Atrocious game! Probably the worst I've played.

XEyeSpyX · July 2008

My first post in this community is not a very positive one. The only reason I feel the need to voice my thoughts and experience here would be for feedback to the developers and staff of this game. So if it's un-welcomed - please ignore and go about your day. This will certainly be my only post here.

As an avid gamer and game reviewer over the past 14 years, I've experienced a wide variety of communities, but nothing as lacking as this one. I must say that there is a massive difference in community behavior considering my last game played and reviewed was Lord of the Rings, where community interaction is respectful, mature, and helpful. I am not used to such a disregard for "newbies" who are learning the ropes of the game. I have to say that rating wise, this game has absolutely, without any good opposition to the opinion, earned a one on a scale of ten. It's atrocious.

I ended up spending about 30 minutes downloading updates. I found it rather irritating that after downloading a very large file, I was forced to download yet even more. The "updates" could have been patched into the original download so that joining members would simply only have to download the game, and maybe ONE update. However, that's my complaint with a lot of gaming companies out there, so I will say that it's worth mentioning, but it's certainly not why I give this game a great big raspberry.

To start, I logged into the game and chose from a whopping three hair styles and colors. May I asked why the face feature is even present if you cannot pick a different face? I was very disappointed in this since the advertisement that drew me to this game claimed how customization of characters was "to my liking". I see no diversity in the selection, and I know no one who is pleased with looking just like 25% of the rest of the playing community. I had four classes to chose from, two genders and three hair styles and hair colors to pick from. Given the odds of who else has chosen my exact make-up in character appearance, I can understand clearly how I would run into a group of people and have difficulty seeing "me" easily. There's only about 20,000 other games on-line who look almost exactly like myself. This would be acceptable if I were not drawn in by a rather misleading photo of diversely customized characters. I understand that things like the outfits may be bought items or quest items, but hair and face should be a given and plenty of options should be available. If anyone doubts my "claims" - I've provided a screen shot on what I am speaking about:

[IMG]http://i521.photobucket.com/albums/w338/eyespydesigns2/fiesta1.jpg[/IMG]

Moving on, the topic above was a minor disappointment that I could work past. However, the community was the final straw for me. After I created my character and logged into the actual game, the FIRST thing that plagued my screen was a persistent, never ending, spam of BUY GOLD - BUY GOLD - BUY GOLD - BUY GOLD - BUY GOLD .... etc...

I spent the first five minutes of my gaming experience trying to teach myself how to mute or block the offending spammer, and then trying to REPORT the spammer, as I would assume gold sales is a violation of TOS and I'm always for reporting that sort of offense. It literally destroys and detracts from a game when you experience this nuisance. However, the report said it was unable to send a report because there is no chat log. Beautiful. I can't even report the offense, and if I could, I wouldn't have known it because I couldn't ASK anyone how to A) block the annoying person, or ask how to get a chat log to send in my report because the spammer was spamming so fast and so much that I couldn't even see if anyone else was speaking around me.

Moving on - I finally figured out how to block the spammer, and was on my way to figuring out how to move. After I found that I needed to press ENTER key to utilize my WASD buttons for moving, I then got stumped on how to get a 360º view of my environment. I was seemingly stuck running either facing away from my screen and right towards my screen, but never really seeing what was around me. I then figured out that I could hold down the right mouse button and press W button to run while seeing my environment fully and in a 360º view. I was pleased with that. So I carried on to complete my tutorial process. I completed it, and started off to learn how to kill things, but quickly found that people would randomly run up to whatever I was working on killing, and kill my kill, leaving me with no experience, no drops, nothing but about 2 minutes of my time wasted. I expect this from time to time as immature and inconsiderate gamers are in every MMO (yes, even in LOTRO there's one every now and again), but every STEP I took was an inconsiderate and immature gamer. This alerted me almost immediately that my gaming environment consisted of a bunch of teenagers who are out on summer vacation.

It was at this point that I threw my hands up in the air and gave up my attempt to like this game. I will not suggest it to anyone, nor will I be returning to this game. I'm sure most members of that game (and their staff) are thinking "Good riddance" to such a negative review, but this is the facts and nothing more. I've not embellished anything to dramatize it up in my favor. I've simply stated what my true and factual experience was on my first day, in the first 20 minutes.

