ArcheAge

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3.7

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  1. HELLruler
    Sep 22, 2014
    3
    Could be an awesome game, with the best class system (combine 3 archetypes whenever you want). But labor point system forces players to afk, making the servers full and queues unbearable
  2. Habya
    Oct 5, 2014
    1
    Pay to Win, anyone that says otherwise hasn't really played the game. Folks dropping tons of real $ for Apex etc to get ahead. F2P folks (ps I'm a patron) get left behind with labor points.

    The crafting system is very complex which is a positive and negative. If you're really into that kind of world you'll enjoy it. It's fun at times but also frustrating. Land space...not enough. If    Pay to Win, anyone that says otherwise hasn't really played the game. Folks dropping tons of real $ for Apex etc to get ahead. F2P folks (ps I'm a patron) get left behind with labor points.

    The crafting system is very complex which is a positive and negative. If you're really into that kind of world you'll enjoy it. It's fun at times but also frustrating.

    Land space...not enough. If you weren't there when server was first out, good luck getting land you want. And without that it can take a while to make enough gold to buy good spots.

    PvP, it just plain sucks. Running support, even in a group, you won't get crap honor points while DPS rakes them in. Level 50 can gank a level 30 and rob them of their honor points -- should be some limit to it to avoid that. And yes, zergs zergs and more zergs - but what's new it's an MMO. Either way the PvP is horrible, unbalanced, and encouraging ganking folks; also you're forced into PvP zones for long periods so if you don't want to PvP might as well stop at level 30 or plan to take long breaks when it decides it is time for you to get killed.    … Expand
  3. Viconnia
    Sep 25, 2014
    0
    I had created a character from the beginning of the game, but I had never been able to play thanks to the endless queues. Today finally I connect, I try to redo it and, surprise, character creation is blocked on my server as a solution to the queues.
    I have not had the chance to play it and I already hate it.
  4. Qstosh
    Oct 11, 2014
    0
    Playing this game is pointless, bots rules in that game. Ruining the economy and pleasure of playing. Shame cos so many scum and Trion does not care any more.
  5. postermaserco
    Sep 21, 2014
    1
    This game is not free to play. It's free to queue and pay to play. If you don't pay you will spent over 8 eight hours on queue without be able to play. And your pc will be consuming a lot of resources and watts for nothing. Those who pay don't have to queue and just can log in and log out when they want.
  6. alowercasename
    Sep 24, 2014
    0
    Pay to win? I think not, Pay to queue. Welcome to FartAge, where you get banned while in queue for supposed goldselling even when you can't even play the game. Now that i'm not gonna play FartAge, like many other thousands, should we be worried all of your queuers are going to queue up all other games? or will you finally realize the amount of servers and client slots you provided was farPay to win? I think not, Pay to queue. Welcome to FartAge, where you get banned while in queue for supposed goldselling even when you can't even play the game. Now that i'm not gonna play FartAge, like many other thousands, should we be worried all of your queuers are going to queue up all other games? or will you finally realize the amount of servers and client slots you provided was far below the minimum you had to provide to kick off your **** game launch, that btw had an emergency maintenance after like the first release day, thanks for that, I saved myself the trouble by not downloading the 28 GB that apparently represents this **** people dare to call ArcheAge.
    More like ArcheAged, the game is dead before your queue ends. I wonder how many hours the devs will be roaming the streets to be able to pay back all the founder packs that were so disgustingly overpriced.
    I can pay less for runescape and have the same fun, dont even have to download it.
    Anyway enough about decaying fetuses, Crash the grey is a great guy and you should call him at night when he's sleeping or playing with his mandingo 06whatever123, hi crash
    What am i even doing here    … Expand
  7. nollington
    Sep 26, 2014
    0
    I dont know what the so called "mmo vets" have played before to claim Archeage is the best mmo for decades, or that its innovating or a breath of fresh air.
    There is nothing new in Archeage, the graphics are out dated, the pvp is not open pvp as claimed as its restricted to zones, the questing just like every other mmo.
    Cobat is a button spam fest with no dodge or avoidance. Crafting    I dont know what the so called "mmo vets" have played before to claim Archeage is the best mmo for decades, or that its innovating or a breath of fresh air.
    There is nothing new in Archeage, the graphics are out dated, the pvp is not open pvp as claimed as its restricted to zones, the questing just like every other mmo.
    Cobat is a button spam fest with no dodge or avoidance.
    Crafting has been done better in other games.
    Housing is ok but also done in other games.
    Ok so you have gliders.... but Aion had wings and alot of games have flight mechanics.
    Top all that off with Trions poor management and money grabbing techniques and Archeage will soon be dropping its rating faster than that glider will drop when its out of time.    … Expand
  8. Twitchz
    Oct 12, 2014
    0
    Worst MMO I've ever played.

    Don't even bother with this one. So many Bots, hacker and Gold spammers its unreal. The game play is terrible with 1-2 seconds of lag on abilities its almost impossible to play smoothly. Once you get to lvl 30 its a complete gank fest where you will be killed over and over and over in PVE areas by people 20 levels above you. Trade is useless as the    Worst MMO I've ever played.

    Don't even bother with this one. So many Bots, hacker and Gold spammers its unreal.

    The game play is terrible with 1-2 seconds of lag on abilities its almost impossible to play smoothly. Once you get to lvl 30 its a complete gank fest where you will be killed over and over and over in PVE areas by people 20 levels above you.

    Trade is useless as the guards will attack you for defending your own goods allowing other players to steal hours of your work.

    Simply put, don't waste your time on this there are far better F2P games around that wont leave a bitter taste in your mouth.    … Expand
  9. Mad-Gary
    Oct 12, 2014
    2
    Awful, just awful. From the outset, it's a disaster; from the queues that are mentioned here so many times, to the fact the game is just a griefer's paradise. It rewards camping and everything is on a first-come-first-served basis, so if you work or have a life, don't expect to get too far.

    I give this two points because the world is pretty, especially the water. Some of the music is    Awful, just awful. From the outset, it's a disaster; from the queues that are mentioned here so many times, to the fact the game is just a griefer's paradise. It rewards camping and everything is on a first-come-first-served basis, so if you work or have a life, don't expect to get too far.

    I give this two points because the world is pretty, especially the water. Some of the music is okay and there's some fairly nice game mechanics like playing on a jury or composing your own music, but expect to hear nothing but 80s theme tunes. None of these make up for the significantly mediocre combat, utter lack of voice overs for quests and utterly an utterly forgettable story.

