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ArcheAge 5.0 'Relics of Hiram' to Launch on October 24th
SBFord
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ArcheAge 5.0 'Relics of Hiram' to Launch on October 24th
Trion Worlds has announced that ArcheAge 5.0 "Relics of Hiram" will launch on October 24th. Players will find a huge expansion that brings new locations to explore, gear to collect and enemies to fight. The anticipated Maledication skill set will also be part of 5.0 and adds 45 new dark magic class combinations for players to master.
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1: Pay to win. Massive gear gaps between players creates a huge imbalance.
2: Requiring a subscription to own any land or home. Unless your life was AA you had to pay.
3: The labor system . Nobody likes it or ever will. It pervents people from doing what they want to do. A feature no Mmorpg in there right mind should ever consider.
I dont think anything related to launch killed the game 2-3 years later. What killed the game was the things i mentioned above .And I agree with your statement they they caused the games demise THEMSELVES. I will elaborate on #2 I had a friend that played the game totally free for 5 months along with me who was subbed he spent 10 days a month 8 hours a day grinding for premium. Now if this restiction of housing was not in place it would have drawn more players. I don't know many people who would do what my friend did just to be able to own a house . And I will also say this. Owning farms gave players a huge advantage over people who did not own any farms .
Remove Pay 2 Win.
Remove the ability to have alts... Just keep everyone limited to 1 account PERIOD. (yes I know there's ways around this but it's not so easy for everyone)
Make the game Pay to play like Black Desert or Albion Online
Have a cash shop for mounts and other cosmetics and housing stuff etc.. no boxes or regrade charms etc..
Remove Obsidian Gear & Hirim gear..... keep everything based on crafted gear like the game was suppose to be and bring back Hasla as a decent alternative like a small catch-up mechanic while they're working on getting their own Epherium and Delphinad..
Which is another point... REMOVE ANAYAD gear.. ideally.. I'd say go back to old school launch days like 1.2 or 1.4
I've heard from SOOOOOOO many people that back when the game was in lunch or even beta were the best days of the game..
This has been said time and time again also a lot of people I know want a subscription based server so they could do that as well.. soo many things that the ArcheAge community has called for but XL/TRION doesn't want to listen to their player base. They are just digging themselves a hole even more but I think by this time XL just doesn't care... They are most likely already working on a new title and ArcheAge for them is just a money net. They're slowly but surely milking every last bit of the game they can before they just decide to not develop the game any further and then pull their dev teams n such over to new project(s).
I could put more things, like the horse equalization, the labyrinth clothes with no stats, the coinpurse as a only way to get gold from mobs, only way to really make gold was to having land and doing tarde runs, crafted gear being hard to craft, labor potions (comunity said not some whales wanted, then after some time they put it anyway), and that was just some issues, so much potential wasted, kinda remembers me RFonline
Wow just saw this:
North America Aranzeb, Kyrios, Reckoning, Vengeance, and Kraken will evolve into Aria
Conviction and Thunderwing will evolve into Kadum
Must mean another Fresh Start server coming too. Hilariously predictable.
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE:
Maleficent Skills are basically the Abyssal Skills. So what happened to the abyssal skills people spent resources to get?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Epic Hiram gear is Equivalent to Mythic Ayanad gear. You can't trade this gear or sell to other player. People are going to get a refund the abyssal skills they spend. Hiram gear is better than crafted gear because you can change stats.
Crap, anyway. It had some potential.
And hey, If you use Paypal to buy all your stuff and you dont like the game JUST REFUND!
TLDR Long time player, Its just a rant Don't fall for Trion
Not only that, but some players such as myself used to "Swipe APEX" for hundreds of dollars sell them on the market, and quickly buy in-game land, for players who did this back in the day acquire massive amounts of land, then get screwed over by "Trion Worlds" every single "Server Evolution" as they call it you lose everything.
On top of this the game is heavily Pay 2 Win due to the Labor system.
The only plus side to the game is the crafting system is good, but that's about all I could find good about it is the crafting system, housing models and stuff compared to BDO.
Fixed that for you.
Both groups needed each other. Combat focused players needed carebears to make stuff for them and carebears needed the combat focused players to buy their stuff. Everything just worked!
Personally, I didn't give a stuff about PvP or gear, I just spent my days farming and selling stuff on the Auction House. It was glorious!
But then they decided to kill the carebear playstyle. As somebody already mentioned, there's no reason to own land anymore, because nobody needs farmed or crafted goods.
For reasons I can only attribute to greed and stupidity, they systematically destroyed the wonderful economic system that kept carebears so engaged with the game.
Now, all ArcheAge is, is just another game where you grind gear and kill stuff. BORING!
So if you're not into combat, then there's absolutely nothing to do in ArcheAge for carebear players. This update offers nothing for us. I couldn't care less about it. So I won't be going back.
Go play on the private server. Most of what you mentioned here is
Play on the private server, you are only allowed to have one account and you get 40 labor every 5 mins. Also patron is free and you get it automatically when you make an account and it never expires