Albion Online

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5.3

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  1. MetaSHTRAN
    Aug 8, 2017
    3
    Game is still buggy even after years of beta. There is not much content for small groups of friends. End game maps are dominated by large guilds. Lack of PvE content as well (Though it is a PvP game). Devs keep restarting the server but keeps losing hours of save data. One day had over 5 restarts and rollbacks. They also by default allow any guild member to take your items on your farm.Game is still buggy even after years of beta. There is not much content for small groups of friends. End game maps are dominated by large guilds. Lack of PvE content as well (Though it is a PvP game). Devs keep restarting the server but keeps losing hours of save data. One day had over 5 restarts and rollbacks. They also by default allow any guild member to take your items on your farm. Prior to joining a new guild, I changed the default setting so only I had access to my island but a rollback reverted this change without me knowing. When I joined the new guild, someone came and stole all my horses which were very expensive. Devs won't even tell me who did it. Losing time and resources because of server issues is so frustrating. Devs have been very slow in dealing with exploits. In 2 weeks there has been at least 4 exploits and none of it fixed though in their fairness they did say they'll ban anyone doing 2 of the exploits but it is still possible to do them.

    On top of that, their support is abysmal. If you lose resources due to any exploits abused by other players, they will tell you tough luck they don't want to do anything to affect the economy even though the situation originated from their lack of insight. If you lose resources due to server issues, they will tell you tough luck we don't have the logs to verify what you lost. This includes losing premium currency! Anyone who had converted premium currency to silver prior to a forced server reset/rollback will lose both the premium currency and silver when they log back on. You would assume any good support will restore either the silver or premium currency but they won't. They'll say they don't have the logs. What!?! I can understand if you don't have the logs if someone lost what they gathered but for PREMIUM CURRENCY? I'm just glad I only lost $5 of premium currency...others have lost over $50. Game concept while cool has been executed poorly. Overall experience has not been great with Albion Online.    … Expand
  2. ntall1
    Jul 26, 2017
    4
    So many bad development choices, the devs seem more like glorified scripters than actual developers.

    The game claims to be a sandbox mmo with full loot pvp and moba combat. Yet the game has a badly designed reputation system that kills all small scale or meaningful pvp throughout most of the world and has a single server for everyone on earth to play on, meaning your moba combat will    So many bad development choices, the devs seem more like glorified scripters than actual developers.

    The game claims to be a sandbox mmo with full loot pvp and moba combat. Yet the game has a badly designed reputation system that kills all small scale or meaningful pvp throughout most of the world and has a single server for everyone on earth to play on, meaning your moba combat will suffer high pings from most locations in the world.

    The game is also grind heavy. This would not be a huge issue if the game was actually a sandbox and offered you things other than gathering to do as you do the lengthy progression grind to be viable for pvp.

    Conclusion: Game has many good ideas, devs failed to deliver then in a meaningful way. Albion is a shallow sandbox mostly filled with cat turds.    … Expand
  3. Dryani
    Jul 29, 2017
    0
    Nearly unplayable due to lag and sudden server shutdowns/crashes.

    Minor offenses receive instant 200 year bans (not joking), even if you can prove you did not commit an offense.

    The game is horribly optimized and runs poorly locally despite utilizing a minimalist art style.

    If you enjoy frustration, don't value your time, and have an excess of money, then this game is for you.
  4. Algoros
    Aug 3, 2017
    0
    I have fun with this game, but there is to many bugs and some wrong decision.
    - server restart multiple times with losing if in-game items
    - every time 1 hour server maintenance
    - lags in towns
    - 0 Points because of loosing progress after every Server restart, sometimes more then one hour
  5. Hannibal1
    Jan 24, 2021
    4
    This game is really hard to rate... Firstly i like how the economy works, everything is crafted by players and this is the reason I started playing this game. On moments it can be really fun but most of the time this game makes me feel sad, and games should not do that... So many disgusting thing can happen in 1 hour of playing this game, like every 10 minutes getting ganked by 7-8 people,This game is really hard to rate... Firstly i like how the economy works, everything is crafted by players and this is the reason I started playing this game. On moments it can be really fun but most of the time this game makes me feel sad, and games should not do that... So many disgusting thing can happen in 1 hour of playing this game, like every 10 minutes getting ganked by 7-8 people, wherever you go the game is stoping you to play it... For example, I bought solo dungeon maps tier 7 and whenever i use them 3 or more people come to my dungeon and i have to escape 90 sec rule is not helping... The game is not bad, but the system should be more protective of solo players, letting them to progress without ganking others or doing some scams..., if you are solo player it is really hard to progress above tier 7 and there is not much content for you;… Expand
  6. dude42
    May 29, 2022
    1
    game allows all kind of human deprativity to go on. Dungeons are not instanced and even dungeons that you can get a map for arent instanced. Even paid dungeons people can come in after you start clearing dungeon and it bugs the dungeon now you cant loot the chests it goes to them. Each time i bought a map for solo dungeon another person came while i was clearing the dungeon and tookgame allows all kind of human deprativity to go on. Dungeons are not instanced and even dungeons that you can get a map for arent instanced. Even paid dungeons people can come in after you start clearing dungeon and it bugs the dungeon now you cant loot the chests it goes to them. Each time i bought a map for solo dungeon another person came while i was clearing the dungeon and took everything you cant attack them or anything. How hard is it to make dungeons instanced.… Expand
  7. Durbyn
    Aug 10, 2017
    0
    Scam you into a contract once you buy anything within the game. Without giving any clear knowledge about it. Game is currently not playable most of the time. No real good content in the game. About 5 different things you can do and that's about it. Upgrade the same stuff you have did already and repeat. PvP is horrible for solo and cluster zerg in groups. Lack of any skill to play this game.
  8. Cestlavieforme
    Aug 16, 2017
    0
    If I could give this game a negative score I would. It's been in beta for countless years but even after all that testing they decide to change the game last minute and completely break it for launch. Not to mention that the economy and gameplay mechanics are completely broken with only band-aid fix after band-aid fix that only overcompensates and creates more issues than it fixes. NotIf I could give this game a negative score I would. It's been in beta for countless years but even after all that testing they decide to change the game last minute and completely break it for launch. Not to mention that the economy and gameplay mechanics are completely broken with only band-aid fix after band-aid fix that only overcompensates and creates more issues than it fixes. Not to mention due to poor design and infrastructure they were completely unprepared for launch populations and their only hope is that enough people quit after constant lag, black screen, and disconnects that it will get to a player population they can actually handle. There is very little content even for a "sandbox" game and even the bare bones content is only really accessible as a large zerg. To call this game a sandbox is a misnomer because the only viable play style is large zerg guild because every game mechanic is geared towards it. I wish I could get a refund of the time and money spent.… Expand
  9. vengeful180
    Apr 14, 2019
    0
    Awful game, 150 ping in Europe, they have just one server and is in America, I can't believe this is possible in 2019. I wasted 60 dollars on the game because I really had high hopes about it, I feel so disappointed in their reaction when I told them I want a refund. All they said was that they can't give me **** because that's what says in their agreements terms so I was stupid enough toAwful game, 150 ping in Europe, they have just one server and is in America, I can't believe this is possible in 2019. I wasted 60 dollars on the game because I really had high hopes about it, I feel so disappointed in their reaction when I told them I want a refund. All they said was that they can't give me **** because that's what says in their agreements terms so I was stupid enough to pay this crap and that I have to suffer because of that. Stay away from this **** the game idea is interesting but they could've done much more with it. The game is only a money grab and they don't give a **** about you. I hope someone sues them because they deserve it.… Expand
  10. agreygamer
    Aug 11, 2017
    0
    Save your money for a real game. This one is nothing but a money grab.