    Oh and if you pay a subscription, good luck cancelling, because there's a neat bug that hides the button for some players in the account management screen, preventing you cancelling an automatically re-subbing game. You could of course file a ticket, but don't bother checking for a reply inside of 21 days.    … Expand
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. Estroyer
    Sep 18, 2014
    0
    The game itself has some great features, but unfortunately I am not able to enjoy them. The queues are way too long and also it gets quite expensive if you want to get anything done at all in the long run. Also, I can't build a house because all the land is gone. This is not what I paid for and I will go to great lengths to get a refund!
  13. Athy
    Sep 17, 2014
    4
    The game has the capacity to be AMAZING 10/10 hit. However the publisher TRION WORLDS is killing the game. HORRID login queues, where paying PATRONS are in queue for 3-5 hours and Trion post only 60 mins queues in prime time... It is P2GA and not P2W, you can get ahead quickly by spending cash in the Marketplace, almost a pay to win... Then allowing the land grab where you can block landThe game has the capacity to be AMAZING 10/10 hit. However the publisher TRION WORLDS is killing the game. HORRID login queues, where paying PATRONS are in queue for 3-5 hours and Trion post only 60 mins queues in prime time... It is P2GA and not P2W, you can get ahead quickly by spending cash in the Marketplace, almost a pay to win... Then allowing the land grab where you can block land forever is not right. So many people got screwed over lack of land. Then closing the norther island before launch, etc. They even are in their forums saying that they know Population is going down in a couple weeks, as justification NOT to open more servers.

    They knew how many people were pre-ordering, how many servers, and they have added 3 to the US since launch (LAUNCH MIND YOU) and still every server has hours of queues for thousands of players. Yeah folks going to go find something else to do while waiting on these queues.    … Expand
  14. Genoshan
    Sep 17, 2014
    0
    The game itself is great, waiting in a queue for 2-3 despite paying $150 for it is crazy. Unless you are prepared to wait several hours to play, do not bother.
  15. Antipattern
    Sep 17, 2014
    0
    Extremely long queue (even paid member gets priority it still ridiculously long.)
    Zero response from official.
    Paid Founder get no items (it is in the purchased package but you won't get it).
    No one handling the submitted tickets.
  16. Elderstealth
    Sep 22, 2014
    3
    The graphics in this game are current MMO Gen high quality. The combat, class system and skill trees are a lot of fun and very adaptable, some aspects of this look copied off Rift (a good game from Trion)

    This game is fantastic for griefers; goonswarm will love it.
    Most will find the mechanics very annoying and the justice system in the game is a joke.
  17. Genelegasse
    Sep 21, 2014
    2
    Played this game in the Beta and it wasnt bad... won't say it was great but not bad... run and gun is pretty fun on the archer however game runs pretty heavy.. doesnt look very good but it runs like a tractor asif it was 4k res or something i dont even know lol. Either way i'm giving this game a 2 because when the actual relase came it became impossible to log-in... even with patron statusPlayed this game in the Beta and it wasnt bad... won't say it was great but not bad... run and gun is pretty fun on the archer however game runs pretty heavy.. doesnt look very good but it runs like a tractor asif it was 4k res or something i dont even know lol. Either way i'm giving this game a 2 because when the actual relase came it became impossible to log-in... even with patron status the Queue is impossible... a week after release this game has not seen a server upgrade or an update to D/C afkers on the server... Poorly managed asif trion does not care at all.… Expand
  18. angamir
    Sep 20, 2014
    0
    8 hour queue for free to play players. Game is horribly optimized and crashes often. Queue drops again after a crash. Basically impossible to play unless you subscribe (it lets you avoid the queue). And even if you subscribe, chances of it working properly are slim, at least at the current state of the game. Giving it a zero because it’s the worst mmo launch I have seen in the past 5 years.
  19. Webern
    Sep 19, 2014
    2
    The game has some new content for an online multiplayer game. Some, but not a lot. It's mostly a sum of the best aspects already seen in other MMORPGs. So the game is not the BEST MMORPG ever with a very bad company behind. Is a decent MMORPG with no sensational ideas in it, with a very bad company behind.
    At the moment most players are spending their paid "patron" time waiting in queues,    The game has some new content for an online multiplayer game. Some, but not a lot. It's mostly a sum of the best aspects already seen in other MMORPGs. So the game is not the BEST MMORPG ever with a very bad company behind. Is a decent MMORPG with no sensational ideas in it, with a very bad company behind.
    At the moment most players are spending their paid "patron" time waiting in queues, and the "head start" was a terrible flop, with a ton of problems. Probably in a couple of months queue problems will calm down and the REAL problems will arise. And they will be the usual endgame problems of most "Free to Play" (?) MMORPGs.    … Expand
  20. Homeslice1289
    Sep 18, 2014
    0
    Terrible communication by their "Senior" Community Manager, Trion's CEO does a better job than he. The queues are horrendous and once you do get in-game, they are unstable and often disconnect you.
  21. Truthful
    Sep 18, 2014
    2
    This game had huge potential, played in alpha and beta. However, it's becoming a complete failure in terms of the way it's been launched. I've been through multiple mmo launches and this ranks right up there with some of the worst. It's not THE worst, but it's definitely up there. I rated it a 2 out of 10 for a few reasons.

    Queue times are horrid. If you've paid or are F2P it won't    This game had huge potential, played in alpha and beta. However, it's becoming a complete failure in terms of the way it's been launched. I've been through multiple mmo launches and this ranks right up there with some of the worst. It's not THE worst, but it's definitely up there. I rated it a 2 out of 10 for a few reasons.

    Queue times are horrid. If you've paid or are F2P it won't matter. A majority of players are stuck in very lengthy que's. I've seen patrons, those that paid, stuck in 2hours or more on their ques. I myself, learning from prior disasters, chose F2P. I've had the last three days in consecutive 6+hour ques, and wasn't even able to play more than 2 hours total. Yesterday was a 3 hour que, a disconnect from their end, and put back into a que with 4500 people ahead of me.

    You will hear fanboy after fanboy speak of how great the game is, one of their major sticks was to allow player held land, but it's a majorly busted feature. The little bit of game time I have had, you cannot find available land anywhere. Now, they speak that not all people will be able to own land, this isn't a big feature to me, but I did look. I've even heard stories and seen some videos of massive amounts of land being owned by one person. They would have been better served by fixing que's and doing a land blitz a month down the road to make things just a bit more level on the playing field.

