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Cash Shop Dependant
Saya98
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Hey all I don't care who answers this but I need someone that is currently playing the game and that knows for sure, alright can you play this game without buying from the cash shop and if so can people trade you cash shop items? and is there anything in the item shop worth buying that would make a huge difference in your game play?
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it depends. if your ok with other players being better then you, then no its not cash shop dependent. but if you want to be the best, then ya it'll cost you a few $100. you need to use the item mall is you want to max out your gear for PvP, but that's common in most F2P games. you can buy diamonds for gold, which are used to buy the items in the cash shop, but that's pretty expensive. but for the most part, you don't need the item shop.
To make it sure: if you dont want to, you dont have to spend real money. As quickman mentioned, you can buy the item-shop currency (diamonds) with ingame-gold, so with a good business sense u can make Gold in the Auctionhouse und buy DIamonds to buy for eg a mount or some experience potions.
Well thanks guys I will download the game and give it a shot, I mean it looks fun only thing I will have to work on is getting a mount to be able to keep up with the people who have one already. Pve gear should not be to hard to get I think.
The games currency is diamonds. They can be traded in-game through the Auction house. You can buy diamonds with in-game gold, or buy gold with diamonds.
You can also "gift" Item Mall items and diamonds to people in-game.
The mount is probably the most substantial thing people like to buy, as you can have it at level 1, and it gets you around a lot faster. But you can also rent horses, if you don't have money to spend, so you can still have mounts without the item mall.
There is player housing in the game, so there's a lot of furniture, and many other "cosmetic" items you can buy, depending on what you like.
...'how to say this'...If you want to level faster, their is exp and tp potions, and other one-time use items that can aid you.
The game is a little gear-dependent. Some of the players who want only the best, and as fast as possible can spend a lot. It depends how fast you want to reach top level, and how badly you want to be #1.
There are items in the game that you can use to craft better gear, and there are similar items in the Item Mall to help you craft faster.
Basically, some will tell you otherwise, but it is because it depends on what they want. But, truly, everything in the game is possible without the Item Mall. There is only Item Mall items that help you do things faster. No weapons or armor(there are costumes but they have no attributes on them, only for looks).
Give it a try, see for yourself if it is the kind of game you'd enjoy.
It also depends a lot on how you have fun in an MMORPG.
Hope this helps.
Just One MMOre
Hello I have a 50/50 ton on osha which i left and now have two 55/55 toons on reni before i left so being someone who has played from the beginning i would like to offer some real information lol. First yes u can do it all in rom with no cash shop........ umm all the way to lvl 52 or 53 maybe........ the game has the really cool idea of ripping stats from gear u find and quest rewards then being able to stack these stats (like 45 wis or 35 int) onto your gear.
I have played this whole time for free i have perm mounts and use pur fusion stones (CS item to rip stats) with no money but it is an incredible amount of grinding and selling them hoping for a good deal on the diamonds (cs currancy) in the auction house, aside from the constant class nerfing and the patches breaking the patch that fixed the patch that broke the patch before it going on constantly and the continually broken or unfinishable quests.
the cash shop is fully required if u want to see the end game . the instances are so terribly over tuned the only way to get there is building gear using stats u rip from previous dungeons to put on the gear u have now . they continually destroy the value of things u have now in the hopes u will grind another 100 dungeons in search of the one piece of gear or items u need. which in turn wears down your gold from repair costs and potions meaning u have to either find a nich for selling items (almost impossible as everyone undercuts everyone anymore) or when your not grinding dungeons your grinding trash mobs for gold so u can buy the item from cash shop u need to make grinding the instances worth it.
The game had soo much potential it isnt even funny but somewhere along the way true item mall based game greed has taken over and the game is suffering for it my guild shut down becuase the player base has fallen to such lows anymore there's not enough people around to fill them anymore.
before i quit i still had quests from 3 months ago i could not finish and these cries go mostly unanswered. hope u enjoy the grind, the nerfing, and the constant server down time as it seems now every other patch puts the servers off line , as u watch the heaviest cash shop users leave everyone else behind (even within the same guilds) rom comes down to find the stats i need so i can build some gear to get to the next dungeon i need to find the stats so i can rebuild my gear for the next dungeon i need so i can.... well u get the picture soon as u build some cash shop gear u rinse and repete
On a side note i do like the way the one post that says you can do it without the cash shop is also a Runes of Magic Correspondent .................................................................................
If all you are concerned about is raiding and nothing else, you might feel like your doing the same thing over and over again, because well....aren't you.
You have a choice. The game offers many things.
The same thing goes on in all MMORPGs. There are those that think the game is ruined because they have to do raids over and over and they don't get good enough rewards, fast enough.
The game is growing fast too. Hardly anyone could fight Aichika shortly after Open Beta, but now people are solo-ing as well as Cyclops lair. The new expansion is in may, and the current raids will become more accessible.
It's how all MMORPGs grow. RoM is just doing it very fast(which seems to me to be a wonderful thing - them giving us more so often).
