ArcheAge

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3.7

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  1. 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
  2. ChampionofDeaTH
    Oct 29, 2021
    4
    одна из худших но распиаренных ммо,. полный кал даже перфект ворлд почти того же года куда качественнее и приятнее играется
  3. KepasaAmigo
    Jul 16, 2021
    4
    had fun for like 20 hours then lost track of it. not really good mmo. nothing ultra new in game. and P2W still here
  4. Hatwox
    Feb 13, 2021
    0
    There is a 75 character minimum? Oh boy... Yea i dont think i have the energy to .... create a proper anything
    Anyway. Let me tell you my story
    I wish i never played Archeage. and no its not cause its p2w I .. was curious about gaming. Wanted to see what all game genres have to offer So i wanted to start with MMOs. Since well.. MMOs have this weird "fantasy" to people playing games.    There is a 75 character minimum? Oh boy... Yea i dont think i have the energy to .... create a proper anything
    Anyway. Let me tell you my story
    I wish i never played Archeage. and no its not cause its p2w
    I .. was curious about gaming. Wanted to see what all game genres have to offer
    So i wanted to start with MMOs. Since well.. MMOs have this weird "fantasy" to people playing games. and archeage was free and "Sandbox"
    so i started it with my friends. We played. Began as a cool "oh look im grinding like that meme Lol" and then it became a "I need to finish it as soon as i can" thing. ... Something was off and i jsut wanted to finish it. Learn about it and move on.
    I did the "open world raids" . lol. that **** everytime it came. Cause i thought we were living in a world. Where if we did not defend against the dark , we would loose land and people..... turns out it was a daily .... for 1 of the currencies that archeage had.
    And then there was a Open world WAR between 2 lands. I thought it was an actual war.. turns out that too... was a PvP daily. where you were awarded for participation.

    and so i played this game. Left the dailies.just.. focused on what i could do. me alone. Always. Cause thats how games are made. You can just enjoy yourself..... turns out nothing was made for fun.

    Ok i will give archeage this. the Trade runs , the dungeons , the PvP ,the crafting , the housing , and the farming were fun. But dont be fooled.
    Just because i named so many things. Doesn't mean you could do them
    You see. Dungeons needed gear. Which needed money
    Trade runs , crafting , farming required Labour.. you got 2500 labour each day... to put that in standard terms.. Each of those. if you went to do these and ONLY these activities. You could only do it for 1hr.. maybe 30mins.... cause each action in one of these activites cost 100 labour and ONLY gave any reward after 1 day.... to make you come back.
    Housing.. required land , and resouces (that need either labour or gold..and if trade runs etc took labour and gear took gold.... what will you do)
    PvP , needed gear.

    BUT THE GREATES PROBLEM... all of archeage's best activities.. which ... were **** not even close to a basic game back in 1999. Could only be done for either an hour and then you would run out (seriously , they put limits on DUNGEONS>.. and dungeons didn;t even give any reward that people used.. hell it was pointless) or depended on the randomness of the people... which... ofc.. were the retarded minmaxers who only came to do dailies and logged out. .... but somehow did the dailies for THE ENTIER DAY.. cause dailies were on a timer. Each was an event.. and so they had to wait for the entire day.

    And so i roamed. Because without gold and labor.. what would i do.. and so i thought i would find something in the open world. **** NOTHING... NOTHING
    such a big ass proclamation... about "open world" and "sandbox" and its just a bunch of localized interactions where everyone is herded like sheep.
    and the open world PVE.. **** THAT. **** IT. You would want to "fight" an npc. or have it not throw telegraphs atall like WoW.. but nOoooooooo. Ofc not. Its like they made it to torture players

    and then.. the comunity... Its helpful it is... if you ask the questions that everyone asks. Otherwise they are a bunch of **** retards who will bite the first person "talking **** aka the truth about their game. and ofc.. this game's fun is literally in their head. how could they not bite. If the spell broke they would probably not find a reason to live anymore .

    7 years.. I thought i was wrong... cause "maybe i ask too much of games. Maybe Unreal Tournament 1999 and **** like halo were.. anomalies" ..... NOPE. apparently meta critic knows.

    So thats why i made a profile today. I... dont care for this. too much. but to just see so many people are not just blaming "p2w" like a retard but actually talking about how bad the games mechanics were... it helps

    and so.. i would just like to tell you....... stay away.. its a trap. Its literally not a game. it keeps you engaged in a sense but telling you , you still haven't had fun.

    Dont **** touch it.

    also have you read the positive reviews , who talks like that "best game" "Amazing" **** you... never have i once used expressions like "best game" GO **** YOURSELF. Its painfully obvious they are paid    … Expand
  5. Nezher
    Nov 29, 2020
    3
    This MMO used to have great potential, and it still has decently good hobbyist stuff to do (such as fishing and farming). Unfortunately the devs constantly add in P2W stuff (even to the Unchained version, which was supposed to be not-P2W. Now it is just less so than the F2P version), the combat is awfully dull by today's standards (both PvP and PvE), servers are dying left and right, andThis MMO used to have great potential, and it still has decently good hobbyist stuff to do (such as fishing and farming). Unfortunately the devs constantly add in P2W stuff (even to the Unchained version, which was supposed to be not-P2W. Now it is just less so than the F2P version), the combat is awfully dull by today's standards (both PvP and PvE), servers are dying left and right, and there has been barely any worthwhile content of any sort since release (only 2 new races and a handful of areas).
    ArcheAge, the MMO that could've been...    … Expand
  6. Kernell
    May 20, 2020
    0
    Grind mobs. Lack of interesting dungeons. Pay 2 win. A terrible system that rests on the grind of mobs and work points, which are never enough.
  7. Cell1e
    May 23, 2019
    4
    I have played through Archeage this past three weeks, trying out the story, the levelling and the gameplay.

    For me it feels like a very old game, especially when coming from Elderscrolls and Gw2. The character textures and appearance is very good but the buildings and plants and world around feels very clunky and old looking. Kinda blocky buildings etc. Cities are empty, npcs standing    I have played through Archeage this past three weeks, trying out the story, the levelling and the gameplay.

    For me it feels like a very old game, especially when coming from Elderscrolls and Gw2. The character textures and appearance is very good but the buildings and plants and world around feels very clunky and old looking. Kinda blocky buildings etc. Cities are empty, npcs standing in clusters doing nothing and huge spaces where the is no life whatsoever. You very rarely hear your own characters voice, so there is a lot of reading text boxes. The interface is buggy and problematic, I tried to enlarge my skill bar so I could better use it and half of my lower skill bar disappeared under the screen. Trying to move the skill bars using shift and left click didn't work for me most of the time either.
    The game-play is very old time, fetch quests. BUT I did like some of the main stories, the best being the warborn. Unfortunately the main stories end at level 30 and while you continue the 'substitute' main story and sidequests, they are pretty bland and typical of older games. Its a hard slog getting from 30 to 50 even using xp potions I must say.
    I believe the server must be very quiet, the trade-broker on both the NA and EU had very little armor and weapons for sale as opposed to most the MMO's I've played. Luckily every few levels the game rewards your character with a set of new armor. I liked the armor styles but was disappointed to see there was no way to preview the armor before buying, who would spend a fortune on a new armor from the broker without previewing?

    Sad to see there was no in-game stylist, this would have kept me playing for longer having more cosmetic options. Especially as I am happy to be a paying player. But not so keen to pay real world money for changing my look on top of a monthly fee.

    I found the crafting and building systems unneccessarily complicated and impractical. For all the different materials needed for crafting and building, its a wonder there isn't a material storage system implemented into the game as there is in other mmos.

    Im glad I gave Archeage another look but feel very sorry that it doesn't live up to the hype from launch or even from reading others reviews.

    Id like to see them properly introduce flying and even allowing people the chance to own and train their own dragons, the dragon system is very exclusive, cash shop and guild reliant. What a shame for us casual players eh?

    I experienced PVP sometimes when out leveling my character, because the maps are so empty I really didn't have to worry about being constantly killed when doing quests in danger zones. Quite funny really cause I was expecting it.

    Personally I think they should scrap this game, take their ideas and build it again using a better engine with better graphics and better and more simple systems implemented. Update and improve is necessary for this game to compete with the other great and formidable mmo's out there.    … Expand
  8. Tiros
    May 18, 2019
    1
    Локализатор полный швах, всё упирается в донат и донат акции, постоянные лаги, вылеты
  9. DiscordOfSound
    Dec 26, 2017
    0
    I started this game at the NA Launch. The gear gap is one of the worst I've experienced in an MMO, especially in terms of crafting and the RNG factor is ridiculous when you are spending in game currency and energy to upgrade weapons and armor, only to have a very, very high chance of failure. The pvp factor is fine, but open world pvp does need to have limits and even up to the currentI started this game at the NA Launch. The gear gap is one of the worst I've experienced in an MMO, especially in terms of crafting and the RNG factor is ridiculous when you are spending in game currency and energy to upgrade weapons and armor, only to have a very, very high chance of failure. The pvp factor is fine, but open world pvp does need to have limits and even up to the current changes, there's very little done to manage it. Basically, if you don't mind grinding daily for currency, or paying IRL money for patron while buying apex to sell on the auction house to line your pockets (or several alt accounts to bot for you), this is the game for you. Expect to have high geared players block content, and weasel out exploits that have yet to be fixed.

    Also, since the server merges, there's very little land on either continents, so that may be a problem if you need to farm in order to produce gold.

    DDOS seems to be a frequent problem as well. Many players have connectivity issues, and FPS loss is a constant frustration during content.

    To be honest, there needs to be a gear/weapon cap at celestial or divine, as well as a class re-balance. There's a ton of players who have voiced their concerns over these common issues and XL has yet to listen.

    Now, on to the positives: The game, overall, is very aesthetically pleasing. There is a lack of underwater life, unlike BDO, but otherwise, it is a pretty game. Prior to the server merge, farming was a good way to have an income to buy APEX, and ultimately, patron. The selection of mounts are fun, and the costumes are usually something to look forward to, especially during annual events. You also have a chance to buy marketplace items on the auction house for gold instead of loyalty or credits. Pets are also a fun addition and can be helpful during PVE. You also have a choice to change professions and classes to suit your play style.

    That said, I think this game would be worth sticking with if;
    1. Classes/abilities were better balanced.
    2. They establish a gear cap that's manageable for players without having to break into one's bank account, and rework the RNG mechanic for upgrading said gear.
    3. Shut down servers and actually address the issues and exploits that have been reported (especially LOS attacks and pulling through walls)
    4. Rework the faction guards to where they are faster and deadlier to opposing factions and players who "Purple", i.e. turning instantly aggro on PK'ers while in a base or town. That includes Diamond Shores.
    5. Open more protected farm land, especially in merged servers. Remove un-built buildings within a time period. (It sucks, especially if you're saving a spot for a guild member but you always have the option of building on the land then selling it to them for a copper.) And limit the amount of land one can own in a region. This could possibly put a stop to land barons who take up 20 plots of land just for decorations.
    6. Rework the justice system. No more trials, and infamy points can only be reduced by time served, pots of forgiveness (limited), and/or paying a fine. (Also portals are disabled within a certain distance of the jail.)
    7. Cool down between combat and the use of gliders need to be addressed as well.
    8. Rework of the collision physics in the game. This can address the problem with people blocking pathways to traders and roadways. This might take the fun out of scooping someone up on a long-board or car and moving them to an unsafe area, but over all, it will take away the headache that, again, many players face with large groups, or needing to afk for a short while. BDO's collision physics are spot on, even if you get bumped into and your bust jiggles like pudding pop. Ships and buildings should still have a hard collision however. Besides, they can re-establish the afk timer, as they have done in the past.

    Granted, these are only suggestions, and alterations and think tanks on the subject are welcome. I ended up leaving the game in November after years, so I'm by no means new. I enjoy pvp as much as pve, and have seen games come and go. It would be great to see XL pay attention to players on NA/EU and their concerns. There's still a lot of money they can make from their cash shops and subscriptions.    … Expand
  10. AndromedaDelux
    Jul 6, 2017
    0
    Played since 2014, game is a terrible pay to win Korean grind mmo, that has no actual content expansions per patch that give the game any sense of longevity past the initial week of the patches release. The amount of randomness required to progress your character are so prehistoric its like being vaulted back into 2005. Trion, the North American publisher of the game admits to having noPlayed since 2014, game is a terrible pay to win Korean grind mmo, that has no actual content expansions per patch that give the game any sense of longevity past the initial week of the patches release. The amount of randomness required to progress your character are so prehistoric its like being vaulted back into 2005. Trion, the North American publisher of the game admits to having no actual control over any content that gets pushed into the region. And XL treats the north american and european versions of the game extremely bad. Most Other korean developers of mmos have gotten over this xenophobic approach to development yet it still seems XL holds onto its ideas of a Korea First focus in the game.

    The game has 120 possible classes, yet everyone mostly plays 1 Dark Runner because after 2 years it hasn't been balanced.
    The quests are somewhat engaging but thats only if you get filled in on the lore ahead of time, the writing and delivery of that lore is terrible in the game outside of a few cutscenes which can be jolting as they don't fit with the direction or path of your character.
    The PVE elements of the game are terrible. They require no thought outside of a handful of bosses with 1 shot mechanics, everything else outside of that handful are pinatas. PVE requires no thought, you stand in 1 spot and press 1 dps skill as fast as you can.
    PVP elements of the game are terrible. As the game is pay to win, most of the skill factor in the game goes out the window as you can simply wash away any amount of bad skill with spending money on the strongest gear.

    The Naval combat while fun, doesn't really have any meaning, as having your ship destroyed gives no real consequence, and in most cases the actual ship combat can be ignored by simply jumping onto enemy ships with masses of players or pulling them off with spells as players have the ability to move faster than ships.....why even bother having a ship out at that point?

