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Perfect World International: A First Look at PWI
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MMORPG.com Perfect World International Correspondent Robert Sollazzo takes a first look at the beta for the upcoming free 2 play MMORPG Perfect World International.
Perfect World... Now where have I heard that name before?
There's a simple answer to that; an answer that doesn't involve questioning your sanity or using advanced psychotherapy to recover memories best left forgotten. Originally launching in China three years ago, Perfect World transitioned from a subscription based platform to free play, garnering enough interest to warrant a United States launch as Perfect World International. Servers for this new offering went live in closed beta August 19th, and we here at MMORPG.com couldn't help but to wonder what changes had been made for the international release.
As it turns out, not that many.
Like its Chinese and Malaysian cousin, Perfect World: International appears to be a game of give and take, excelling in some areas while falling critically short in others. While such oversights would be clearly unacceptable under a subscription based model, free to play changes everything.
Read the article here.
Cheers,
Jon Wood
Managing Editor
MMORPG.com
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Regarding the detail of the world: The cities are detailed nicely (in particular the Elf City), but there are also areas where you can find a whole lotta nothing...Not even a bush. The first spot I hit like that killed the game for me.
Also, this F2P game has a cash shop that threatens to eat you alive faster than any P2P game out there...
Author pretty much nails it.
You forgot to talk about the game's features. Many of them like territorial battles and territorial ownership, free flight, sea and air combat, ... aren't even in most of the pay 2 play games.
Here's a features list : http://pw-wiki.onlinewelten.com/Features.ashx
* Territorial Battles
The game divides the whole terrain into smaller domains and has a built-in territorial battle system where clans and factions can build, arm and fortify a city or multiple establishments at the same time. Fortify the captured city with catapults and armaments to effectively guard your location against opposing attackers who are keen on expanding their territory.
* High detail character customization
The game allows players to customize character features from head to toe. Every detail of the human body: hair style and color, facial features such as distance of the eyes, shape of the brows, body shape, skin color, torso size, width of limbs, etc., can be customized using a unique slider system that offers full control to the user. Using this customization system makes each character unique.
* Battle in Land, Sea and Air
Each character and class in Perfect World has the special ability and peripherals to fly, trek, and swim in different terrains. Inherent attributes, special equipments, summons or even mountable animals make it possible for characters to not only fly, trek, and swim but also to duel and clash on any of the terrain. Perfect World created a world with flying monsters and floating cities and ruins, all waiting to be explored.
* Massive Quest/Mission System
The game itself has more than 5,000 quests waiting to be discovered and completed. Quests can be race- and class-specific. Instance quests are available for players who would like to make their own adventures.
* Huge continuous terrain
The entire game world is within one large map that requires no loading or no changing of maps so players can move around without waiting for scenes to change.
* Day, Night and Weather Shifting
The game shifts from night to day and sunny to rainy season on a regular cycle, changing the view of each area to suit the time. This “real world” effect will immerse the players more effectively in the game.
* 16:9 Widescreen Mode
Allows players to play in widescreen mode to simulate a movie-type experience.
* Perfect World Mailing System
This enables players to communicate with their online and offline friends, clan mates or factions. Aside from mail, items can also be sent through this unique system.
* Perfect World Messenger
Perfect World has an in-game messenger that allows players to easily keep track of and chat with friends. The messenger always works, even if you’re outside the game.
* Player Chatrooms
Chatting among players is now made easier with in-game chatrooms, allowing easy and clear communication among them.
* Personalized Clothing
With this feature, one can truly express him/herself through his/her in-game character. Players have more options when it comes to what their character wears. They can even design their own in-game clothes.
* Crafting System
Each crafted item is unique as the item will bear the crafter’s name.
* Item Upgrading System
When a player upgrades his/her items, the item will have a glowing effect, the color depending on what gem was used.
* Double Experience Option NPC
Leveling is easy with the Double Experience Option. A non-playing character (NPC) can provide 12-14 hours of 2x EXP per week (non-stackable) at the discretion of the player.
* Martial Training System
This system allows you to train your character and improve its martial combat skills. Now players can be sure that the warrior they send to battle will dominate in the battlefield and bring you honor.
* Riding Pet System
Pets are not just companions in Perfect World. Players can train their pets, mount them and use them as a means of transportation.
