ArcheAge

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3.7

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  1. 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
  2. KaienShiba
    Jun 10, 2015
    2
    This is not an rpg game, it is a FPS, also you can't change the keyboard set up. Had potential but that's had not have. You are also forced to team up, since there is no single player room.
  3. 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
  4. Saluko
    Sep 16, 2014
    2
    When this game was in Alpha ( patch 1.0 i think it was ) this game had potential to being a great hit. However, come future patches the direction of the game became very clear. Changing elements of the game shaped around their marketplace. Labor points became more restrictive and varied crafting elements became disciplined tailored around their marketplace. Labor Pots/crafting mats.When this game was in Alpha ( patch 1.0 i think it was ) this game had potential to being a great hit. However, come future patches the direction of the game became very clear. Changing elements of the game shaped around their marketplace. Labor points became more restrictive and varied crafting elements became disciplined tailored around their marketplace. Labor Pots/crafting mats.

    With the numerous issues with the launch and money grab-ish shenanigans Trion has portrayed with this game. I cannot recommend this game to anyone. I only wish I could of only got a refund on my $150 founders pack when i had the chance. :( . Never buying a trion game again    … Expand
  5. natpick
    Sep 16, 2014
    2
    bait and switch mmo,awefull customer service the game itself isnt too bad although alot changed from early access,its free to play but youll end up putting lots of cash into this game regardless,cant see this game holding a healthy population for more than 6 months to a year.
  6. Voldrune
    Sep 17, 2014
    2
    Aside from spending 8 hours fighting with Glyph and finding a way to fix the countless errors that popped up during my two fruitless attempts to reinstall the game (Which both took 3 hours each.) The two hour+ long queue is fantastic. I could not be more satisfied.
    Oh, and the reports about paying to win seem lovely as well.
    Very good call on your part, Trion. You'd think they'd have    Aside from spending 8 hours fighting with Glyph and finding a way to fix the countless errors that popped up during my two fruitless attempts to reinstall the game (Which both took 3 hours each.) The two hour+ long queue is fantastic. I could not be more satisfied.
    Oh, and the reports about paying to win seem lovely as well.
    Very good call on your part, Trion.
    You'd think they'd have things sorted out BEFORE they released the game to the public.    … Expand
  7. Kyoo
    Sep 17, 2014
    2
    This game is not a sandbox, it's a "sandpark". Most people are just jaw-dropped by the features of being able to farm/own a house that this is "new" and "fresh" for them but in the end it's still technically the same outside some of those features.

    Unfortunately for NA/EU ArcheAge the game is published/ran from TRION Worlds who has, to be blunt, done a horrible job managing this game.    This game is not a sandbox, it's a "sandpark". Most people are just jaw-dropped by the features of being able to farm/own a house that this is "new" and "fresh" for them but in the end it's still technically the same outside some of those features.

    Unfortunately for NA/EU ArcheAge the game is published/ran from TRION Worlds who has, to be blunt, done a horrible job managing this game. From a terrible headstart to a very rough launch for many. Those who haven't been effected have had a great time, hence why you've seen some decent 10's around.

    Once all the smoke and mirrors drops I don't see this game lasting long, probably even shorter with how TRION is managing it.    … Expand
  8. MKJoker
    Sep 17, 2014
    2
    This will be a Dual Review, one on the game itself and one on the Publishers.

    Archeage A sandbox RPG where you can pretty much do anything you want from building houses, boats, trading to making your own little empire with friends and guilds and going to war with the big name factions of the game. Gameplay : 8/10. Fluid controls, hit to connection is very good, typical of a PvP    This will be a Dual Review, one on the game itself and one on the Publishers.

    Archeage

    A sandbox RPG where you can pretty much do anything you want from building houses, boats, trading to making your own little empire with friends and guilds and going to war with the big name factions of the game.

    Gameplay : 8/10. Fluid controls, hit to connection is very good, typical of a PvP focused game. You pretty much have everything at your disposal as long as you're a paying customer. Farming, decorating your house you name it. It's really all about you in this game.

    Story: 6/10. I did not find the about the character very good. I played a Harani, each race has it's own story to tell maybe I was just unlucky. The overall Lore of the game though would be rated at an 8-9/10, very indepth.

