ArcheAge: Unchained

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  1. Black-Templar
    Oct 20, 2019
    2
    Listen up lads! I played ArcheAge since it's 2013 western release

    The game is great! I'm having fun playing with my friends and guild members, it's perhaps the best MMO I've ever played (and I played a lot of MMO)... But God Damn that the team behind it does not know how to manage servers. For god sake, they didn't learn any lessons from Official Western Release date. It still has    Listen up lads! I played ArcheAge since it's 2013 western release

    The game is great! I'm having fun playing with my friends and guild members, it's perhaps the best MMO I've ever played (and I played a lot of MMO)... But God Damn that the team behind it does not know how to manage servers.

    For god sake, they didn't learn any lessons from Official Western Release date. It still has the same queuing, crashing, disconnecting problems. At the moment I'm writing this, we are at D-Day+6 of Unchained release and they still can't put the money to increase servers' capacity.

    Brace yourself to face 2, 3 sometime even 4 or 5 hours of queing to get in the game. I'm not even exagerating!

    And this is without taking consideration that you may (WILL)) experience crashing and getting disconnected "By the Gods" (as the in-game message wants to say.

    Not even Black Desert which is the most Graphically demanding MMO at the moment had half of ArcheAge Unchained problems in it's first week.

    The game is not playable at the moment, it's like if Gamigo is expecting the Hype to worn out so they won't have to invest money on upgrading their servers. Well... with this behavior of them, they are right to think that. Players are going to get discouraged and will eventually leave the game after 2-3 weeks if the Team behind the game does not give a damn about the experience of their consummers.

    You really, REALLY think that one will expect the new Dev team to look what was wrong with the game in 2013 and bring the correction to avoid repeating the same mistakes... Nothing of that happens with Unchained.

    They did got rid of 95% of the P2W elements of the game, I can give them that. But the connectivity problem makes the game unplayable at this moment.

    If you still want to purchase it, consider the game to be in an Alpha State!    … Expand
  2. iginite
    Oct 21, 2019
    0
    Huge queue, game is mediocre and you can not return the game if you write the support based on the above points. Attention rip off.
  3. IFeelScammed
    Oct 19, 2019
    3
    Queue times, wait times for peace zones, exploits, constant PvP, no explanation how to play the game.

    Progression is slow and difficult due to the above.

    I'd rather play a game that waits for me, not the other way around.
  4. TE5LA
    Feb 3, 2020
    0
    Terrible game, terrible company. Pre-ordered this and couldn't play because queues were always over 4 hours in the first week, so I politely requested a refund and received an instant permanent account ban for my trouble.
  5. Rubish
    Oct 27, 2019
    0
    Biggest waist of time and money long ars ques consant bugs and gliches even if you have protection and 0 help game is not easy to follow better off spending your money on a game that makes sense instead of pissing you off and glitchie ganks for no reason i would of waited another year to get this to sqush this ****
  6. Throe
    Nov 21, 2019
    0
    TL:DR: the game could have been great but its implementation and management makes it awful. At the moment I do not recommend at all this game.

    EDIT: I'm downgrading the score from 2 to 0: the support system in this game non-existent. It's been 4 weeks I've posted a tickets regarding a pack i bought with the game. So far no answers. Don't buy this game. Here is why imo: Pros: -    TL:DR: the game could have been great but its implementation and management makes it awful. At the moment I do not recommend at all this game.

    EDIT: I'm downgrading the score from 2 to 0: the support system in this game non-existent. It's been 4 weeks I've posted a tickets regarding a pack i bought with the game. So far no answers. Don't buy this game.

    Here is why imo:

    Pros:
    - The skill & class system: imo that's one of the great thing about this game. You have to choose 3 skillsets out of 12. To each combo (220 at total) corresponds a class.
    Needless to say that with that many possible permutation, you will find a class that fits your playstyle.
    Not all classes are truly viable as the differents roles (melee, physival ranged, magical ranges, healer, etc) are all reliant on specific skillsets (ex: Battlerage for melee, Archery for physical ranged) and these skillsets are reliant on 1 stat (ex: strength for melee and agility for physical ranged).
    So for some combos you either have to mix stats and have an overall average output on all skills OR conentrate on 1 stat and have a great output on some skills and a poor one on others but fear not because each role still have plenty of perfectly viable classes to choose from.
    - Combat system: the skill combo system makes that the use of certain skills in succession will enhance your output by either buffing you or debuffing your target(s). As you have several combos to choose from, you can adapt on the fly if your previous combo streak got interrupted and some of your skills are still in CD.
    - Sandbox MMO: if you want to do more that fights, you can. You can build your own houses and farms, you can go in fishing expeditions or trading between continents, etc... lots of activities.