    Pros -Moderately interesting sandbox features, (CON) but slow being taken away. Cons -Poorly managed, so much so they must have Trion thrilled that someone might actually make Trion look good. -Unstable and given comments by the management they have no real way of fixing it, they have hit limitation on their    Save your money for a real game. This one is nothing but a money grab.

    Pros
    -Moderately interesting sandbox features, (CON) but slow being taken away.

    Cons
    -Poorly managed, so much so they must have Trion thrilled that someone might actually make Trion look good.
    -Unstable and given comments by the management they have no real way of fixing it, they have hit limitation on their infrastructure. The CEO even posted about there being "too many" players. They seem to be on a strategy of waiting until enough players give up and go away to finally be stable.
    -In-game economy is a shambles, gold sellers, bots everywhere and for some bizarre reason the devs leave the server running for a few players while thousands are unable to connect.
    -Seven or eight server crashes per day, along with questionable "DDoS" attacks that just happen to occur during peak logins for various regions. This related to the scaling issue listed above.
    -Lag, regardless of where you are.
    -Missing iOS client which was a part of their marketing strategy and from reading the forums the Android client is bad at best.

    Buyer beware on this one!    … Expand
  11. RedBaron2015
    Aug 27, 2017
    0
    Albion Online is the most unfinished MMO I played during more than 20 years since Ultima Online. Bad server infrastructure, mediocre DDoS protection, huge lag spikes and rubberbanding most of the time. About the game content itself, it is a paradise for gankers and hell for the rest of the players. If you have a fat credit card you can play it but if you want to play it using the minimumAlbion Online is the most unfinished MMO I played during more than 20 years since Ultima Online. Bad server infrastructure, mediocre DDoS protection, huge lag spikes and rubberbanding most of the time. About the game content itself, it is a paradise for gankers and hell for the rest of the players. If you have a fat credit card you can play it but if you want to play it using the minimum amount of real money, you are just doomed. On top of it all, the company files legal actions against customers asking for refund.… Expand
  12. dualist
    Aug 11, 2017
    0
    Game is currently unplayable due to continuous downtimes (either DDOS attacks or extended maintenances, or both). You can play sometimes yes, but if you plan to get some kind of progress in this game, this is not the right moment unless you can be 24/7 checking for some hours a day that servers are up.

    A part from that, graphics are meh, it's very laggy and extremely grindy.
  13. Rellin
    Apr 11, 2019
    0
    This game is terrible. The servers are terrible and lag horribly. You will have issues logging in when the game is popular, which only last a week or two when they change to free to play or some other gimmick. The developers are liars and incompetent. They make promises which they don't keep, many times, and then when they do try and implement something, it is broken or unbalanced orThis game is terrible. The servers are terrible and lag horribly. You will have issues logging in when the game is popular, which only last a week or two when they change to free to play or some other gimmick. The developers are liars and incompetent. They make promises which they don't keep, many times, and then when they do try and implement something, it is broken or unbalanced or worse, it has a glitch which people exploit for massive wealth or power which further imbalances the game. Do not waste your time on this trash.… Expand
  14. Raider0001
    Apr 10, 2019
    1
    game says it renders high frame rate while eyes see stutter fest and low frame rate basically a lie and looks like Nintendo 64 games looked like in 2019 that is horrible
  15. 0wnag3
    Aug 9, 2017
    0
    TL;DR - Game is broken, don't play it. In general game is all about false advertising - cross platform is advertised but not delivered - forum is full of Linux/Android/IOS/Mac users trying to get the game to work, but even if you are a Windows player - black screen freezes, random crashes and disconnects is what you are going to have. Player housing is a joke - you get an island which isTL;DR - Game is broken, don't play it. In general game is all about false advertising - cross platform is advertised but not delivered - forum is full of Linux/Android/IOS/Mac users trying to get the game to work, but even if you are a Windows player - black screen freezes, random crashes and disconnects is what you are going to have. Player housing is a joke - you get an island which is an instance not part of the world where you can build or grow stuff on predefined plots. Game has no anti-cheat implemented, so game is plagued with zoom- and speed- hackers of all kinds. All in all it is a pay to play game that feels like open beta for a free to play game.

    On gameplay side - everything is broken as well - full loot system is nice, but implementation is horrible - trashing more valuable items upon death. Game can't handle massive pvp - lagging so much that nobody can move - killing all massive pvp objectives - like castles or boss fights.    … Expand
  16. Topduck
    Aug 9, 2017
    0
    Do not waste your money on this broken product, as you will not get a refund even though the game does not even work.
    Constant server issues, their android platform is a joke and blatant false advertising.
    Just a cash grab by the developers, stay well away from this failure.
  17. Reapen
    Aug 10, 2017
    0
    This is a terrible game, they claim to be Sandbox, similar to Ultima online but are far from it. The game looks crap, the servers are absolutely terrible and a barely up most of the time and your lucky if you get more then 20 minutes play before it crashes to desktop.
  18. threesixteen
    Jul 24, 2017
    4
    This game will be dead shortly. They run each zone on one server, and have a hard limit of 1100 people per server. Their solution to the problem seems to be to just wait for people to quit playing instead of doing anything to actually solve the problem.

    They market the game as being playable on android devices, but it's not actually possible to play the game at all. It's so    This game will be dead shortly. They run each zone on one server, and have a hard limit of 1100 people per server. Their solution to the problem seems to be to just wait for people to quit playing instead of doing anything to actually solve the problem.

    They market the game as being playable on android devices, but it's not actually possible to play the game at all. It's so overcrowded that my Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 crashes in cities. Outside of cities, the framerate is awful and the game is unplayable.