    The housing system, while a good idea on paper, is a terrible idea in practice, as it limits the amount of players who can actually join the game for that experience. Land isn't instanced or limited by amounts you can own.

    That being said, the actual game mechanics shoot themselves in the foot when the game allows you the ability for free, to create as many alternate characters as you can in a world that has limited space. Which means a single player can own an entire area of a map again blocking any new player from setting any property there. That kind of stuff used to matter in the beginning of the game when it released and had a future. But since the mistakes have piled on patch after patch, bug after bug, mistake after mistake most of the population of the game is gone.
    Most notably the European population of the game on all but 1 server have vanished.
    As far as the players that remained after, most if not all of the organized gaming communities have left, and I'd wager to say most people left still playing have either invested so much into the game they don't want to quit, or are new players that don't have a clue about the games traps.

    Oh and I almost forgot the most important part, the game encourages you to be a heel to other players rewards it, causing all of those problems mentioned above to be amplified by 1000. Griefing etc have no real consequences.

    That being said, Stay away from this game and avoid it like ebola. Let it rot with all the other korean cash grab imports that settle their way over to other countries only to be shut down a few years later.    … Expand
  11. Rickos
    Sep 8, 2016
    0
    I played this game for a few months and I've got to say this is one of the worst customer service oriented MMO's I have ever had the displesure of playing in my 15 years of MMO's. Some guy showed me a trick by using a 3rd party mod, he teleported a vehicle of mine and got his account and my labor account banned. when I tried to explain what happened and get my labor account un banned theyI played this game for a few months and I've got to say this is one of the worst customer service oriented MMO's I have ever had the displesure of playing in my 15 years of MMO's. Some guy showed me a trick by using a 3rd party mod, he teleported a vehicle of mine and got his account and my labor account banned. when I tried to explain what happened and get my labor account un banned they banned my main account too seizing about $150 dollars worth of in game credits and refuse to refund it back on my credit card. I will be taking this company to small claims court soon and warn anyone else about this company… Expand
  12. feralshiv
    Aug 17, 2016
    4
    Very nice game with a lot things to do, open world pvp, sieges, sea wars, good skill mechanics.
    But was totally ruined by free to play model, had to go as monthly subscription without any chance for pay to win option.
  13. Winters
    Aug 1, 2016
    0
    The game could have been one of the greats. It is beautiful and immersive. Those are the only good points that I can give.

    The crafting system is great, with one, small problem. The game is not just pay2win; it is also pay 2 craft. It is, in fact, pay2do-anything beyond the basics. I am not talking about the subscription fee. You pay that to have the right to own land, but to craft    The game could have been one of the greats. It is beautiful and immersive. Those are the only good points that I can give.

    The crafting system is great, with one, small problem. The game is not just pay2win; it is also pay 2 craft. It is, in fact, pay2do-anything beyond the basics.

    I am not talking about the subscription fee. You pay that to have the right to own land, but to craft anything without the prospect of spending years to create a top-tier item, you will need to pour cash into the game.

    The most despicable pay2win aspect is Labor Points. You generate a small amount if you have a subscription and even less if you do not. Want to mine that ore node? Got enough Labour Points? No, tough! Pay for more.

    Moving on from the crafting system, there is literally no end-game, none. A handful of badly designed dungeons.

    Not that this review really matters now, the server populations dropped off sharply after a few months, requiring server merges. I popped on a few days ago to see where the game was at. Dead, mostly.    … Expand
  14. billiejo1216
    Jul 23, 2016
    0
    So much potential here with this game. It could have been great. So much P2W its ridiculous. I will never recommend anyone to play this game nor any other Trion game ever again. I played during beta. Purchased a founders pack, constantly bought packs they released as well. I spend a good bit of money in the game. I began gearing myself and was grinding and working hard to do so. I go awaySo much potential here with this game. It could have been great. So much P2W its ridiculous. I will never recommend anyone to play this game nor any other Trion game ever again. I played during beta. Purchased a founders pack, constantly bought packs they released as well. I spend a good bit of money in the game. I began gearing myself and was grinding and working hard to do so. I go away from the keyboard one night, standing still. To be honest, I just was tired and forgot to log out. I woke up the next day to find my account had been banned. After repeated attempts to contact Trion they state I was botting, although they will not show any form of proof nor tell me what i supposedly used due to the main fact i was not botting. They have zero proof. Yet, rather than admit they were wrong, they send me an email stating they aren't saying i would do such a thing but being as it is possible they will be keeping my account banned. All the hard work over 2 years gone. All the money i put into the game, gone. They state they can ban you at any point in time for any reason. Why would I recommend someone else to play the game after this has happened to me? I won't. Sadly, this game could have been amazing. It's falling apart. More and more people are quitting and believe it or not my particular situation has happened to more than just me. If I could rank this game on the negative scale I would. Never again will I play or give any money to any Trion game after this experience.… Expand
  15. ugura
    Apr 13, 2016
    2
    pay to play
    catch us at times, which I hate so great at this game. looks great, has ne hammer animation, hammer wasserefect, not story so extremely great but runs smoothly. and now let's look at the shop at, armours, remuneration, all the trimmings, as it shows the trione in the direction ea's, which draws people, many thanks for my 15 hours should be enough how horrible her abzockt the people
  16. Kyle_Makore
    Mar 6, 2016
    0
    I played the game since the beginning, and I really did enjoy the game, but like all reviews there is a butt.

    You won't be able to compete in the game. The only way to compete is unfortunately the term every one knows... Pay2Win. This game is a total gambling game with your money. Isn't online gambling illegal? That is what this is! I have no objects buying costumes and pretty    I played the game since the beginning, and I really did enjoy the game, but like all reviews there is a butt.

    You won't be able to compete in the game.
    The only way to compete is unfortunately the term every one knows... Pay2Win. This game is a total gambling game with your money. Isn't online gambling illegal? That is what this is!

    I have no objects buying costumes and pretty stuff in games. The problem is buying the items to be able to compete. These items are related to increasing the odds of your gambling chance at successfully regrading your equipment. Regrading your equipment will increase how powerful the item is. There is 12 grades to all your gear. Each grade gets harder and harder to regrade to the next level. They sell Charms for real life money in the game that raises the chance you might increase the grade of the item. Problem is it is a gamble with low odds of succeeding. The other problem is besides not regrading up.... the item can regrade down and you threw away all that money and did not get anything. It gets worst.... You can even destroy your gear if a regrade fails. This can get quite expensive with all the gear a person has. This doesn't just stop at player gear. All the boat items in the game can be regraded as well as pet gear in the game.

    All your gear will have item sockets as well that you can gamble on actually adding a gem to. You can always get the first gem in, but after that it is a gamble if you can add more gems. The gem will either not go in and break, and or destroy all the gems already in the item. This happens quite often.

    I'm sure by now every one knows this game has a PvP focus, which is great....

    No skill is taken into account into the PvP of this game. This game is all about your Gear Score, which is a cumulative total of the points your gear is worth. The game takes a massive amount of gold to really be competitive in the game. There is an item that you will be tempted to buy with real money from Trion called an Apex. You can sell this item to real players for serious amount of gold. You need this serious amount of gold for crafting ingredients, and regrade, and socketing, etc, etc... You can earn gold in the game, but to earn the kind of gold you can get from easily buying and selling an apex in game will take days upon days, if not weeks for newer characters that don't have ways to easily transport tradepacks in the game to make gold. You can't earn gold from killing monsters in the game. Yes... you cannot earn gold from killing monsters in the game. You can get what they call a loot bag from monsters in the game. This loot bag can then be opened to get a paltry amount of gold. Even then your limited to the amount of these bags you can open. There is a labor system in the game. Most activities in the game take labor. Combat doesn't take labor. Opening Coin Purses(loot bags), crafting, farming, and regrading. These all take labor and you have a small limited pool of labor that regenerates slowly by being in the game. Don't worry though you can spend real life money to buy Labor regeneration potions.

    I have unfortunately spent an embarrassing amount of money in the game I feel and I could not compete with any one in the dominate faction. There is a snowball effect to the game when one side is dominating the other side. There are world bosses that only the strong can take down, and all these world bosses can be interrupted by the apposing faction. While on my server it is so bad the faction i'm in can't compete and can't challenge the other factions at these world bosses to get the sweet loots. This loot you get from the world bosses allows you to craft even more powerful items in the game making you even stronger, making the other faction even weaker.

    Earning money in the game can be very hard as well when the dominate faction can essentially kill you and take all your hardwork crafting tradepacks, which is what will earn you some gold. You need to sell about 50 trade packs to be able to earn as much gold as a Apex can sell for. You can only carry 1 tradepack at a time, but various carts and boats you can craft will allow you to carry more. Basic Cart 2, upgraded 4, and pay2win cart 6. There is a boat you can build that will allow you to transport 20 packs, but good luck surviving out in open water to transport these packs in an unrestricted pvp zone. Remember you can only move one pack at a time on your back. These packs all take ingredients and labor to make. All the ingredients you farm on land and harvest using labor. If you can find land to own, you need to be a subscriber to own land. I was quite the land baron in the game and had a ton of land. Also to keep your land you need to pay taxes in the game every week. You need to make tax certificates from using your labor.

    I can only leave a 5000 character long review, and I have allot more I could say. Unfortunately this game is the most pay2win game ever.    … Expand
  17. TNichols2012
    Feb 22, 2016
    2
    Toxic community of players. Game encourages bad behavior to other players. I regret paying to play and would like my money back. I would not recommend this game. I've played WoW, Guild Wars 1/2, and many minor MMOs. This one has really bad people in it. Great game, not great community.
  18. EvilTreerat
    Oct 29, 2015
    1
    Bad. That sums up the game. The idea had potential but both XL and Trion fell into the "do what we know sells" trap and churned out yet another "Korean grinder". Pretty graphics (but nothing that hasn't been done before and done better) but that is about the only positive. PvP is based solely on gear and if you're a flavor of the month (right now its Dark Runner or some otherBad. That sums up the game. The idea had potential but both XL and Trion fell into the "do what we know sells" trap and churned out yet another "Korean grinder". Pretty graphics (but nothing that hasn't been done before and done better) but that is about the only positive. PvP is based solely on gear and if you're a flavor of the month (right now its Dark Runner or some other Battlerage-based spec), then raw numbers, and the actual ability of players to think is at the bottom of the heap. Plus with sieges and every other in-game event tied to the clock you can forget about using sneakiness to attack when the numbers are more even or to simply wear down a dominate faction.

    As to the PvE.... might as well forget it now. Sure you start out following a quest line that sounds promising (if rather overblown) at first there are enough quests with okay rewards that you don't have to grind a thousand and 1 monsters to progress. But by the time you hit 40 that all dries up as the quests peter out (to the point of there being zero in Auroria - the "end game" continent), the rewards fall flat (basically you're using level 40 gear at 50), and its all the same "go kill X mobs then come back". On top of that the dungeons do nothing to break the monotony; they're really just mobs with more hp that hit harder with a few bosses with unavoidable/ unresistable stuns plus automatic-kill attacks mixed in. Oh and rewards that unless you're really into to the RNG and grind-game that is Arche Age crafting make you wonder why you bothered. Of course that assumes you can even find a group to do the dungeons with at a level when they're supposed to be meaningful. Most of the time you're left waiting for some level 50+ player looking to get their daily mentor quests done to take you along for an ultra-boring zerg since the game lacks even a remote resemblance of a Looking for Group tool. Much less something on the level of the polished system that WoW reached despite being years older.

    Speaking of which, when you compared Arche Age to that much older game you see a glaring difference.
    WoW might be older and its graphics dated (but then again they're also true to the Warcraft games looks) but its clear that Blizzard actually put enough money and time into each aspect of the game to make them enjoyable. While XL dumped everything into the graphics and naval aspects and just assumed those and throwing around "PvP" and "sandbox" in the ads would be enough.

    My advice - play it if you're bored but don't waste money on it. You'll just end up asking yourself why you bothered while waiting for something better to come along.    … Expand
  19. Revyn
    Sep 11, 2015
    0
    The publisher completely train-wrecked the game into a wall of greed. One of the most innovative games ever made went to **** because of Trion, by far the worst publisher I have seen. I didn't know you could **** up as badly as EA without any hesitation.

    Some facts why this game is broken and why it is the publisher's fault: 1) Labor point regeneration system only regenerates a    The publisher completely train-wrecked the game into a wall of greed. One of the most innovative games ever made went to **** because of Trion, by far the worst publisher I have seen. I didn't know you could **** up as badly as EA without any hesitation.

    Some facts why this game is broken and why it is the publisher's fault:
    1) Labor point regeneration system only regenerates a suitable amount while being online: Forces you to afk-farm or buy labor pots from the cash shop.
    2) Rare items for crafting high tier equipment only available in cash shop. Which makes the endgame essentially a game of $$$.
    3) They didn't even try to fix the land-grab bot problem by changing the land claim methods or system which made cheaters insanely rich and ruined the whole economy.
    4) Economy in the game (which is a huge aspect in a game of trades and piracy) went to **** even further after introducing boxes in the cash shop which gave you randomly very expensive items: Killed the economy because everybody had to find new ways to make money which got torn apart by the publishers once again.
    5) Server merges now which nullified all the effort of getting a castle for your guild or a huge lot with a big farm. Best way to kill the playerbase.

