Albion Online

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  1. 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
  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. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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 $50. Game concept while cool has been executed poorly. Overall experience has not been great with Albion Online.    … Expand
  8. vampireallana93
    Jun 10, 2021
    3
    Over this crap game. I got it because the ads say " There's a place for everyone, find yours. a sandbox mmo that has something for everyone". utter bull **** the entire game is geared towards pvp and if you want to get ahead quickly you need premium which if you want to use in game money is 10mil sliver. or 12$ 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
  9. 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.
  10. baptistew
    Jun 13, 2020
    2
    Malheureusement bien trop de bug ce qui rend l’expérience horrible parfois.
  11. 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.
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. raift8848
    Apr 22, 2019
    1
    Poorly optimized game, poor infrastructure, company that does not invest in its product, too much lag and technical problems
  18. 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
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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.
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
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  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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