    Technical issues aside, this game was made with groups in mind. If you're a solo player, prepare to constantly run into large groups of players who will kill you. I don't think it would be so bad to play as a solo player, but the overpopulation is so bad that you really can't go anywhere without running into people.    … Expand
  19. DrScamp
    Aug 16, 2017
    0
    This game is totaly disaster. Dont buy it coz u will loose health coz of stress it causes. U will get back screens, frezzes, lags and all that kind of stuff all the time. There is no palce for solo players, coz everyone running in huge packs, so lets move to this big pvp fights.. and all u get than is huge lag, when everyone spam aoe spells, to cause even bigger lags. So.. no pvp in thisThis game is totaly disaster. Dont buy it coz u will loose health coz of stress it causes. U will get back screens, frezzes, lags and all that kind of stuff all the time. There is no palce for solo players, coz everyone running in huge packs, so lets move to this big pvp fights.. and all u get than is huge lag, when everyone spam aoe spells, to cause even bigger lags. So.. no pvp in this game, u can only die solo or die from lag in big fights. Solo ganking is impossible coz of recent changes of 3 seconds delay in possibility to atack some1 ofter u dismount, they only chance to get solo fight is if other person wants to fight too. So u can only gather and be almost always safe while doing it. Lets move on, gate camps and portal camps everywhere, coz of failed map designs. Oh and ofc failed balance on items, some of weapons are totaly useless and some are superior over other kinds. After 2 or 3 weeks of playing this game i havent found anything good, and frustration from rollbacks and server crashes made me quit it, and i wont go back there, i highly suggest to save your money on anything else, u can even burn your money in trash can, it will be same as bying this game.… Expand
  20. Jburn
    Aug 17, 2017
    0
    Albion is a perfect example of a game released before it was ready. It claims to be cross platform but only barely works on pc. Does not work at all on any android as they claim. Biggest scam of 2017.
  21. GracieFish
    Aug 1, 2017
    0
    This is an abysmal failure; it's as if the developers wanted to do everything that Trion did wrong, without doing any of the things they did right.

    I expected some lag on launch but I didn't except such rude devs, horrible game changing decisions pulled out of nowhere, and a complete lack of connection with the players. The game just feels completely unfinished and broken, and it    This is an abysmal failure; it's as if the developers wanted to do everything that Trion did wrong, without doing any of the things they did right.

    I expected some lag on launch but I didn't except such rude devs, horrible game changing decisions pulled out of nowhere, and a complete lack of connection with the players.

    The game just feels completely unfinished and broken, and it feels like the devs blame us for the state of their work.    … Expand
  22. Balabhadradas
    Sep 10, 2017
    4
    P2W game.

    Shame really: 1. You can buy materials and craft / study them to get to T8 crafting in 1 day on a new toon. 2. You can buy / keep a city plot and never loose it by spending multiple millions (yes multiple millions) of silver. 3. You can transmute materials up to tier 8.3 by buying materials of lower tier. 4. You can re-buy equipment you loose and not care. It means    P2W game.

    Shame really:

    1. You can buy materials and craft / study them to get to T8 crafting in 1 day on a new toon.

    2. You can buy / keep a city plot and never loose it by spending multiple millions (yes multiple millions) of silver.

    3. You can transmute materials up to tier 8.3 by buying materials of lower tier.

    4. You can re-buy equipment you loose and not care. It means that if you kill a "non" P2W player they will have to grind to get the silver to reimburse their loss. P2W player just flashes their credit card and "oh noes I lost my T 8.3". No biggie for them they can either buy it again or transmute (see point no.3) and craft it again (see point no .1).

    5. You can buy "pies" (or pay money to get to craft them) and get extra gathering fame, due to extra gathering yield, by using the highest tier pie all the time. (The average player, like me, will not be able to afford to do that, nor will they be able to use or craft them as fast as someone who paid to get to T8 cooking skill.)

    6. Whales can buy artifact tier gear at all times to increase fame girding efficiency for the appropriate tier.

    7. Whales can insta buy T8 islands.

    8. Whales can have unlimited premium accounts with multiple shared islands using farms / laborers.

    9. Whales in a guild can equip all their friends using the above benefits.

    At this point in the game don't give the "Buhht they can't use it!" Because even if they can't right now, any whale will eventually be able to use T8 of at least one weapon and armour type. Also any whale will be able to farm up tiers faster and more efficiantly than a regular player (see point 6.)

    Always remember:

    Whales do not care about how much money they spend.    … Expand
  23. Odin69
    Sep 13, 2017
    0
    I've come here to write a review, because the developer's clearly don't want to listen to the majority of their player base, or even attempt to fix the many design flaws with the game. There are numerous issues that impact every aspect of every day game play, and updates just don't happen. It is my hope that the developer's will realize how badly they've burned their supporters andI've come here to write a review, because the developer's clearly don't want to listen to the majority of their player base, or even attempt to fix the many design flaws with the game. There are numerous issues that impact every aspect of every day game play, and updates just don't happen. It is my hope that the developer's will realize how badly they've burned their supporters and relaunch a good version of Albion, but the current state of the game is simply not it.

    Among the issues there is one in particular that stands out, and that is the Mobile development of the game. Everything released needs to cater to this very small demographic, and really holds the game back from what it really should be. There are numerous quality of life features missing from the game ranging from things as minor as guild management all the way to broken npc exploits that seriously impact high level dungeons.

    I, and many others are simply tired of fighting the games systems in order to play it. Around every corner lurks a nasty bug or poorly programmed feature just waiting to cause trouble and make the average player loose hours just because things weren't programmed properly.

    In 2017 there is no excuse for a competitive MMO to not have weekly balance updates and community involvement, and Albion has neither. Updates come in huge packages that take Months to put together.

    I'll make this perfectly clear. If you are looking for a game is worth your time and money look elsewhere. This is specifically hard for me to say, as a long time supporter of the game both verbally and financially.    … Expand
  24. Dirstanius
    Sep 20, 2017
    0
    This game is a fiasco. I was looking forward to it for years and on face value it appears to be a dream come true, but once you get into it you realize it's not what it seems.
    There is no storyline, no lore. A "sandbox" with no quests and little content. The game is linear with repetitive cycles of gather, craft & gank. You’re either gathering and being ganked or joining a big guild and    This game is a fiasco. I was looking forward to it for years and on face value it appears to be a dream come true, but once you get into it you realize it's not what it seems.
    There is no storyline, no lore. A "sandbox" with no quests and little content. The game is linear with repetitive cycles of gather, craft & gank. You’re either gathering and being ganked or joining a big guild and ganking.
    Think early 2000 style, very grindy, and while it has the graphics, it lacks the content/innovation of oldschool games. There is no sand in the box and the game is lacklustre. Worse still there is a large imbalance across all weapons/armor (there are no classes). If you pick a "wrong" weapon you get kicked from groups who’d rather have somebody with better X or Y due to their item picks. Obviously, this is high impact due to the grindy nature of the game.
    There are lots of newbie traps such as building your personal island in any town but Caerleon, but the game ends up pushing you to the Outlands (the gank zones) so everybody lives in the Red City (Caerleon) rendering your island essentially worthless, extortionate silver fees must be paid for you to travel back to it.
    All the maps are copy & pasted (literally identical but higher/lower tier) and are also very small. The small nature of the zones leads to constant ganking and losing everything once in the higher tier zones. There is nowhere to hide and nothing to explore.
    Due to design, loading screens are experienced every few minutes which really kills immersion for me. FIVE loading screens are endured just to enter the city and repair, bank, buy more food and leave again.
    There are lots of performance issues with their infrastructure, they used to blame DDoS attacks but now that many players have quit it happens less frequently but is still very much occuring. Additionally, all the servers are hosted in the USA. Everybody outside the USA has high latency problems that the developers outright admit they don't see as a problem and won't change. Rubberbanding during prime-time hours is a big killer for me as it's the only time I can play after work. It makes you unable to run from gank squads because you teleport back to where you were 10 seconds ago and die, losing everything.
    Some people like to grind, myself included, I have played MMO's for well over a decade but I picked a "wrong" weapon and now after 200+ hours of grind I just don't have it in me to start over.
    Honestly, the game now feels like a money grab. You buy to play (the account), pay to play (you need premium status per month, per char) and you can also pay to win (directly buying ingame gold/silver with a credit card and you can achieve max level crafting in a single day).    … Expand
  25. tamakachi
    Jun 5, 2019
    0
    Not free to play, they want me and my significant other to pay $18 to buy two premium accounts so we can login two accounts at the same time using my Aster Multiseat PC. This company has shady business practices and will do anything to make you pay, do not spend a cent you will regret it.

