Downloading the free to play promotion

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• MaeEye Member UncommonPosts: 1,107

  December 2006

  I can pretty much figure the outcome of your thoughts on it.  But I do look forward to what you think of it, I never played DnL (mainly because of obvious reasons).  Anyways, let me know what you think of it.

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• green13 Member UncommonPosts: 1,341

  December 2006

  What immediately struck me (having once followed the game) was how poor the graphics were.

  But graphics aren't everything and I gave it a chance. The game itself doesn't seem awful, but there were just so many bugs (and lag). In the short time I played (getting to level 10) 2 very high level mobs spawned in the noob area. I think that's unforgiveable game design. Then my fairie character couldn't get inside a building to talk to a quest NPC - she just kept flying above the doorway and onto the roof. Eventually I figured out you could target and activate quest NPCs from a long distance so managed to find a spot where I could see them from outside. And my silly pet (which cost practically all of my money) died almost instantly. Its default setting was aggressive and it just ran off into a group of skeletons who instantly whomped it.

  As a free trial, I think it's pretty poor. You don't see any of the good stuff by level 10. I was curious about the summoned pets and what some of the higher level content looked like, but I couldn't see myself parting with $30 just to satisfy my curiosity. Most of the things that attracted me to DnL as a game I now see listed as features in Vanguard. I'd rather pay more to play a fully functional game - because my free time is finite and I like to make the most of it.
• tepthtanis Member Posts: 545

  December 2006

  Originally posted by Odysses
  
  
  Well I got the message in my email box and thought I may as well try this game out and see if its as bad as anyone says.
  So far downloading the game and setting up the forum account was easy.   I did not have to enter any creditcard info yet to play.   If I do, from the posts Ihave read I won't go any further but so far so good on the setting up part.   I will post my opinion of the game after I have tried it and finished with setting it up.
  

  Holy S**t Odysses! I thought you died and left no forwarding address...

  Played Wow, D and L, AOC, GW, Eve, Rift and many more insignificant games.
• Odysses Member Posts: 581

  December 2006

  Well I don't want to bash the game but I really didn't enjoy the trial that they had to offer.   The graphics ( and I hate to rip on a game because of graphics, I am still a fan of the original Asheron's Call) were not up to par for me.    I remember reading alot of posts about how beautiful the graphics were and i cranked everything up to the max and it didn't look to good to me.   In fairness though I didn't experience any lag at all.   But I am not sure if I was playing the client sample or the trial.   It did start to get confusing for me because I tried to log into the game but it said I didn't have an account even though I did sign up for the free forum account.   So I couldn't log into the game unless probably subscribing.   So I clicked the other option which was world terrain sample.   They do need to make that part easier for new players, give them a free trial to be in the whole complete game and hopefully that will be enough to get people to stay.   They trial that I was doing was not enough for me to play longer then an hour.