Did you know, that WoW has to fix things everyday? As well as all MMORPGs. I can't convince you of anything but I think that RoM is a terrific game that holds it's own against anyone else(even very large subscription games), and it has the nicest balanced Item Mall out there.
besides everyone always trying to say the new kid on the block looks like it will be better than the games before it, when those aren't even out yet, what games now, especially F2P, are anywhere near as good as RoM?
But whatever you decide to play, happy gaming.
If you read the Job listings on MMORPG.com, that are readily available to anyone who visits the site, you'll see that the position is an unpaid writing job for people to write about games they play and know. So, you could be a RoM correspondent if you applied and they accept your writing style.
Just One MMOre
Allods Online.
Hell, just its graphics beats RoM.
That's actually why I wrote that paragraph, that you quoted.
Every new game that comes out. Same thing. Perfect world? Many said what you're saying, but not about RoM but about some other game that was already out. Aion, same thing, many people are quick to call the next game the best game yet, because it's new. I'm not saying it isn't possible....it worked for RoM
And....Perfect World and Aion are amazingly beautiful. Allods looks good too, but I think Rom looks great too Is that enough? I'm not saying it's bad, I'm saying that everyone uses the new kid as if they know, when right now, beta testers don't even fully know how it will pan out, since they just started implementing their CS, and now we have to wait for open beta.
Plus, from a game review standpoint, it takes an ample amount of time to explore a game. It takes more than just burning through quests. It takes more than just reaching level 10 or 20. Economy, crafting, social tools, different parts of the interface, and how those work for many levels.
I wasn't even quick to judge RoM, it took me a month before I started slipping into addiction. Plus most MMORPGs these days all have great graphics. We've come along way in console and PC gaming. It's more about art appreciation. Do we like one style over the other, not is one ugly and one beautiful, at least that's what I think.
Allods might turn out to be a great game, but nothing is going to take away the success RoM has. I think they've already shown, after a year, and still growing and pumping out new content, that they can stand along the big dogs.
Just One MMOre
well first the Op asked about the item mall not how pretty rom is and to tell them that they CAN do it all without the cash shop is a flat out lie! the point is being brought up about the chicken and cyclops lair instances being solo'd now. so how many people are actually able to solo these bosses without the cash shop built gear? zero and you know it. the only reason people can now solo this is because of the more powerful mods that drop in the new areas to build gear with. also giving examples of bosses and instances noone really cares about or that drop gear higher lvls dont even use anymore is also unfair to the OP.
i will give rom its due it had me hooked its a cool game with a decent battle system, and its fun as hell till endgame cause u dont ralize untill then how much of that cash shop u need to use. but this cannot outweigh that he only people doing the high end instances like hoto. origin. cave of the dragon are all wearing fully stated cash shop made gear and the pvp servers are even more cs dependant and anyone who has played for as long as my friends and i have will tell you straight out the nerfs, constant skill changes patch problems and crashes are becoming the major complaint sure they rush content out faster then most people are used to but what good is broken content if the servers wont even stay online after its added lol
Stick to the question which is can rom be done without cash shop and the answer is no. not if you want to see any end game content. the cash shop can be done without real cash ? YES that is fair to say but to say u dont need cash shop or the items to build real gear in rom is a flat out lie..
It's not a flat out lie. It's not a wavy curvy bodacious lie. Everything in the game is obtainable by everyone, part of what that means, is that you can do anything in game without the Item Mall. If you took out the item mall, everyone would still have access to everything they do now. The Item Mall simply adds toward progression. It speeds up the rate of game play. Some players enjoy playing the same game for 10 years, some want quicker access to different parts of a game, so they buy items that let them skip the time it takes for them to earn it in game(but they could earn it in game, and in fact many people you think are paying, are actually not paying at all).
I addressed the topics that you brought up, and now you want to tell me I'm off course. I am following your lead. I'm sorry for wanting to defend RoM when you bring up Allods being better on the basis of graphics.
I've played since closed beta. The truth is, we may think we have a good idea that 5 or 6 of the overly geared players, maybe, probably used the Item Mall, but we really don't know, and it gets really muddy when you start looking beyond those 5 or 6 players. No one really knows. I've talked to dozens of players over Vent, over this year, and many of them laugh it off when they always get people mad at them for being Pk'd, and they retaliate with a variation of "unfair CS user". There is a very wide margin of error when we try to figure out who has payed and who hasn't.
One of the most illogical parts are never addressed. If paying matters, shouldn't how much someone pays make a big deal? So then, are we only looking at the best geared ones as the payers? or the only ones that matter? Because I know lots of players who were equal in gear(not that it even matters that much) that payed and didn't pay.
Whether you play for 1 year and get that tier 8 +6 SoA, or you paid for the stones and shortened your time to 1 month, you still had to craft it from everything that's available to anyone else in-game.
You don't know how long anyones really played for, or if they spent, and if they did, how much they spent. Broad over-generalizations are all that's possible.
