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Limited Free Trial Through March 9th - Shroud of the Avatar - MMORPG.com

Shroud of the Avatar News - If you've been on the fence about backing Shroud of the Avatar you may want to check out their limited Free Trial running from now through March 9th. Items purchased and progressed would be saved for those who purchase the game. There are a number of restrictions in place so you want to be sure to check out the newsletter to see what they are.

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filmoret

Lets do it.

Slapshot1188

Last time I played it was pretty bad. I'll see if any of my friends load it up. If so I will try it again.

corvas

Played it and uninstalled in within 15 min, its controls and graphics and gameplay are just 10 years to late.

My first MMO ever was UO (Second age) and loved that genre even now, but this game is just 10 years too late, people dont want these graphics with a gameplay you need to write/talk to every npc (and yes you need to talk to an npc like you talk to your fellow players by using the chat), also the buggy controls and combat arent fun to play with.

Forgrimm

• Free Trial Current Time Period: March 3 – March 9, 2017
• The term (Visitor) is appended to their character name
• Cannot give items to other players via Trade
• Cannot purchase nor sell items via Player Vendors nor Public Vendors
• No ownership of property nor use of lot signs
• Cannot interact with public chests.
• Cannot move/interact with items on a plot even if they are given permissions.
• Cannot flag as Open PVP
• Cannot gain nor do they create any ransom items when they kill or are killed in PVP (in Open PVP zones)
• Character data may be deleted after Free Trial period is over if character is not upgraded to a paid account
• Items purchased in the Add On Store cannot be accessed after the Free Trial Period is over unless you purchase Game Access
• Cannot play in Offline Mode

Is there anything we can do? Seems the "Limited" part in "Limited Free Trial" was an understatement.

Slapshot1188

Unrestricted access to the Store for the duration of the test

Daakkon

Slapshot1188 said:

Unrestricted access to the Store for the duration of the test

Thats just mean. Also Garriot needs to just stop.

cheyane

Forgrimm said:

• Free Trial Current Time Period: March 3 – March 9, 2017
• The term (Visitor) is appended to their character name
• Cannot give items to other players via Trade
• Cannot purchase nor sell items via Player Vendors nor Public Vendors
• No ownership of property nor use of lot signs
• Cannot interact with public chests.
• Cannot move/interact with items on a plot even if they are given permissions.
• Cannot flag as Open PVP
• Cannot gain nor do they create any ransom items when they kill or are killed in PVP (in Open PVP zones)
• Character data may be deleted after Free Trial period is over if character is not upgraded to a paid account
• Items purchased in the Add On Store cannot be accessed after the Free Trial Period is over unless you purchase Game Access
• Cannot play in Offline Mode

Is there anything we can do? Seems the "Limited" part in "Limited Free Trial" was an understatement.

Pretty restrictive why bother ?

MadCoderOne

I gave them $40 way back, glad that's all it was... I ALMOST got sucked in by my past love for UO... I logged in heard the music, etc ALMOST bought a house etc... so bad

Tsiya

"will open for full time access at the end of 2014." They might wanna update their FAQ...Gonna give it a shot just to test out the engine. I'm sick of every sandbox thinking it needs open pvp, but for a chance at a worthy successor to UO, well, we shall see. So tired of the super restrictive class options most games seem to think they need for balance.

LeFantome

An EA game with a free trial. LOL

Howry

I went over to their site to download it to give it a try and I see a page where you can buy sets of Armor for $19.99 etc. A whole page dedicated to buying stuff in game and said, NOPE and didnt even install it. I hate the route games are going now days.

Forgrimm

You can have your own tax-free viking city for $3200. I'll take two please. https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?page_id=60538#tab-viking_bundles

flizzer

I'm sure his name is enough to get a lot of suckers, uhm , mean players in the game.

mymmo

gave it a try. nothing to see.
to bad because mmo´s need to be moar!

JeroKane

flizzer said:

I'm sure his name is enough to get a lot of suckers, uhm , mean players in the game.

Not after the disaster that was Tabula Rasa. That was all on him.

Richard Garriott is like so many others an overrated one trick pony long forgotten.

Talonsin

Forgrimm said:

You can have your own tax-free viking city for $3200. I'll take two please. https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?page_id=60538#tab-viking_bundles

That is what you get when you ask Chris Roberts for advice...  

lahnmir

Talonsin said:

Forgrimm said:

You can have your own tax-free viking city for $3200. I'll take two please. https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?page_id=60538#tab-viking_bundles

That is what you get when you ask Chris Roberts for advice...  

No no no, with Roberts you only get a picture of the ingame item. This one actually exists, please give Garriot a bit more credit! 

