Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
What a Passive Review!!!
RPGPorkster
Member Posts: 77
What a Passive Review!!!
People should understand that 90% of the players that purchased the game in the first month have left it! The game lacks all respect in being a complete playable product.
How could you review a game favourable when so many are complaining about it. Shouldn't your reviews take the contentions of players into account?
Horizons is a sad game and shouldn't even be classed as a mmorpg as it has no Epic qualities about it. If any, it's a child's role playing game with tuns of bugs and faults. Faults like;
* 10fps in important parts of the game,
* basic/boring combat system
* plain monster set. All seem the same
* poor class structure
* 101 broken factors of what's-there. The game already only has half the promised features which were small anyway.
* beta testers flamed the hell out of this game saying it wasn't ready and they still released it.
* constant server down time. probably to save money on bandwidth for AE.
* lag, it can take upto a day for a item to go into your backpack, or you get experience for a kill
* most of the players left in the game, hog particular monster spawns as those spawns are the only ones available at character lavels.
* most of the game doesn;t have any virtual creatures in it due to lag
* bugs in the game have allowed massive duping of player items and money, ruining the so called flakie economy
* zero customer support and to a point that many have stated as lies.
* patches are minor tweaks to text or small changes that don't take much programming at all.
* alot of players experienced system crashes
* no monster loot except for raw materials for making stuff which many have stated, boring to the highest degree
* crafting system that is broken and also limited to a few items
* The game has sold very few, and is being discounted from $50USD to $29 after the first month of play, now that says alot about the game and its future.
* the game has near to zero social things happening. alot have said the chat system sucks and no one talks.
* the community angle of the game is ruined due to exploits and poor game structure and faults.
* cities in the game might only have about 1-4 npcs
* houses and other constructions are mere looks and money pools and give little to no benefits. Alot are not even complete for game -release
* the game has massive graphics problems and most charactrers in the game and look very bland and one coloured.
* most character classes are the same.
* the dragons are very weak and pointless to play
* near zero information coming out of AE the makers of the game
* IGN the offical forums make up their only news items with stupid screen shot of the day and polish up forum's pro info to make news entries as AE isn't sayign anything. Sad.
* AE has cut many staff to save money
* everyone says even Wish beta has more game content and features and it's still in beta for another year.
* the list goes on.... avoid this game anyway you can...
By reviewing this game so late in the life of it you are telling potential customers that this game is ok, but it's near commercial and receivership death.
The only people saying good things about the game are;
* children
* passive people who don't like tentions like, attacking virtual creatuers, pvp, newbies to mmorpgs, etc
* family members of staff of AE and have free accounts to promote the game or on the forums.
* Staff
* others on the payroll, like IGN horizons vault.
.Thsi game is a shame to be called a mmoRPG... the poorest release so far.
.
Comments
_________________________________
Vic - "Androzzi here"
John - "Vic, your case just busted wide open."
Vic - "So close it for me!"
John - "Looks like your going to have to close it yourself, SHITTY!!!!"
_________________________________
Vic - "Androzzi here"
John - "Vic, your case just busted wide open."
Vic - "So close it for me!"
John - "Looks like your going to have to close it yourself, SHITTY!!!!"
Where's your proof of this? Funny, the server I play on has increased in population if anything, definitely not dropped by "90%". I've been in almost every beta for the 'major' mmorpgs on the market, UO and FFXI being the only 2 exceptions. I've been a part of the launch for all the same games. Horizons had one of the smoother launches to date.