    They do have some saving features in distinct class combinations, the ability to make and use boats, and also utilize any sort of weapon and armor combinations you would like. The lack of concern and correspondence by this company in terms of how they are failing with the ability to open servers to the public is ludicrous at best.

    If they are truly vested in bringing forth a better gaming experience then they should truly listen to their community at large, and not hide from the public eye, nor turn a blind eye to their problems.    … Expand
  22. Manning
    Sep 18, 2014
    0
    The game may be good but who would know? The queues are terrible. Trion has really messed up big time on the launch of this game. If you bought the founder packages I really hope that you can get your money back because little of what was promised has been delivered. Based on how the company is handling this, I don't have much confidence that it will get any better. Best to stay away.
  23. Mank
    Sep 21, 2014
    0
    Horrible. Forget the queues, it's just another generic, grindy mmo with no real defining qualities. Combat is static, clunky global cool down snore fest, questing and story is incredibly boring, art style and aesthetics are dull, and people are deluding themselves that this is even a good experience.
  24. Eska
    Sep 18, 2014
    0
    Game itself is good, whats ruining it is Trion. Long queues, REALLY CRAPPY (never seem worst) customer service. Contact with any staff member almost impossible.
    It's just sad how PUBLISHER can ruin great game. XL Games should actually do something about, because their product being just simply fu**ed up ;)

    Regards
  25. nevyyn
    Sep 17, 2014
    2
    Game itself is great, when you can actually play. Provider not so much, repeated ignoring of testers advice, massive queue times, alienating the founders base whom supported the game to launch, headstart total failure. Compensation may as well be non existent. Looks like Trion worlds is going downhill fast
  26. Antonisk
    Sep 19, 2014
    1
    Archeage is a veeeeeery good game but its been published from a veeeeeeeeeery crap company like Trion! I like the game very much but Trion is a reason that im gonna quit AA
  27. PowerGamer
    Sep 20, 2014
    2
    This game was over hyped as the next greatest thing in MMOs months before release.
    But in actuality it didn't take long to see it was a polished turd. It's yet another rehashed Asian style MORPG.
    First you have to install something called "Glyph", their own version of Valve's "Steam". As if we yet another of these floating around on our hard drives I couldn't even log-in because    This game was over hyped as the next greatest thing in MMOs months before release.
    But in actuality it didn't take long to see it was a polished turd. It's yet another rehashed Asian style MORPG.

    First you have to install something called "Glyph", their own version of Valve's "Steam". As if we yet another of these floating around on our hard drives

    I couldn't even log-in because over all the servers had a queue of at minimal 400 players and numbers were dropping ever so slowly. I had to get up early in the morning anyhow and then I was able to log-in to one of the least populated servers.

    I was really turned off by the character generation. Of all the many choices you can make, you can't get away from making your character look like some fey Asian variant. I got nothing against Asian's but I just don't like being forced to play a MORPG where my character has to look like one. I'd like the flexibility to make my character look like any race known or otherwise.

    Then in game it's not very impressive at all. Like I've seen it all before. Overly saturated colors, bland scenery, giant invasive nameplates, no shadowing, cheap look and feel, etc.
    It looks like the same bland Asian MORPGs I played ten years ago, except now the download was 9GB instead of 1GB so they can add Speedtree grass and trees, and some shaders to the otherwise same dull environment.
    Also all the NPCs look unimaginatively Asian where I feel like I'm playing in an Asian version of Disneyland, also right on the get go the game complete with so much Gold seller spam you barely read any chat at all.

    The best thing about it that it uninstalls well.    … Expand
  28. Exfan
    Sep 19, 2014
    1
    Really company that published Rift has really failed miserably at the launch of ArcheAge. Horrible waiting simulator at logging screen. Crafting is pay to win loads of essential gameplay features require pay to win scenario. Crafting is just horrendous time consuming grindfest. Plant tree water it wait day or so to harvest. If not in land you own land anyone can take your harvest.
    To be    Really company that published Rift has really failed miserably at the launch of ArcheAge. Horrible waiting simulator at logging screen. Crafting is pay to win loads of essential gameplay features require pay to win scenario. Crafting is just horrendous time consuming grindfest. Plant tree water it wait day or so to harvest. If not in land you own land anyone can take your harvest.
    To be able to own any territory you need to be patron. Pre ordering gave patron status those that spended loads of money though i have heard that loads of players did not get what package promised to them. Lesson learned from here never participate payed beta testing and never pre order games because companies are really dodgy about keeping promises. Trion is just **** company.    … Expand
  29. TotalCowage
    Sep 18, 2014
    3
    There are basically two ways in which a F2P model can work; the first is to offer most of the basic game for free to all, and allow optional purchases on top which just flesh out the experience. Star Trek Online is probably the best example of this, or Lord of the Rings Online in the same genre. These aim for satisfaction amongst as much of the player base as possible, and earn their moneyThere are basically two ways in which a F2P model can work; the first is to offer most of the basic game for free to all, and allow optional purchases on top which just flesh out the experience. Star Trek Online is probably the best example of this, or Lord of the Rings Online in the same genre. These aim for satisfaction amongst as much of the player base as possible, and earn their money from multiple small level, happy investments from them; buying a fancy horse here, a sideline of quests there. In such set ups the one off cost can be quite high but, because people feel sympathetic to the game, and the purchases are sporadic and at-will, players will pay for it.

    The second focuses on huge purchases from the infamous "Whales", individuals who spend an enormous amount of money on a game. In such a system F2P players are not the customer but the product, used to generate a world for the Whales, and such games are more like Facebook whereby your personal experience is secondary to the major donor streams. In these MMOs, because the Whale model is expected, the cost for individual systems rises massively above the standard, indeed often even a Monthly Subscription won't unlock all the content and there's a DLC store on top of that. And the game itself in turn becomes about providing the sense of status and power to the Whales, often as a fantasy escape from a real world where they have little.

    Archeage is absolutely in the second category of MMO. Which is the first piece of the puzzle as to why some people are so heavily invested in it, and so dismissive of criticism. It is a game focused around elitism of the worst kind; one that not only seeks to encourage people to think of themselves as Whales, but actively despises those who do not.