/Cheers,
Lahnmir

laserit

The business model makes me want to

postlarval

Free?

Nah, that's too much...

LackingMMO

I'm so excited to log in and look around in circles! Good thing they restricted it to where free trials cant ransom items we get from pvp since we cant flag for open pvp.

Loved the Viking link, if you look at the others they are all the same just different color. you would think 3200 would get you something really unique.

Myrradah

Some really narrow minded, limited understanding making false comments and hate mongering going on.

Armor - Armor you buy is for looks. Armor you make is much much better so its not a pay to win feature. Same with items etc

Store - Im pretty sure everything in there is cosmetic.

I like the combat system

Graphics are no worst than anything out there if not better. to many games these days are graphic intensive but crap gameplay / longevity.

Lots of exploring - no quest here icons you actually have to converse etc. Lots of hidden areas / items / locations and more to come.

Areas that are being developed are clearly marked.

Combat is fine - until we all get googles super internet access I dont see that changing anytime soon.

Only negative - right now it can be a grind. But as things progress it should be less and less of a grind

Tiller

Was gonna try it, but based on what Steam reviews and some of the people here say I can see a lot of the things people hate about the game I know I would hate too.

NoxiousBass

Sounds like a disaster to me. I won´t even bother...

PsYcHoGBR

Thought I would try this so I downloaded it. Created a character and the game loaded and then I had full screen graphic corruption in black and white and if I moved I had tracers, could see the UI perfectly but anything in the game window was corrupt. Asked in chat got no answer went to the forums and couldn't post until I spent money !!! uninstalled goodbye. There's other players having the same problem from other forums. Way to go with the trial of your game !!!

i5
RX480 8gb (up to date drivers)
16gb ram
Win 10

cyxs

Myrradah said:

Some really narrow minded, limited understanding making false comments and hate mongering going on.

Armor - Armor you buy is for looks. Armor you make is much much better so its not a pay to win feature. Same with items etc

Store - Im pretty sure everything in there is cosmetic.

I like the combat system

Graphics are no worst than anything out there if not better. to many games these days are graphic intensive but crap gameplay / longevity.

Lots of exploring - no quest here icons you actually have to converse etc. Lots of hidden areas / items / locations and more to come.

Areas that are being developed are clearly marked.

Combat is fine - until we all get googles super internet access I dont see that changing anytime soon.

Only negative - right now it can be a grind. But as things progress it should be less and less of a grind

Armor which is store bought does not wear out like armor you make in game and does not drop when you are killed in PvP.

Store item, patterns - limited transmog for items. If an item wears out from degrading you can't recover the look, yes you get them in packs of 6 or something but still "Limited" and if you PvP and item drops and you don't have enough to pay ransom you loss it.

Store item, housing lots - Don't want to win a raffle for a lot you can bypass this grind with a item.

Store item, COTO - Item that can be used to restore a worn out item that doesn't have useful durability left, buy Potions that last for 7 Real Life days that effect the amount you can carry, the amount your weapon/armor gets damaged from mobs or how much focus it takes to run. Basic core systems in any game so these are P2W way of bypassing skill gains.

Combat - Card based(random system) of you hoping you get skill that you want, can use, or stack up where if you used locked deck you have longer cool downs (just added cooldowns to the deck system this patch) and won't have nearly as powerful spells as a deck build from stacking/combos but also people with deck builds have to constantly watch what comes up so they know what to stack and not watch for mobs attacks/aoe/etc so if they do then your running around not knowing what your going to get. In Jan's patch they were to add in new skills/spells but did not. Did not add in the guns and ammo system so no real balance is yet done.


Graphics - Really a memory hog and they say its cause they need to load everything in memory because no LOD is done.



Not a lot of exploring to do they added a blue glow to show who is next in line for your quest lines. Not hard to find it now. Yes no "yellow" ! but still they show you were to go now.


The zone sizes are small because one players PC is really running the zone your in, you if your in single player mode or if in open someone with lowest ping to Ports servers will. Port's servers are just for Inventory/Lot/Items not for combat or AI that is all done on whoever is the zones "host".


Grind is in game and planned now they want to keep it. No caps so someone playing 40+ hours a week will always be more powerful then someone playing 10 hours per week. Str/Dex/Int do have limits on them but if they get to those limits and raise their skills more then you can they will almost always win against someone who spends 1/4 the time so this means if you want to PvP you better be willing to grind and grind and grind. This doesn't talk about the crafting grind which a lot of people were able to bypass and get skill gains because of bugs and issues since persistence and they did NOTHING to remove those ill gotten gains and some of those bugs were posted Day 1 of the patch with the bug and let to sit for the entire month with people using that to get skills.