    UPDATE: After paying $18 for two premium status they still didn't live up to their promise and we    Not free to play, they want me and my significant other to pay $18 to buy two premium accounts so we can login two accounts at the same time using my Aster Multiseat PC. This company has shady business practices and will do anything to make you pay, do not spend a cent you will regret it.

    UPDATE: After paying $18 for two premium status they still didn't live up to their promise and we weren't able to multibox as their server couldn't detect that our characters had premium status. When we asked for a refund they proceeded to ban both our accounts. 0/10    … Expand
  26. MaksimEL
    Apr 11, 2019
    0
    I dont like these game, i cant play, random kicks from server and ping, 7500 peoples in lobby, waiting 1-2 hours, playing 20 minutes, killing 10-15 npc, going to next location, or in location when i moving game kick me, im recconecting, and wait more 7500 peoples, my computer coresponds to min. requerements, my ping not very much 150-200 (when i played last time humans written "-ping", soI dont like these game, i cant play, random kicks from server and ping, 7500 peoples in lobby, waiting 1-2 hours, playing 20 minutes, killing 10-15 npc, going to next location, or in location when i moving game kick me, im recconecting, and wait more 7500 peoples, my computer coresponds to min. requerements, my ping not very much 150-200 (when i played last time humans written "-ping", so how i can think its dont only my problem (im from Russia, and dont know why im kicking, no reasons, but sometimes when game closing i see message of easy anti-cheat 000006 or like this))
    I dont think what these game good, and i cant understand how to play cuz my gameplay is 90% lobby waiting after kicking, and now i have so big butthurt, what ill writte these review, i dont know, maybe its only my problem, but i give my score for my gameplay, and my score is bad, cuz i cant play how min. 1 hour, to understand something, im just dont know how to play, and i dont have 1000 ruble or more, to buy everymonth a premium to fast recconect, and i cant get 2.5kk to buy for silver in game, i just cant play in this anyway. (bad englich (when i played WOW i have 60+ fps on medium-medium-low graphic, in Albion online 20fps in full city, with not very strong graphic, in WOW in fulled city-55-70+fps, in Albion not good optimisation for my laptop, i dont have tablet, and i dont know why cant do these optimisation on laptop version)    … Expand
  27. raift8848
    Apr 22, 2019
    1
    Poorly optimized game, poor infrastructure, company that does not invest in its product, too much lag and technical problems
  28. John_Mullins
    Aug 25, 2017
    0
    The game is a **** joke, and I'll be 100% honest, I wish every time I look at the icon on my desktop there was a way I could get my $100 dollars back.

    yeah, I invested in the legendary founders pack, because the game promised the moon.. and delivered absolute dog feces heaped on a plate with an extra large spoon for you to eat with. The whole game was SUPPOSED to be a "true    The game is a **** joke, and I'll be 100% honest, I wish every time I look at the icon on my desktop there was a way I could get my $100 dollars back.

    yeah, I invested in the legendary founders pack, because the game promised the moon.. and delivered absolute dog feces heaped on a plate with an extra large spoon for you to eat with.

    The whole game was SUPPOSED to be a "true successor" to Ultima Online era gameplay. Work the tradeskills, build your town, etc etc etc.

    What you GET is graphics that make DOOM 2 look **** Futuristic, craptastic paywalls that practically cock slap your ever move, and then there's the biggest hot dong in the eye...

    the "personal island" is the biggest **** joke Ive ever seen in a video game. Ever. Like EVER. You put dozens of hours farming mundane and boring materials to upgrade your "house" which starts as a 1 room shack about 4 steps wide.

    The final "upgrade' to your home.. which you've now sunk DOZENS of hours into building... is a 1 room **** shack about 6 steps wide.

    Your shops? Oh yeah... more mundane farming for them too... only you cant actually USE them.. cause they get "hungry" and you have to "feed" them in order to get them to work, same as the shops in town. Did I mention food is so scarce due to the games design that its literally the single most expensive item in the game? I dropped over 1 MILLION silver coins on the cheapest food "Carrot soup"... i ended up with over 1,000 servers of it.. should have been PLENTY right? Nope. It gave 1 merchant a grand total of 4% fed.

    Towns are the same way.. you cant use any of the shops to refine your stuff you just spent HOURS farming up.. because the shop owners cant afford to feed them, and/or there's no food to be found.

    The "content" is a giant joke too.. mainly, there isnt any. No, that's not a joke. Im being serious.

    "Endgame" (and I use that term loosely) is nothing but pvp, and pvp is nothing but zerg rushing a smaller zerg rush than you and hoping you can win. Even THIS could have been fun.. but in this company's infinite wisdom (re- mental retardation.) they decided the ENTIRE game is all point and click. No keyboard movement.. point and click.. because lazy ass game design is lazy. Just picture a giant massive pile of players.. all swarming around... in the center is the healer.. but you cant tab target him.. you cant type target him.. you have to click him.. while moving, as he's moving, in a giant zerg pile, and then you have to KEEP clicking him to use your powers. If you havent already bashed your face off a wall..

    Then theirs (of course) the REAL purpose of the game.. buying gold for real life cash. THAT works flawlessly. On all platforms.

    That's IF you can even login.. as the server is a total ****show atm. At one point, I was #3,845 in the Que... estimated wait time.. 3 DAYS to login.

    And FInally.. the chat. Oh sweet lord in heaven the CHAT. You thought (insert game here) had a toxic community?? You know nothing. At one point.. they were openly discussing killing and raping small children. I asked if a GM was around. Surprisingly, one sent me an actual tell! When I asked wtf was going on, I got told .. and now Im QUOTING here... "The chat is kinda a free for all, unless its hate speech or personal violence threats, we dont do anything."

    I literally have no words to describe my level of dumbfounded disgust I felt at that moment.

    If you go to the Albion forums.. I put a post up there.. in which I described pretty much everything I just did here.. including the chat conversation (and relevant screenshots as proof.)

    They EDITED MY POST TO REMOVE the pics of the discussion in open chat, and removed my discussion of it from my post... claiming it was "Against the rules" to "discuss such things on the forums."