    The list gets bigger and bigger but I'm too lazy to list it all.
    Best MMO, worst publisher. Such a shame.    … Expand
  20. Rantul
    Aug 21, 2015
    0
    The greed of the developers is unbelievable, they created a great game just to ruin it by pure greed, and didn't do anything about the hackers destroying the economy. I was unable to play a lot of this game but enough to experience the pay to win. Also, they patched it and it become incompatible with my old computer, after doing everything they said and trying everything other playersThe greed of the developers is unbelievable, they created a great game just to ruin it by pure greed, and didn't do anything about the hackers destroying the economy. I was unable to play a lot of this game but enough to experience the pay to win. Also, they patched it and it become incompatible with my old computer, after doing everything they said and trying everything other players suggested, it still would not run. It wasn't anything on my end, it was on their end and something they did. For lack of proper support and giving me the same exact response (automated). After 6 months of checking back I gave up. This game is going downhill fast, already down to less than 60% approval on steam which pretty bad. The ratings here is a lot more accurate on how good a game is.
    The short list is, Developers Greed, hackers, bad costumer support, forum censorship (as in negative feedback gets you banned).    … Expand
  21. CatNight
    Aug 17, 2015
    0
    I want to say that when this game was new I was excited at the prospects of everything you could do. The world itself is actually pretty neat with beautiful water effects, player housing, mounts, farming, fishing, trade and lots of quests and other activities to do. It was actually very fun... for a while.

    My Cons: The Labor system sucks the joy out of the game. The community is    I want to say that when this game was new I was excited at the prospects of everything you could do. The world itself is actually pretty neat with beautiful water effects, player housing, mounts, farming, fishing, trade and lots of quests and other activities to do. It was actually very fun... for a while.

    My Cons:
    The Labor system sucks the joy out of the game.
    The community is largely toxic.
    Pay to win big time. (Gold spammers are in heaven.)
    Hacking is really bad and obvious.
    Devs don't care, Trion does not care.
    Combat is boring and lackluster button mashing.
    PvP is very unbalanced gear & skill wise.
    The economy is terrible and constantly in huge swings.
    Few dungeons, limited rewards.
    End game becomes a grind in a very limited area.
    You cant customize your characters body, only the face/hair.
    Crafted end game armor thats basically plate on a swimsuit. (and not even that great looking)
    You cant dye a majority of the armor so your stuck on the color it comes in typically.
    Farming takes up hours and hours and hours and is boring to tears.
    The castles sieges are stupid, you pay a lot of gold for the right to siege (1 guild at a time) on a very limited twice a month basis. Guilds have been known to bid on their own siege rights.
    The criminal justice system is basically a good way to get picked on and works backwards, punish them and their entire guild hunts yours down, they get out of jail in 10 minuets and keep your stuff.
    Sound is generic and repetitive.
    Crafting is a gamble, grind, money, and labor sink. (Unless you pay to win!)

    I would rather do just about anything else.    … Expand
  22. Robobobo
    Aug 12, 2015
    0
    Archeage is a game that, on paper, sounds amazing. It has housing and farming, and an interesting loot system. In reality, it is poorly programmed and rigged with paywalls and hackers. The game has good features. Sea combat in this game is the best that I've seen, however, any hope for a bit of enjoyment is ruined by the greedy developers. I will update if they decide to start acceptingArcheage is a game that, on paper, sounds amazing. It has housing and farming, and an interesting loot system. In reality, it is poorly programmed and rigged with paywalls and hackers. The game has good features. Sea combat in this game is the best that I've seen, however, any hope for a bit of enjoyment is ruined by the greedy developers. I will update if they decide to start accepting player feedback, but at the moment, it seems like they have their wads of money shoved firmly in their ears.

    1. Sea combat is good, however, like the rest of the game it is plagued with hackers. This brings me into the gear system.
    2. The gear system may sound interesting, you regrade items from basic all the way to legendary, which improves stats. Each regrade after unique has the ability to degrade the item back to arcane, and regrading any item is expensive. That means, that an item that has reached it's full level potential is VERY VERY valuable. To put it in perspective, I could buy a bow at normal level for 200g. If I regrade it all the way to max level, suddenly it becomes worth 20,000g (if it is a good bow to begin with). This sounds interesting right?
    Well, it's broken. RNG Rolls are stored prior to when you actually take the risk. THAT MEANS: If you were to regrade, it would already know whether or not you were going to fail BEFORE you regraded. This is literally a stupid way for this system to work, and I can't justify why ANY developer would create it that way. There are hacks that allow you to see whether or not you fail or succeed, letting you choose the times where it says that you succeed. Therefore, hackers can always get their items to max level without risking degrade. This system applies not only to weapons and armor, but to boat components. Players with Hacks can now out manuever and out gun everyone else not only in 1v1, but at sea.
    3. Shakey business practice: XL Games has never released any information on the drop rates, or regrade rates, which illicites a feeling of sketchy practice. It is literally in the company's best interest to hide their abysmal RNG so that players continue to spend more and more money. Seeing how just about every single feature in the game is based on RNG, this can be problematic.
    4. Market place scams: XL Games Sells good and useful items on the marketplace for people willing to spend actual money or buy APEX using an obscene amount of gold. The problem? They always beef up the items on initial sale only to nerf them down the road. That means you may be sold on an item that you believe to be worthwhile only to have it be completely useless once they nerf it.
    5. Hacking not only affects regrades, but land placement and other features. Regrades are the most harmful to th e community because having fully upgraded gear means you can literally 1 hit anyone at max level. Yet, even though hacking is a problem, the stupid developers made it IMPOSSIBLE TO REPORT PLAYERS FOR HACKING. Whenever a player regrades, you can see if they got a success on global. Everyone watched a player achieve 4 successful regrades within the time it would normally take to use 1, instantaneously. We couldn't even report him for hacking because there is no feature for it.
    6. There are no GMs present, ever.
    7. Players are leaving in mass exodus
    8. Labor system is **** basically encouraging you to not play the game.
    9. f2p is a lie, it is p2w
    10. When leveling I was always told "The game opens up at 50" What it opens up to, is a bunch of events that funnel the entire player base into a certain area. The events are not exciting, they are just as monotonous as the rest of the game. It is one big player farm. You can farm in Hasla, or you can farm in the library. You are exposed to just how shallow the player pool is, when every day you see the same players doing the same events.

    The money greedy developer RUINED a completely good concept. The Korean version of the game shows blatant favoritism. It's clear that XL games just wanted to port to the US so that they could milk us of all our money and then throw us in the garbage. At it's current state, people are leaving, and the ones that are staying are only doing so because they're attached to their current gear. I've talked to many players and they are ready to leave at the next failed update, which at this point is bound to happen. This game is a scam, and I can't recommend it to anyone. I had a lot of fun in alpha, but I was also blind to the shady business practices that the developers use. Trion got a screwy deal, with not being able to update... but they are equally at fault. This game needs to crash and burn so that something with better execution can take it's place. There is a need for a game that is similar to archeage, save the ****    … Expand
  23. MagnusafBerg
    Aug 9, 2015
    0
    This game could have been so great. Instead P2W with getting weapon that you can rule others with. So expensive to grind up your gear, but the worst part the RNG for enchantment and get the correct weapon inside the game is so low for success and cost you a fortune. A guild can control an entire area and also ruined the in-game economics + in-store items for real money helps with this to.
  24. DarkDexter
    Jul 26, 2015
    0
    The game is not bad but keep in mind that you have to keep playing once you started, if u ever stop or take a break for more then 2 months all ur stuff gets deleted if u don't save it b4 you leave. It just happened like this to me. I had no time coz of RL issues for about 2 months and when I logged back in all my stuff was gone especially farming Station and such stuff. I asked Support forThe game is not bad but keep in mind that you have to keep playing once you started, if u ever stop or take a break for more then 2 months all ur stuff gets deleted if u don't save it b4 you leave. It just happened like this to me. I had no time coz of RL issues for about 2 months and when I logged back in all my stuff was gone especially farming Station and such stuff. I asked Support for help and they gave me most of the stuff back BUT not the most important things like farming Station and those things that took me months of ingame time to get them. I liked the game but I just cant recommend it due to this Problem especially if you like housing.… Expand
  25. sentarix
    Jul 22, 2015
    0
    publisher has botched every patch. credit limit must be huge to "win" at this game. worst community manager "scapes" that i have seen in any game. so much hacking and boting.
  26. SenselessNoise
    Jun 29, 2015
    0
    Just another pay-to-win KMMO. I really enjoyed the game (max leveled one, had 3 others in the 40's), but it's plagued by hackers, a new exploit comes out almost every week, and the RNG is just awful. Buying a box from the store is like playing roulette - you may get lucky once, but you'll always lose.

    I came into the game pretty excited for an MMO with "sandbox housing," only to    Just another pay-to-win KMMO. I really enjoyed the game (max leveled one, had 3 others in the 40's), but it's plagued by hackers, a new exploit comes out almost every week, and the RNG is just awful. Buying a box from the store is like playing roulette - you may get lucky once, but you'll always lose.

    I came into the game pretty excited for an MMO with "sandbox housing," only to realize that it was neither sandbox, nor was there housing. I camped expiring lots for 2 weeks before logging in at 6am with a friend to pick up a spot, only to make an enemy out of the guy that had 7 houses nearby and wanted mine for his 8th. When I wanted to upgrade from a 16x16 to a 24x24 farmhouse, I couldn't find a spot outside of the farmhouse-only plots thanks to cutthroat housing practices, while farmhouse-only areas had people that placed their houses square in the middle of multiple plots, taking 2x,3x, sometimes even 4x as much space as they needed, and screwing everyone else. Never mind the stupid labor system, the TS tree debacle, the coin purse exploit, the 3k gold I had taken away because someone bought items I listed on the AH with stolen/farmed/exploited gold.

    Seriously, this game is so bad. The story is boring, the pay2win aspect runs incredibly deep, and the biggest thing going in the game (player housing) is impossible to find. When they released Auroria, it was full within an hour or 2. It's just an overall terrible game.    … Expand
  27. KaienShiba
    Jun 10, 2015
    2
    This is not an rpg game, it is a FPS, also you can't change the keyboard set up. Had potential but that's had not have. You are also forced to team up, since there is no single player room.
  28. kfricheson
    Jun 4, 2015
    4
    Pay to win. If you are combat only the game may be ok for you. The graphics are nice. By automating the farming and crafting they have made it so the builders have no place and they have sealed that deal by announcing the mergers of the low pop servers.
  29. gathor
    Jun 3, 2015
    0
    Lots of potential ruined by greedy companies and pay 2 do anything model.
    This game requires you to play hundreds of hours to be competitive or pour money like the wallet warriors do.
    This is definitely a pay 2 win game full of hackers and bots
  30. Ysa
    May 26, 2015
    1
    Have you read any of the other player (the only ones that count) reviews? Awesome, because they were all absolutely correct and i wont need to repeat a review about the myriad and epic failures of this p2w title. Have played MMOs for over 15 years, and am finding myself less and less loving to play them, but this one takes the cake. Archeage + f2p+p2w = hordes of execrable PoSHave you read any of the other player (the only ones that count) reviews? Awesome, because they were all absolutely correct and i wont need to repeat a review about the myriad and epic failures of this p2w title. Have played MMOs for over 15 years, and am finding myself less and less loving to play them, but this one takes the cake. Archeage + f2p+p2w = hordes of execrable PoS players,creating an environment so repellent i'd have a nicer time in prison, and this is on top of the other negatives. If you value the joy, laughter, friendship and sense of accomplishment derived through playing with other gamers online, this game isnt for you.… Expand
  31. NeoAres
    May 19, 2015
    3
    this is a game unlike any other game . however trion has made it impossible for the common person to make in this world .. wallet warriors who dump thousands of real dollars on there toons . are the only ones who win. the rest of you will be forced to farm thuosand of hours in places were wallet warriors will destroy you and keep you from getting gear so they can murder you some more ...this is a game unlike any other game . however trion has made it impossible for the common person to make in this world .. wallet warriors who dump thousands of real dollars on there toons . are the only ones who win. the rest of you will be forced to farm thuosand of hours in places were wallet warriors will destroy you and keep you from getting gear so they can murder you some more ... it was an amazing game but trions thirst for money has ruined it before it ever had the chance to reach its true glory… Expand
  32. Widamaker
    Apr 30, 2015
    0
    Just P2W. Nothing more to say. You cant play the game without spending a lot of money. Oh, you can farm a bit and can interact with most players, but thats all. You need the point you get when you pai and you need to get the materials that you can buy... just a P2W and impossible to reach the dame standard of state of the art Equip as none paiing gamers. I would have paid it, when thereJust P2W. Nothing more to say. You cant play the game without spending a lot of money. Oh, you can farm a bit and can interact with most players, but thats all. You need the point you get when you pai and you need to get the materials that you can buy... just a P2W and impossible to reach the dame standard of state of the art Equip as none paiing gamers. I would have paid it, when there were only monthly cost, but you need to buy things in the store to get a normal gear.. so spent monthly money and spent many many extra in the shop... damn useless trion… Expand
  33. ingmferrer
    Apr 9, 2015
    0
    I played 3 months, maybe a revolutionary mmorpg but worst publisher ever. pay2win, bots, exploits, unprofessional staff, among others. Support via email is mediocre.
  34. EugenesCure
    Apr 1, 2015
    0
    Pay to win, bots, and community left in the dust by the devs, unless you sucked them off, in which case you were still left in the dust, just not banned for it.
  35. eijimeh
    Mar 30, 2015
    0
    A great MMO if it werent for the way trion handled the game. A bot infested game, random bans, full of exploits that never seem to be fixed. Pay to win, economy is influenced heavily by the game creator instead of letting it be what it is. Lots and lots of bad things and too may to be name.
  36. Dave-Champagne
    Mar 27, 2015
    0
    This game oblige you to play to pay your taxes in-game, and you need to take care of your field to be able to farm some gold. If you don't, you lose your field. It's a game that makes you addicted and it's a waste of time. Don't play this game.
  37. ErraticOCD
    Mar 27, 2015
    0
    Please do not listen to any review that is not 0, and please do not visit any site that gave this a green. A group of us (around 15 people) paid $150 to suppor this game. We played for hundreds of hours and had a great time. Then the patch dropped. Hackers, pay to win, hackers, hackers. People hacking from underground, hackers teleporting across the world to deliver trade packs that shouldPlease do not listen to any review that is not 0, and please do not visit any site that gave this a green. A group of us (around 15 people) paid $150 to suppor this game. We played for hundreds of hours and had a great time. Then the patch dropped. Hackers, pay to win, hackers, hackers. People hacking from underground, hackers teleporting across the world to deliver trade packs that should take hours. This drove up in game prices on rare items.