More importantly, why is it important to look at one guy, and then see that he has insane gear, and somehow that lessens your fun in a game that has thousands of players? Everyday I find new people to PvP with, or to hunt down for PK(even though I don't do it much, usually just defense), I always find people at my level to compete with, while steadily continuing to build my character.
Just One MMOre
I can honestly say right now that you dont need to spend ANY REAL CASH to be on top. Me and my brother are currently playing and we raid alot. This is the trick. If you can find a good group to raid with, then stat your gear, then sell it for millions. Then buy diamonds and then buy whatever item mall item you want.
My brother makes about 5 million every week farming for the 50/50 and 55/55 elite items needed to get your skills for your class, and basically undercut all the high prices in the auction house. Then he just buys diamonds that people sells.
It's not a flat out lie. It's not a wavy curvy bodacious lie. Everything in the game is obtainable by everyone, part of what that means, is that you can do anything in game without the Item Mall. If you took out the item mall, everyone would still have access to everything they do now. The Item Mall simply adds toward progression. It speeds up the rate of game play. Some players enjoy playing the same game for 10 years, some want quicker access to different parts of a game, so they buy items that let them skip the time it takes for them to earn it in game(but they could earn it in game, and in fact many people you think are paying, are actually not paying at all).
I addressed the topics that you brought up, and now you want to tell me I'm off course. I am following your lead. I'm sorry for wanting to defend RoM when you bring up Allods being better on the basis of graphics.
I've played since closed beta. The truth is, we may think we have a good idea that 5 or 6 of the overly geared players, maybe, probably used the Item Mall, but we really don't know, and it gets really muddy when you start looking beyond those 5 or 6 players. No one really knows. I've talked to dozens of players over Vent, over this year, and many of them laugh it off when they always get people mad at them for being Pk'd, and they retaliate with a variation of "unfair CS user". There is a very wide margin of error when we try to figure out who has payed and who hasn't.
One of the most illogical parts are never addressed. If paying matters, shouldn't how much someone pays make a big deal? So then, are we only looking at the best geared ones as the payers? or the only ones that matter? Because I know lots of players who were equal in gear(not that it even matters that much) that payed and didn't pay.
Whether you play for 1 year and get that tier 8 +6 SoA, or you paid for the stones and shortened your time to 1 month, you still had to craft it from everything that's available to anyone else in-game.
You don't know how long anyones really played for, or if they spent, and if they did, how much they spent. Broad over-generalizations are all that's possible.
More importantly, why is it important to look at one guy, and then see that he has insane gear, and somehow that lessens your fun in a game that has thousands of players? Everyday I find new people to PvP with, or to hunt down for PK(even though I don't do it much, usually just defense), I always find people at my level to compete with, while steadily continuing to build my character.
Ok first im not putting rom down cause i love the game to death but i cannot put up with the dead servers, constant downtimes (as in the servers failed again just recently) and the inability to finish quests, second please pay more attention to who you are replying too as I never played or have anything to do with allods so i dont know how you keep dragging me in on your replies about that one ????.
And again I never once stated its manditory to pay real money to play this game, As I stated (several times now ) YES the game can be played without spending (your) real life cash I know becuase i proved it (but someones buying the diams i use) anyways back to the original post (AGAIN) You cannot do end game content without real cash its proven and well known by the community of players, whether you choose to spend real cash or in game gold to buy those cash shop items isnt the question here the question is/ was "is the game cash shop dependent" and I will defend my stance that YES it it very cash shop dependent for end game, before you try to go off subject yet again what magical version of rom are you playing that doesnt need the cash shop in anyway to build gear cause i will happily come play that one instead! but if your not using the cash shop to build gear at all i would love to come to your server and watch you struggle your way through the hall of survivors where toons with 18k hp are easily raped and an ungeared toon if lucky will reach 5 k before building gear. alot of good that will do with 2k DoT spells and 5k AoE's I will give it too you yea if you want to wait till a piece of gear someone else built hits the AH then you you can avoid the item shop but that just means someone else did it for you that's all! it was still used to make that gear. so again it was needed by you to get what you wanted
The item mall used for advancing? except for a few xp tp potions alot of the item mall is gear upgrading items runes purs drillers jems lol
Dont really care who has what! never interested me what others got and fail to see how that even falls into a reply on the cash shop lol, the cash shop isnt about vanity here (disregarding the few cosmetics of course)its about the ability to build the gear you must have to survive end game thats all
It almost sounds like your trying to defend/answer several questions while only quoting me when half of your reply(s) has nothing to do with my posts or statements ?????? and again I will stick to my reply - "IF YOU WANT TO DO END GAME U WILL BE USING THE ITEM MALL SOMEHOW thats not a complaint and i dont understand the aggresive stance you have taken in trying to shoot down this fact of the game and try to deny it ? noone asked about real money or in game gold strictly about needing the item shop thats all im not even telling them not to play but a quick trip to the RoM forums will back up anything i say about needing the IM for endgame as the many discussions about what stats to build or what drops to collect and what builds for endgame etc are all over the place.
Again!!! i am not putting RoM or the system down it works and its fun but you cannot see end game with out the item mall facts are facts sorry