    Well THANK GOD everyone! We cant discuss raping and murdering children on the FORUMS.. but in the game.. go for it and have a great day... dont forget to buy some gold from the eshop.. carrot soup aint cheap ****

    I could go on and on.. but I wont.. because the longer i type about this ripoff video game abortion.. the more I get angry about wasting $100 that I could have spent having my taint waxed with a rusty spork by a midget prostitute.

    0/10    … Expand
  29. Snarftacular
    Aug 16, 2017
    0
    This game is NOT a sandbox, don't be fooled by the few fanboys chanting that it's the next UO / Eve / OSRS because that is an INSULT to those developers / games.

    This game is simply a box, with nothing in it - a ton of false promises and coupled with false marketing. This game makes any Archeage launch or fiasco look like the golden age of MMOs, which is saying something. Stay away    This game is NOT a sandbox, don't be fooled by the few fanboys chanting that it's the next UO / Eve / OSRS because that is an INSULT to those developers / games.

    This game is simply a box, with nothing in it - a ton of false promises and coupled with false marketing. This game makes any Archeage launch or fiasco look like the golden age of MMOs, which is saying something.

    Stay away at all costs - worst product out in the MMO market.    … Expand
  30. ajax53
    Aug 10, 2017
    0
    This game is all about the zerg, and joining the biggest guilds possible. Small guilds and groups cannot compete, and there is very little content for them. The devs cater to the largest guilds and give them every advantage possible. On top of this the game is heavily pay to win.
  31. jonyzma1
    Sep 14, 2017
    0
    Buggy, very laggy, un-sandboxy, you might get banned for next to nothing or just pure accident on the side of SI - in which case their support will ignore you. Research "Albion banned account". In my opinion it's a matter of time before somebody takes them to court since the purpose of banning and re-banning accounts is to collect 2nd and 3rd tax.
  32. Dtwelve
    Oct 15, 2017
    0
    SUport sistem is **** ...they dont have rules set ..if u have a problem u are complete ignored everythign they do is against players for the most part ...all they want is ur money
  33. GladHanded
    Oct 20, 2017
    0
    Completely buggy game lacking any content or thought to the design. Even simple things such as UI are completely underdeveloped and bugged out. Save your money. Developers do not listen to the community or their feedback and seem only interested in spending their money on marketing, not any development.

    Game design forces everyone into zerg style play(in the +1 mentality, where    Completely buggy game lacking any content or thought to the design. Even simple things such as UI are completely underdeveloped and bugged out. Save your money. Developers do not listen to the community or their feedback and seem only interested in spending their money on marketing, not any development.

    Game design forces everyone into zerg style play(in the +1 mentality, where overwhelming numbers is more important than any semblance of skills) not just in the fight mechanics, but the hoards of guild slaves needed to finance the extremely high costs of the guild leader's gear in the 5v5s. However, the game architecture can't even handle the zerg vs zerg is forces everyone into and it turns into a laggy mess with disconnects any time people try to engage in how the developers purportedly designed the game to be played instead of solo or in small groups(which the CEO of the company said the game was not made for) that the game consistently punishes you for.    … Expand
  34. Shroomtastic
    Sep 9, 2017
    0
    Its nothing but a money sink, spend your hard earned cash elsewhere. You can tell a big difference in Devs who are in it to make a quick buck or devs who actually want to make their game something enjoyable. I also find the 10/10 review at the top comical, CLEARLY its not one of the Devs writing it lmao
  35. satanikz
    Sep 19, 2017
    0
    Don't waste your time.

    - Rubberbanding during prime hours months after release despite > 75% of population gone. This is the only time I can play after work. Their infrastructure is absolutely terrible. - Vast encouragement of zerging in virtually all game mechanics. - Everything is instanced on tiny maps which are copy & pasted (lazy). Loading sceens galore. - More copy paste with    Don't waste your time.

    - Rubberbanding during prime hours months after release despite > 75% of population gone. This is the only time I can play after work. Their infrastructure is absolutely terrible.
    - Vast encouragement of zerging in virtually all game mechanics.
    - Everything is instanced on tiny maps which are copy & pasted (lazy). Loading sceens galore.
    - More copy paste with skills with slight variations that make no sense whatsoever for their purpose.
    - Development incompetence with regard to PvP balance and skills (stuns/snares should do less or no damage, those lacking these abilities should do more, etc).
    - Severe imbalances across entire weapon & armor skilltrees with only a select few viable (this is very bad in a very grindy progression game).
    - "Game based around 5v5 PvP" when < 1% compete in the 5v5 PvP worth anything. Slave system where guilds force members to "donate" millions of silver a week. Extremely poor game design.
    - Countless newbie traps attributed to bad game design. E.G. Worthless player islands (blue towns are useless endgame, funnelled to red towns and pay extortionate silver to go to your island), ghost towns (as all funnelled to 1 town), farming (market is saturated and you lose money trying), builds (very few builds are viable), etc.
    - Buy to play, pay to play, pay to win (can get max crafting in 1 day with credit card). This is all 3 models, milk the cash cow.
    - Extremely boring PvE. Removal of functioning, fun, PvE that gave "too much silver" and encouraged PvP in the "open world" which is instanced.
    - Hackers / bots everywhere.
    - Graphics look like it's from 2003.
    - Lack of any lore in it's entirety.
    - "Full loot" visage, more care bear than some theme park mmo's offering better mechanics and subsequent rewards, particularly for smallscale / solo which is nonexistent.
    - Made as difficult as possible, if not impossible to die or lose *anything*. Including BZ city. Smoke and mirrors.
    - "Sandbox" but everything about it is linear and structured. No sand in the box.
    - Median higher tier item power = worthless because the devs want a gang of newbs in cheap gear to be able to kill experienced players in a progression game. E.G. Tier 4 weapon does almost as much damage as tier 7.
    - Skilltrees changed after huge investments and other major game mechanic changes post release after several additional years of beta.
    - Implementation of utterly ridiculous concepts unsuitable for full loot sandbox openworld. E.G. Instanced expeditions without PvP, instanced arenas, etc and more to come I am sure.
    - Completely changing game direction post release. Now it's am amalgamation of every MMO ever released except created extremely badly in most respects.    … Expand
  36. MirandaNC
    Nov 16, 2017
    2
    This is the tale of a team of developers who were so blind to what the community of their game wanted that they've managed to waste everyone's time and money. 4 years of beta for a product to be shipped in its worst form during development.

    It's simply incredible how boring and unpolished the geme turned out to be.
  37. Mrnin
    May 10, 2018
    0
    This game focus too much on PVP actions but weapons and gear are completely unbalance. If y don't play meta but weapons y like. you will always die no matter how much skilled, y are. Many games have a meta gear/heroes/champions, but they can be countered in someway.You should do not expect this mechanic of meta in this game.
  38. BadIdeas
    May 30, 2019
    1
    What a terrible game. i played it for about 5 hours, then ran out of things to do. "sandbox" means they didn't bother to put quests in after the starter quests. "You choose how your adventure evolves" means you can choose between which thing you want to grind crazy amounts of. It feels like the game you would play if you don't have the talent for WoW. I almost died twice in the 5 hours IWhat a terrible game. i played it for about 5 hours, then ran out of things to do. "sandbox" means they didn't bother to put quests in after the starter quests. "You choose how your adventure evolves" means you can choose between which thing you want to grind crazy amounts of. It feels like the game you would play if you don't have the talent for WoW. I almost died twice in the 5 hours I played. once because i aggroed 3 higher tiered enemies and then aggroed 4 more immediately without healing, and another time because i wandered into a higher tiered dungeon.