* Partner Ride Systems
Mounts can accommodate up to two players at the same time, enabling you assist a fallen comrade and bring him to safety during a battle, or take a nice stroll in the woods or fields with your in-game loved one.
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Additional known features
* Create your own hometown
You can create the houses, the plants,furnitures,etc.
* Many social animations
* Many social skills like craft, mine, etc.
Any character can craft any thing, so you don't have to ask the other craft-player to creat the armors or weapons for you.
There are 4 craft professions:
blacksmith: craft the weapons
dressmaker: craft the armors and the fashion cloths
artificer: craft the jewels,bows and ammos(arrow).
apothecary: craft the potions
* Tons of amazing pets and mounts
* PVP System
PVP on land sea and air. City PvP, Guild VS Guild PvP and more
* Guild and factions system
* Instanced dungeons
Additional to the world there are also instanced dungeons where the players can experience their own adventures with a group of up to 6 people!
* 3 races and 6 classes
Wingkin: Archer and Cleric
Human: Warrior and Mage
Beastkin: Werebeast (Polymorph) and Werefox (Summoner)
have to laugh at people who list all the features of the game, yet completely miss the important stuff.
Cash shop is extremely expensive. Hence, you can't call this game free to play, it fits in a new class, expensive to play(e2p).
Best thing is to avoid this game like the plague, unless you have a very rich uncle.
Talk for yourself and laugh how much you want at your clueless post. It doesn't change the fact that the game is free 2 play, nobody is forcing you to pay. If you think you need some items to set yourself apart from others or you think you need to be one of the servers super heroes then you have the choice to purchase things from the cash shop.
The casual players who don't need to be "server super heroes" don't need to pay anything. I have played this game on the Malaysian English server for a couple months and I have never felt like I needed to purchase anything, the same goes for my online friends and guild mates.
The only players who will "need" to purchase anything are the hardcore players aiming for server domination. Those are the only ones anyway who can (and want to) compete at the servers top, and this is the same in every mmorpg, be it f2p or p2p. As for the casuals, they can play for free thanks to the people who pay and they are also free to chose to purchase something if they want.
I tried WoW and could not see why waste $15 a month. I heard about Perfect World, and tried the closed beta. It is a great game. I would rather play PW than WoW anytime, even if PW started charging. The staff of PW are still doing upgrades and will take anyones suggestions. If you are playing now, you should not be able to say you hate it untill at least a month after its initial release. Remember -- PW is still in its beta form. Like I said----- I am hooked on PW.
I played Perfect World(MY) version in Malaysian server. This game needs real money for levelling. This is the most weird part of this game.
Played Perfect World as a froob player and i am quite convinced now that this game is not going to give you endgame without going for the item shop. Moreover the Hierograms or the mp and hp auto fill ups are a must and hence there is no or limited chance to make the character go and grind without them starting at levels 50+. Thus may be it is a temporary game but i do mind going for a game where the end game is item shop dictated and as such i will consider playing a paid game rather than this to go for the end game. It surely needs more real money in the long run than a P2P game for that amount of time.
Is Perfect World Perfect At All?
The name of the game is perfect world and thus we assume that this is a completely balanced game world, where you can spend hours having fun. So thus I installed the client and started playing the game. In the beginning you do like OMG! “Look at the graphics” and then you do the quests. Many quests are quite a change but mostly are the same old kill this number of that and collect this many that. Thus with the graphics and the journeys consuming your energy, time and giving you a complete breath taking view of the world you just hang on.
You quite hang on till the late 30 levels and then you ask yourself, what am I doing in here? Occasionally there will be a FB mission and thus this dungeon completely impossible for a team of that level to do will rejuvenate you and you start wondering, why? But again you hang on. At 45+ levels you will need to use the cash shop or the Auction House and from here you will loose money and you ask yourself, why am I doing this? Now by this levels the quests have thinned out and you are grinding yourself to sleep.
Then you go and read forums and you soon find the game is made to make you buy Hierograms for the mana and the health. A few levels later, you will go through into deep grind, where the lack of money and the lack of levels and the toughness to get levels will frustrate you. You will soon ask where is the fun in this game? , I mean dungeons and team gaming.
There is completely lack of party content and if you play a were-fox, I do not see why you should not be able to grind more and reach the top levels. So the character were-fox is your key to success but you are tired to go and grind the same mobs and same levels and do the same skill unlocking quests.