    We provided screenshots, videos, combat logs. Trion does not care. Don't listen to them saying the publisher holds the keys, that is a LIE. Trion has the ability to fix this game but the refuse to. They made their cash, continue to pay off small websites to say "This is the best free MMO ever". Trion needs to be sued and they need to refund EVERYONE who put a dime into this trash.

    I want my 100 hours and $150 back. Please stay away. The following reviewers need to be fired for either accepting bribes, or not really playing the game.

    SpazioGames
    CD-Action
    Gaming Nexus
    GRYOnline.pl
    GamingTrend
    Meristation
    PCGamesN
    3DJuegos

    I am calling all of you out as frauds.

    This game is trash, Trion is trash for continuing to let this happen, and you are trash if you still play this game after all the negative reviews.

    Stop supporting Trion and their garbage company.    … Expand
  38. Gatanotoah
    Mar 25, 2015
    3
    Archeage looked good - in marketing. From the first trailers to the final western release, it was on my radar.

    But it failed miserably. Instead of a refreshing new take on the MMO genre you get WoW 1.0 with a tiny dash of novelty that doesn't make up for how boring this game is. From the beginning you are greeted by the same old way of doing things - Animated over-the-top intro,    Archeage looked good - in marketing. From the first trailers to the final western release, it was on my radar.

    But it failed miserably. Instead of a refreshing new take on the MMO genre you get WoW 1.0 with a tiny dash of novelty that doesn't make up for how boring this game is.

    From the beginning you are greeted by the same old way of doing things - Animated over-the-top intro, character creation with 4 races split up into 4 races and marginal appearance options (Don't let the amount of sliders fool you, you can basically just change the face of your character and pick from a dozen or so hairstyles) and then you're thrown into the world.

    Instantly you will get the "same old" feeling as you start in a regular starting area full of copy/paste monsters, unvoiced standard NPC's and bad localisation. Conversation options? Not in this game. Active combat? Nu-uh! Quests apart from "Get this and come back" or "Kill 10 Y and come back"? Nope!

    You stand in front of enemies unleashing your attacks, moving around just to strafe a bit. Your skillbar looks like a blast from the past and the general UI could as well be from the early 2000s.

    On top of that, the game tries to present you with an open class system that is just a way to rename the classic triad into 120 different options. Yes, you can mix and match, but in the end you won't do anything more than in the early days of WoW, Guild Wars or any other MMO of that era.

    Now comes the big thing we all looked forward to: The building system.
    It's nothing. Star Wars galaxies did it better, and that's saying something.
    There are some areas in the game where you can put premade houses. No individuality apart from interior objects. You can farm on your own land and move some basic town services there, but that's it. Everquest Landmark, Oort, Rust and a dozen others offer more individuality than this. If you want that typ of game, go download Neocron from 2002 (!!!).

    On top of that, the game is F2P with a strong incentive to pay - Labor points. This system lets you use up "Labor points" for everything from looting a monster to harvesting resources. You regenerate those at a very slow pace in F2P (5 min for 5 labor) and a slightly more speedy pace in subscription mode (5 min for 10 labor). In payed mode, you regenerate while online.
    Let me rephrase that.
    In F2P this game ENCOURAGES going AFK.
    Encourages! Going! AFK!
    To do stuff like looting or harvesting!

    Stay away from this game. If you want a good standard MMO experience, there are far better options out there.
    You like the eastern style F2P? Lineage is superior.
    You want to build stuff? Go check out Oort, Everquest next or any of the dozen other games like this.
    You want a standard MMO? WoW basic is F2P now too.    … Expand
  39. Hookleg
    Mar 21, 2015
    0
    I had the worst experience with this game. Let me start of by saying I never actually got to play the game. the installer is so buggy that it took me three days to clean the muck of files out of my computer. I tried following the web help to get through the plethora of errors that can crop up on installation. these are all known issues to the developers. I was unable to do so.

    I would    I had the worst experience with this game. Let me start of by saying I never actually got to play the game. the installer is so buggy that it took me three days to clean the muck of files out of my computer. I tried following the web help to get through the plethora of errors that can crop up on installation. these are all known issues to the developers. I was unable to do so.

    I would recommend no one attempt to install the game. I am on windows 8.1 Pro and the installation software made my system unstable and it took me hours to fix. It was like installing a game from the old days of computer gaming install at your own risk.    … Expand
  40. synd1931
    Feb 20, 2015
    0
    Wallet warrior 2.0. Got plenty of cash to spend? GET THIS GAME. Otherwise you shall be the prey of the other wallet warriors. & I don't mean small amounts of money to be good either.. if you want the best stuff in the game. Look to spend over one thousand.. Real life money. If you got that kinda cash. and for some reason need a huge online ego boost. this is the game for you.
  41. Sky-Moondrift
    Jan 17, 2015
    1
    Initially fun, but soon shows itself for the broken POS that it is.

    Disgraceful optimization issues Terrible latency issues Horrid dungeon *mentor* system Only one thing to do all day long (zerg pvp) Pretty bad P2W model Becomes incredibly boring after just 2 weeks of play Arch age is dead now so who cares. I stopped playing with 90 days credit left from my pre-order, it's that    Initially fun, but soon shows itself for the broken POS that it is.

    Disgraceful optimization issues
    Terrible latency issues
    Horrid dungeon *mentor* system
    Only one thing to do all day long (zerg pvp)
    Pretty bad P2W model
    Becomes incredibly boring after just 2 weeks of play

    Arch age is dead now so who cares. I stopped playing with 90 days credit left from my pre-order, it's that bad. RIP and good riddance!    … Expand
  42. Fulghn
    Jan 14, 2015
    0
    The recent trend in MMORPGs has been games with enormous potential floundering due to poor implementation and features falling far short of expectations. XLGames and Trion has turned that on it's head with ArcheAge as a well done game overflowing with engaging features and gameplay floundering due to frustrating and even unethical monitization of the content, abysmal customer support andThe recent trend in MMORPGs has been games with enormous potential floundering due to poor implementation and features falling far short of expectations. XLGames and Trion has turned that on it's head with ArcheAge as a well done game overflowing with engaging features and gameplay floundering due to frustrating and even unethical monitization of the content, abysmal customer support and communication, and totally inept handling of goldselling spam and rampent cheating and exploiting.

    While not required to play the game, land ownership is a huge part of gaining access to many gameplay features. Trion ignored numerous warnings during testing that scarceness of available land and exploitative land hording would be huge problems in release.

    Obscene economy inflation, anemic loot drop rates and labor point generation, and demoralizing RNG failures at every turn are sucking the soul out of this game for the few diehard founders pack players that remain.

    The only thing that will likely save this game is a total reboot as done for FFXIV. Square Enix had that kind of commitment and courage, does Trion? I doubt it. Trion will likely follow in the footsteps of Funcom soon to exit the MMORPG development field for good.    … Expand
  43. Snovonim
    Jan 7, 2015
    4
    Archeage has ground-breaking game mechanics, deep (overly so imo..) crafting system, and great sandbox environment for PvP. HOWEVER, if you want to succeeed at PvP in Archeage, and that is really what the game is all about, it is in fact Pay 2 Win. No question about the fact that this game is money making Juggernaut for Glyph/Trion etc.. that is geared towards getting you to spend money inArcheage has ground-breaking game mechanics, deep (overly so imo..) crafting system, and great sandbox environment for PvP. HOWEVER, if you want to succeeed at PvP in Archeage, and that is really what the game is all about, it is in fact Pay 2 Win. No question about the fact that this game is money making Juggernaut for Glyph/Trion etc.. that is geared towards getting you to spend money in their RM market place on items that make it feasible for you to advance your post lvl 50 toon.

    Is it possible for you to gear up without paying? Technically it is, but it would take such a prohibitively long time (think over a year..) grinding mundane tasks such as fishing, and farming (literally.. like on a farm), that you would want to burn your eyes out with a hot poker. Meanwhile you would be getting PWND in any pvp you attempted within a couple of seconds with anyone who has payed to gear up. Sound like fun? It's not.

    Once again, beware, the End Game IS DEFINITELY PAY 2 WIN.    … Expand
  44. The_Existance
    Dec 27, 2014
    2
    The farming and housing are great, but are only really available if you are willing to pay for patron. Free to players have very limited options for earning money in game. Also, there are many pay to win aspects in the game, like the APEX system. The game tends to dry very quick if you can't put a large amount of cash into the game.

    What ultimately pushed me away from the game is the    The farming and housing are great, but are only really available if you are willing to pay for patron. Free to players have very limited options for earning money in game. Also, there are many pay to win aspects in the game, like the APEX system. The game tends to dry very quick if you can't put a large amount of cash into the game.

    What ultimately pushed me away from the game is the PvP. It is 100% gear based. Since the PvP affects many of the trade and other aspects, its really something that you can't get away from. You forced to spend all of your gold buying gear or risk being killed.

    The game is fun at first something, but it quickly goes down hill. It is not a game worth playing in the long run.    … Expand
  45. GamezWarrior
    Dec 23, 2014
    0
    To sum Archeage up in a few sentences, there were naysayers back before the game even launched that predicted a few things. It really wasn't a prediction as what's happened was a sheer given..

    - Cash shop dominated game - Pay to Win game - Destroyed economy - No end game - Bot & Gold spammer infested (Trion can't do anything) - Griefers going beyond the call of duty by using    To sum Archeage up in a few sentences, there were naysayers back before the game even launched that predicted a few things. It really wasn't a prediction as what's happened was a sheer given..

    - Cash shop dominated game
    - Pay to Win game
    - Destroyed economy
    - No end game
    - Bot & Gold spammer infested (Trion can't do anything)
    - Griefers going beyond the call of duty by using exploits to grief (Trion unbans them after 24hrs)
    - Innocents getting banned due to poor detection methods

    It's basically Diablo 3 when it was tanking but with a far worse end game.

    If there was a game of the century to avoid, folks, it's this one. Do not touch this one with a 10 ft pole. If you know people playing it (like I did), do everything in your power to get them to quit (like I did).    … Expand
  46. paddlerboarder
    Dec 22, 2014
    0
    Game has gone to @!#$%, another one bites the dust. The company (Trion) is giving preferential treatment to people and guilds in the game (The White order) for whatever reason. Maybe they know people at Trion, maybe they are bribing them, either way, it's destroying the play experience of everyone else. On top of that, Trion is now giving away items to some players that arent evenGame has gone to @!#$%, another one bites the dust. The company (Trion) is giving preferential treatment to people and guilds in the game (The White order) for whatever reason. Maybe they know people at Trion, maybe they are bribing them, either way, it's destroying the play experience of everyone else. On top of that, Trion is now giving away items to some players that arent even released in the game yet.

    Just go look at the forums and you'll have all your answers. You can't post though, not until your level 15 of course. Of course as a new player, good luck getting any help then on the forums as the actual game is write off. The chat is filled with gold spam while a good chunk of the players are absolute losers.

    The one positive thing to come out of all this though, the game is on track to die by Jan or Feb as predicted. Don't expect Trion to keep their servers up, not when they are losing money hand over fist due to their bad management.    … Expand
  47. TheReviewMan22
    Dec 21, 2014
    0
    I can also confirm what realitycheckxer is saying. There are clearly individuals in the game who clearly know people at Trion and are receiving special treatment. Aside from them outright bragging about it, their antics in-game without ban are crystal clear about this. Sorcerer is one of them.

    Further to add to the problems in the game, in-game GM's are known to abuse their power by    I can also confirm what realitycheckxer is saying. There are clearly individuals in the game who clearly know people at Trion and are receiving special treatment. Aside from them outright bragging about it, their antics in-game without ban are crystal clear about this. Sorcerer is one of them.

    Further to add to the problems in the game, in-game GM's are known to abuse their power by spawning items for players to keep that aren't even in the game yet. This has happened on dozens of occasions.

    If there is ever a game to avoid, this is it.    … Expand
  48. realitycheckxer
    Dec 20, 2014
    0
    If there is one phrase to sum up this game, it's Murphy's Law; however, Archeage takes this to a whole other level. The developers seem to go out of their way to make bad decision after bad decision.

    To further add to the problems now, confirmed reports seem to point at Trion to either taking bribes or giving special treatment to users whom spend a lot of money on the game. Not that    If there is one phrase to sum up this game, it's Murphy's Law; however, Archeage takes this to a whole other level. The developers seem to go out of their way to make bad decision after bad decision.

    To further add to the problems now, confirmed reports seem to point at Trion to either taking bribes or giving special treatment to users whom spend a lot of money on the game. Not that this is a surprise.. catering to those who spend money; however, Trions behavior (yet again) takes this to a whole new level.

    Confirmed in-game (and out of game treatment) include:

    - Unbanning players for certain hacks whereas other players have been perma-banned for using the same hack. The player was unbanned as they were a friend of someone who spent thousands on the game. We know this because the player actually streamed their hack on twitch.

    - The player in question getting people's forum posts removed (that don't violate any rules) within minutes of complaining. Again we know this because the player bragged about it, and also bragging about "being close someone at Trion"

    - Same player getting accounts banned from the game within minutes because they simply had a problem with them. Yet again, the player bragging about it.

    The player or user in question? "Sorcerer" Naming and shaming is the best way to remove the cancers from the game before it has any hopes of getting better.