    They market themselves as some great new innovative game, but its the same f2p grindfest bs with a top down perspective instead of over the shoulder cam that have been out there for forever. With that paywall, that makes slightly more content available if you pay them money. Kill 1,000 enemies, rank up, get your new set of gear, now go kill 10,000 enemies...all without quests, storyline, or any interesting content. Or you can gather items, which is even more grindy and boring.

    I don't really know what to say, it's not even a good pay to win game, because even if you pay, there is still a huge lack of content. I reached tier 3, rode out of the starter area in search of things to do...and realized there wasn't anything. It was just more of the exact same thing I was doing.

    It feels a lot like runescape..if you took away all the quests, and most of the professions, and made the map interconnected procedurally generated zones. I think runescape is boring, albion online wishes it was half as good as runescape...but it isn't.    … Expand
  39. Adoss3
    Apr 21, 2019
    0
    The whole game is waiting in a qeue to get into a server. They try to annoy you to make you buy premium. I enjoy waiting to get into the game for 30 minutes to cut down birch logs. Game is awful.
  40. cronixia
    Jun 29, 2019
    0
    I've been apart of the game since Beta 1 so I've seen a lot of history of this game. The game itself is good, but the devs are awful! My gold (about $60 worth) got caught unintentionally up in the gold market bug when free to play was released and I have YET to be reimbursed!!! I enjoyed the game while I could but my support ticket with the devs has been on the back burner for OVER 2I've been apart of the game since Beta 1 so I've seen a lot of history of this game. The game itself is good, but the devs are awful! My gold (about $60 worth) got caught unintentionally up in the gold market bug when free to play was released and I have YET to be reimbursed!!! I enjoyed the game while I could but my support ticket with the devs has been on the back burner for OVER 2 months with no response at all. I can't anymore recommend this game to anyone and will now leave my honest review on all platforms. Stay away unless you want devs who ignore players and give half-*** responses on support tickets and forums.… Expand
  41. Termii
    Feb 10, 2020
    1
    if you are into PvE, this game is not for you. if you are into solo content, this game is not for you. if do not like grindy games, this game is not for you.

    if you are into a grind heavy game with zerg pvp this game maybe is for you.
  42. TheReporter
    Sep 16, 2017
    1
    Albion online all around pretty much sucks! The game claims to be a
    sandbox type game but yet they force the same people that want to
    craft and do gathering into PVP zones in order to be able to gather those materials. What the clueless developers of Albion Online don't seem to understand is that not everyone wants to PVP and some of us are just happy gathering and crafting. If    Albion online all around pretty much sucks! The game claims to be a
    sandbox type game but yet they force the same people that want to
    craft and do gathering into PVP zones in order to be able to
    gather those materials.

    What the clueless developers of Albion Online don't seem to
    understand is that not everyone wants to PVP and some of us are
    just happy gathering and crafting.

    If it was a true sandbox game then the players should not
    be forced into PVP and all materials from tier 1 to tier 8 should
    be able to be gathered outside of PVP zones and they should not
    force the players into PVP areas if they do not want to go there.

    Basically all this game turns into is another giant gank fest
    where once you get past tier 4 materials for crafting anyone
    that wants to do crafting gets ganked repeatedly over and over
    again by teams of gank squads who roam around the zones.
    There are 8 different tiers of materials you can get
    up to tier 8.

    Also the servers seem to be pretty piss poorly run too you
    will be running around a zone collecting materials
    then boom all of a sudden you are logged out of the game and
    you have to log back in again.

    There are no connection issues on my side what so ever I
    can go do everything else just fine. It is on the server side.

    Or I have had a few times where I could not even connect
    to their login server to be able to log into the server
    again it isn't my connection it is on the server side
    I could surf and do everything else normally except
    connect to the game.

    The servers are over crowded with 13 year old kids masturbating
    every time they kill a crafter and steal their stuff.

    The game is also full of bots as well out gathering materials
    and you do a /report on the bot and nothing gets
    done about it seems the admins of this game don't give a ****
    as long as they get your money.

    This is absolutely the worst "Sandbox" game I have ever seen.
    I use the term "sandbox" lightly for this game
    because really it isn't because a true sandbox game would not
    force a person who wants to craft to go into PVP zones to get
    materials and you should be able to just craft all the way
    up if you wish without having to do PVP.

    Albion online got the whole open world PVP concept totally wrong. Customer service on this game is rude and uncaring and they really don't give a ****. The game is NOT free either I saw some sites advertising the this game is free to play it is not you have to buy a "starter pack" which ranges anywhere from $29.95 USD (Veteran) up to $99.95 USD (Legendary) and then after that you can purchase a "premium" to be able to keep other perks in the game and pay a monthly fee of $9.95 USD a month. This game is in NO way free to play! Avoid this game at all costs the player base is toxic and rude and just full of **** Rating of Albion Online 1/10    … Expand
  43. Melqart
    Apr 13, 2018
    0
    A phone game that is only playable on PC after 4 years of development hell. Shallow, boring, and P2W. It takes them 3+ months to implement anything, and instead of fixing critical problems they destroy and rework things that never needed changing.
  44. mnimurdoc
    Jan 5, 2018
    0
    Albion Online, what can i say, its absolutely hideous, in every single way you can imagine, graphics, pvp, pve, every single little thing.
    its just a pay to play/win or do anything, this is no **** game, this is just a **** show of bad developement and having **** politics for the users.
    DON'T BUY THIS GAME!
  45. KurdeN
    Apr 27, 2018
    0
    The company is just thinking of making money when they came up with this game. It is clearly a P2W game and ofc those who made the game, they only whant to suck the players that can afford to pay as much as possible.
  46. PogoTime
    May 18, 2018
    4
    I have to edit my Rating due to the Progress I’ve made. For the first hours of the game - everything is cool, you'll have fun, and you can chill-grind Stuff, what will be the most part of the beginning. But the further you progress in the Game you will realize that:
    - You are more or less forced to have an active big guild, or you will not have access to certain crafting stuff, nor decent    I have to edit my Rating due to the Progress I’ve made. For the first hours of the game - everything is cool, you'll have fun, and you can chill-grind Stuff, what will be the most part of the beginning. But the further you progress in the Game you will realize that:
    - You are more or less forced to have an active big guild, or you will not have access to certain crafting stuff, nor decent dungeon gameplay
    - The bigger the better - you will find yourself often in the position that you are overrun by an even bigger group of pvp'ler (bring friend with time)
    - it's not about individual skill, when Albion is something it’s more or less about how long have played the game and trained your skill+ same for you grp mates. Even if you have the best 5 man team you will most probably loose against a team that is there for a while even with the same Tier as you. The Skills aren’t supposed to be very skill-shotty because the game is to indirect (compared to modern Mobas e.g) and you have only like 2-3 skills to push from time to time.
    - The Community is kind of demanding. If you want a semi good guild you have to (normally) give them something in return - mostly your time to grind or to attend on their Actions. But even for a semi good guild this is often more than anyone with a normal job can handle.
    - Some territories are blocked by big guild /Alliances so that you won’t have access to their resources. If you try to do so, you’ll most probably die trying.
    I could go on further.... I admire the team behind Albion for their dedication, but they made some really bad design decisions or haven't enough talented people hired (e.g. UI / UX is kind or the worst, proting Albion to Mobile in the First place…)
    Most Players I Know that are kind of “competitive” and Ok in their Progress have simply no job and play like most of their “free time” – which is ok for me, but if that is the main factor I’m out.    … Expand
  47. devilbd
    Jun 24, 2018
    0
    Total dumb game. They compare it with Ultima Online, but everything here is with bad concept. The pet system are total 0. All the terrains looks same :D RIDICULOUS. Each hero have 4 spells :D AWESOME! For the housing system i will no say anything, because i think there is no housing system :D This is some absolutely abnormal grinding game with probably 80 % of PVP inside it while grindingTotal dumb game. They compare it with Ultima Online, but everything here is with bad concept. The pet system are total 0. All the terrains looks same :D RIDICULOUS. Each hero have 4 spells :D AWESOME! For the housing system i will no say anything, because i think there is no housing system :D This is some absolutely abnormal grinding game with probably 80 % of PVP inside it while grinding and doing 2 things :D I can't give lower than 0 but if I could I would have to.… Expand
  48. Herox
    May 13, 2018
    1
    It really seems like fanboys and devs made new accounts to give fake reviews. Unsure why they work so hard to fool people, but trust this. Albion is an okay game, and could have been great. But the game fails, and so do the devs.. Don't believe their lies. Just because the game isn't as bad as it was, doesn't mean it is now good. The idea of Albion online was great. Devs ruined it.