And thus you end it here and say to yourself “Give me a break “, there are better games to be played and there are smiles to be smiled than this tough grind to stardom.
So Perfect world finally got out of your mind and it is no more a perfect world now, but just another Asian grind fest where you lost a few weeks of your entire life.
But on the contrary, this game had everything from breath-taking graphics to a huge world, to many monsters and many skills and above all cute fully customizable characters. It lacked dungeons, it lacked team gaming and it lacked the most essential part and that is fun of gaming where you log back in to find your friends planning something out or your guild making some raids or you going to try some tough boss at the end of a wild run.
With boredom in your hand, you go and do FB caves and often you kill boss but you never get xp and never do get the molder drops you look for. The molder drops need a tablet and thus you go searching for low level players willing to get help from you for their FB missions.
For me it lasted for a month and for my friends who happen to be hardcore gamers it lasted a few days lower than a month. I could have made it last for a bit more by buying Hierograms using real money but , why will I do that ? Thus there is no answer to this why.
Cheers
Sourajit Nandi
" Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't play this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind,and you'll never whine or repent about gaming hours anymore, then have a go at every Game. Open up the Internet, join in all the Mmorpgs you can. Go make the Guild. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible. "
Once An Addict Always An Addict .
Finally discovered word wrap...lol so true. I tried the game, and it crashed on me almost right away, and I never touched it again. I have a well maintained e8400 based system, with nothing exotic attached. A 3 year old game shouldn't be crashing.
Nice post Sourajit
Talk for yourself and laugh how much you want at your clueless post. It doesn't change the fact that the game is free 2 play, nobody is forcing you to pay. If you think you need some items to set yourself apart from others or you think you need to be one of the servers super heroes then you have the choice to purchase things from the cash shop.
The casual players who don't need to be "server super heroes" don't need to pay anything. I have played this game on the Malaysian English server for a couple months and I have never felt like I needed to purchase anything, the same goes for my online friends and guild mates.
The only players who will "need" to purchase anything are the hardcore players aiming for server domination. Those are the only ones anyway who can (and want to) compete at the servers top, and this is the same in every mmorpg, be it f2p or p2p. As for the casuals, they can play for free thanks to the people who pay and they are also free to chose to purchase something if they want.
Give me a break, anyone who plays these games knows for a fact you need cash shop items to level. Otherwise, the grind is just attrocious. So you want a clueless post, read your own. The point being is that the cash shop is far more expensive than any other on the market. I stand by my earlier comments, this game is an E2P.
And yes the Malaysian version of the cash shop is much cheaper, it is in the realm of most other f2p gams.
Talk for yourself and laugh how much you want at your clueless post. It doesn't change the fact that the game is free 2 play, nobody is forcing you to pay. If you think you need some items to set yourself apart from others or you think you need to be one of the servers super heroes then you have the choice to purchase things from the cash shop.
The casual players who don't need to be "server super heroes" don't need to pay anything. I have played this game on the Malaysian English server for a couple months and I have never felt like I needed to purchase anything, the same goes for my online friends and guild mates.
The only players who will "need" to purchase anything are the hardcore players aiming for server domination. Those are the only ones anyway who can (and want to) compete at the servers top, and this is the same in every mmorpg, be it f2p or p2p. As for the casuals, they can play for free thanks to the people who pay and they are also free to chose to purchase something if they want.
Give me a break, anyone who plays these games knows for a fact you need cash shop items to level. Otherwise, the grind is just attrocious. So you want a clueless post, read your own. The point being is that the cash shop is far more expensive than any other on the market. I stand by my earlier comments, this game is an E2P.
And yes the Malaysian version of the cash shop is much cheaper, it is in the realm of most other f2p gams.
Bigmango,you are wrong. You may be right from your own personal place, but in the wider picture you are wrong.
Oz, 100% with you on this.
So called 'F2P' games are the biggest lie in the industry. There are no such things. These things arnt charities, they are commercial products. They are free to hook the gullible in, who then see their friends out levelling them, or getting that ubr gear, and they want it as well. No, change that, they NEED it as well.
It is an insidious and evil business model. It tricks the player into spending way more then he would via a sub model by using micro transactions which seems a small amount when taken individually, but soon mount up when taken as a whole, costing the player a fortune.
There may be strong willed players out there who resist buying mall items, sure, but if there wasnt more gullable weak fools then strong minded types, these games WOULD NOT TURN PROFIT.