    Draw your own conclusions, but my advise, stay far away until the game gets a complete overhaul . This is about as poorly run game as you can get.    … Expand
  49. jlcnuke
    Dec 19, 2014
    2
    Would be a pretty good game, if the people in charge of making decisions weren't complete idiots.. test server not testing anything (bugs from Alpha still in the game, despite beta testing being long over and the game live for a while now, game offline during prime-time with little or no warning (for minor patches, not the game is screwed issues). The game will be lucky to survive anotherWould be a pretty good game, if the people in charge of making decisions weren't complete idiots.. test server not testing anything (bugs from Alpha still in the game, despite beta testing being long over and the game live for a while now, game offline during prime-time with little or no warning (for minor patches, not the game is screwed issues). The game will be lucky to survive another few months if they don't find someone who can take all decisions and run them through a "is this utterly stupid" test before letting those decisions get out.… Expand
  50. Pavel0
    Dec 18, 2014
    0
    There are a lot of interesting ideas in this game, but they've been very poorly implemented. This is made worse by the fact that botting and hacking are rampant.

    I regret buying the founders pack because now there are better items available that cost less (not that I would recommend spending money on this). Here's my main gripes: 1. Support from Trion is bad. 2. Finding open land is    There are a lot of interesting ideas in this game, but they've been very poorly implemented. This is made worse by the fact that botting and hacking are rampant.

    I regret buying the founders pack because now there are better items available that cost less (not that I would recommend spending money on this).
    Here's my main gripes:
    1. Support from Trion is bad.
    2. Finding open land is nigh impossible.
    3. Hackers/botters
    4. Quests are mindless
    5. Scamming is encouraged by the developer

    I still gave it 1 point since the boats are cool.    … Expand
  51. aaronvf
    Dec 16, 2014
    3
    Game itself is good. Trion worlds has managed it poorly. I played in RU version and it's almost a completely different experience under different management. It's a cash grab straight up. Trion worlds has made promises and then switched them upon delivery. For example, for everyone who bought into a founder pack, they promised a 10% discount on marketplace purchases. After launch they saidGame itself is good. Trion worlds has managed it poorly. I played in RU version and it's almost a completely different experience under different management. It's a cash grab straight up. Trion worlds has made promises and then switched them upon delivery. For example, for everyone who bought into a founder pack, they promised a 10% discount on marketplace purchases. After launch they said they cannot deliver the 10% discount and will instead provide a 10% bonus on future purchases. You have to make more purchases to take advantage of the benefit now. Check the reviews on the better business bureau. I would say play free but do not give them money. They are known for being shady right now.… Expand
  52. Kev0911
    Dec 11, 2014
    4
    This game. Wow. The graphics at first make you believe this might be next gen stuff but it very quickly seems like many things are lacking depth and although they had a lot of ideas for the game they didn't deliver the goods .In a nutshell its like looking at the a beautiful trailer with castles and beautiful mountains and then you actually play the game and its nothing but a prop on aThis game. Wow. The graphics at first make you believe this might be next gen stuff but it very quickly seems like many things are lacking depth and although they had a lot of ideas for the game they didn't deliver the goods .In a nutshell its like looking at the a beautiful trailer with castles and beautiful mountains and then you actually play the game and its nothing but a prop on a stand that seems like its going to crash.

    In a spam of almost 3 month, over 1000 hours, 50k gold I bought thru sites I was able to get the highest grade of weapons currently available thru crafting. Something that is almost impossible for anyone without patronage and the use of illegal sites that sells gold can get in that amount of time I got the best armor and 2H great axe, unless your ready to grind 3 months for only one piece of gear or weapon , don't brother, quest gear can be good and is aright but never comes close to crafted items, You get the feel if you aren't the monthly sub to need to pretty much only use certain classes although their endless amounts of classes unless you can top tier items which as I said is very taxing for f2p gamers, even with a sub for the game, you are climbing a mountain that XLgames only makes higher and higher for you to get what you want so you can freely and truly have the feeling that you can be anything you want to be in the game. Leveling is a joke. I hit the cap in less then a week. The grind begins when you hit max level with every skill you wish to pursue but it only turns to a chore by the fact that if you want to further develop a skill you need to send time attaining gold, problem is that the game is not even finished a third of the map wasn't done at launch, now part of it is up but only a part not all of it. Fishing is the only real way of making a profit without have to spend too much gold and time on packs and worrying about the economy which a first it sounds like a good idea have a changing economy based on the laws of supply and demand but some time is wasted on these things unless you get a merchant ship which, good luck getting without a army of people helping you, Or you buy the damn thing from someone that can. Even with all my gold this was one part that was even hard for me, but I got one in the end took 2 weeks of endless runs for the necessary items to get this damn thing. I was very happy when I did get all on my own though, only reason this game is not lower then a 4 for me is cause of the naval combat and ships that the devs actually took their time to make , sailing is fun and pirating the other continent is really fun, unless you have people from your continent pking other people of your faction which you can do in certain parts of the world that you will need to go thru in order to get most out of commerce.

    To end this, the critics reviews are completely trash this is PAY TO WIN game don't let no one tell you otherwise, If you were hoping for a game where you can have fun farmvilling, you might be ok if you want to spend a little cash, but if you want to make a good PVX character forget it as I have mentioned all the p2w gamers have the land and AH and crafted items which are hard nonetheless with everything you buy to get so your stuck with a few range, sleath, aoe magic battle skills that are effective in battle, overall this game is not one to waste your time and money, this game is very incomplete and even if you play the Korean version you will see that the developers in that game which has been around longer then the NA version has the same core issues they just left the thing as is and only have added more stuff you can buy add-on for ships and new ships and a few world bosses but they don't seem to care about fixing anything. Only how they get a few more bucks off of you, so don't think they will fix the NA version either, in the story they quit at level 35, their is not conclusion at all they literally just quit the story not happens nothing at all , and the rest of the game is the same way. The only thing they managed to get right is the complex crafting systems which is the craziest I have seen in any mmo. This is Hyuna from the Callei server saying this is it for me , Black Desert is going in for closed beta, get yourself a Korean vpn so you can play it.    … Expand
  53. fedu
    Dec 9, 2014
    1
    Too many exploits make the gameplay nearly impossible. On top of that XL Games have so many problems with their coding and Trion does not provide any clear answers to support or questions. Everytime you think things are working out, something breaks and/or some other exploit is found.

    Would not recommend, waste of time.
  54. sam712
    Dec 5, 2014
    0
    Game is good, but Trion publishing it is like taking a dump on a wedding cake. To fix this game, Trion must claim bankruptcy and its employees who condoned P2Y policies must kill themselves.
  55. jseph1234
    Dec 1, 2014
    1
    Well Trion/XL Games have reached a new low with "Archeage the Disaster". ALL Servers have been down or soo laggy that its virtually unplayable for 26 hours and counting and over 1000 pages of complaints on the Official forum for this one issue.

    Not to mention the HUGE amount of hacking, cheating, bots (spam and gold) 3-10+ HOURs Queue lines to even login (That is at most times, not    Well Trion/XL Games have reached a new low with "Archeage the Disaster". ALL Servers have been down or soo laggy that its virtually unplayable for 26 hours and counting and over 1000 pages of complaints on the Official forum for this one issue.

    Not to mention the HUGE amount of hacking, cheating, bots (spam and gold)
    3-10+ HOURs Queue lines to even login (That is at most times, not just now) and MASSIVE Bans being handed out, etc....

    The list of problems is HUGE with this game and sad because the gameplay is good IF and I mean IF you can tolerate all of the above current problems.

    Its basically a badly orchestrated Money-Grab and currently. RIGHTLY, deserves its name as "Trash Age!"    … Expand
  56. Simongren
    Dec 1, 2014
    2
    Read a review of this in a Gaming magazine and decided to try it out based on that review.

    I like the look of the characters, I like the look of the game. That's why it gets a three. But; in the zone I started in, there are huge numbers of high lvl players fighting right next to three of the npcs needed for the starting quests. In a starting city area, mind you. The one time I was    Read a review of this in a Gaming magazine and decided to try it out based on that review.

    I like the look of the characters, I like the look of the game. That's why it gets a three.

    But; in the zone I started in, there are huge numbers of high lvl players fighting right next to three of the npcs needed for the starting quests. In a starting city area, mind you. The one time I was able to overcome the lag enough to target anything in the mob it said I had targeted a 'lvl40 practice dummy'.

    What this meant was after the 4 minute process of logging into the game I had to wait another 3 to 10 minutes for actual npc characters to load. Some of them became targetable before they appeared, but others didn't.

    Any quest involving a cutscene in the towns just kicks you out of the game due to the serious amount of lag. Once you get past the 4 minute login again, there is a better chance you will get to see the cutscene again.

    Of course, all this is moot anyway, since the game has been down for server maintenance for the last 16 hours.

    All in all, it's not something I see spending money on.    … Expand
  57. nic871
    Nov 29, 2014
    1
    After nearly twenty years of playing MMOs, I regret to say Archeage is the worst I have ever played. While all games experience mishaps, bugs, and cheaters at some point in their life, AA is so full of these problems that the game is barely playable in a long-term sense.

    The AA forums had a thread chronicling these problems--over thirty serious, debilitating problems--in just the first    After nearly twenty years of playing MMOs, I regret to say Archeage is the worst I have ever played. While all games experience mishaps, bugs, and cheaters at some point in their life, AA is so full of these problems that the game is barely playable in a long-term sense.

    The AA forums had a thread chronicling these problems--over thirty serious, debilitating problems--in just the first few months; and of course this thread was deleted. Innocent players are banned, while guilty players run impunity. Players are leaving in mass, and empty cities and trade runs have replaced the previously everyday server ques. Only the innocent and hopeful remain.

    Sadly, the developers seem to have no intention on addressing these problems, but instead continue to intentionally add to the chaos, by introducing item after item in the cash shop, and thus invalidating previous hard work by dedicated players.

    Like many others, I started out optimistic, then shifted to dealing and coping with the many many issues, and only too late accepted the truth. This game was a lie from the start, and the only smart move is to cut one's losses and move on as soon as you can.    … Expand
  58. marshvz
    Nov 26, 2014
    3
    This game asks for a large investment of time, with a promise of great reward. Most who play this game will never find that reward; I suspect those who do attain great kingdoms of bits, will realize it wasn't worth months of their life in attaining.
  59. alilsneaky
    Nov 25, 2014
    3
    Heavily (heavily) pay2win, endless exploits and dupes.
    Promising sandbox but since they made all the traderoutes safezone there is no actual world pvp to speak of, people just play farmville in pve zones instead.
  60. muminnek
    Nov 21, 2014
    0
    WalletAge
    I really hoped I will enjoy this game much. Really. Even though the evangelist group in our country (started to play AA in Korea and evangelize it in our players community) decided not to play Trion version.
    After two months of doubts I took the calculator. How long you must be off to have max labors? 3.5 days How long on (without spending any labor away)? 1 day 18 hours    WalletAge
    I really hoped I will enjoy this game much. Really. Even though the evangelist group in our country (started to play AA in Korea and evangelize it in our players community) decided not to play Trion version.

    After two months of doubts I took the calculator.

    How long you must be off to have max labors? 3.5 days
    How long on (without spending any labor away)? 1 day 18 hours (1.75 day)
    How long it can take to spend all labors from max? 1-2 hours

    My first MMO where are very hardly handicapped not only F2P but also subs players. Disaster.    … Expand
  61. Sollyz
    Nov 21, 2014
    3
    Having spent over 2 months straight playing Archeage I have seen the good, bad and ugly side of XL games product and how Trion have stumbled in the door in claims of managing the title. I used the word stumbling, because it looks like they can't even pick themselves up once they have fallen, launch bugs were just the beginning with patron going out to F2P and P2P player which wasn'tHaving spent over 2 months straight playing Archeage I have seen the good, bad and ugly side of XL games product and how Trion have stumbled in the door in claims of managing the title. I used the word stumbling, because it looks like they can't even pick themselves up once they have fallen, launch bugs were just the beginning with patron going out to F2P and P2P player which wasn't intended. They soon after rectified the issue by completely disabling patron, but it took 11 days until I received mine, but that's just the start of Trion's disaster. It doesn't get any better when we soon after Auroria release find out that Trion don't use private test servers to test patches before release and were all locked out for 14 hours of the latest expansion, those who disconnected 15 minutes after release were able to stay in granted they didn't disconnect. NA seen the worst of that as the issue was fixed by the time EU seen Auroria release, but many and I'd say over 80% missed out on participating in crucial castle grabbing, which has a great impact on Archeage, due to been unable to log-in for 10 hours while the server was left online which is by far the biggest disappointment in Trion and another 4 while servers went offline for a hot fix.

    Moving onto the game play, Archeage isn't well known for its PvE content, it's lack of effort is abysmal, but it makes up for it in other areas like crafting which will keep you hooked for hours on end as it's a true grind, world boss as-well, being apart of the main guild in Enla and having Kraken on farm status was exciting it was solid!, until we came across another bug, a severe loot bug, which made the corpses of the defeated boss unable to loot and soon after disappear, it has happen on more occasions than not and resulted us in gaining nothing, a bug like this shouldn't exist at all as it's game breaking.

    The PvP is entertaining granted you are well equipped as it's a mix of paper, scissors and rock mechanics, with are very much impacted by your gear as I have solo'd 4 people at once, it's fun personally, but come late game if you didn't grind the gear train then you can be assured you won't enjoy PvP. It's nice that they are focused highly on world PvP as it's usually missed on most modern day MMO's and in a game like this it beats doing one verse one arena as Archeage's main focus is built around world PvP, so you can say balance wasn't considered which once again in this game is fine; i'm not one for normalization.

    What lets Archeage down though is it's rampant blatantly obvious rampant of bugs, hacks and exploits. There's a range from teleportation, no fall damage to gold generating hacks and APEX/ RNG chest exploits which have been around since launch and only become aware of by Trion with-in the last week, the economy is ruined beyond repair.

