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Albion is now Free to Play and not bad at all
Xateric
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Returned to Albion - joinalbion.com for it's free to play model and was pleasantly surprised at all the new PVE and PVP content. I think they are on the right track. The Free to Play brought back one heck of a lot of players.
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( Note to self-Don't say anything bad about Drizzt.)
An acerbic sense of humor is NOT allowed here.
When they launched their site back in 2013 they advertised the game as the second coming of UO. They took part in forums and reddit conversations saying so as well. They stated that the game was to be one open world with absolutely no instances. They said the grinding would be absolutely minimal. They said that the game would not have zerging. They said everything player built could be stolen or destroyed, right down to housing (which I didn't get as it was supposed to be more UO like). I invested my money into the game based upon those requirements.
It was only a little while after they sold a shit ton of founders packs based upon those false promises that they removed all mentions of UO, DAOC and Shadowbane from their site. Me and MANY others complained on their forums about the changes they suddenly made after they got our money. I requested my money back and they refused.
During an AMA on reddit a couple years after I called them out on the UO references. They said at no time was Ultima Online EVER written on their site. "Oh yeah?" I wrote... then provided this link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130304105346/http://albiononline.com/our-vision/
First fucking paragraph ass hats. Then I provided even more links to chats and forum posts showing how they pulled a bait-and-switch. No response. AMA ended and they just took off.
Snipped from their site:
"a game which reduces zerging & grinding to a minimum."
"a game which you can play on any device."
"a game where you can loose everything you did build up."
"We don’t want it to be a pay to win game."
Yeah... so tons of grinding is in the game, zerging is a very big part of the game, you can't play on Linux or iOS like they stated. Houses/Farms are instanced as well as dungeons. And you can pay to advance faster than other players.
Supporting Albion Online means supporting dirty business practices. And this is why you see the game bad mouthed so much. There are a lot of ex-UO, Shadowbane and DAOC players who were sold on another game. It was both the first and last time I ever bought a "founders" pack.
It can be played on all platforms.
You reap what you sow.
Look at how EVE ended up, now they are adding nothing but PVE content because who wants to get ganked every hour.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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It feels like a mobile game, it plays like a mobile game.
It's boring and uninspired.
Played for a week - and that's all I could stomach.
That is not an easy feat on its own and the gigantic number of failures on games that wanted to do stuff like EvE that is the game Albion resembles shows it.
Its development path is also showing quite positive results with the direction they are taking, the last major updates have done the game wonders this year, especially for PvE content.
Now if you don't like a game like EvE Online then don't come play Albion expecting something else then get salty about it, the game is also guild-based for its core content, solo players are not going to have a fun experience either.