    Despite the claims, the first part of the game itself is nothing like Ultima Online or any true sandbox. It's a pure on-rails MMO like World of Warcraft and Everquest. But even more disengaged because everything is being done to hurry you towards End Game and the real nature of the beast. Quest locations are marked on both the mini map, the world map, and arrows beneath your character pointing directly at them. You can honestly just skip all the quest text and run from waypoint to waypoint and yes, kill 10 wildebeests. As far as Level 18 now and I have yet to see a quest that wasn't "Click that box" or "kill those things" bar one, a very short "follow the NPC and click the icon when he stops".

    Until you hit the quest that teaches farming trading, and gives you the Donkey. The "Trade Run: Solzreed to Memoria" quest. Before now you've been questing in a coma. The only raised eyebrow was that mobs don't carry "drops" at all, only "purses" which you have to right click and open to get at your gold. You've noticed it took some of your "labor" points to open these, but nothing else seemed to be using them so... ok? This quest asks you to make some special Solzreed food and take it elsewhere. The first problem? It doesn't tell you what the recipe of that food actually is. I had to google it.

    I then followed the instructions, and set off to place the Scarecrow that gives you some protected space and allows you to plant the crops that allow you to complete the quest. Then I discovered it; You're locked completely out of placing it unless you are a Patron, that is a paying subscriber of some kind. Growing wild allows other players to steal your crops, but the quest hints that you can grow in a public farm protected for 1 day. Except what it doesn't say is that the farms only take some crops, are scattered across multiple zones and to plant, feed, harvest your crops all take Labor. So much labor that when I first played, I didn't have enough from THIRTEEN LEVELS OF GAMEPLAY. That's what I get for wanting to open my looted gold, I guess?

    The people who were obsessed with Archeage insisted to me during Closed Beta that Trion were going to change this horrendous mechanic; they did not. This time around, because of a bug giving me Patron on the first day, and only trying it at L17, I had enough Labor that I could finish the planting. Only now I can't do anything else unless I stay in game unattended for hours on end, thus causing the queues many of these reviews are now complaining about.

    But what about the end game?! And this is the second place some of those 10s are coming from; Like EvE and any other PvP game which feeds individual ego, the supporters are irrationally dedicated to the game. They don't really care how miserable the experience is for the average player as long as they get to melt your face in it; yet you WONT be PvPing unless you're dropping whale money. Crafting to survive L30+ where it's all in a PvP zone? Massive labor requirements. Want a house? You needed labor AND real cash spent just to build it, and had to be in the Head Start to place it. A boat? Same again.

    Don't believe the hype. Unless you plan to Whale on newbies, Archeage will hate you.    … Expand
  30. Elco32
    Sep 28, 2014
    1
    Trion worlds started out with Rift and the best intentions for value for their customers. This game demonstrates that they have gone to the complete opposite end of the spectrum where value for their customers is their lowest priority. They know that the people who play this type of game don't respect themselves enough to walk away from being shamelessly fleeced.
  31. HonestOldGamer
    Sep 21, 2014
    0
    ArchAge is unique in it's meta, vast map, land purchasing, crafting and other new stuff. Plus the character build skill tree is also very nicely done unlike Forsaken world where you can use 3 tree but you will not be able to have combo of all 3 classes. ArchAge improves it on it's scale.

    The only bad part where this game is dying is because of greed of company called TRION World. They    ArchAge is unique in it's meta, vast map, land purchasing, crafting and other new stuff. Plus the character build skill tree is also very nicely done unlike Forsaken world where you can use 3 tree but you will not be able to have combo of all 3 classes. ArchAge improves it on it's scale.

    The only bad part where this game is dying is because of greed of company called TRION World. They just squeezing money from it's loyal players and even after that not providing them better service and support. People bought 150$ packs called Founder, some people got it some don't. Some people bought PATRON Subscription monthly based but they can't utilize it properly because of 1-7 hours standing in QUEUE, if a player is not a patron subscriber he might have to wait like upto 17 hours in queue to be able to play game for 1 hour and then Server Restart or random Crashes. Too many gold spammers taking over slots and loyal players stuck at QUEUE screen it's laughable. Not one GM or in-game mod exists to take care of that. They use script to kick AFKers which is not working 100% also so daily restart late night of server (MMO private servers do that never saw any officials doing it).

    The Server queue, poor customer service and Greed is killing this USA English version of the game. Russian players have their own client/server at mail.ru but they are coming to TRION to play the game which is taking necessary spots for NA and EU region. Nothing against russians but if a country has the game in their own language it's common sense to go there. Trion will kill this game definitely if they don't change their approach. They didn't even compensate non-patron or Patron players or even Founder packs players. Highly immature, unprofessional way to run servers. Not acceptable.    … Expand
  32. seuche
    Sep 26, 2014
    0
    This game is just terrible. The waiting time on servers exceeds hours, the subscription (ptaron) cannot be activated in a lot of cases due to a bug and their customer support is basically non-existing. I would recommend to stay the hell away from this crap, till they get their **** in order. Also PayWin is big issue here. So if you have a big wallet, it might be a game for you. If not,This game is just terrible. The waiting time on servers exceeds hours, the subscription (ptaron) cannot be activated in a lot of cases due to a bug and their customer support is basically non-existing. I would recommend to stay the hell away from this crap, till they get their **** in order. Also PayWin is big issue here. So if you have a big wallet, it might be a game for you. If not, well do not expect to to be threten fair by this company.… Expand
  33. Exwin0880
    Sep 18, 2014
    0
    At the moment, the game is unplayable due to the Queues.

    It may be a great game one day, but you can't review on potential. You have to review what's in front of you, and what's in front of me is an almost 3 hour wait to get into the game.
  34. Hodor_Hodor
    Sep 20, 2014
    0
    This game is fun but the company that hosts the North America offshoot of the original Korean game is absolute ****

    **** COMPANY = TRION Person to blame: Scott Hartsman https://twitter.com/hartsman 1) They offered pre-order packs that are WORSE than the released game packs. 2) They have more than 2 hour waits before you can play for PEOPLE THAT ARE PAYING MONTLY FEES. We're    This game is fun but the company that hosts the North America offshoot of the original Korean game is absolute ****

    **** COMPANY = TRION

    Person to blame: Scott Hartsman
    https://twitter.com/hartsman

    1) They offered pre-order packs that are WORSE than the released game packs.

