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ArcheAge: Launch Day for All
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
Today marks the official free to play ArcheAge launch for all players. Founders enjoyed a somewhat frustrating head start experience over the past weekend but things seem to, at least prior to today's grand opening, have stabilized and all players are welcome to join in.
The time has come! ArcheAge, the long awaited, free-to-play fantasy sandbox MMORPG from Trion Worlds and Korean game developer XLGAMES, officially launches today. ArcheAge is an MMORPG adventure where players can choose their own paths and progressions and create a world where the possibilities are endless. From building elaborate homes and farms, and sailing ships to faraway lands to construct castles, ArcheAge’s PvP system allows players to fight for glory in huge battles on land or sea, or live the life of a pirate free from constraints!
Find out more on the ArcheAge site.
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Mission in life: Vanquish all MMORPG.com trolls - especially TESO, WOW and GW2 trolls.
This has been nothing but a disaster so far, and it keeps getting worse.
They also started to sell packs in Archeum/Gold/Silver pricings with significantly better contents than the pre-purchase packs of the same price, as if they couldn't say "thanks for your money now fuck off" any more clearly.
Many of us had very little playtime so far in the 'early access' because of severe server instability, and many people still didn't receive the stuff they paid for, while others received double (or even 8 times, including 6+ months of subscription time). Now, apparently they also gave F2P accounts 3 free months of Patron status, screwing over the queue's and serving as an additional slap in the face to all those who paid for it.
Currently a big -1 Trion... the very worst? No word on compensations, showing the pure greed this company has right now.
What are the new packages like?
Mission in life: Vanquish all MMORPG.com trolls - especially TESO, WOW and GW2 trolls.
504 - Gateway Timeout.
Site's down I guess?
There is no numbers, but all available servers have queue.
Gazillions of people storming the gates, ofcause that needs time.
Let the games begin already ^^
I'd link you the page but the website is down... Add that to the list as well.
In short however, the new packs contain outright greater value than the same-costing pre-launch versions, upwards to around 50-60 euro's difference in actual value according to some forum math. Trion justifies this difference because pre-launch customers had a 4 day 'head start'... which wasn't much of a head start.
Yep, Till now it looks really bad.
* Head start with oerpopulated, crashing servers.
* Preorder content delivered with huge delay (on EU servers).
* Long servers Queue. (>1h of waiting). Ingame lag + crashes.
* New packs proving that preorder buy was a huge mistake.
Yeah, Kyprosa (my original server) is almost unplayable. As in literally you have to wait 1-2 hours every time.
There was also no point in head start as they pretty much opened the nice servers now. The original servers are suffering from horrible lag and long queues. I am not sure if the new packages are better though. They don't get any credits in these new packs, except for like 1.5k for the msot expensive one.
Mission in life: Vanquish all MMORPG.com trolls - especially TESO, WOW and GW2 trolls.
I played a lot ...Saturday - Monday. Got a good 30+ hours in. Game play was smooth, the severs did not crash one time...not once!
Sure...their where lots of players...it was crowded...that's to be expected. My longest time waiting to get in was about 15 minutes.
Friday was a nightmare...true and I was frustrated then, I couldn't get past the account verification page...but that was fixed by Saturday and I still got my money's worth since.
People here are seriously over reacting.
enjoy your luck. But your experience was the exception as opposed to the norm. I got barelty 8 hours over the course of the weekend. I wish I had your luck.
because in a game with land ownership server merges are tricky
Right now the masses are trying out a niche game and Trion/XL will probably be happy if as much as 1/10th of the people are still around a month from now
Rift - One of the smoothest launch in MMO history.
Archeage - One of if not the worse launch in MMO history.
Queuing in midday on GMT for a patron status, unbelievabe.
I'll definitely try and play Archeage at some point.
But I don't really have time for shoddy launches atm, so I'll wait until they've sorted themselves out a bit more.
Feel free to use my referral link for SW:TOR if you want to test out the game. You'll get some special unlocks!
Would you say the launch is on par with Vanguard?