    Fortunately this has been the only Trion published game I have played, but it will most definitely be the last. Having stated all the issues with Trion's/XL games Archeage you are made feeling like you're dealing with Infestation's SS Hammer point all over again and it makes you glad were put in the hands of known companies like EA/Ubisoft.

    Leaving advice is it isn't worth your time or money.

    Graphics: 7/10
    Gameplay 4/10
    PvP: 9/10
    PvE 2/10
    Trion/XL games management 1/10

    TL:DR Hacks, exploits, bugs, bad management all round from Trion and XL games, great PvP and abysmal PvE.    … Expand
  62. Leithreas
    Nov 20, 2014
    0
    This game seemed interesting. You can combine different skill sets to make your own "class", etc. Lovely idea! The combat is supposed to be at least slightly skill-based in that you can dodge/avoid/move instead of the stand-and-push-buttons of MMOs of yesteryear. Great!

    Didn't get to experience any of it. There is NO Y-AXIS INVERSION option. I repeat, you cannot invert the Y-axis of    This game seemed interesting. You can combine different skill sets to make your own "class", etc. Lovely idea! The combat is supposed to be at least slightly skill-based in that you can dodge/avoid/move instead of the stand-and-push-buttons of MMOs of yesteryear. Great!

    Didn't get to experience any of it. There is NO Y-AXIS INVERSION option. I repeat, you cannot invert the Y-axis of your mouse, which is something that's been available on every game since mouses were invented, I thought.

    There is a way to do it by downloading 3rd-party options or messing about with registries or something, but like hell if I'm going to bother. I didn't even finish the first quest. My experience with this game was four hours of downloading it, half an hour of installing it, five minutes in character creation, three minutes of going through the game options in minute detail, two minutes of idling while I googled where I could find the damn "invert mouse" option, and then quitting and writing this review.    … Expand
  63. cresoking
    Nov 20, 2014
    0
    You may realize it sooner or later (I did only after 2 months of playing) that this game is a maze meant for you to stay at the same place forever. No progression at all at the end-game due to the worst RNG possible.
    You can only progress if you toss A LOT OF MONEY at it. And i'm saying something like +10.000,00 dollars (I just did the math).
    Someday you will see that doing trade-runs    You may realize it sooner or later (I did only after 2 months of playing) that this game is a maze meant for you to stay at the same place forever. No progression at all at the end-game due to the worst RNG possible.
    You can only progress if you toss A LOT OF MONEY at it. And i'm saying something like +10.000,00 dollars (I just did the math).
    Someday you will see that doing trade-runs and farming gold is not fun, and the gold you make doesn't allows you to do nothing at all.
    Don't fall for this cash-grab game.    … Expand
  64. Vtrgott
    Nov 19, 2014
    0
    Bad game, dated combat system, no endgame content at all, dungeons are simplistic and buged, no raids, arena 1x1 totaly unbalanced, 5x5 too, cant even call that a battlegound.

    Typical asian grinding and RNG, dont waste your time.
  65. Spoopy
    Nov 19, 2014
    3
    Pay to the actual win. Welcome to the meta of unfair advantages in pvp, insane power scaling with absolutely no way to fight someone equal to you in terms of pure stats. It is absolutely pure who forked up the money, sold the items on the AH and bought the best weapons and best armor. Nothing else. I made it to 50, had a farm, Hell I was a guy that forked up the 150 dollars. I was one ofPay to the actual win. Welcome to the meta of unfair advantages in pvp, insane power scaling with absolutely no way to fight someone equal to you in terms of pure stats. It is absolutely pure who forked up the money, sold the items on the AH and bought the best weapons and best armor. Nothing else. I made it to 50, had a farm, Hell I was a guy that forked up the 150 dollars. I was one of those guys that wrecked everyone underneath him with his full craft, top tier gear and I tried once playing on an alt without any of that. Even cheating by giving my alt money from my main I had insane problems with making any progress whatsoever, and every day at level 50 felt like there was no game there. There just wasnt anything for me to do, or to progress even with a guild. The game is stomp people for fun at the end by waving your money in their face. Thats all you have to look forward to in this missed opportunity of a game.… Expand
  66. HazardXMediaz
    Nov 18, 2014
    4
    It doesn't have the longevity that an MMO should have. People will play until end game, but why do you want to play anymore of it? You have everything already because of how linear the questing is, and the only thing left for players to do is to build a house, but there is no reason for it anyway because it contains minimalistic interactivity. The combat is mediocre at best taking afterIt doesn't have the longevity that an MMO should have. People will play until end game, but why do you want to play anymore of it? You have everything already because of how linear the questing is, and the only thing left for players to do is to build a house, but there is no reason for it anyway because it contains minimalistic interactivity. The combat is mediocre at best taking after pretty much every MMO nowadays just without the charm. The environments are dull, and the enemies are like something you would find out of Wizard 101, including their AI. Also, as is with many free to play games, there is an in game shop where you can buy currency to purchase in game items. In most games this would be really fair, take War Thunder for example, but in this game, you can have exclusive items TOP TIER items when you get to level 30, which is 20 levels below max. This game is not worth anyone's time unless they just want to get through the tedious questing to see why everyone says this game is great, because you won't find that answer while going through your questing phase, and you will most certainly never find that answer after end game.… Expand
  67. DishBish
    Nov 18, 2014
    0
    Best Pay2Win simulator you can ever get. When you get in the game forces you to PAY. You can't craft, you can't farm, you can't build a house without subscribe. Don't pay any penny on this game unless you are Chinese gold farmer.
  68. Zebad
    Nov 18, 2014
    0
    First of all i played since june 2014 with founder pack (135E) :
    Pay 2 win, random injust ban, false promises, the game is poor at end game, and the worst part : Trion....is clearly incompetent to manage a mmorpg. i just deleted 3 account, i dont want to hear about them again. My bank consider Trion as frauder due to the numerous refund etc Don't give them a single dollar or euro it is no    First of all i played since june 2014 with founder pack (135E) :
    Pay 2 win, random injust ban, false promises, the game is poor at end game, and the worst part : Trion....is clearly incompetent to manage a mmorpg. i just deleted 3 account, i dont want to hear about them again. My bank consider Trion as frauder due to the numerous refund etc Don't give them a single dollar or euro it is no worth. That sad because this game should ave been great. But it is not.    … Expand
  69. Abelli
    Nov 16, 2014
    0
    This is a game that would be pretty fun if it weren't a F2P game run by Trion. They've seemingly made every effort to screw it up with their cash shop making it P2W amongst other things. They do not test their updates and they roll out broken. The game is easy to hack so there is no sense of it ever being legitimately competitive. F2P means every public chat channel is filled withThis is a game that would be pretty fun if it weren't a F2P game run by Trion. They've seemingly made every effort to screw it up with their cash shop making it P2W amongst other things. They do not test their updates and they roll out broken. The game is easy to hack so there is no sense of it ever being legitimately competitive. F2P means every public chat channel is filled with spam and they might as well not have them. The game also revolves around owning land which you have to sub to the game to own and after doing so you'll find out there is none left. But I suspect that is going to not be a problem as people stop playing.

    Their customer support is trash, I waited about 2 weeks for them to reply to my ticket where they said they hadn't looked into it yet and if i didn't reply to it that they'd just close the ticket and consider it solved. I was on vacation so they automatically closed it then when I reopened it they said oh that issue is too old for us to handle. If you do play this game and intend to spend money on it I highly recommend buying money from the gold sellers because they seem to be better people which is something I never imagined I'd say.    … Expand
  70. kansaimike
    Nov 16, 2014
    3
    It started as a promising continuation of Skyrim. I was hoping I would be able to come home from work and get some good Skyrim type adventure in.. You know, explore and fight a bit yet see and experience some interesting yet not so dramatic or bloody confrontations. I just want to explore and see what I can do in a few hours. I'm not looking to be a dick pirate or griefer. That's for theIt started as a promising continuation of Skyrim. I was hoping I would be able to come home from work and get some good Skyrim type adventure in.. You know, explore and fight a bit yet see and experience some interesting yet not so dramatic or bloody confrontations. I just want to explore and see what I can do in a few hours. I'm not looking to be a dick pirate or griefer. That's for the young kids. I have some money now. I've grown out of being a pirate. It's just too time consuming. This game gives me hope. But, unfortunately, I was was banned for speaking up against playing the game as a non-pirate. The banning policy kicked me out. I said a few words in local chat I shouldn't have and got booted -- end of game. Well, I wanted to be a good guy for once but got kicked out instead. I'm not sure what my future will be. Maybe I should go back to hacking.… Expand
  71. ChirikiCricket
    Nov 15, 2014
    0
    This one looked promising, however, it's definitely not f2p. You have to be patron to do anything. I don't mind pvp, but getting pked while questing as a lowbie time after time after time is extremely frustrating. There are lots of bots and gold sellers, and even when you block them, they can send you mail in game. So you basically see nothing but spam all day. There's no land for housingThis one looked promising, however, it's definitely not f2p. You have to be patron to do anything. I don't mind pvp, but getting pked while questing as a lowbie time after time after time is extremely frustrating. There are lots of bots and gold sellers, and even when you block them, they can send you mail in game. So you basically see nothing but spam all day. There's no land for housing or farms. Trade runs aren't fun because you constantly get pked and lose your pack. Labor is very difficult to earn and in my opinion it's stupid to have to use all your labor to open coinpurses and identify armour/weapons. This was fun in the betas, but not in release. I sincerely believe you should look elsewhere for MMOs.… Expand
  72. abasche
    Nov 12, 2014
    3
    Started off very fun. Loved the farming, gathering, crafting tradepacks, doing pirate runs with my guild, etc. But unstable servers, Pay to Win BS and Free to Play bots ruined this game. Not to mention the lack of late game fun and incredibly slow, clunky rollout of Auroria. Trion would promise us that we would get something, then either ignore comments that these promises were not keptStarted off very fun. Loved the farming, gathering, crafting tradepacks, doing pirate runs with my guild, etc. But unstable servers, Pay to Win BS and Free to Play bots ruined this game. Not to mention the lack of late game fun and incredibly slow, clunky rollout of Auroria. Trion would promise us that we would get something, then either ignore comments that these promises were not kept or do 50% of what they said they would do. Just don't play this game, it's dead in the water.… Expand
  73. rpg4life
    Nov 9, 2014
    1
    Alright this game isnt terrible because of the pay 2 win crap... those idiots complaining about that are just cheap and if you cant pay 15 dollars a month like wow or any other rpg then you shouldnt play this game period. Now! that said this game is the best rpg ive ever played hands down in terms of character versatility build wise, questing, professions, and the idea of farming. Now whenAlright this game isnt terrible because of the pay 2 win crap... those idiots complaining about that are just cheap and if you cant pay 15 dollars a month like wow or any other rpg then you shouldnt play this game period. Now! that said this game is the best rpg ive ever played hands down in terms of character versatility build wise, questing, professions, and the idea of farming. Now when i say idea of farming im meaning they had a fantastic idea for this but their biggest down fall in this game is there is no where to put a house and farm plots!! One of the coolest factors in this game is their biggest down fall so making money and some of the professions goes to crap due to this inablility to farm. Everything is taken! I finally found a place to put a house but was in a pvp area and its literally 20 feet from where you can craft the stone, iron, or wood packs which i thought would be nice... wrong. People literally sit there and wait for you to craft then go to build on your house and then kill you and take your materials. The ones you have been farming hours for... If you dont have a group of body guards with you then you cant build crap in this game and in otherwords make money. So people dont waste your time. This little factor in the end makes the game terrible to play and its sad beacause it has such amazing potencial. If they could fix this then id come back to it but till then they get a 1 as a score.… Expand
  74. PeopleIsCancer
    Nov 9, 2014
    3
    Critic Reviews 78
    User Score 3.7
    it's sad, bad game can get a good estimate of the critics.This game is really bad,it looks more like a farmer simulator.
  75. Vidicus
    Nov 8, 2014
    0
    At first glance Archeage seems like a fresh take on MMOs. Digging deeper you find out it is a huge cash grab by the company that made it. Even paying subscribers are limited by earning labor. Of course you can get more labor by spending cash in their shop. Getting land is also a joke. The land is snagged the second it appears by bots, so having any land is near impossible. CraftingAt first glance Archeage seems like a fresh take on MMOs. Digging deeper you find out it is a huge cash grab by the company that made it. Even paying subscribers are limited by earning labor. Of course you can get more labor by spending cash in their shop. Getting land is also a joke. The land is snagged the second it appears by bots, so having any land is near impossible. Crafting has been made obsolete by the farming of drops for loot in one area that is camped by all players at the same time. it is total chaos and bad planning by the developers.

    Want to customize your character? That will cost cash... a lot of it. Want to sell your land... that will cost cash. This game is a total mess and a huge disappointment.    … Expand
  76. Reseption
    Nov 7, 2014
    3
    What Is Archeage?
    ArcheAge is a FREE 2 PLAY (F2P) game, designed mostly for PVP. The game is made by Trion,the company who made RIFT. The game contains amazing graphics.(Cry-engine 3). ArcheAge allows players to do anything they'd like, for example: claiming land, being a merchant, and especially being a fighter.
    *Side Note: No ArcheAge is not a p2w game (pay 2 win). it is a completely    What Is Archeage?
    ArcheAge is a FREE 2 PLAY (F2P) game, designed mostly for PVP. The game is made by Trion,the company who made RIFT. The game contains amazing graphics.(Cry-engine 3). ArcheAge allows players to do anything they'd like, for example: claiming land, being a merchant, and especially being a fighter.
    *Side Note: No ArcheAge is not a p2w game (pay 2 win). it is a completely free game.