    2) They have more than 2 hour waits before you can play for PEOPLE THAT ARE PAYING MONTLY FEES.
    We're not talking about a 2 hour wait here or there but any time you want to play you have to wait 2 hours. It's been over a week since launch.

    3) The CEO was caught joking about the players getting angry at the situation.

    4) Don't get this game until they remove the retards in charge of the US servers. You will be happier.    … Expand
  35. ky0suke85
    Oct 7, 2014
    0
    Piece of **** game. very Labor points intensive **** this game overall. **** **** **** **** mother ****er to the max suck my dick **** XL games u did pretty ****ty this time
  36. 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.
  37. Nubsmcgee
    Oct 8, 2014
    3
    That finally did it in for me with archeage.....Freedich run, kill BOTH OT and within 30 seconds they respawn full health and back on me to take my trade pack with myself only able to heal up 10%.
    What sort of developer makes this mechanic, where someone can try to gank you....LOSE then try again within 30 seconds and you not able to get away in the most valued trade run in the game.    That finally did it in for me with archeage.....Freedich run, kill BOTH OT and within 30 seconds they respawn full health and back on me to take my trade pack with myself only able to heal up 10%.
    What sort of developer makes this mechanic, where someone can try to gank you....LOSE then try again within 30 seconds and you not able to get away in the most valued trade run in the game.

    This game is like that all the way through it, if you go west you can't go anywhere but one area to turn in your overseas pack if you want to defend yourself. That's right, if you go somewhere and the east hits you first your party members can't even hit them back only you can. Yet west coast they can hit you in about half the areas. This is especially bad with how the guards have no AOE so they can kill you and with only 10 people camping the area, still take your pack...

    If you want PVP that is fair with a sandbox element this isn't your game. I'd go with warz before this and warz is crap. Just stay with EvE    … Expand
  38. 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
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. 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
  42. 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.
  43. 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
  44. WelkinDust
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    Very fun game...once you get past the ATROCIOUS queues. Seriously, waiting for over an hour and a half to play in the middle of a Wednesday? And 3-4 hours during peak hours? No thanks.

    Plus all the land is taken in the safe zones, so if you were hoping to be a farmer/trader you HAD to be in Head Start and HAD to race through all the content at breakneck pace on your first character in    Very fun game...once you get past the ATROCIOUS queues. Seriously, waiting for over an hour and a half to play in the middle of a Wednesday? And 3-4 hours during peak hours? No thanks.

    Plus all the land is taken in the safe zones, so if you were hoping to be a farmer/trader you HAD to be in Head Start and HAD to race through all the content at breakneck pace on your first character in order to claim it. Because the rest of us are now screwed.

    I regret ever wasting one cent on this game, and I paid $100.    … Expand
  45. Ceneo
    Sep 18, 2014
    0
    Absolutely terrible release, they constantly cater to the NA servers (which are still suffering horribly) and leave the EU servers to ROT. Their newest 'fix' increased all NA server populations by 20%, and they only increased 1 EU server by 10%...why. We are all sat in 5-10 hour queues here, surely this warrants more capacity on ALL servers.
  46. IanHeres
    Sep 21, 2014
    0
    First: Poorly written program. It requires admin rights for some reason, and won't even launch if the user isn't an admin. It will ask you to provide the administrator's credentials, and then die. It helpfully opens a FAQ (in Internet Explorer, of course) in some asian language I can't read.

    Assuming you get it to launch, it apparently interacts badly with anti-virus software. For    First: Poorly written program. It requires admin rights for some reason, and won't even launch if the user isn't an admin. It will ask you to provide the administrator's credentials, and then die. It helpfully opens a FAQ (in Internet Explorer, of course) in some asian language I can't read.

    Assuming you get it to launch, it apparently interacts badly with anti-virus software. For me, it caused the built-in windows defender antimalware to freak out.

    Once you get into the actual game, it has old timey MMO problems. There's kill stealing. That hasn't been acceptable since like the 90s. There's "kill 5 boars" quests. No one has ever liked those. The combination of kill stealing and "kill X of Y" is brutal. Dozens of people standing around in a field killing monsters as fast as they spawn, not getting 'credit'. It's stupid, it's unnecessary, it's not fun.

    I didn't get very far before the game crashed, but the first two hours or so had combat that was the usual "you won't die unless you fall asleep" level of MMO difficulty. The trash mobs are not a threat, there's no risk, no danger, and no room to do interesting things with your character. It's not fun. It might get better later, but I'm not interested in playing for thirty hours to get to something that might be good.    … Expand
  47. Lemontimes
    Sep 17, 2014
    3
    The game itself is great and has the potential to attract and retain a strong player base on the merits of a lot of its design. Other parts of the design contain glaring flaws but nothing is perfect. It is the way that it has been managed that is the real issue here. A monumental failure of a launch, from a company experienced with MMOs, and cash shop systems that scream 'we care moreThe game itself is great and has the potential to attract and retain a strong player base on the merits of a lot of its design. Other parts of the design contain glaring flaws but nothing is perfect. It is the way that it has been managed that is the real issue here. A monumental failure of a launch, from a company experienced with MMOs, and cash shop systems that scream 'we care more about your money than we do about you.' Obviously a business has to profit, but if they lose their customers then where does that leave them? Nowhere is where.

    The time between head start and launch simply wasn't enough time to come up with and execute a suitable solution to the problems that they faced. What they needed to do was have a longer open beta with a larger gap between it and launch to sort themselves out. I was unable to play during open beta and I'm sure I wasn't the only one, they needed a longer period to get a more accurate figure of a likely player base and more time to react to that figure. Poor management on their part entirely.

    I strongly recommend people to try the game in a few weeks/months when this fiasco has been rectified, in the meantime I can only advise you stay away unless you are determined and patient.    … Expand
  48. edenbeast
    Sep 21, 2014
    0
    very simple: a game you can't play is a bad game. If you release an online game you should at the very least make sure your servers work and can handle the load. Queue times of more than 1 hour are simply not acceptable, free or not.
  49. ce111
    Sep 27, 2014
    4
    Don't get me wrong...AA is a beautiful game. Great scenery, great combat effects and character models. However, beauty isn't enough to salvage this game. While the game touts being F2P the truth is that unless you are a subscriber you will pretty much always have a handicap. The servers are full of botters and gold sellers and Trion either doesn't care or doesn't have the resources to stopDon't get me wrong...AA is a beautiful game. Great scenery, great combat effects and character models. However, beauty isn't enough to salvage this game. While the game touts being F2P the truth is that unless you are a subscriber you will pretty much always have a handicap. The servers are full of botters and gold sellers and Trion either doesn't care or doesn't have the resources to stop them. This game had a ton of potential but its ultimately a bomb. One is better off just sticking to WoW...… Expand
  50. Vollthar
    Sep 20, 2014
    0
    Trion World is the worst compagny ever ! I have paid patron membership and i c'ant play since there is no land and place left this game is the worst **** ever i have been stolen ! **** you trion world
  51. templarmkiii
    Sep 17, 2014
    2
    Combat is solid, but they still don't solve the propensity for MMO quests to be boring and disengaging. Then comes the fact that they have the worst launch in history with people who actually paid for the game still having to wait 8+ hours to even log in, as well as a slue of other problems even if you do manage that feat.