    Music: 7/10. Okay I know some people might like the music too this game, but I came from FFXIV:ARR and the music there was absolutely amazing. In terms of adrenaline rush in pvp the music does get you pumping. Just not as much as fighting Titan in FFXIV.

    Graphics: 9/10. Fantastic graphics, running the game doesn't take much of a machine and compliments high end machines as well. DX9 and DX11 support, the lighting in DX11 is mesmerizing. Also when you see the Ocean for the first time in the game truly is a beauty to behold. The Water Graphics in the game Rival a fully modded Skyrim in my opinion which is great in itself.

    Replayability: 1/10. It's an MMO where one character can be anything you want. I don't see a reason to ever have to start over from the beginning unless you're twinking or making a bank alt so I'll add another rating for this.

    Longevity: 10/10. It's a Sandbox MMO where you can do everything you want with one character and go anywhere you want pretty much. It's an experience that I think anyone with the patience to grind out will enjoy.

    Overall: 8/10. This game is simply amazing, it has tons of potential and a bright future if the Devs play the cards right.

    Now that I got the game out of the way I'd like to rate the Producers of this game for the EU and NA region: Trion.

    Some of you might know Trion from Rift, I personally was playing WoW at the time and seeing the "You're not in Azeroth anymore" banners posted all over the web made me laugh sometimes. Rift had a relatively successful life, not nearly as long as it's acclaimed Rival World of Warcraft, but it was relatively successful for an MMO this day and age.

    Now Rift aside I'll get to how poorly Trion has done with the Archeage Launch for the NA/EU region. Having no experience the the KR/RU versions of this game I don't have any clue if their launches were a mess or not because they have different Producers.

    Let's get to the point, the Launch of this game was an utter mess. Launched with 8 servers for each region there was a back queue for about 4-5 hours. They released 1 additional server during launch and 1 server during the head start which was 4 days of queue timer for people that spent $50-$150 for the founders pack on the game.

    I'm going to go ahead and tell the story from my experience. This company neglected all of their paying customers from the start of Head Start, went and blind sided the people that invested in them "founders" with more extravagant offers via the Starter packs and continues to try to sale on the Cash Shop when their subscriptions don't even give the people who paid for the benefits of being a subscriber.

    Unfortunately, I fall under the category of someone who had paid for their service and haven't received it yet. It has been 24 hours from the review that I have received what I paid for and the company remains silent on the issue.

    Their customer support is abysmal . 6-7 hour wait times in live chats. Tickets going unanswered for days at a time and hardly any clarification on what they're going to do about the issues with the current state of the game. When I did finally get to the Representative (they were very kind I'll give them that) they didn't know how to fix the issue and had to push my problem onto someone else.

    Here's the rating I'd give Trion from an Archeage players perspective at this point.

    Launch Management: 0/10, I was able to get in during easily on the new server, but they didn't let any of the newer F2P players download the game UNTIL an hour before the servers even went live. So if you didn't have fast internet you were destined to sit in queue for hours on end.

    Customer support: 5/10, The only saving grace here was simply because the people are nice when they talk to you, which should be a common business practice in itself. They however had not nearly enough people on staff to help out with the volume of problems they were having. I didn't get out of my live chat until 10pm (PST) after initiating the queue 6-7 hours prior.

    TL;DR. Archeage is a great game managed by terrible producers. Either the Producers get their act together or this wonderful game will fall in fire.    … Expand
  9. MetalAggression
    Sep 17, 2014
    2
    The game looks and feel very dated, everything is clunky and the dungeons.. compare the dungeons to a Asian browser game that should say enough.

    What makes this make interesting and worth the try is the features, of course if you were thinking of owning a house.. or a farm chances are you can't why? Well the game is very limited when it comes to land that's why the only people who can    The game looks and feel very dated, everything is clunky and the dungeons.. compare the dungeons to a Asian browser game that should say enough.

    What makes this make interesting and worth the try is the features, of course if you were thinking of owning a house.. or a farm chances are you can't why? Well the game is very limited when it comes to land that's why the only people who can own property in the game are paying customers (patron status 15 bucks a month) that being said you can already assume that all the land in the game is gone, I was not kidding when I said the land was limited... about 30% of the patrons that got into the head start managed to get some land. So even if you become a patron..(15 bucks a month) there really won't be any benefit from it.