I don't know rather to sarcastically state a bravo to the community for successfully running off potential gamers who are looking for a fun new game, or to say I am sorry to the devs and staff for having to put up with such an unruly group of people. But ultimately, they get what they allow, and if they allow people to spam/flood without consequence (flood controls not coded into the chat obviously), then their community is going to get the short end of the stick.

I'm sorry that I never got a real chance to like this game. It looked interesting, and I'm sure has some very attractive features. However, with the very large and rather "in your face" drawbacks standing in the way, I just never saw past those cons to get to the pros. Unfortunately, I will not be able to list anything positive about my gaming experience in my review of this game. Good luck to OutSpark on improving the problems, if they ever intend to.

Bottom Line Drawbacks:

• Extremely Limited Character Appearance Options.

• Overwhelming number of gold spammers that take over your chat the instant you sign on.

• Very immature community with limited option to learn the game ins and outs.

• Tutorial was very "skim the surface".

• Frustrating after the first 10 minutes.

pibot · July 2008

I realize you'll probably never read this reply or come to this forum ever again, but...

I do think you brought up some valid points concerning the initial download experience (though really this is the same for all MMOs). Also, there are more customization options, but you need to purchase the Beauty Shop Coupon to access them.

I think after you rinitial negative experience, you were out for blood and looking for reasons to hate the game, and after only spending 30 minutes with it and barely scratching the surface, you left and wrote this poorly informed "review."

You mention having issues with the controls, but the game plays IDENTICALLY to LotRO and every other major MMORPG on the market, I don't see how there could have been any confusion there.

crunchyblack · July 2008

Originally posted by XEyeSpyX

My first post in this community is not a very positive one. The only reason I feel the need to voice my thoughts and experience here would be for feedback to the developers and staff of this game. So if it's un-welcomed - please ignore and go about your day. This will certainly be my only post here.

As an avid gamer and game reviewer over the past 14 years, I've experienced a wide variety of communities, but nothing as lacking as this one. I must say that there is a massive difference in community behavior considering my last game played and reviewed was Lord of the Rings, where community interaction is respectful, mature, and helpful. I am not used to such a disregard for "newbies" who are learning the ropes of the game. I have to say that rating wise, this game has absolutely, without any good opposition to the opinion, earned a one on a scale of ten. It's atrocious.

I ended up spending about 30 minutes downloading updates. I found it rather irritating that after downloading a very large file, I was forced to download yet even more. The "updates" could have been patched into the original download so that joining members would simply only have to download the game, and maybe ONE update. However, that's my complaint with a lot of gaming companies out there, so I will say that it's worth mentioning, but it's certainly not why I give this game a great big raspberry.
To start, I logged into the game and chose from a whopping three hair styles and colors. May I asked why the face feature is even present if you cannot pick a different face? I was very disappointed in this since the advertisement that drew me to this game claimed how customization of characters was "to my liking". I see no diversity in the selection, and I know no one who is pleased with looking just like 25% of the rest of the playing community. I had four classes to chose from, two genders and three hair styles and hair colors to pick from. Given the odds of who else has chosen my exact make-up in character appearance, I can understand clearly how I would run into a group of people and have difficulty seeing "me" easily. There's only about 20,000 other games on-line who look almost exactly like myself. This would be acceptable if I were not drawn in by a rather misleading photo of diversely customized characters. I understand that things like the outfits may be bought items or quest items, but hair and face should be a given and plenty of options should be available. If anyone doubts my "claims" - I've provided a screen shot on what I am speaking about:

[IMG]http://i521.photobucket.com/albums/w338/eyespydesigns2/fiesta1.jpg[/IMG]

Moving on, the topic above was a minor disappointment that I could work past. However, the community was the final straw for me. After I created my character and logged into the actual game, the FIRST thing that plagued my screen was a persistent, never ending, spam of BUY GOLD - BUY GOLD - BUY GOLD - BUY GOLD - BUY GOLD .... etc...

I spent the first five minutes of my gaming experience trying to teach myself how to mute or block the offending spammer, and then trying to REPORT the spammer, as I would assume gold sales is a violation of TOS and I'm always for reporting that sort of offense. It literally destroys and detracts from a game when you experience this nuisance. However, the report said it was unable to send a report because there is no chat log. Beautiful. I can't even report the offense, and if I could, I wouldn't have known it because I couldn't ASK anyone how to A) block the annoying person, or ask how to get a chat log to send in my report because the spammer was spamming so fast and so much that I couldn't even see if anyone else was speaking around me.