    The biggest defense they have with not adding more servers that    Combat is solid, but they still don't solve the propensity for MMO quests to be boring and disengaging. Then comes the fact that they have the worst launch in history with people who actually paid for the game still having to wait 8+ hours to even log in, as well as a slue of other problems even if you do manage that feat.

    The biggest defense they have with not adding more servers that I see other players give out is "But in two weeks, you'd have a ton of vacant servers". In this day and age, merges are easy, and so is spinning up a server if you're virtual (and if you're not, you're behind the curve). For a seasoned company like trion to have issues like this along with the obvious P2W aspect of housing only seems to point that they don't care about this game, nor are they going to be responsive.

    3/10 because the execution of it is so poor.    … Expand
  52. OG1
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    Best try it before you drop any money on this game.
    What the game is at the root is a Korean PVP grinder with quest to lev you.
    The good: It looks nice. It can be fun to run like the wind. You can fly! well glide but it is grate fun. There are boats and fishing. The world is open to you more or less. Want to swim the ocean? You can! You can pvp in a lot of areas. You can hit lev    Best try it before you drop any money on this game.
    What the game is at the root is a Korean PVP grinder with quest to lev you.

    The good:
    It looks nice.
    It can be fun to run like the wind.
    You can fly! well glide but it is grate fun.
    There are boats and fishing.
    The world is open to you more or less. Want to swim the ocean? You can!
    You can pvp in a lot of areas.
    You can hit lev cap FTP.
    You can have a boat and a glider!

    The bad:
    Dam near every thing else.
    Crafting is made in to new kinda hell with things you can turn a profit on the items that make the item sell for more.
    Quest are boring and on rails.
    You can go anyplace in the world but you will be killed if your not at a good lev for being there.
    To even fish you need a pole and bait you must buy them or craft and grow them and be a lev in growing and have land to do that.
    You need land or gold to get anything and you need to pay for that.
    The 120 class is a joke most are sooooo close to one another it will not mater and only a few are the "best" and the ones you will want to run in pvp.
    The pvp is bad like why even have it bad. People are saying this is hardcore pvp. It is not. Die pop back up and fight some more. You lose almost nothing and gain almost nothing.
    The game stutters fore seems like no reason.
    More gank than pvp.
    forced pvp if you want do all the main quests.

    And there is much more bad with the game but I can forgive all that.

    What is driving people away is Trion. Too few too crappy servers log in times in the Hr. not a joke pay $150 and you can play in 1hr or 2 or 3 you get the idea. The preopen was one of the worst opens of any MMO I have been in in the last 15 years not the worst as some say but not to good. Sold founders starter packs for $150 then did not send them all out but sold new packs to people that are much much better and that was in a few days. What will they do in 90 days when the founders cash drys up? The land you need to farm, one of the big selling points of the game and some thing that is almost need to craft gone in 1Hr. of start. Good luck getting any unless you hit up a gold seller or the cash shop. Oh yes there are bots gold spammers and hacks running nuts in the game. Then there are the fan boys telling you every thing is grate when it sucks feels like talking to Trion. Ever try talking to some one who thinks they know every thing but is clueless about what you are talking about? That is Trion customer support. That and nailing you junk to a table are about as much fun.

    But you can try it free and have a grate time for 30 days or so. Not worth the time or money to me. ESO is better to bad there is no glider.    … Expand
  53. Dorfanuggan
    Sep 18, 2014
    0
    I paid $50 for a founder pack and after almost a week have played a total of 10 minutes. The queue is usually 3 hours long and I cannot play the game. I obviously am excited about the game, but the fact that I can't play the game means you get a bad score.
  54. ionion
    Sep 20, 2014
    0
    trion is the worst company ever. stay away from them please. the game is decent even if is very P2W. stay away from trion u have been warned. they will just scam you for money and ban you from the game.
  55. afives
    Oct 4, 2014
    0
    Played to level 50. No land available because of bots, scripts, queues, and status issues. Unable to join friends because of server restrictions. Trion only agrees with the issues and pushes them off on XL Games as a scapegoat. This game will be empty in 90 days when the Founders' sub ends.
  56. jebemvammater
    Oct 10, 2014
    0
    It's gonna cost me $15 per month to enjoy everything in any P2P game, but here even with monthly sub I need to spend money if I want to enjoy everything a.k.a. not running out of Labor points. Starting levels up to 30 are boring asian grindfest with generic quests. Bots, cheaters everywhere, I still can't get own peace of land and build house because of them. It's better to quit, thanIt's gonna cost me $15 per month to enjoy everything in any P2P game, but here even with monthly sub I need to spend money if I want to enjoy everything a.k.a. not running out of Labor points. Starting levels up to 30 are boring asian grindfest with generic quests. Bots, cheaters everywhere, I still can't get own peace of land and build house because of them. It's better to quit, than frustrate yourself cause both Trion and XL games doesn't give a f**k about game, only care about money. DDOS attacks? Give me a break. A new excuse when you failed at launch. Who the F care about your retarded game to spend time to DDOS you...… Expand
  57. 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
  58. DaPuenka
    Sep 18, 2014
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First I'd like to mention that this game is one of those F2P games that are not really F2P. If you do not atleast buy patron some essential features of the game are denied. Labor which is used for all non combat activities as well as opening loot bags will only be gained while you are online and only at half the speed of subscribers. As a subscriber I can tell you that even the increased labor regeneration is very limiting. Further alot of the items like labor potions, inventory expensions and tax certificates are almost necessary for a decent gaming experience. If you want to enjoy all aspects of ArcheAge at a more then after work intensity you can expect to pay the retail price of an average game for microtransaction items each month or feel forced to really streamline your gameplay for max use of you available resources. Patron remains a must have.

