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AE has a playerbase probably more dedicated than that of UO or Everquest players, hence their reviews. The person who posted on the AE forums to vote wasn't a dev he was a player. I voted a 10 simply because I want to attract players to the game, but here are my personal views on the game I will use the mmorpg.com review system:
Graphics 7: The graphics are smooth, but some could be improved and some can be choppy.
Sound 8: The music is great, player/monster sounds are good bar a few, and spell sounds are definitely the coolest of them all
Role Playing 3: There used to be a great number of roleplaying in the community, but it has since died out.
Value 7: $8.75 a month, you get what you expect
Fun 7: keeps me from getting bored
Community 10: Simply one of the greatest communities I've seen in an mmorpg.
Performance / Lag 10: Servers might be rebooted once every month at most. I barely ever get lag.
Customer Service 9: You usually get same day response with customer service. They're understand, but I disagree with some of their polices so they lose a point :P
Here are my views on the pros and cons on gameplay:
Pro's
- PVP system is probably the best aspect of the game
- Community is excellent
- Outstanding customer support
- Insane Dev/player communication. Devs are usually posting on the forums on a daily basis and acknowledging suggestions by players.
Con's
- Updates aren't that constant, but however they come in bulk. Updates are usually massive
- Tedious grind (this may be a pro to some, since a few like large grinds)
- Retarded AI (IWG recently revealed some info on the new AI and it looks really promising)
- Alignment System (to me this is the most abusable aspect of the game, I don't see how it's been in so long)
What's with you and the whole 3D thing? Who cares if a game is 3D? I just care if it's fun :P
Oh I see I should be playing 3D games from now on. What the hell were they thinking when they made "classics" like chrono-trigger or zelda. Those games are far inferior since they're 2D. How primitive.
Oh I see I should be playing 3D games from now on. What the hell were they thinking when they made "classics" like chrono-trigger or zelda. Those games are far inferior since they're 2D. How primitive.
Would you pay 9 dollars a month for them? and yes they are primitive. Dont think anyone would deny this. This goes down as the worst debate i have ever seen. 2d vs 3d hmm.
I'm just saying. Just because a game is 3D doesn't make it better than every 2D game ever made. Graphics aren't really the heart of a game. It's just an appearance.
See what I'm talking about when I said AE players being "fair"?
They rank it a 10 but in reality, they don't think it's a 10, they just hope they will attract a random newbie.
Of course I want to attract a random newbie. The more players, the bigger the community, and the increased funds means increased updates. Which means the game will improve at an accelerated rate.
Man, these guys still don't get my point here. The ranking system isn't for advertising.
But then again, every game has their share of fanboys, so I'll just leave it be here.
Of course it is. However, in the past AE has received high ratings in mpogd.com and even though it's a review site, from the high ratings we received a surge of new players. It helps quite a lot.
First of all I, the creator of this thread, am not advertising. I have played several other MMORPGS, among them Ragnarok, Blade Mistress, Runescape and Priston Tale. None of those comes even close by the gaming level of Ashen Empires.
Secondly, Ashen Empires is not 2D, it is Isometric. I guess you 1337 players don't even know what that means.
Third, if you treat everybody new on this forum like you treated me (and the others that posted in favor of AE) my intensions of spreading my point of view is totally useless, because this site will be doomed to fail.
Fourth, if you don't know the game just STFU, your opinion does not have any value.
Fifth, if everybody in here acts like this boards community I wonder if AE would improve having you aboard.
Why would you give a crap in the first place if we promote our game? Scared that your well funded corporate ran mmo might lose players? Looking for an argument? People will discover if they like or dislike the game by playing it. Not by what people say.
I like the list of other MMOs you have played, because all it does is simply confirm what many others have been saying throughout this topic--that AE is just another cheap MMO designed for those who play with incredibly low-tech systems. That's not neccessarily a dig or anything, but is a pretty accurate assumption. For a criminal amount of nine dollars a month for a game this sorry looking, the only players they are going to get and keep are those that can't run anything else. That's what they're aiming for.
Also, yes I'm sure everyone knows what an Isometric game is. So it's not 2D...it's 2 1/2D. Amazing technicality you pointed out there. 5 points.
OK then answer me this.
How come more and more players that played AE before, then started to play WoW (or similar so they have the right requirements) when TKO took over, get back to AE after a while when IWG takes over and tell us the graphics of WoW might look cool, but the game itself sucks if the game only attracts those with low requirements?
As I said in the post you are responding on, if you don't know anything about the game, you can' t judge it. Sofar everything you know about AE is what you have been told by someone who did his upmost not to like AE so he could tell us AE is just crap.
You all made a very big fool of yourself to make statements about AE that you can't back up with your own knowledge of AE. All you know about is graphics, for you better graphics = better game.
Then to think the mmorpg.com community tells us we are pathetic...
edit: directed towards darquenblade, I thought by replying to his post I would automaticly quote him (which is what I am used to when posting on 3 other forums)
I love how some of you like to dwell on the graphics quality of the game. My system is about as high end as it gets, yet after having tried some of the dazzling new super graphic games Ive come to the following conclusion: High end graphics while at times beautiful, amount to nothing more than glorified eye-candy if they lack substance in game play. Frankly Ive found that the fancy graphics have a short shelf life and bog down the interface. I enjoy AE for the reasons I listed in my first post: Great Community, great skills with no class limitations, excellent Dev/GM interaction and support and most importantly here for those of you that like to judge games by their covers and not their content: A simple and clean interface.
Considering the voting of some other AE players here (I didn't vote yet, but I think I will hand out 9's mostly), for some of you WoW, RYL, D&L, may have perfect graphics, I prefer the Isometric graphics of AE, when I play a game, I want to see it is a game, if I want reality I go outside.
WoW might get a 10 from you, from me it does not get more than 6 or 7 (if it was not a game it would have gotten a 9)
AE might get a 4 or 5 from you, from me it would get a 9 (if it was not a game it would have gotten a 6 or 7).
On a side note, you can't find a rate that is called a 10 in my dictionairy.
Oh btw... you know what is funny about AE? Even those that stopped playing (diversity of reasons) keep asking about the game. I still speak several people online who used to play AE years ago, but they all ask me on a monthly (some even weekly) base how things are on AE. AE definately makes online friends.
I know if I was a newbie to MMORPGs, I would try AE from reading this post if:
1) You guys didn't all come at the same time and spam the hell out of this thread
2) You guys came to this site and wanted to share your game by yourself, not because someone on your forums said "post a few times so you can rank the game".
3) Honesty on the ranking system, instead of raising it to it's highest hoping to get a random newbie.
You guys still have much to learn about how to advertise on a forum, having 5 people register at the same time and post about how good the game is isn't good strategy. An average person won't go "wow, look, so many people like that game, I think I will try it out". Instead, the average person would go "why are these people spamming about how good their game is, and are giving dishonest rankings".
The average person wants to go into a thread, hoping that only 1 or 2 people actually give truly honest reviews, give a few negatives about the game (regardless of how well it is, there are negatives), and believe it or not, if an average MMORPG player sees that the person posted negatives after the horde of positives about the game, they will think they are truly honest and really want to get people to see the real game, not just all the positives. We don't want exaggerated comments and positive info about the game also, nothing like "WOW! AFTER TKO LEFT AND IWG CAME TEH GAME WAS TEHz AWESOME!".
Whether you take this as advice or just another flame, is up to you, I could care less anymore