Moving on - I finally figured out how to block the spammer, and was on my way to figuring out how to move. After I found that I needed to press ENTER key to utilize my WASD buttons for moving, I then got stumped on how to get a 360º view of my environment. I was seemingly stuck running either facing away from my screen and right towards my screen, but never really seeing what was around me. I then figured out that I could hold down the right mouse button and press W button to run while seeing my environment fully and in a 360º view. I was pleased with that. So I carried on to complete my tutorial process. I completed it, and started off to learn how to kill things, but quickly found that people would randomly run up to whatever I was working on killing, and kill my kill, leaving me with no experience, no drops, nothing but about 2 minutes of my time wasted. I expect this from time to time as immature and inconsiderate gamers are in every MMO (yes, even in LOTRO there's one every now and again), but every STEP I took was an inconsiderate and immature gamer. This alerted me almost immediately that my gaming environment consisted of a bunch of teenagers who are out on summer vacation.

It was at this point that I threw my hands up in the air and gave up my attempt to like this game. I will not suggest it to anyone, nor will I be returning to this game. I'm sure most members of that game (and their staff) are thinking "Good riddance" to such a negative review, but this is the facts and nothing more. I've not embellished anything to dramatize it up in my favor. I've simply stated what my true and factual experience was on my first day, in the first 20 minutes.

I don't know rather to sarcastically state a bravo to the community for successfully running off potential gamers who are looking for a fun new game, or to say I am sorry to the devs and staff for having to put up with such an unruly group of people. But ultimately, they get what they allow, and if they allow people to spam/flood without consequence (flood controls not coded into the chat obviously), then their community is going to get the short end of the stick.

I'm sorry that I never got a real chance to like this game. It looked interesting, and I'm sure has some very attractive features. However, with the very large and rather "in your face" drawbacks standing in the way, I just never saw past those cons to get to the pros. Unfortunately, I will not be able to list anything positive about my gaming experience in my review of this game. Good luck to OutSpark on improving the problems, if they ever intend to.

Bottom Line Drawbacks:
• Extremely Limited Character Appearance Options.

• Overwhelming number of gold spammers that take over your chat the instant you sign on.

• Very immature community with limited option to learn the game ins and outs.

• Tutorial was very "skim the surface".
• Frustrating after the first 10 minutes.

Im kinda going to go ahead and make an assumption that this is one of the first F2P mmos youve played. That being said, you will find out that 90% of the f2p games contain the "qualities" you disliked so much about this game. Its kind of a brutal time to play mmo's unless your still hookd on an old p2p game. Korea has seemed to mass produce 100's of "wow killers" with much failure. The reason most of these f2p asian grinder are called grinders, and offer little uniqueness is simple...cash shop. These games are neither free or good long term. See they must make the game unbearably grindy and no uniqueness offerd, otherwise why would you buy items to correct these flaws in their overpriced cash shop. im not familiar with pricing in this games cs but most offer a short term correction for grind, at a price much much more than a month substcription to your favoriote p2p game worth of items in the f2p games cash shop to stay competative or deal with bearable amounts of grind. you will most likely spend a few months of a p2p game buying a month worth of cs items and unique clothes or extra character enhancements...all this for not storyline, a community full of bots/hackers/gold farmers, and a massive grind factor that causes most people to quit way before endgame...not that they give you anything to do at endgame anyway.

pibot · August 2008

Originally posted by crunchyblack

Im kinda going to go ahead and make an assumption that this is one of the first F2P mmos youve played. That being said, you will find out that 90% of the f2p games contain the "qualities" you disliked so much about this game. Its kind of a brutal time to play mmo's unless your still hookd on an old p2p game. Korea has seemed to mass produce 100's of "wow killers" with much failure. The reason most of these f2p asian grinder are called grinders, and offer little uniqueness is simple...cash shop. These games are neither free or good long term. See they must make the game unbearably grindy and no uniqueness offerd, otherwise why would you buy items to correct these flaws in their overpriced cash shop. im not familiar with pricing in this games cs but most offer a short term correction for grind, at a price much much more than a month substcription to your favoriote p2p game worth of items in the f2p games cash shop to stay competative or deal with bearable amounts of grind. you will most likely spend a few months of a p2p game buying a month worth of cs items and unique clothes or extra character enhancements...all this for not storyline, a community full of bots/hackers/gold farmers, and a massive grind factor that causes most people to quit way before endgame...not that they give you anything to do at endgame anyway.