    Cons:
    - This is GrindFest Central. Forget about the usual MMO cycles of reaching max level and then grinding for the best (or close to) gear but then being able to relax until the next expack. Here it's a constant grind if you want to keep up with the rest. that also make it next to impossible to catch up with older players as they continue to advance as you try to catch up.
    - The gear improvement system: the gear improvement system is complicated as hell and NOT EXPLAINED AT ALL INGAME (or at least not until it's too late). Seriously: if you want to play this game, google everything you can to understand how it works.
    - The amount of possible alts: You cannot have more 6 alts per account AND only 2 alts slots are available at start, afterward you have buy expansion scrolls WHICH DOES NOT EXIST YET!
    And when i say 6 possible alts, i do not mean 6 alts per server, i mean 6 alts ACROSS ALL SEVERS!
    The other possibility of course is buying another account (you can have up to 3 account overall).
    - Only buy the base version of the game, do not spend any moeny the "improved packs" as 1 - the goodies from that pack will only be avaiable on 1 character, not account wide and 2 - the pack will automatically be bound to your 1st created character (even if the game is bought directly from Gamico website), which means that if you delete your 1st toon because you want to reroll, you lose the goodies.
    - If you delete a character, you have to wait a long time: 1 day at lvl 15, 1 WEEK (!!) at lvl 55. Why? if know, please tell me.
    - The suport system is non-existent. Personnally i have open a tickets 3 weeks ago and I still don't have any answers, most likely because their support team is way understaffed.

    So all in all, its core is the one of a great game if you don't mind the constant grind, but Gamico's cheap implementation is really nullifuing everything as far as I'm concerned.
    They did remove the P2W component that is prevailing in Archeage but seeing their cashgrab attitude mzkes me think it'll come back at some points.    … Expand
  7. topologist2
    Dec 29, 2019
    3
    This game had so much potential to be good. But it's a game that was ran by a bunch of unprofessional losers who fail to try to fix anything or run the game fairly for their players. It hurts me to rate this game so low but the team behind this game came in with good intentions and delivered one of the worst launches I have seen in the year 2019. It looks like the game is dying due to poorThis game had so much potential to be good. But it's a game that was ran by a bunch of unprofessional losers who fail to try to fix anything or run the game fairly for their players. It hurts me to rate this game so low but the team behind this game came in with good intentions and delivered one of the worst launches I have seen in the year 2019. It looks like the game is dying due to poor management. Gamigo also lies about their intentions and accountability, which is why I quit. There have been multiple exploits and they have failed to ban the players and/or unbanned players when they clearly exploited. The game is now ran by indirect p2w and multiple account sharing whales and those who took advantage of exploits and never got banned. This game has so much potential but it will never be a great game due to poor game support by a completely unprofessional company… Expand
  8. hajkli
    Dec 15, 2022
    0
    Do not recommend.

    1.They provide misleading information about conditions for receiving graduation rewards and you are not going to be able to get any answer from support.... 2. Biggest incompetence I saw. They created a fresh start server for new players. At some point they were supposed to close it and transfer it to the normal server regarding to their statement. We already pass    Do not recommend.

    1.They provide misleading information about conditions for receiving graduation rewards and you are not going to be able to get any answer from support....

    2. Biggest incompetence I saw. They created a fresh start server for new players. At some point they were supposed to close it and transfer it to the normal server regarding to their statement. We already pass the date and has been weeks. They are not able to transfer characters from fresh server to normal server. What is the result? We are locked in the empty server, not able to find party for any content and paying for nothing. No apology, no compensation. I was able to count only around 10 of the same people every day... so if you would like to pay for playing on a dead server this is the way.

    3. Strict censorship on game discord. You are not allowed to complain on discord. If you do, they remove your messages.    … Expand

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    Oct 28, 2019
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