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Log In to Shroud of the Avatar Before Month's End & Receive a Free House & Pet - MMORPG.com

From now through the end of May, all players who log in to Shroud of the Avatar will receive a pair of free gifts: A 3-story wood and plaster row home and a miniature greyhound pet to lay by its fireplace. Both can be claimed by checking the rewards tab once logged in.

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urinal_goose

Does Portalarium actually think that these rewards will entice anyone back? Please. It's the emphasis on cosmetic crap like this, and insufficient attention to polish and systems, that drove many people away in the first place.

LeFantome

Game is dead. Nobody is playing this crap , even the devs had to move out from their office as it was to expensive for them. The famous Lord British went MIA, Darkstarr is..somewhere and the famous Chris is enjoying his little stream. What a freaking waste..

Scot

LeFantome said:

Game is dead. Nobody is playing this crap , even the devs had to move out from their office as it was to expensive for them. The famous Lord British went MIA, Darkstarr is..somewhere and the famous Chris is enjoying his little stream. What a freaking waste..

It could have been great, some of the ideas were top notch, but the implementation was just not there.

urinal_goose

Scot said:

LeFantome said:

Game is dead. Nobody is playing this crap , even the devs had to move out from their office as it was to expensive for them. The famous Lord British went MIA, Darkstarr is..somewhere and the famous Chris is enjoying his little stream. What a freaking waste..

It could have been great, some of the ideas were top notch, but the implementation was just not there.

The implementation was not there because they carelessly blew through their money and decided that monetization was more important than a good game.

Khegobier

Ouch. Free house AND row lot? Not even just a deed? That's painful especially to backers who paid big bucks for some of that kind of stuff. I'll log in for it anyway.

Akulas

Perfect example of why you don't pay for stuff you eventually get for free anyways.

Nilden

Not sure if generosity or desperation.

Kyleran

Nilden said:

Not sure if generosity or desperation.

Well they have to try something.

Not like they can give away free books as an incentive.

Sephros

Khegobier said:

Ouch. Free house AND row lot? Not even just a deed? That's painful especially to backers who paid big bucks for some of that kind of stuff. I'll log in for it anyway.

Didn't see where it said row lot. Can you point me to it?

Albatroes

Good to know the game is still going strong /endsarcasm

VladamirBegemot

Welcome back guys. Gotta be negative about everything I see. Perhaps it is time to move on to other hobbies rather than tear down peoples work all the time?

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The pet is pretty cool, it's the dog on the bridge in Owl's Head, Mojito, a model of Atos's dog. Well worth logging in for.

goboygo

Scot said:

LeFantome said:

Game is dead. Nobody is playing this crap , even the devs had to move out from their office as it was to expensive for them. The famous Lord British went MIA, Darkstarr is..somewhere and the famous Chris is enjoying his little stream. What a freaking waste..

It could have been great, some of the ideas were top notch, but the implementation was just not there.

Starting with using the Unity engine.  Don't go Unity if your'e not willing to completely re-write most of the systems, which they didn't, they piled on top of the pile.  And anyone that does go through trouble ends up saying, god why didn't I just start with the Unreal engine....

goboygo

VladamirBegemot said:

Welcome back guys. Gotta be negative about everything I see. Perhaps it is time to move on to other hobbies rather than tear down peoples work all the time?

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The pet is pretty cool, it's the dog on the bridge in Owl's Head, Mojito, a model of Atos's dog. Well worth logging in for.

The only problem I had with the game was their choice of game engines.

TheDarkrayne

I just gave this a go for the first time. It's a shame the engine, combat and UI are so terrible because underneath all the horror is a really deep and interesting game.

TacticalZombeh

Gave it another try. I didn't hate it like the last two attempts I made over the years. It's definitely "last-gen" when it comes to combat mechanics, world design and graphics, but not in a terribly detrimental way.

I originally intended to make it a brief try but ended up playing for about 4 hours or so. All-around "OK" and I honestly would have continued playing but the instance I was playing in was closing (something about no other players coming into it) and the game offered to shunt me off to another but I took the chance to end the session.

I never left the first area and spent a lot of time running back and forth pickup up tasks then doing them. I probably could have wasted less time if I read the quest text better but I was mostly interested in trying out the mechanics and combat gameplay.

I didn't dip into the deck building aspect, choosing to just slot they abilities I was using at the time. The whole deck building, having to watch the bar aspect is what kept me from originally backing the game.