    There will be farming available for free members in public farms but these farms are over populated even by patrons.. and they only protect your stuff for 24 hours, so planting anything that requires more than that (and everything pretty much does) well most likely be stolen.    … Expand
  10. Aserghui
    Sep 17, 2014
    2
    Positive:
    -- Sandbox skills you can mix and match 3 styles of abilities (melee, archer, healer, caster, etc...)
    -- Interactive world: hunt, gather, fight, piracy, build a home, farm, etc... -- The game world is huge... or so I've been told -- YOU CAN BE A PIRATE WITH A SHIP Negative: -- A ridiculously long log-in queue, 4 hours for me so far, others have experienced 6-8 hours --    Positive:
    -- Sandbox skills you can mix and match 3 styles of abilities (melee, archer, healer, caster, etc...)
    -- Interactive world: hunt, gather, fight, piracy, build a home, farm, etc...
    -- The game world is huge... or so I've been told
    -- YOU CAN BE A PIRATE WITH A SHIP

    Negative:
    -- A ridiculously long log-in queue, 4 hours for me so far, others have experienced 6-8 hours
    -- (in my opinion) A rediculously poor server plan, a lot of money was generated by the alpha stage buy-in.... but with millions of dollars, Trion failed to secure enough servers to handle the mass influx of players. The MMORPG genre is a huge community of people (look at WoW), when releasing a game that looks as epic as ArcheAge... you should expect to be required to host a game for Millions of people, not half a million (best guess).
    -- 24 hours since installing Archeage: (2 hours trying to authenticate account) (1 hour of game play) (6 hours of maintance downtime) (7 hours total of ridiculous queue time with a fluctuating queue number)

    I'm not holding my breath, but IF they fix their queue issues, I wil be a happier gamer.    … Expand
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. H0P3
    Sep 18, 2014
    2
    Let's disregard the issues with the server (queue) and the engine issues (vga overheating, no fps cap and similar things). These will be fixed over time thats okay.

    PRO: -The game itself looks nice (not _that_ amazing though). The engine is really good, you clearly see that Cryengine 3 shines in this big mmo enviroment. -Found two nice features only: Mount as pet and glider. Good    Let's disregard the issues with the server (queue) and the engine issues (vga overheating, no fps cap and similar things). These will be fixed over time thats okay.

    PRO:
    -The game itself looks nice (not _that_ amazing though). The engine is really good, you clearly see that Cryengine 3 shines in this big mmo enviroment.
    -Found two nice features only: Mount as pet and glider. Good ideas but that doesn't mean you should feel that the game itself is full of good ideas.
    CONS:
    -The game (lore) is very blant. The story and race lore and the world is nothing new, not appealing at all.
    -Questing is terribly primitive. You played such go to x-y-z and pick up 5-10-15 items in early 2000. Linear, unimpressive.
    -Lacking movement and controll fluidity. This is hard to explain but after some time of play the animation and movement speed and the combat phases aren't drawing you into the game at all. You still feel that you sit outside of the game, pushing buttons one after another.

    I can't comprehend how companies can release such game in 2014. And I can't even comprehend why people hype over such a really simple game. Very weak attempt. Go, check it out but don't spend money on it! You'll see what I mean!    … Expand
  14. 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
  15. Nearly_Diamond
    Sep 24, 2014
    2
    Ok so here's the thing - in the alpha and beta it wsa fun - everyone was messing around and the potential to 'do anything' was explored and was exciting.

    This game explodes the MMO grind like nothing else into some fun stuff, but it's a completely player based economy. At face value this is good, but what it means is the servers have to have decent numbers of people on them for the game    Ok so here's the thing - in the alpha and beta it wsa fun - everyone was messing around and the potential to 'do anything' was explored and was exciting.

    This game explodes the MMO grind like nothing else into some fun stuff, but it's a completely player based economy. At face value this is good, but what it means is the servers have to have decent numbers of people on them for the game to be viable, and so Trion deliberately don't have enough servers so as not to go through the surge and crash in player numbers - this means even if you paid over £100 for your founder's pack it's a 3 hour wait minimum just to get on.
    Additoinally all the servers are full - you need a strong guild to get anywhere in the game, and so if your friends are already established on another server - you won't get to play with them.