While these generic blanket statements may be accurate for some f2p titles on the market, I'd suggest actually spending some time with a game before wholly basing it. While the OP's comments are largely inaccurate, at least he bothered to play the game, if only for 30 minutes.
The reason I play and continue to enjoy Fiesta is that I can play a high quality MMO (especially compared to most of the other f2p games out there) for a fraction of the price. Many f2p games claim to be "free" but force you to rely on the cash shop like you mentioned. But in Fiesta using the cash shop is genuinely optional, and have only spent about $20 on the game in 4-5 months of playing.

tuathail · November 2008

I played a lot. This game isn't so bad, but I think that there should be an enhancement in Community Interaction among the first levels, and when you reach to higher levels there should be chances for everyone in every level to have fun in PvPs, as sometimes if you are not greatly equipped or leveled, you may fail.

I think that an MMORPG must unite people while playing, and Fiesta is not the example, that's why I quitted.

Liddokun · January 2009

9 out of 10 F2P games suck balls.. they have bad game play, bad game design (apparently dregs from 2002 or earlier asian grinder game design mentality) and it's all about the grind and the cash shop and since the game is F2P pretty much invites everyone to play so it's kinda expected that there will be jerks around (you'll notice them more than the nicer players).

If you want a more pleasant F2P mmo I suggest DOMO (or Dream of Mirror Online). It has a very nice community there and there are practically no gold spammers/sellers since the player community and the GMs work very hard to stamp them out (it literally took months of constant banning on a daily basis by the GM for those gold sellers/spammers to give up).

But don't give up hope, lately there are a slew of high grade F2P mmos coming to the US market (the korean/chinese designers finally learned). F2P may not necessarily be a bad thing anymore.

Some of the better F2P titles that I have played and enjoyed:

Perfect World International

DOMO

Runes of Magic

pixypoo · January 2009

Well.

How stupid must you be, right click the person speaking, select block.

Use mouse/click combo to turn 360degree view did you actually read the pop-ups on screen as you logged in? if you did it would have shown you exactly that....

noob

b2i12 · March 2009

I have to agree with XEyeSpyX I was very dissatified with this game. The number one thing I thought was horrible is the gold spamming this instant you login. Right there that is very poor managment. I also was not impressed with the graphics and the very poor character customation they offered.

All in all I think it was a complete waste of bandwith downloading this game.

Lol sorry disregard the poll accidently hit enter and cannot change haha .

Reln · April 2009

I really like this game,its for me,very easy for beginners.its just that your expectations are just to high.Many people feel the same way like you,but they keep on playing. Why ? Because they want to wait and help and keep giving suggestions to make the fixes so they and future members can enjoy.

Nurabutt · June 2009

Your experiance was a bit worse then my own.

I didn't get spammed with gold selling sites but I did have plenty of community trouble.

Mostly kill stealing little kids.

Kendah.ki · June 2009

Originally posted by XEyeSpyX

My first post in this community is not a very positive one. The only reason I feel the need to voice my thoughts and experience here would be for feedback to the developers and staff of this game. So if it's un-welcomed - please ignore and go about your day. This will certainly be my only post here.

As an avid gamer and game reviewer over the past 14 years, I've experienced a wide variety of communities, but nothing as lacking as this one. I must say that there is a massive difference in community behavior considering my last game played and reviewed was Lord of the Rings, where community interaction is respectful, mature, and helpful. I am not used to such a disregard for "newbies" who are learning the ropes of the game. I have to say that rating wise, this game has absolutely, without any good opposition to the opinion, earned a one on a scale of ten. It's atrocious.