Ok, here's a small lesson for you:
Well to me that says more about your computer than the game, I have no problem at all with my FPSs, and I'm on by no means a high end system. As I stated in the review, it has the standard combat system that almost every mmorpg on the market uses, typically referred to as the 'sandwich' system, ie start combat and go get a sandwich or something, come back and combat is finished. Granted, not too exciting, but no different from the majority of the mmorpgs on the market. How so? 29 Adventuring classes and 20 crafting classes with the ability to switch between them at will doesn't seem to poor to me, seems to give the player every oppurtunity to play however they want. Once again, absolutely no evidence to back up your statement. 101? really? awfully convienent for you to throw such a number out there with no backing what-so-ever. Yes, the game has it's bugs, as I pointed out in the review, but show me a mmorpg which was released absolutely bug free and with all the promised features, please? I'm begging ya. Once again, nothing different from any other mmorpg which has been released to date. Once again, a completely false and unbacked statement. Servers are hardly ever down, and when they do go down for updates, they're almost always back up in less than 5 minutes, some of the questest updating I've ever seen in a mmorpg. I mentioned the inventory lag bug in the review, and "up to a day"? I don't think so, couple of seconds tops. Longest I've ever had it take for me is 10-15 seconds. I mentioned the NPC load time lag bug in the review, and as I stated this has been fixed. Once again, evidence? I havn't heard or seen any evidence of a ruined economy OR duping... I did give Customer Support the lowest rating, it's bad, but it's not "zero". I know several people who have had problems and had those problems fixed, it took a while, and wasn't a convienent system, but it was handled. Two words for you: Ingame Map, was patched in. Several bugs have been fixed in patches. Once again, unsupported, unbacked statements with no evidence. Actually the materials mobs drop now are special resources used to add techniques to items. Crafters need these items, Adventurers have easy access to them, further promoting the player driven economy. Broken how exactly? And limited to a few items? Wow you must have a REALLY big definition of "few". Each class easily has hundreds of items they can craft, and with 20 crafting classes, that kinda adds up to slightly more than a "few" in my book. Show me a mmorpg which doesn't drop in price after the first month or so. I saw FFXI for $29 today actually, sitting right next to Horizons on the shelf, which was the same price. Sales have been low on Horizons simply because people are waiting for one of the next generaltion big name games (EQ2, L2, WoW) but Horizons is still doign decent sales all things considered. Here we go with "alot" again. The chat system is quite nice, saerverwide chat channels ARE used, quite often. I really don't know if this statement could be more vague... Care to expound on it a little? What exploits? How is the game structure poor? What about the community is ruined? Some cities yes, they're called smaller outpostcities, other cities have every NPC you could think of. And alot of the really small cities you are referring to are PLAYER CITIES, they were made empty, with plots of land around them, for PLAYERS to build up and make the city into a better place, thus further advancing the community and social aspect of the game. AE has stated many times that the dragons start off weaker to compensate for their later ability to fly and powers they get when they reach further stages such as Adult. Here, I'll help you out:re·view ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-vy)
v. re·viewed, re·view·ing, re·views
v. tr.
1. To look over, study, or examine again.
2. To consider retrospectively; look back on.
3. To examine with an eye to criticism or correction: reviewed the research findings.
4. To write or give a critical report on (a new work or performance, for example).
No where in there does it say anything about the contentions of OTHERS. My review is my opinion of the game from my point of view, not how I think everyone feels about it. And how is it such a favorable review? My score is lower than the average user score... which would indicate more people than not out there find it a better game than even I do...
Horizons Events Page
Horizons Main Page
Horizons News Page I'm starting to sound like a broken record here... Eveidence to back this up? Near death? I hardly think so. Horizons will be around for quite a long time. I told people what ***I*** felt about the game, it is up to them to make their own opinion about it. I wrote this review BEFORE I was staff on this site. I have nothing to do with AE or IGN, I am on no-one's payroll. I'm 29, hardly a child. I have no idea what "tentions" are, and I am by no means a "newbie to mmorpgs", I was prolly running BBSs and coding MUDs back when you were playing on the monkey bars in elementary school. I don't have a free account, I pay my $12.95 per mionth just like the tons of other people playing the game. And as I stated, I hardly call this a passive review considering the score was lower than any other review I've seen for the game lately and lower than the average user rating here on this site.
Richard J. Cox
"There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
This review is just so false..One of my friend's said it best lol..."To all you horizons players not lagging anymore, its not AE that fixed the lag, its because theres no around anymore"
Only an extremely biased and ignorant FANBOI can say this game is even slightly worth playing...I would much rather go back to EQ before I ever played this pos again..
Ummm... no, sorry, if anything there are MORE people on the server I play on not less, and the lag is MUCH better.
I'm really not going to get into a desicussion with you about intelligence and who is ignorant considering the grammar and spelling in your post. Nothing in my review was false, it's all opinions, opinions can't be false. I am far from a fanboi of Horizons, I like the game, but it is mainly a time killer for me until something better comes along. I feel it is definitely worth playing at the moment but once one of the next big releases comes out, unless AE does some major work I don't know how it will compete with EQ2, WoW or L2. It's a good game for what it is. And for the record no one is trying to make you play Horizons, no one really cares much if you play or not, if you prefer EQ then thats your choice, but there are many many people who like Horizons and are playing it and will continue to play it and that is their choice.
Richard J. Cox
"There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."