    They    It really seems like fanboys and devs made new accounts to give fake reviews. Unsure why they work so hard to fool people, but trust this. Albion is an okay game, and could have been great. But the game fails, and so do the devs.. Don't believe their lies. Just because the game isn't as bad as it was, doesn't mean it is now good. The idea of Albion online was great. Devs ruined it.

    They never added many things they said they would, and instead added somethings that no one really wanted.. Their games whole system is to suck as much money out of the players that it can. This is very much a fact! I've played with randoms who have told me they put hundreds, and some even thousands into buying gold so they didn't have to grind. I don't debate if it is pay to win, take that as you will. But is is clearly pay to get ahead and save tons of time. This is a fact.

    PvE sucks, and PvP isn't much better. One of the few good things about the game is full looting. That's what sucked me in. But, that doesn't make a good game. It was a good idea. It is a bad game. Mainly thanks to the devs.

    Now they're going to steam because their community died and they wanna some more money out of others. Very sad. Don't let the shills and devs fool you with their fake posts.    … Expand
  49. Deaden
    Aug 3, 2020
    1
    These kind of games shouldn't exist anymore. The idea behind of sandbox and losing all gears are not right in PvP. It's killing all fun and turn your psychological health down.

    Actually many sandbox games are not well made like this one. It's requiring an emptiness in your life to hold you as a slave in this pot. If you lost your mind, go ahead, play it. But I will inform you, it's not    These kind of games shouldn't exist anymore. The idea behind of sandbox and losing all gears are not right in PvP. It's killing all fun and turn your psychological health down.

    Actually many sandbox games are not well made like this one. It's requiring an emptiness in your life to hold you as a slave in this pot. If you lost your mind, go ahead, play it. But I will inform you, it's not a real PvP experience. You can find only full of anger. Playing WoW or other RPGs would be better option. Games are for entertainment not a living in a stressful life.    … Expand
  50. OnlySon
    Feb 7, 2020
    0
    Yeah, just installed and unistalled. Got a security error due to lighting effects...which supposedly means I have to turn of my rgb to play.... nice
  51. vampireallana93
    Jun 10, 2021
    3
    Over this crap game. I got it because the ads say " There's a place for everyone, find yours. a sandbox mmo that has something for everyone". utter bull **** the entire game is geared towards pvp and if you want to get ahead quickly you need premium which if you want to use in game money is 10mil sliver. or 12$ real dollars a freaking month, and for what? to have your **** taken by lazyOver this crap game. I got it because the ads say " There's a place for everyone, find yours. a sandbox mmo that has something for everyone". utter bull **** the entire game is geared towards pvp and if you want to get ahead quickly you need premium which if you want to use in game money is 10mil sliver. or 12$ real dollars a freaking month, and for what? to have your **** taken by lazy ass players who would rather gank your non pvp ass because they don't want to do the grind like every one else.

    Do you just enjoy the gather/crafting side of the game? tough **** everything you spent all day gathering/making is gone in seconds. do you enjoy farming and raising animals? well get used to spending all of your time on your island, which you need premium to get btw, to only log in once a day because there is a 22 **** hour timer on the farming. Not a single thing in this game has value because "lolz pvp full lot" wtf am i spending all my time gathering/crafting/farming for if it has 0 value? There is more pvp **** to do than non pvp **** this is also the only mmo i've played that cant figure out how controls work. qwerdf are hot keys of all damn things, and you click/hold to move instead of, oh idk every other damn computer game ever that uses wasd to move, 1-5 for hot keys and click/hold for a camera.

    the only thing that is funny is with out us, the ones who only enjoy the crafting/gathering/farming, there would be no resources for the pvpers, they would have to stop being lazy and do it them damn selves then they can see "oh getting ganked is total **** Doesn't matter what gear you have if there are enough of these **** pvpers in a group your ass is down and your **** is gone, 0 protection for gathers and non pvpers. oh you want to craft/gather more than t4? tough **** risk all your stuff by going into the red zone that has the higher tear materials.

    Want to water your crops/nature your animals? nope needs focus and focus is premium, sorry. Want to get more yeild on something you are gathering? nope need premium, want to pay less tax at the market? oope need premium, because of course you do. Want more fame/money? yep premium. want 20 free learning points? guess what of **** course you need premium.

    First few mins made you feel like there was a story but like the ads its total bs, do not waste your time find a better mmorpg to play    … Expand
  52. donaramu
    Sep 24, 2021
    1
    This game is P2W. That's a fact. I've met people who have given over 1,000 to the greedy devs. Truly crazy imo.

    This game had a chance at being great. They scammed thousands with lies and changing where the game was going. Never added key things. Removed other better thing. So then they add a bunch of useless crap. This game lost 80% of it's player base in 1 month.. I could go on for    This game is P2W. That's a fact. I've met people who have given over 1,000 to the greedy devs. Truly crazy imo.