I ended up spending about 30 minutes downloading updates. I found it rather irritating that after downloading a very large file, I was forced to download yet even more. The "updates" could have been patched into the original download so that joining members would simply only have to download the game, and maybe ONE update. However, that's my complaint with a lot of gaming companies out there, so I will say that it's worth mentioning, but it's certainly not why I give this game a great big raspberry.
To start, I logged into the game and chose from a whopping three hair styles and colors. May I asked why the face feature is even present if you cannot pick a different face? I was very disappointed in this since the advertisement that drew me to this game claimed how customization of characters was "to my liking". I see no diversity in the selection, and I know no one who is pleased with looking just like 25% of the rest of the playing community. I had four classes to chose from, two genders and three hair styles and hair colors to pick from. Given the odds of who else has chosen my exact make-up in character appearance, I can understand clearly how I would run into a group of people and have difficulty seeing "me" easily. There's only about 20,000 other games on-line who look almost exactly like myself. This would be acceptable if I were not drawn in by a rather misleading photo of diversely customized characters. I understand that things like the outfits may be bought items or quest items, but hair and face should be a given and plenty of options should be available. If anyone doubts my "claims" - I've provided a screen shot on what I am speaking about:

[IMG]http://i521.photobucket.com/albums/w338/eyespydesigns2/fiesta1.jpg[/IMG]

Moving on, the topic above was a minor disappointment that I could work past. However, the community was the final straw for me. After I created my character and logged into the actual game, the FIRST thing that plagued my screen was a persistent, never ending, spam of BUY GOLD - BUY GOLD - BUY GOLD - BUY GOLD - BUY GOLD .... etc...

I spent the first five minutes of my gaming experience trying to teach myself how to mute or block the offending spammer, and then trying to REPORT the spammer, as I would assume gold sales is a violation of TOS and I'm always for reporting that sort of offense. It literally destroys and detracts from a game when you experience this nuisance. However, the report said it was unable to send a report because there is no chat log. Beautiful. I can't even report the offense, and if I could, I wouldn't have known it because I couldn't ASK anyone how to A) block the annoying person, or ask how to get a chat log to send in my report because the spammer was spamming so fast and so much that I couldn't even see if anyone else was speaking around me.

Moving on - I finally figured out how to block the spammer, and was on my way to figuring out how to move. After I found that I needed to press ENTER key to utilize my WASD buttons for moving, I then got stumped on how to get a 360º view of my environment. I was seemingly stuck running either facing away from my screen and right towards my screen, but never really seeing what was around me. I then figured out that I could hold down the right mouse button and press W button to run while seeing my environment fully and in a 360º view. I was pleased with that. So I carried on to complete my tutorial process. I completed it, and started off to learn how to kill things, but quickly found that people would randomly run up to whatever I was working on killing, and kill my kill, leaving me with no experience, no drops, nothing but about 2 minutes of my time wasted. I expect this from time to time as immature and inconsiderate gamers are in every MMO (yes, even in LOTRO there's one every now and again), but every STEP I took was an inconsiderate and immature gamer. This alerted me almost immediately that my gaming environment consisted of a bunch of teenagers who are out on summer vacation.

It was at this point that I threw my hands up in the air and gave up my attempt to like this game. I will not suggest it to anyone, nor will I be returning to this game. I'm sure most members of that game (and their staff) are thinking "Good riddance" to such a negative review, but this is the facts and nothing more. I've not embellished anything to dramatize it up in my favor. I've simply stated what my true and factual experience was on my first day, in the first 20 minutes.

I don't know rather to sarcastically state a bravo to the community for successfully running off potential gamers who are looking for a fun new game, or to say I am sorry to the devs and staff for having to put up with such an unruly group of people. But ultimately, they get what they allow, and if they allow people to spam/flood without consequence (flood controls not coded into the chat obviously), then their community is going to get the short end of the stick.

I'm sorry that I never got a real chance to like this game. It looked interesting, and I'm sure has some very attractive features. However, with the very large and rather "in your face" drawbacks standing in the way, I just never saw past those cons to get to the pros. Unfortunately, I will not be able to list anything positive about my gaming experience in my review of this game. Good luck to OutSpark on improving the problems, if they ever intend to.

Bottom Line Drawbacks:
• Extremely Limited Character Appearance Options.
• Overwhelming number of gold spammers that take over your chat the instant you sign on.
• Very immature community with limited option to learn the game ins and outs.
• Tutorial was very "skim the surface".
• Frustrating after the first 10 minutes.

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Saruin · August 2009

I played for 2 years. So this is from personal experience.

Community is rather immature, but this is the way the staff responds to them: As long as you buy our cash shop, we don't care what you do.

There are multiple bugs and glitches that need to be fixed, almost no support with the exception of anything that requires use of SparkCash.

There's 5 servers (with a 6th one coming out) yet the game still feels crowded and laggy.

Also, that guy who called OP a noob? Proof of what kind of people play this game.

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