, just wait.
I can't believe I seem to be the only one willing to put my foot down and not enable this type of mechanic in a full-blown MMORPG. Times have really changed.
The game JUST came out, people having queues getting in. It's in its infancy and the OP is 'Has it lived up to its hype'?
This right here. ^ I got in during open beta and so many people a lot of things wouldn't load and couldn't see the npc's or anything. I've been monitoring the download on my system at home all day, so hopefully in the next coupe days I will get a chance to play. Doubt tonight since I am in EST time zone and I'm sure it will be huge que's and/or up and down servers. Looking forward too it, just wish no tab targeting, but never been a deal breaker for me.
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