    ArcheAge is perhaps one of the worst games you can find out there when it comes to PVP. The system is very unbalanced, due to the amount of stuns players get (AKA CC?) resulting in users unable to fight back, meaning a guarantee lost. Forcing friends to group together in order to survive, in other words forming guilds.

    ArcheAge is a Sandbox genre game, meaning that you are free to do anything you'd like. Such as killing other people, stealing merchant goods, fighting in war, etc. With the amount of places you can travel, making it the perfect sandbox game.

    ArcheAge contains thousands, if not millions of bots roaming around the server. Stealing land from other players (of course players who payed $15), making the Premium Service or Patron Status, not worth it. In fact the chances of even gaining a land spot is below 8%. Bots also advertise on the faction/nation chat every 3 minutes, meaning that players have to block them every 3 minutes which distracts players when playing the game.

    ArcheAge contains possibly one of the worst economy, prices inflate and deflate each day. Weapons can go up to 15 gold, and later in the next day it can become at least 50, or maybe 4.

    ArcheAge has many server issues, for example the Conquest of Auroria has crashed an estimate of 20000 players of each server. The Queue is also a problem, once very while players will be waiting in a 1-hour long line of players trying to log in.

    ArcheAge contains a bad chat system, in these public chats players are always talking over each other, meaning that those who try to ask for help have to wait a long time. Leading them to the customer support center, which is also not satisfying either.

    The customer support of ArcheAge should only be used as a last resource in my opinion. Workers of Trion often do little to no help at all for users.

    Overall: 3/10    … Expand
  77. LeroyJ
    Nov 7, 2014
    0
    Bots/hackers EVERYWHERE avoid this **** at all cost folks.They can teleport all over the map to steal land this is just amazing failure.Economy totaly ruined they dont do nothing.Massive P2W cash grab get ready to spend thousand of cash to get good gear.Simply the worst fail EVER in MMO history no joke.
  78. Xabu
    Nov 6, 2014
    4
    Although many of the MMO aspects of AA are nothing new, the crafting/farming/trading aspect makes the game intriguing. The graphics are outstanding and there are many well done nuances to the world to allow for full game emersion. Building fast clipper ships, merchant trading vessels (or warships) and braving the high (PvP) seas as a merchant, mercenary or pirate all make the game uniqueAlthough many of the MMO aspects of AA are nothing new, the crafting/farming/trading aspect makes the game intriguing. The graphics are outstanding and there are many well done nuances to the world to allow for full game emersion. Building fast clipper ships, merchant trading vessels (or warships) and braving the high (PvP) seas as a merchant, mercenary or pirate all make the game unique and fun to play, but the heart of the game is crafting, trade and commerce. In order to get the full functionality and enjoyment out the game, you need at least a small plot of land (8x8) where you can safely farm the materials you need to craft, trade, and sell a ton of stuff. Here’s the catch: THERE IS NO LAND LEFT IN ARCHEAGE!! I was on a relatively new server with a relatively low population, and after hours and days of hunting for an available plot of land, I found nothing (I’m not unique; this sad song has been sung by many a player). Apparently during the Beta and early days of the release, there was a huge land grab; some players/guilds own several plots of land creating a land monopoly, which essentially shuts out new players. If you can’t find land you have to use either a public farm (which is very restrictive and subject to player theft) or rely on a guild or friend to let you use theirs. Trion will happily charge you the $15/month patron fee, but they do not guarantee you full game functionality, so they’re essentially perpetrating fraud. It’s kind of like paying full price for a car and only getting two wheels. As such, I’d recommend staying with a free-to-play account, which unlocks about 70% of the game content. That said, that’s about all you get with a paid (“Patron”) account since there is no land left to new players, so why pay real money?

    Perhaps if Trion develops a queue that eventually allowed one to at least get a 16x16 farm, then it might be worth sticking with a patron account. It would make more sense, however, to open up more land to new players (there appears to be broad expanses of land not being used for anything). I would be willing to (dare I say) use instanced zones for housing and farms just so I could get full game functionality.

    I queried Trion about these issues and ideas, and never received a reply on my ticket. The only advice I’ve received recommended I search and wait for a land plot to default due to a lapse in taxes…Gee, thanks Trion. I guess spending 90% of your “game” time randomly searching the entire world for hours on end waiting for another player’s plot of land to default is what passes for a good time? Sound like tons-o-fun! I think I’ll give my money to Blizzard.    … Expand
  79. JoshuaQ
    Nov 5, 2014
    3
    Loved the game in Beta. The last beta was terrible. Incredible amounts of lag. Game went live I have had very very very bad packet loss ever since. I constantly disconnect and packet loss.
    I contact support and they took about 4 days to respond with an "open these ports" response. It sorta helped, or it was in my head. It seemed like it did. I logged in a couple weeks later (I was out of    Loved the game in Beta. The last beta was terrible. Incredible amounts of lag. Game went live I have had very very very bad packet loss ever since. I constantly disconnect and packet loss.
    I contact support and they took about 4 days to respond with an "open these ports" response. It sorta helped, or it was in my head. It seemed like it did. I logged in a couple weeks later (I was out of town) and the lag and disconnects were even worse than before. I got a refund of my pre-order and now I am trying to get a refund for my starter kit because this game sucks if you have an issue like I do. I can't figure out what is causing it or how to fix it. I tried lots of different fixes and nothing made any difference at all. I even had my ISP come out and there was no change after their "fix." I am at a loss and support has not helped. I think it is time to just go twiddle my thumbs and wait for EQN. This is a great game is their servers weren't made out of trash...if that is even the problem. If they only had a fix or would actually help me...    … Expand
  80. nuclear
    Nov 5, 2014
    0
    This game could have been good. It is completely ruined by hackers and bots. Much of the land in the game has been claimed by hackers. An entire continent was opened on Mon. and within 10 minutes all available land was claimed by bots. Trion has done nothing to address the issue. Also, the game is very unstable and crashes constantly. It could be bad code, Hack Shield or that the game isThis game could have been good. It is completely ruined by hackers and bots. Much of the land in the game has been claimed by hackers. An entire continent was opened on Mon. and within 10 minutes all available land was claimed by bots. Trion has done nothing to address the issue. Also, the game is very unstable and crashes constantly. It could be bad code, Hack Shield or that the game is infested by hackers.… Expand
  81. monnef
    Nov 5, 2014
    2
    All begins with untruthful hardware requirements (e.g. 2GB RAM is no way enough, even with 4gigs the game were forcing Windows to swap). I really liked the idea of sandbox with thousands of people cooperating, crafting and building. But all this is severely limited by labor system, as a free player you have no chance of doing any "sandboxy" things. Those things, which are only advantageAll begins with untruthful hardware requirements (e.g. 2GB RAM is no way enough, even with 4gigs the game were forcing Windows to swap). I really liked the idea of sandbox with thousands of people cooperating, crafting and building. But all this is severely limited by labor system, as a free player you have no chance of doing any "sandboxy" things. Those things, which are only advantage over other F2P MMORPGs. Without these elements it's just another MMORPG game with nothing new and a lot of standard PVE and PVP stuff missing (again, from a point of view of F2P players).

    Transporation is tedious - takes minutes/tens of minutes, in my opinion too much realistic. Dungeons don't seem too elaborate. I did miss a lot of group PVE features - like proper loot system (no greed option, just pass/need), no group finder for dungeons/quests. I also dislike the notion of "only world PVP". I kinda like instanced PVPs with some team objective(s) - capture the flag, domination and so on. Quests feel repetitive even on lower levels, only story quests were a bit better (probably because of short cutscenes).

    Queues were a big problem, but I assume it gets/got better. What is a problem (for me at least) is EU players being treated as second class citizens, for example restarts in prime time, US problems are always fixed first (in some cases days between fixing US and EU side) and prices of paid items.

    It's pure PAY TO WIN, unless you buy a patron status, you are nothing. If you aren't planning on tossing money away, then avoid even trying this game, it's not worth it.    … Expand
  82. Mrteabag
    Nov 4, 2014
    3
    I like the game. Overall the crafting system is in depth the housing system is cool but challenging. Pvp is fun, and there are many other aspects about the game that makes it a great game. HOWEVER, The game administrators and developers are incompetent. Patch after patch there are problems, obtaining land is near impossible with the hackers and bots consuming every inch of usableI like the game. Overall the crafting system is in depth the housing system is cool but challenging. Pvp is fun, and there are many other aspects about the game that makes it a great game. HOWEVER, The game administrators and developers are incompetent. Patch after patch there are problems, obtaining land is near impossible with the hackers and bots consuming every inch of usable land worth any value. Hackshield creates even more problems and makes logging in a giant frustration. If you plan on playing this game as a new comer, wait for another game to roll out. if you started now you wont be playing for long once you realize the need to own land and its importance in advancing in this game. Simply too many hackers to contend with, communication from GMs to the community is sadly enough minimal and completely unapologetic about "known issues". They just released the new phase of pvp content which included new lands where guilds can build castles and fight to retain ownership there of. HOWEVER... loggin issues created an unbalanced and unfair land grab for less than half the server. It has been 5 hours since this new patch and I have yet to get online, while reports from guildies state that the new land has been completely filled. This has been a problem since early launch and unfortunately makes a great idea for a game completely a terrible and frustrating experience... Im bidding my time for the next MMO to come out and I'm leaving Archeage for good… Expand
  83. ahzqdfrbi
    Nov 4, 2014
    0
    The game is about 2 things: farming and PvP. The farming is great, way better than a farming app game, provided you can find land. All available land for placing your farm was grabbed up during the first day of the headstart, leaving nothing but scraps for the majority of players. Even now that they have opened up the new continent, Auroria, all the land is grabbed up by those few who wereThe game is about 2 things: farming and PvP. The farming is great, way better than a farming app game, provided you can find land. All available land for placing your farm was grabbed up during the first day of the headstart, leaving nothing but scraps for the majority of players. Even now that they have opened up the new continent, Auroria, all the land is grabbed up by those few who were able to get past the login issues. No land means no farming. Oh, and prepare to get ganked a bunch while trying to farm, as most areas aren't safe zones. PvP and farming don't mix.

    The PvP is lame as well, as you can "go pirate" and kill your own faction whenever you want. Then you just wait a minute and can un-flag yourself. Got too many crime points for killing your own faction? Drink a couple potions and those crime points are gone!

    You can't trust anyone, even those on your own faction. You can't farm or level in peace, as you are forced into PvP in any zone level 30 or higher.

    This game really only caters to the worst kind of PvPers. And you can't get any land to place your farms. Very poorly done.    … Expand
  84. Scruzzer
    Nov 3, 2014
    4
    After playing longer, I'm lowering my review. The game looks great and is fun for a while but don't be fooled by the whole land ownership thing. You won't beat the gold farmers to any land, and believe me this is a game filled with gold farmers.

    Also, their patron offer alludes that you can own land if you're a patron. Yes, you technically *can* own land, but you *won't* own land unless    After playing longer, I'm lowering my review. The game looks great and is fun for a while but don't be fooled by the whole land ownership thing. You won't beat the gold farmers to any land, and believe me this is a game filled with gold farmers.

    Also, their patron offer alludes that you can own land if you're a patron. Yes, you technically *can* own land, but you *won't* own land unless you pay a farmer for it.

    And then whole "If you are running a trade route, we will shut off all forms of fast travel" is just frustrating to no end.

    The game has a lot of pros and cons, but the cons are game killers. Pity because the potential is there. They just feel that they'll make more money off gold farmer subscriptions than player subscriptions, and that's who they cater to.    … Expand
  85. skarr
    Nov 1, 2014
    0
    No game will make you feel it is a PAY2WIN as Archeage does. In fact, no game make you grind so much for so little and on top of it pay real money to progress. An utter insult to gamers!
  86. Carpe_Diem
    Oct 31, 2014
    4
    At this point in the game, I would only recommend ArcheAge if you're a team player and interested in PvP or casual PvE player.

    Reason being for my first point, group play in this game matters (Freedich-->Gilda). Numbers matter. Going solo in this game can be a frustrating experience unless you stick to only arenas. Although ArcheAge offers instanced dungeons, they are lackluster    At this point in the game, I would only recommend ArcheAge if you're a team player and interested in PvP or casual PvE player.

    Reason being for my first point, group play in this game matters (Freedich-->Gilda). Numbers matter. Going solo in this game can be a frustrating experience unless you stick to only arenas.

    Although ArcheAge offers instanced dungeons, they are lackluster for the most part. If you're a casual PvE player you will enjoy ArcheAge. Trading and fishing will be your sources of income. Farming, gathering, and planting are also helpful in generating materials for trade packs.

    You will enjoy this game if...
    - You're a group oriented PvP player and willing to join a guild.
    - Able to devote time into research. Game can be complicated.
    - Casual PvE player with only an hour or two a day for farming/fishing/trading.
    - Have a PC able to run AA in all its' glory.

    You will not enjoy this game if...
    - Solo player. Perhaps at first, but you will probably become bored.
    - Botters and hackers exist. Gold spam occurs as well.
    - Land larger than a 8x8 (smallest) is difficult to find unless you have gold to spend. Limiting the amount of crops you can plant.
    - Technical support is slow.

    If you're not interested at this point, I recommend just playing WoW for a MMORPG.

    If you are interested in still playing, I recommend subbing for a month and giving it a shot. Research builds, money making, etc, and join a guild. During the month your trade and fishing income will help pay for your next month.

    Best of luck    … Expand
  87. Jean-Luc_Picard
    Oct 29, 2014
    2
    The game in Alpha with a controlled amount of players was awesome.
    The game at release is a poorly designed and planned mess.
    Don't even think about joining now if you hope to get some land and a house. Bots, cheaters and zerg groups rule the game, honest players are screwed. To make it short... avoid this game like the plague, and wait if the developers eventually fix the flaws,    The game in Alpha with a controlled amount of players was awesome.
    The game at release is a poorly designed and planned mess.
    Don't even think about joining now if you hope to get some land and a house.
    Bots, cheaters and zerg groups rule the game, honest players are screwed.