*IF* I go back and play more I'll try it out, as well as the seemingly more action style click attacking it hinted at (have to find a trainer in the next area to turn it on).

The ability trees had some interesting stuff, though it seems you'd have to pick some abilities that may not interest you and use them to skill up to one you do want. Potentially bothersome, but maybe you'd try out a skill and end up liking it, dunno. The biggest problem with that is some of the skills down a particular line seem only ephemerally related.

Enemy AI is very basic, line of blind-sight aggro. Hit range varied wildly, with wolves hitting me from 10 paces away, although that was while I was kiting, and I suspect there's some lag involved because I saw a few other indicators like jerking and rubber-banding of npcs. Not horrible but gave more of that last-gen vibe.

I looked at the crafting tables but didn't do much more than that. They give you all of the initial tools, but most of the basic recipes also require additional ingredients you'd either have to purchase or possibly buy from other crafters (thinking later in the game).

I did see something that mentioned a free plot to go along with the house, btw.
Overall it was ok enough that I played for longer than I expected and might even give it another go.

So it kind of scratched a bit of MMO itch. It's a weird mix of quaint yet potentially deeper than you'd expect. If you're really itching to try something MMO'ish, you can't really beat free.

At least you can say you tried it before they shut it down.

AngryElf

Desperation is a stinky cologne

lahnmir

You know what, I’ll give it another shot this month. Sekiro left me severely burned out on tough as nails games and I have been enjoying a bit of MMOing on the side again. That and my evergrowing list of ARPGs, man, what a good time to be a fan of those.

/Cheers,
Lahnmir

ChildoftheShadows

TheDarkrayne said:

I just gave this a go for the first time. It's a shame the engine, combat and UI are so terrible because underneath all the horror is a really deep and interesting game.

Nothing wrong with the engine, just the use of it.

ChildoftheShadows

goboygo said:

VladamirBegemot said:

Welcome back guys. Gotta be negative about everything I see. Perhaps it is time to move on to other hobbies rather than tear down peoples work all the time?

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The pet is pretty cool, it's the dog on the bridge in Owl's Head, Mojito, a model of Atos's dog. Well worth logging in for.

The only problem I had with the game was their choice of game engines.

Pssh. I can you have no idea what you're talking about.

Wizardry

Poter above beat me to it.
This sounds good but in reality this is desperation times.

There is one VERY simple reason i scoffed at this game from day 1>>.cash shop.I do not like anyone ruining the integrity of the game i play be it cheats or developers.

If developers/publishers simply stick to FAIR ..HONEST business practices ,i would be a lot happier and maybe even support a mediocre game,just because.You cannot however fail the industry and then begin to change your ways.it's too late.

Having been around gaming for so long,i really can tell almost in the very first day if a developer/publisher is coming off as honest or a scumbag.If i get a sense of scum,i am almost always correct in my assumption.Lord British has LOST IT,his time has passed ,we will never again see AAA gaming from this dude.AAA as in the standards for that time era,i am not buying 2000 games at 2019 prices.

My value put on this game?Sell it for $10 with a $5 dollar subscription and NO cash shop.

Mensur

I wouldn't play this game if they gave me a whole planet to call my own.

Wizbuiz

Couldn’t You’ve just made UO 2 instead of this garbage, everyone wanted LoA to be UO, there’s like - player base of a potential 500.000 people, we all wanted UO and will pay 20$ a month even, we are all in our mid 30s and we have everything with these carebear mmos, want to be a billionaires? Recreate the real UO 2 in unreal engine, 3D but with pillars of eternity/LoA/ diablo spectrum/

cyclonite51

Unity is a crap engine, I don't understand why devs use it, yeah its free and you can release a game quick but that game will also die quick.

kinkyJalepeno

Pure desperation at this point, won’t be long till it’s taken out to be shot.

urinal_goose

VladamirBegemot said:

Welcome back guys. Gotta be negative about everything I see. Perhaps it is time to move on to other hobbies rather than tear down peoples work all the time?



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The pet is pretty cool, it's the dog on the bridge in Owl's Head, Mojito, a model of Atos's dog. Well worth logging in for.

Stop pretending Portalarium is a victim here. They ripped off thousands of people, spending millions of dollars to produce what can most kindly be called an outdated, amateurish attempt at a game. And, perhaps most duplicitously, they did it by using Richard Garriott to hit people in the nostalgia.