    This game had a chance at being great. They scammed thousands with lies and changing where the game was going. Never added key things. Removed other better thing. So then they add a bunch of useless crap. This game lost 80% of it's player base in 1 month..

    I could go on for hours typing, but people already covered everything you need to know. Trust us and don't buy Albion!    … Expand
  53. Vel
    Jan 21, 2023
    4
    The game is just kind of "meh". It's not necessarily a bad game, but it suffers from a lot of the same problems as other MMOs:

    1. Endgame PvP content is dominated by people using the exact same "meta" gear set ups, there is very little balance. 2. Instead of making the later game more difficult, they mostly make it more of a grind. Literally, harvesting a higher tier tree takes    The game is just kind of "meh". It's not necessarily a bad game, but it suffers from a lot of the same problems as other MMOs:

    1. Endgame PvP content is dominated by people using the exact same "meta" gear set ups, there is very little balance.
    2. Instead of making the later game more difficult, they mostly make it more of a grind. Literally, harvesting a higher tier tree takes significantly longer, for no apparent reason other than distinguishing it from lower tier trees.
    3. They didn't separate out servers by country/region, so a majority of the chat is not english, including important things you need to communicate.
    4. The movement set up on computer is goofy (there is no option to move using A-S-D-W, and instead you have to click everywhere).
    5. it is not entirely "pay to win", but if you really want to enjoy the game, you need the premium subscription, which is $15 a month. That's more per month than a lot of other, better MMOs charge.

    So overall, there is nothing to really make this game "bad" or "terrible", it just missed so many opportunities to be better that there are better MMOs out there (ESO, FF14, Guild Wars, BDO, etc).    … Expand
  54. baptistew
    Jun 13, 2020
    2
    Malheureusement bien trop de bug ce qui rend l’expérience horrible parfois.
  55. D3M0T1VAT3D
    Mar 18, 2020
    0
    This game is constantly evolving and is pretty much indistinguishable from how it was a year ago. The current version (Queen) basically sums up to this:

    Spend your first month or so in blue/yellow zones endlessly gathering so you have money to replace your gear sets then: Do you like big 200v200 battles (ZvZ)? If so do the following: grind PvE to be relevant then join one of the mega    This game is constantly evolving and is pretty much indistinguishable from how it was a year ago. The current version (Queen) basically sums up to this:

    Spend your first month or so in blue/yellow zones endlessly gathering so you have money to replace your gear sets then:

    Do you like big 200v200 battles (ZvZ)? If so do the following: grind PvE to be relevant then join one of the mega alliances.

    Do you not care about 200v200 battles (ZvZ) or are in a small guild and dont wish to join a mega? Uninstall the game.

    That's basically it. They constantly announce changes only to back pedal on them a few days later. They add in band-aid fixes to player created problems rather than solving the underlying issue (portal zone invisibility shrines). This entire game is nothing but massive battles now, any type of small group PvP content is either infested with rats (Hellgates) or so clique based you'll never get in a good group and your only option is to form groups with random people you meet in discord (crystal realm battles) only to get destroyed by old GvG main teams with 150-200 battles played because there is no MMR system in this game and they prefer to farm the newer players in low level crystals than push higher keys. Oh you want to gank? Good luck finding anyone in the now insanely massive black zone that isn't travelling with a massive group or 5 inches away from their safe space hideout.

    Finally this game has a terrible server/host. There's always connection problems with this game for people in certain regions and when you get into those massive 200v200 battles the server/game can't even handle it. You will need a lot of money to play this game if you actually do enjoy the large scale battles, which is even harder to make now with the gathering changes and lack of consistent ganking. But don't worry, you can buy in game currency with real money ;)    … Expand
  56. A1ucard
    Jun 18, 2020
    1
    развод людей на деньги, время и на ностальгических чувствах к классик мморпг типа ультимы онлайн. Донаты, рубленая графика, баги, боевая система - аля "pew pew" клацай и убивай.
  57. NakiHandmade
    Oct 7, 2020
    0
    Game only one server in US.
    The dev is German and they know what they are doing. Make outside US player as chicken to be killed by US players. That make game fun for US players and keep the player base.
  58. Oshien
    Oct 25, 2020
    0
    Great sandbox MMO. About 2 free expansions (large updates) a year and a playstyle for just about anyone. Come play it is free but I would suggest subscribing.
  59. DIO666
    Feb 27, 2021
    0
    Absolutely a trash game, full of scammers, toxic chat moderators, garbage and scam everywhere that are allowed by the team, There is a system of scammers corrupted with some insiders of the game. Don't play to this garbage.
  60. Adudu02
    Jun 26, 2021
    0
    It´s a good game, I can spend all my time playing that, the only negative fact, is when you die, you lose everything, and it´s so tilt
  61. BaldursThones
    Apr 15, 2022
    2
    its just your typical grindy MMO with more added grind to it. You just sit around and mine resources which is simply boring.
  62. DimitriKnopf
    Aug 5, 2022
    1
    I'd say overall I got really into the grind building up spec for gear and gathering/fishing. Unfortunately SBI promotes a toxic player base and ganking which by the way doesn't require a ton of skill just 5v1 with stun, root, slow, silence etc. etc. If you make any sort of complaint the players will deny their own actions and say "it's just a game, get good, why you so mad bro? QuitI'd say overall I got really into the grind building up spec for gear and gathering/fishing. Unfortunately SBI promotes a toxic player base and ganking which by the way doesn't require a ton of skill just 5v1 with stun, root, slow, silence etc. etc. If you make any sort of complaint the players will deny their own actions and say "it's just a game, get good, why you so mad bro? Quit crying." Typical toxic behavior from majority of the player base. If you made gathering and grinding players capable of fighting back fairly then sure this game would be legit. What's worse when I tried to address any of these issues on the official forums or during twitch tv live streams I would be banned almost immediately for "breaking the rules."… Expand
  63. merenga
    Jan 16, 2023
    1
    Terrible game support for players, terrible ban system, i got banned for "third party commerce" just because a friend gave me silver to help me buy gear, when i contacted the support they told me the ban was correct and not negotiable.
  64. akametalo
    Jun 1, 2023
    0
    albion is the best pvp if you have problems with dungeons just go play wow this game bace on pvp And the problem is you are so stupid you don't know where and how to pop the map

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72

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. DarkStation
    Sep 7, 2017
    60
    You could kindly call Albion Online old-school or hardcore, which might appeal to gamers with a nostalgia for the days of corpse runs, griefing, and ganking. Less graciously, you could say it is repetitive, cynical, uninspired, and opaque. In truth, MMORPGs that survive their infancy often grow into very different games than they were at launch. Patches and player input often have a way of shaping a game for the better, and given time, Albion Online may evolve as well.
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  2. Wccftech
    Aug 30, 2017
    70
    Albion Online is a fun sandbox MMORPG with a clever progression mechanic and deep player-economy. The mid to late game grind and hardcore nature might turn away anyone looking for a more casual experience.
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  3. GameStar
    Aug 11, 2017
    75
    Albion Online remains very motivating despite the large grind, thanks to the many and freely selectable options for character development.
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