It is that simple.
Why do you think this model is so attractive to the more mecenary and greedy game companies out there?
IT TURNS MORE PROFIT.
IF IT TURNS MORE PROFIT, FOR A GENERALLY INFERIOR PRODUCT, THEN IT IS COSTING YOU, THE GAMER, MORE.
While I am here... this line "While such oversights would be clearly unacceptable under a subscription based model, free to play changes everything." in the review worries me no end. Is this really the stance MMORPG wants to be seen taking? Supporting and forgiving weak exploitive games because they are 'free'? Surely a rubbish game is a rubbish game, even if it pretends to be 'free'? Why are 'F2P' games being given kinder more forgiving reviews then a sub game, especially when they turn more profit then sub games? Surely if they generate more profit then sub games 'F2P' games should be required to offer at least the same level of product? Why arnt they?
I like the 'E2P' title Oz offers up, because thats the truth.
As I said, I, my ingame friends and my guild never felt the need to purchase anything ingame.
I know some ingame people who purchased some things, but not because they felt they "needed" it; they purchased because they had a lot of fun ingame and wanted to give something back for the fun they had; what they got from the shop was just an added bonus for them.
If you and ozmodan were gullible, as you say, and purchased things from the cash shop because you wanted to level faster or get top gear then that's your problem and your choice. Your are minority, and thanks to this minority people like us can play for free.
For this advantage we will gladly let you be the server superheroes if this is what you are looking for when you play mmorpgs. We are all looking for different things in game, some like you are looking for competition, some are looking for RPG, and some others like me are just looking for some fun with their friends in a nice online world.
ING have published a nice "first look" review a couple days ago that talks about this issue. What I can see here is that PW seems to be the number 1 mmorpg with more than 30 million worldwide players. Some games like WoW also exist in China, so its a number that can be fairly compared (yes with our 100k+- player games over here we are a minority).
http://pc.ign.com/articles/908/908283p1.html
"As noted earlier, this is a free-to-play game, but the revenue model relies on a small percentage of gamers willing to purchase items, such as outfits that help you stand out in the crowd. However, the nice thing is that any items bought from the cash shop can be traded, which means that those willing to pay real money for an item can then turn around and trade it to someone willing to swap in-game gold. Apparently a large part of the economy consists of this kind of in-game trading, with a small number of gamers acting as buying agents for the vast majority."
Thanks a lot redavni for finding out time to read my post and for the appreciation.
Cheers
Sourajit Nandi
" Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't play this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind,and you'll never whine or repent about gaming hours anymore, then have a go at every Game. Open up the Internet, join in all the Mmorpgs you can. Go make the Guild. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible. "
Once An Addict Always An Addict .
I agree with those here who are against the idea of item shops in so-called F2P games, as well as with the idea that F2P games are a lie... or at least the way they are portrayed is.
It's true that you can choose to or choose not to buy anything from item shops. Absolutely.
However, your point-of-view - that the only people who use the items shops are those who want to be the superheroes of their server - is intellectually dishonest on more than one level. You're using it as some way to place yourself on some contrived moral high ground from where you can look down on those who use them (e.g. "they want to be superheroes"). Your entire argument is a transparent exercise in self edification.
It's also ignoring the bigger point being made here.
The bigger point is that the concept of a F2P game is disingenuous. It's complete marketing spin.
MMO devs are not dumb. They see how much money RMT companies are making on someone who buys their money/items/characters online. They realize it's alot more than the $14 or whatever it is they're paying for a monthly sub. They also realize that the players buy their stuff online out of some need to be competitive and feel that's the only way they can do so (which I personally think is BS... they buy it out of impatience to get what they want "now", or a lack of desire to actually *play* the game... but that's another argument).
Item Shops are the developers' way of cashing in on that RMT trend. They *know* players are going to spend more than enough on Item Shop items to more than make up for the "loss" of no monthly sub being charged.
It's a win-win situation for them. They get to say the game is "free to play", which brings more players. At the same time, they make more money through the Item Shops than they would through a straight monthly subscription fee.
To play the game doesn't require a fee, yes. But to be competitive (and not just dismissed as "superheroes") at the end-game, it's been well known that Item Shops are a necessity. And the developers make damn sure that's the case.
and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops
Another cookie cutter MMO game with specified classes already chosen for you and overanimated ugly graphics, bought to you by the idiots of IJJI and all the other ones out there.