    Adressing the actual game not the financial concept:
    As so many games in the past this game falls short of the expectations. The world is horribly small. At this moment it only takes about 17min to walk (slowes mode of transportation) your continent from one end to the other. This would already be bad under normal circumstances but for ArcheAge being a sandbox MMO it is multiple times worse. Why is that?

    Alot of the game revolves around crafting and resource production. The game offers some public farms on which you can grow a limited number of things, but those will never be enough to occupy you or provide sufficient supply. At this point the limited space kicks in and hampers your experience. The world is so small that hundreds of people running around it lead to most wild plants being harvested by random chance encounters within seconds of them maturing (which takes hours to days depending on the plant). As a result WoW, Rift or Wildstar like resource gathering is only possible for ore and stone since it is an exception considering respawn times. For plants and lifestock you will have to resort to growing it yourself. Usually this would be big pro creating an Eve like economy. In ArcheAge space limitations stunt the game. Almost all building lots (space to place your farms) were taken within ours of the servers opening. If you were not among those to grab your piece of the pie you are screwed. Building lots sell for ALOT. The most expensive I witnessed was 150$ in microtransaction items for a single housing lot. This leaves you with the last option: unprotected farming. This basically means you try to find a corner of the world where no one comes around and place your crops there. Those can be stolen by other players though. I have been hunting those farmes myself and I have to say: Even the most remote mountain areas which take real effort to access are traveled by scavengers at multiple encounters per hour 'causing very frustrating situations even for the most dedicated wild farmers.

    Overall if you want sandbox play Eve. I dont play it but I have taken a look and it offers way more. The world of ArcheAge is a bucket compared to the sea Eve is.

    As a final note. Not enough servers. Queue times of 8 hours or more to finally log in are currently the rule.    … Expand
  59. YashaX
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    Very boring and crippled game
    If you like sandbox games like minecraft or M&B Warband AA is probably not for you. Almost impossible to play f2p, treat as a sub-game. Mainly a grind fest. LP system is terrible.Strong P2W elements, Nice boobs.
    I read some rave reviews about this game and saw it praised as a great sandbox mmo. The reality is much different. The first 20-30 levels of    Very boring and crippled game
    If you like sandbox games like minecraft or M&B Warband AA is probably not for you. Almost impossible to play f2p, treat as a sub-game. Mainly a grind fest. LP system is terrible.Strong P2W elements, Nice boobs.

    I read some rave reviews about this game and saw it praised as a great sandbox mmo. The reality is much different.

    The first 20-30 levels of the game involves just questing through a typical mmo quest hub system. Nothing particularly bad or good about it. Just mundane. Combat is nothing to write home about, monsters have typical dumb mmo AI. Graphics are OK but not great.

    The much vaunted crafting/gathering/farming system requires a huge grind and is limited by the "LP system". LP starts at zero and regenerates very slowly over time, especially for f2p players. You need these LP (labor points) basically to do anything other than fight or move your toon. And these LP are extremely limited. I found crafting even in non-crafting focused games like ESO to be much more rewarding/fun, and of course a game like minecraft or landmark blows it out of the water.

    F2p players also cannot own land, which places them at a significant disadvantage, and locks them out of a key element of the game.

    It is supposedly a pvp focused game, but pvp is quite restricted, and implemented in a bad way in some cases. For example if you enter enemy faction territory you cannot attack that faction. However, the enemy can attack you. However, if you are in a group and only one person in your group is attacked in enemy territory, only that one player will be able to fight back. you will basically just have to watch your friends die one by one without being able to do anything about it.

    What I have said here is only the tip of the ice-berg. There are numerous hidden systems like this in the game waiting to frustrate you.    … Expand
  60. minnimi
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    The game is great. I was able to play for three hours, from 12am until server restart, I have not been able to log in since, I've been in a 7+ hour long Q after which game disconnected/crashed and I had to get back in line... I will continue playing, should I ever be able to log back in.
  61. negarpls
    Sep 17, 2014
    0
    Paid 150 for the Archeum Founders pack, but was only able to play for 1/4 of the headstart period due to **** Trion and their queues and DDOS, all that bull. Now that it's release, I am still missing 60 out of my 90 day Patron statues and having to wait in 2 hour+ queue lines. Thanks Obama.
  62. luk443
    Sep 17, 2014
    0
    Would be a great game if you could play. refuse to up server capacity refuse to up server count and this makes it a 4 HOUR long with just to play the game! They also promised extra features for $150 and to date NONE of these items have been delivered. Pay to win at the finest!
  63. Yar987
    Sep 19, 2014
    0
    The game itself would easily be a 7/10, if not for the publisher.

    Trion is apparently very under-equipped to handle this game, and everything about how they're running it shows incompetence and poor planning.
  64. 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
  65. 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
  66. AnenFairy
    Oct 4, 2014
    3
    heres the honest issue with the game, The queues (at least for patrons) as of October are not too bad... highest I've seen so far for my server [SALPHIRA] has been 28 since the capacity was increased... So that issue isn't big anymore, the bigger issue then even the queues used to be is now the Botting and hacking. This game is advertised as open PVP and sandbox, it is neither of thoseheres the honest issue with the game, The queues (at least for patrons) as of October are not too bad... highest I've seen so far for my server [SALPHIRA] has been 28 since the capacity was increased... So that issue isn't big anymore, the bigger issue then even the queues used to be is now the Botting and hacking. This game is advertised as open PVP and sandbox, it is neither of those things for most anyone. I'm not sure about all servers but on Salphira bots will take the housing before anyone else can or your jackass team mates will PK you(30+ zones) and try to take the house for them selves (regardless they'll still lose to the bots) couple this with teleporting bots who are wrecking the economy and a hacked chat system... this game is not worth the download time. The Combat system is old and archaic, we're talking [TAB] attack system and the PVP is pretty generic as well, I was a long time guild wars 2 player and I feel... this might just be why I find the PVP so lack luster... its just close to Guild War 2's PVP.. however Guild wars 2's is a bit better. the class system is pretty neat but not at all new, its nice I can blend a lot of things together but this class system is also limited at the same time, you'll need to equip a corresponding weapon to really benefit from classes... For example, If I go Heavy magic, and I also take healing... my healing will be limited if I don't take a 2h club and instead take a 2h staff or something of the sort.