    To make it short... avoid this game like the plague, and wait if the developers eventually fix the flaws, which I believe is impossible.    … Expand
  88. xveganroxx
    Oct 28, 2014
    0
    Download it and play it. Seriously, you need to see it to believe how outrageous it is. This could have just been a straight-up World of Warcraft clone, but the developers really went the extra mile here: all crafting relies on a single premium currency called "labor." Not only do you need labor for crafting, but you need it for almost everything else - including simple things likeDownload it and play it. Seriously, you need to see it to believe how outrageous it is. This could have just been a straight-up World of Warcraft clone, but the developers really went the extra mile here: all crafting relies on a single premium currency called "labor." Not only do you need labor for crafting, but you need it for almost everything else - including simple things like looting. No, you don't have to pay for it - it trickles in at the paltry rate of 1 per minute of ingame time, which isn't anywhere near enough for any kind of crafting, or even for looting enemies. Paying the subscription does NOT fix this, it just doubles the pathetic rate you acquire "labor." One way people have found around this is autorunning into walls overnight so they have enough labor to do five minutes of crafting in the morning. Seriously, if you've got time you should try this just to see how free to play can be done so unbelievably wrong.… Expand
  89. Iscariote
    Oct 23, 2014
    3
    I was so dissappointed with Archeage that I payed WoW after 2 years.

    - Korean grinding: farm 600 seals in a player infested area? rly? - Rampant cheating: Cryengine, nothing more to say - Rampant botting: There are even raids of bots out there - Abysmal PvE: Almost no room for melees in raids, most world bosses are just tank and spank for 5-10min - Almost no content for casual    I was so dissappointed with Archeage that I payed WoW after 2 years.

    - Korean grinding: farm 600 seals in a player infested area? rly?
    - Rampant cheating: Cryengine, nothing more to say
    - Rampant botting: There are even raids of bots out there
    - Abysmal PvE: Almost no room for melees in raids, most world bosses are just tank and spank for 5-10min
    - Almost no content for casual players and/or small guilds
    - No 64bit client in a game with massive player vs player raids: When it is approaching 2gb memory usage, it just stops loading textures, models and stuff
    - No borderless window mode
    - No mouse invert avaiable (Really? It is BUILT IN Cryengine!!)
    - (EDIT) Bonus, and this is a good one: Most bosses are immune to dots and status altering debuffs, redeeming the combo system useless

    Not to say that massive pvp raids are fun, but that's that way in every mmo.    … Expand
  90. Dracobane
    Oct 22, 2014
    1
    Do you like completely random crafting? If you don't get lucky, you will have half the damage of someone that did get lucky or paid enough to win. The concept is cool, but the P2W and item numbers are a huge problem. Save yourself the time and frustration by avoiding this one.
  91. OmegaXtc
    Oct 21, 2014
    2
    The game is overrun with hackers and botters. I pay for Patron status but still can't play on Tuesdays because 1 hr maintenance has become 7 hr maintenance EVERY week since I've started. With updates like "woops, looks like we broke the GM mainframe with that last patch. 4 more hours guys". I enjoyed what content I have been able to play up to the level cap, but I don't get to playThe game is overrun with hackers and botters. I pay for Patron status but still can't play on Tuesdays because 1 hr maintenance has become 7 hr maintenance EVERY week since I've started. With updates like "woops, looks like we broke the GM mainframe with that last patch. 4 more hours guys". I enjoyed what content I have been able to play up to the level cap, but I don't get to play much because it is always being maintenanced.… Expand
  92. blumpy
    Oct 21, 2014
    0
    I will change my review when trion decides to fix this game. The daily 5 hours downtime's are just killing it. I don't know why I bought 150 founder pack and then get treated like a f2p person lol. Or paying a sub monthly just doesn't make any sense yet. Trion get your bs in order.
  93. ChantallicA
    Oct 19, 2014
    2
    At the start i was like omg this game is awsome! So i bought a patron buff, what never got active after 2 weeks!! I have been trying those whole 2 weeks to get in contact with trion/glymph but never got a respons... A friend of me who is a patron could join live chat and finaly after that i got my patron buff... After that month i payed again, guess what!! Patron buff gone and didn't get aAt the start i was like omg this game is awsome! So i bought a patron buff, what never got active after 2 weeks!! I have been trying those whole 2 weeks to get in contact with trion/glymph but never got a respons... A friend of me who is a patron could join live chat and finaly after that i got my patron buff... After that month i payed again, guess what!! Patron buff gone and didn't get a new one!! Couldn't enter live chat because they told me i never bought anything from them!! Like wtf?? So my friend had to queue up in live chat AGAIN for me to get it fixed... It got "fixed" again and told me i had my buff untill 04-11-2014 guess what, since today it shows me i have my buff untill 30-10-2014!!! Like come on!!

    Beside's that since i'm a paying player i would expect something, the only benefits i have atm is my +10 labor when im online and +5 when im offline, the rest is not worth it since there are to many bots and hackers taking land with clicking programs and what not, so more then 50% of the paying players DONT OWN A PIECE OF LAND!!! I have been in contact with support about this, he/she asked me what was the problem so i explained to him/her about the bots and the hackers and such. He/she asked me for name's so they could sort out if it was true... Then he/she asked me some more stuff so i told the rest to him/her. After that he/she asked me to wait so they could write it down, i told them sure no problem. The reaction i got on that was: "Hey i can feel your frustration true my monitor please stop this pushing behaviour of yours, because this isn't making my job any more easy!! So calm down!!" So i told him/her: I'm sorry if i sounded like that, i didn't mean it that way, i only wanna help you out with this bot/hack problem. Then he/she told me: Youre not the only one trying to help like this, so please stop your frustration on me!! So i stopped talking.. After 15 min he/she still didn't say anything, so i asked if he/she was still there. He/she said: I think i have all the info, is there anything else i can do for you? So i asked what was gonna happen with the reported bots/hackers. He/she said: Time will tell my friend. And disconnected.

    I was stuned... First my patron buff is broken like hell (and still is) and then i get somebody like this on support... Really trion... This is bad..

    After today 4 of my friends decided to quit ArcheAge because of the lack on support trion is giving towards the players.. And the bot/hack problems with land and gold sellers...

    I'm also thinking about quiting to be honest... Because this is not worth 13 euro's a month.. Not even 1 euro...

    Really trion get your facts straight and get your ass on all the problems that are going on, you are losing players day by day!!    … Expand
  94. Siegra
    Oct 18, 2014
    0
    Worst Game I've Played This Decade.
    1. bad queque (waited 15 hours of queque wonder why i waited)
    2. PVP is very boring and unrealistic. 3. labor farming simulator 4. bad economy (oh what a GREAT trial. 5. overrunned by BOTS 6. the races are always unequal (some servers have more haranis then nuias) 7. boring quests 8. boring PVP 9. quests are not rewarding 10. honor points    Worst Game I've Played This Decade.
    1. bad queque (waited 15 hours of queque wonder why i waited)
    2. PVP is very boring and unrealistic.
    3. labor farming simulator
    4. bad economy (oh what a GREAT trial.
    5. overrunned by BOTS
    6. the races are always unequal (some servers have more haranis then nuias)
    7. boring quests
    8. boring PVP
    9. quests are not rewarding
    10. honor points aren't even worth shi t. (hasla weapons are basically the best weapons)
    11. dont play it within a year its gonna become pay2win most likely.    … Expand
  95. Celtish
    Oct 18, 2014
    3
    I was so incredibly hyped about this game, that I actually went and paid £38 to get into the beta.
    I was absolutely loving it from the first moment I started, right up to level cap....
    And then it all went down hill. I'm incredibly annoyed with the end game content in this game. I understand that the game is based around trade routes, crafting and world pvp, but Archeage is lacking in    I was so incredibly hyped about this game, that I actually went and paid £38 to get into the beta.
    I was absolutely loving it from the first moment I started, right up to level cap....
    And then it all went down hill.
    I'm incredibly annoyed with the end game content in this game. I understand that the game is based around trade routes, crafting and world pvp, but Archeage is lacking in pretty much every other department. (Besides graphics, because it's frikkin beautiful for an MMO).
    I'm a PvPer myself, so as I was max level, I decided to hunt down the 'battleground NPCs'....
    When I discovered that the only organised pvp available was 1v1 or 5v5, I was slightly disheartened. But no matter, I joined anyway and hoped for the best.
    After about 30 1v1 matches I began to realise that I'd only seen about 5 different classes, and I was being destroyed by all of them without even casting a single spell myself.
    This game is so incredibly unbalanced. If you aren't either a primeval, a dark runner, a spelldagger, a blighter or a paladin, you might as well go sit in a corner with your thumb up your ass and cry.
    And to top it all off, even if you do win and somehow manage to amass a respectable amount of honor (currency for PvP items), the weapons that are attainable through PvP degrade after 44 days. Meaning you have to start all over again.
    Everybody looks the same at level cap because the final questing hub is the only place to get a decent set of gear without spending weeks and weeks crafting garbage to get your skill level up to a standard where you can make something better.
    There's a lot more for me to complain about and there shouldn't be. This game had so much potential, and I am incredibly disappointed.    … Expand
  96. Kreirravia
    Oct 16, 2014
    0
    While outwardly a beautiful, complex game Archeage hides a number of un-scalable issues. If you can get past the fact that this game is a pay2win pvp centric gank feist there is also the issue of housing. One of Archeage's biggest features is the housing and for lack of a better term the developers showed outright incompetence in this area. Not only are the housing areas poorly done butWhile outwardly a beautiful, complex game Archeage hides a number of un-scalable issues. If you can get past the fact that this game is a pay2win pvp centric gank feist there is also the issue of housing. One of Archeage's biggest features is the housing and for lack of a better term the developers showed outright incompetence in this area. Not only are the housing areas poorly done but the manner in which players may place them allows them to block an entire segment of land from use by other players. Some use this to give them the ability to place larger buildings down the track while others so that they can simply be an **** to others.

    Nextly, you have the issue of "pirates", and I use this term loosely as most are trolls with more time then brains. This practice is supported by the developers through the creation of "tension, and war" zones in key leveling areas.

    Lastly there is the issue of the economy system, simply put it works like this: the more a trade route is done the less it's worth. While this may work well for gold and resource hand ins it has lead to "Gilda stars" (which are untradeable), one of the major currencies within the game, is reduced to 1 star per run (when travelling to the other faction) or 4 for braving to the PvP island at the center of the map. This forces players no matter their stance on PvP-PvE to take part in risky trips for the "chance" at 4 stars (cheapest boat is 50, then 250, 400).

    In conclusion, ArcheAge in its current state is a potentially great MMO being ruined by the poor, and outright questionable (at times) decisions of the developers in charge. At its current state I can't even remotely recommend anyone start playing this game unless a new server comes up and your a hacker (which is another issue with this game that the developers seem keen to ignore).    … Expand
  97. cellestron
    Oct 16, 2014
    1
    Game is fun and does have a lot of sandbox elements.

    Unfortunately all the cheating ruins it. Land hacks, pvp hacks, teleport hacks, you name it. Far more than I have experienced in any other mmo.

    I would steer clear until if/when the game is cleaned up.
  98. Sunwolf
    Oct 15, 2014
    0
    This game would have been interesting back in 2000 when Everquest, Ultima Online and Asheron's Call were the only games in town. Now there are many dozens of MMOs, each doing exactly the same thing in slightly altered ways. This has created a mishmash of crappy games howling for raw numbers, each desperately trying to convince gamers of its innovation and creativity and therefore howThis game would have been interesting back in 2000 when Everquest, Ultima Online and Asheron's Call were the only games in town. Now there are many dozens of MMOs, each doing exactly the same thing in slightly altered ways. This has created a mishmash of crappy games howling for raw numbers, each desperately trying to convince gamers of its innovation and creativity and therefore how it's worthy of our limited time and money. This game is no different.

    And by this, I mean really...this game is no different. The same class structure(s), the same quest mechanics, the same leveling up, the same boring, pointless combat, the same, the same, the same. Oh, but it has crafting. Crafting that makes you jump through exponentially more hoops than other games. Yay.

    Nothing to see here (if you've ever played any post-WoW MMO before). Really....nothing.    … Expand
  99. ekolet
    Oct 13, 2014
    0
    Infested with hackers/bots/gold sellers and Trion does nothing about it. Even the official forums hosts porn and other stuff and it takes weeks before they get deleted (if ever). I have never seen an online game managed so horribly. Housing is more than %60 of this games content and automatic house placement hacks deny everybody from owning property.

    And don't even bother with f2p.
  100. Yokubou
    Oct 13, 2014
    2
    Archeage is a free to play game that the primary allure of this game is player housing.

    Houses cost 400USD or equivalent.

    Other features include large scale naval raids on PvE and castle seiges.

    Which is not available right now.

    Strip all of that and you have something very similar to WoW, both in terms of clunky, old UI and its outdated graphics.
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#74 Best PC Game of 2014
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#22 Most Shared PC Game of 2014

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. SpazioGames
    Jan 5, 2015
    80
    What ArcheAge presents, past the horror of the chilling launch, is an open world full of opportunities and challenges as we have not seen for a too-long time demonstrating that the real MMORPG, those based on persistence and interaction, have not disappeared.
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  2. CD-Action
    Dec 13, 2014
    85
    Don’t let your judgment be clouded by other people’s opinions influenced by terrible server problems they encountered when ArcheAge was launched. It’s a really good, beautiful game. [Dec 2014, p.76]
  3. Gaming Nexus
    Nov 18, 2014
    88
    ArcheAge is one of the best free-to-play games to be released this year, with a near endless amount of content awaiting eager adventurers.
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