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Red Returns To ArcheAge: Unchained - MMORPG.com
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Red Returns To ArcheAge: Unchained - MMORPG.com
Red Thomas jumps back into the MMO scene with ArcheAge: Unchained. Is it worth picking up or is this just another cash-grab that should be given a pass? Red diagnoses his experience inside.
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Might as well rename it to ArcheAge: Dailychain
Ignoring the major abuse of it already that allowed many players/guilds to gather massive amounts of gold at the start of Archeage Unchained, marginalizing any other economical gameplay content, the system itself just downplays any "sandbox" aspect of the game of logging in and doing what you want to do. If that was going out just fishing, trading, or enjoying whatever aspect of Archeage you wanted without being required to grind specific aspects of the game for Diligence coins and progression. And many hours of grind at that.
The class system is meh. There's always meta classes. You basically have five roles: Tank, Healer, Melee, Archer, Mage. There is not 220 "viable" classes. You pick a role and can interchange some skillsets easily enough, gear is the factor that decides you're overarching Role really. There are no real hybrids.
I believe you can find some fun in AA:U playing casual as long as you don't mind being uncompetitive and ignore the "political" spectrum of the game.
Meh. 2/10.
Not balanced enough for buy 2 play and horrible release ( I judge it harsher there compared to a themepark simply because it's focus and main draw being competitive open-world faction PvP and Land-owning Dynamics).
No, they are better than GW2 dailies. ArchePass quests are weekly now anyway, they just changed it. They can get boring but at least the rewards are very worthwhile, unlike in GW2.
Basically, you choose a reward track and are given quests at random that reward gold, xp and archepass xp. You get more rewards each time you gain an archepass level. At the moment, you can reroll the quest you were given for free 6 times a day and can complete 100 archepass quests each week. The quests can be anything from gain 2000 honor to kill 20 enemies in a certain zone to kill a world boss.
There's an optional premium pass that you can buy for your chosen track that gives more rewards (all cosmetic). The premium rewards are retroactive though so you can finish a track first and, if you want to, get the premium pass to get all the cosmetic rewards.
The cosmetics on offer aren't convincing me I'll ever want to buy a premium pass, personally. I'd rather strut around in my armor, fanks.
Keep in mind, this isn't our full review, simply Red's weekly column. @Jensyn is hard at work reviewing the whole game and we'll have that soon.
Cheers!
Except besides the Archepass they have literally made this game what people wanted for fucking years. No p2w, hard stance on cheaters, good reasonable labor gated progression. These bullshit comments you make are one of the worst things I see on this site.
Found the fanboy.
Reasons - bugs and exploits, too many to count. They did no valid testing or fixed it on time.
Way too many dailies turned it into themepark, Archeage should be sandbox. It is nice to have many choices but they made it too grindy and obligatory to do dailies not to lose progress.
They also forgave the people which missused exploits and announced they will not release new server with healthy economy and fixed game, thats spitting in the face of average players.
Not sure what their reasons are, but Gamigo is burning down its own servers.