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
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#74 Best PC Game of 2014
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80

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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