"Life is not judged by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
F2P is not a lie. You are an idiot if you think there are free lunches in this world. The item shop should be based on supply and demand. If it's too expensive and hardly anyone buys anything, they will drop the price. If they don't, they must be doing something right, despite some teenagers whining on a mmorpg.com forum. Personally I enjoy F2P games (I used to condemn it when the concept first came out) because I have the freedom to control how much I spend, rather than being forced to pay a fixed fee every month. Sometimes I am busy or have to go on a trip for a week or two, and I feel like I've wasted part of my subscription fee. Or sometimes I have alot of free time and I don't even need to buy anything from the shops, I can choose to grind it out.
I find it hilarious that some kids feel the need to point out the fact that F2P games are, in fact, not free. Nice one.
I find it hilarious that you try to insult us by calling us teenagers when you have no idea of who we are and how old we are. It says everything about the quality of the rest of your points.
Your last statement is confusing. Are you saying that it is obvious that 'F2P' games are not 'free' and you don't need us to point it out? Bascially, are you agreeing with us?
If you are, then that would contradict your opening statement yes?
Just because there are idiots in this world who believe obvious lies, it dosent mean they arnt still lies.
I play some of the f2p games occassionally, I actually prefer the subscription games, I feel I get much more for my money.
As to playing them without the cash shop, sure that is not a problem at all, you can even eventually reach the end game in them if you really play a lot. But to be realistic, reaching the end game in any of these f2p games requires using the cash shop. They make leveling at the higher levels such a heavy task that you have to purchase items to lessen it.
I personally don't know anyone that has reached end game in any of these games without use of the cash shop. I suppose there are some, but they have far more free time on their hands than most of us.
As to Perfect World, I have been playing it since August and it is no different from the rest, you will be using the cash shop at higher levels despite what some have said above. Not a big deal if you recognize that you are facing a significant outlay if you want to reach the end game. It is certainly your choice. At least this eastern game has some pretty good character customization with it, unlike many of the other f2p MMO's.
But let's be realistic here, this game in no way compares to any of the subscription games, they have far more content and things to do. Subscription games still own this genre when it comes to gameplay.
The same goes for me. I don't care if I have to pay as long as I enjoy my ride.
In several of the f2p games (i.ex PW, Rappelz) you can get the cash shop items from players for free ingame (you just purchase them from player shops, there is no RMT involved).
I had much more fun in PW, Rappelz, Shayia while I played them than I had in several of the p2p games. So you can't talk for all of the games, but I agree that there are much better p2p games.
I play the f2p games when I am bored with the p2p ones, or when I have nothing to play while I am waiting for the next game to come out. The good thing here is that my characters are always there and ready to play for free whenever I want, no need to pay for p2p that isn't worth it.
I played the original Perfect World International (which was the Malaysian server everyone seems to refer as being just the Malaysian server) up until like level 30 something. I just realized that I was wasting a lot of time playing the game. I played through the whole Public Closed Beta and from day 1 of Open Beta. I never bought a thing from the cash shop with my own cash. I bought some costumes in game but they were relatively cheap seeing that the game had pretty much just started and people that bought colors they didn't want needed to resell. I do agree that it is pretty pricey to buy all the stuff you want in game. But as someone else mentioned some people just bought stuff purely to support the game. The vice guild leader of my guild spent $40 on the Chinese version of the Malaysian server and then $40 on the English version. I believe she stopped about level 60, as much of my guild did. The grind just got to be too much for them.
But I have to say that the game was one of the best f2p games I've played. The customization of course was awesome. I enjoyed the music in game. Werefox was one of the coolest classes I've ever played (seriously more mmos need a class like that) and I liked doing the FB dungeons. It was overall just really fun. But there were points where I just realized I was wasting time playing the game. I know most hobbies are just time fillers, but I'm more of a console gamer and although I do play some mmos still (looking forward to two currently) I prefer a console game with an added online feature. Mostly because everyone is truly equal, unlike in mmos where it's difficult to really be equal.
And although I do understand that f2p games do add up eventually if you spend a lot, I am very sure there are some people who have played to end game without ever spending a cent of their own money. Whether they buy in game or not shouldn't be a factor. Because they made that money playing the game, and hence it is still 100% FREE to them. So free to play is possible, you just have to be willing enough.