    I really don't recommend this game, there are just much better options.

    I haven been playing since CBE and continue to play even now (I really don't want to waste my patron time)    … Expand
  67. 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
  68. marduk7777
    Sep 20, 2014
    0
    when you can access the game ranging from 2-24 hrs in a queue for a free to play player. It's a good game plays nice but if your free to play don't expect to get in due to all the gold sellers and afk people clogging it up.Don't bother with patron status cause that's another queue. the best way to put it trion loves queues as it makes the people in hopes of having faster queue's to buy awhen you can access the game ranging from 2-24 hrs in a queue for a free to play player. It's a good game plays nice but if your free to play don't expect to get in due to all the gold sellers and afk people clogging it up.Don't bother with patron status cause that's another queue. the best way to put it trion loves queues as it makes the people in hopes of having faster queue's to buy a patron pack and hope it holds as it hasn't been getting applied to the accounts of the people who buy it. The servers have such low capacity's and claiming that the system will crash if raised and it needs new hardware so they buy 4 servers to open 2 new US and 2 new EU and within a span of the day get full instead of investing in some servers that can handle the load. the low server cap's just avoid the game for 2-3 months when the server's die down then you may get on if they don't lower the capacity's due to population dieing off.… Expand
  69. 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.
  70. Jingo
    Sep 25, 2014
    3
    Boy oh boy did I waste money on this game. It had so much promise, but delivery was a total failure. I had heaps of fun at first, despite the long queues and the fact that ALL the housing land had been taken by the time I logged on. Eventually they released more servers, but those filled up just as fast and I was only able to get a housing spot and large farm spot in a dangerous open PVPBoy oh boy did I waste money on this game. It had so much promise, but delivery was a total failure. I had heaps of fun at first, despite the long queues and the fact that ALL the housing land had been taken by the time I logged on. Eventually they released more servers, but those filled up just as fast and I was only able to get a housing spot and large farm spot in a dangerous open PVP ganking area. But that's ok, I thought. Level 25 shadowplay and you get stealth, so you won't get ganked while carrying your extremely precious lumber pack to your land in order to build. With the servers so crowded, competition for suitable trees was harsh, and it took maybe 20 hours of gameplay to get a single lumber pack. What I didn't count on, was the awful stability issues. Sometimes the game crashed 3 times in an hour. So there I was, carrying my precious lumber pack to build my farm, in stealth. Of course, it crashes, and my character gets ganked and the lumber pack gets stolen while I'm trying desperately to log back in.
    Thanks TRION. Money, time, wasted. Don't think I'll be playing anymore. Can't get my money back, but I can avoid wasting more time.    … Expand
  71. 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
  72. 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
  73. 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
  74. Kociek
    Sep 20, 2014
    0
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  75. hentiro
    Oct 6, 2014
    0
    Made an account just to say how **** terrible this game was. texttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttext
  76. FlaminPee
    Oct 7, 2014
    1
    Labor Points (LP) will be the death of this game. That tree you want to chop down for lumber? Gotta spend LP. That boat you want to build to take a selfie on? Gotta spend LP. Finished killing 1920381293 mobs and now you have 1029832 coin purses to open for pve gold? Gotta spend LP. Just pk'ed someone with a trade pack and now you want to turn it in yourself for the reward? Need LP forLabor Points (LP) will be the death of this game. That tree you want to chop down for lumber? Gotta spend LP. That boat you want to build to take a selfie on? Gotta spend LP. Finished killing 1920381293 mobs and now you have 1029832 coin purses to open for pve gold? Gotta spend LP. Just pk'ed someone with a trade pack and now you want to turn it in yourself for the reward? Need LP for that too.

    Pretty much to do any form of progression in the game, you need to spend LP. Free2play players get 5 LP every 5 minutes they're online while subscribers(known as patron status) get 10 LP every 5 minutes they're online or 5 LP every 5 minutes they're offline.    … Expand
  77. Renogen
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    Summary: All players begin their journey on either the Nuia or Harihara continents.
    should be
    Summary: All players begin their journey on the super duper long waiting queues of about 3 hours.
  78. Elrath
    Sep 17, 2014
    4
    If you like a mmo that does not reinvent the wheel and plays like a pc mmo and not a console then this is something that will feel familiar to you. The crafting is in depth, the trade is interesting, pvp is ok. Not great but is ok. As far as end game content I have yet to see that. From what I can tell it's pvp, trade, and make money. Sometimes feels like a pretty Farmville on theIf you like a mmo that does not reinvent the wheel and plays like a pc mmo and not a console then this is something that will feel familiar to you. The crafting is in depth, the trade is interesting, pvp is ok. Not great but is ok. As far as end game content I have yet to see that. From what I can tell it's pvp, trade, and make money. Sometimes feels like a pretty Farmville on the watching your farms grow. The BIGGEST problem is the lack of planning and the ridiculous queue lines. IF you have paid them money or free to play you can expect to see queue lines from 500-4k depending on when you try to log in. The game is worth trying, but until the can figure out how to deal with the log in problems I would wait. Your time is better spent watching paint dry in stead of the queue count down.… Expand
  79. 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
  80. 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
  81. 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
  82. vermarien
    Oct 5, 2014
    0
    A really bad copy of other bad mmo's nothing new >.> so sad. Didn't even bother to reach lvl 10. Character customization is really poor, graphics reminds me early 2000 mmos, or should i say way worse (world of warcraft, guildwars 1, lineage 2 and many other were and still are really superior), bad ui. You can't cast the majority of spells while moving (really? on 2014?). The only thing iA really bad copy of other bad mmo's nothing new >.> so sad. Didn't even bother to reach lvl 10. Character customization is really poor, graphics reminds me early 2000 mmos, or should i say way worse (world of warcraft, guildwars 1, lineage 2 and many other were and still are really superior), bad ui. You can't cast the majority of spells while moving (really? on 2014?). The only thing i liked were the naval battles.… Expand
  83. 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.
  84. 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
  85. 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
  86. 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
  87. 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
  88. 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
  89. 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
  90. 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
  91. 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.
  92. 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
  93. 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
  94. 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
  95. hajkli
    Dec 15, 2022
    0
    Do not recommend.

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

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

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

    3. Strict censorship on game discord. You are not allowed to complain on discord. If you do, they remove your messages.    … Expand
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#74 Best PC Game of 2014
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
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  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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