Perfect World International looks set to forever live in Aions Shadow. Who'd play this over Aion?
im a CB (closed beta) player and i found no evidence of the stuff i highlighted in red probely bc its still in beta, and also bows r made by blacksmith in the pwi version the stuff in blue i changed bc this is probely takeen from one of the asian version thus the other names
If I may..
BigMango, get out. You haven't reached 50+ OBVIOUSLY.
I have a level 60 Elf Archer, and I have played with PWI (This version) and the PW-My-EN(Maylasian version in english.)
The PW-My-EN Version has a cash shop thats litteraly, 50%+ less than this one, PWE is scamming people who play PWI.
There's a thread on going at the moment about how expensive this game is, 70+ pages and still no change.
Once you hit 60+ (which I doubt because you sound like a person who gets to level 20 and only plays an hour a day after that and then goes on forums and says how awesome the game is until you really do realize leveling 60+ without cashshop is impossible. No, not exagerating, it's impossible.)
Let me tell you why, 60+ you are forced to grind, the only way to grind is with zhen partys, basically giant AOE partys where your mana goes by so fast that with 3 skills your back to 0.
Now, you can buy cash shop HP and Mana heiros which go by per hour, since they are 2.5$ in this version each, that's 5$ an hour. In PW-My-En, it was around 2 dollars for both. And you don't make enough money from doing this to be able to keep buying the Hieros (auto pots basically) from drops. And 3 classes in this game can AFK in aoe partys since their skills keep auto doing it by themselves. So this is also a bonus to having heiros.
OR.. you can do the non cash shop way, and use pots. This is impossible. Reason? Every 3 aoe's(10 seconds) you'd have to use the largest mana pot for your level. This means you'd be spamming pots every 10 seconds, and pots in this game are extremely expensive from NPC..) meaning if you had around 500k and spend it all on mana pots, it'd go buy in around 1 or 2 hours. While not being able to afk aoe, and having to constantly pot every 10 seconds. On top of this, you would only make back 100k from the time you spent leveling. This means you have to go and farm money for 5 hours to make back that 500k to go back and level for 1 hour.
And people don't want non heiro users in their party, you can imagine why. Having someone leave your party every 1 hour, it gets to be a pain since setting up the aoe party is a bitch.
Therefor you either have to pay to play this game 60+, or you can quit.
Simple choice if you're not going to pay. And I wouldn't pay for the current prices either. PWE is ripping everyone off.
This game starts out free/cheap at first. And then you get up past lvl70. You can farm TT70 armor (which is needed for playing lvl70 instances) but by the time you get all the mats, you will be lvl80. That is unless you have weeks to sit in front of your computer and farm for 24 hours a day for a month.
And then you hit 80 and the mats for armor get even harder to get. After that is 89 where you decide on Demon or Sage culti. Now you need skill books for the path you choose. Farming them literally will take years. but don't worry. You can buy them for $30 each. And you only need 18 or so of them.
Now for the real headache. PWE took some in-game content out of the game. So you have to "chip" mats for TT99 gear. Meaning you need to trade Mysterious Chips and coin. You can get them as Bounty Hunter awards after you hit 100....except that without TT99 gear, you won't survive the dungeons. Sooo....you cash shop them. Don't give up yet though. For four pieces of armor, it is only around $1,000 in US currency.
Say you do want to excel on the server. And you want to join a faction that actually does Territory Wars. Since all the maps have been taken over by factions full of well-geared lvl100+s, a TW faction will expect you to be the same. But don't fret. There is always Rank 8 armor if you're willing to spend another couple of thousand dollars. Or Rank 9 if you are willing to sell your car. There is also Warsoul Gear that you USED to be able to farm. It's not that expensive, really. You can get the weapon for a mere $27,000.
Have I metioned the horrible lag that gets you killed? Or the $6 charms that you have to buy weekly to keep you alive because pots won't? What about the horrible customer service? Or the "24 hour chat assistance" that never has anyone there?
This company is making $6,000,000 a year off of stupid people. I refuse to be one of them any longer. I lvl'd an archer to lvl101 and I can tell you right now. PWI is NOT free to play.
GhostNTM
I'm happy to finally find a game that has an XP loss. That alone makes it better to me than Aion. This game brings me back to the fun I had in L2.