    Paying players can purchase land and build their own home there - which becomes a focus of one of the styles of play.
    Great! All the land went in the first week! This means if you're thinking of starting out now - you'll need to wait until thep layer populatoin crashes off for a bit to register on the server, once the game is dying.

    This Game has promise, but it is at heart a Korean grind fest with no shortcuts, and the ability to fully explore the game is precluded by having to log on to the servers (that don't let you alt-TAB out to do other things while you wait) and que fo 8 hours. As an online MMO Que simulator I would score this a 10. It's possible that somewhere in there, once the atrix has you there might be a game to play which could have a good score too. However, when developers have already given salient and unignorable lessons in how to set up ap layer economy usigng just one server, such as in EVE, to build a game arount this principle as a core tennet and then spread it out over a bunch of servers like WoW or that god-awful star wars MMO the old republic (apart from hutball... huttball was great..) is just a big mistake in my opinion.
    I intend not to play this any more.    … Expand
  16. Araushnee
    Sep 29, 2014
    2
    As a patron I am not seeing the benefits of subscribing. Today my heart sank when we finally got a tiny official response on the housing situation. My hopes had been that they would fix this issue with time like they did the queues, but that will not be the case. Land ownership is apparently "competitive." I bought the head-start packs and subscribed because I believed I could own landAs a patron I am not seeing the benefits of subscribing. Today my heart sank when we finally got a tiny official response on the housing situation. My hopes had been that they would fix this issue with time like they did the queues, but that will not be the case. Land ownership is apparently "competitive." I bought the head-start packs and subscribed because I believed I could own land and farm. I was hoping the PvP nature wouldn't be about bulling other players. I was hoping for a friendly community. Even on the unofficial RP server the community is toxic. Between the community and lack of land, I am just not seeing the point. I had dreams of building home, farms and crest creation. I guess I'll be waiting for Landmark to go to open beta. If you are thinking of buying patron to own land and a farm, don't bother. Those benefits do not exist. I just don't see myself staying as I'm not the competitive type. If you enjoy an open world PvP game though you may like it. It is a gankfest though. So if you want fair PvP, there is no such thing.… Expand
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. Simongren
    Dec 1, 2014
    2
    Read a review of this in a Gaming magazine and decided to try it out based on that review.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    All in all, it's not something I see spending money on.    … Expand
  21. jlcnuke
    Dec 19, 2014
    2
    Would be a pretty good game, if the people in charge of making decisions weren't complete idiots.. test server not testing anything (bugs from Alpha still in the game, despite beta testing being long over and the game live for a while now, game offline during prime-time with little or no warning (for minor patches, not the game is screwed issues). The game will be lucky to survive anotherWould be a pretty good game, if the people in charge of making decisions weren't complete idiots.. test server not testing anything (bugs from Alpha still in the game, despite beta testing being long over and the game live for a while now, game offline during prime-time with little or no warning (for minor patches, not the game is screwed issues). The game will be lucky to survive another few months if they don't find someone who can take all decisions and run them through a "is this utterly stupid" test before letting those decisions get out.… Expand
  22. The_Existance
    Dec 27, 2014
    2
    The farming and housing are great, but are only really available if you are willing to pay for patron. Free to players have very limited options for earning money in game. Also, there are many pay to win aspects in the game, like the APEX system. The game tends to dry very quick if you can't put a large amount of cash into the game.

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

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

    The game is fun at first something, but it quickly goes down hill. It is not a game worth playing in the long run.    … Expand
  23. 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
  24. TNichols2012
    Feb 22, 2016
    2
    Toxic community of players. Game encourages bad behavior to other players. I regret paying to play and would like my money back. I would not recommend this game. I've played WoW, Guild Wars 1/2, and many minor MMOs. This one has really bad people in it. Great game, not great community.
  25. 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
  26. 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.
  27. Luka4ever
    Sep 25, 2014
    1
    This game is a waste of time, its horribly optimized, pay to win, and the PVP elements in conjunction with the labor system means you can't get anything done, and if you should happen to carry a trade pack it will be stolen from you before you can turn it in. Worst game I've played this year.
  28. 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.
  29. tollo555
    Sep 24, 2014
    1
    Typical Pay-To-Win game that doesn't bring anything new to table. Monotonic experience continues throughout the game. Only redeeming quality is that the game is free to play; not worth a penny.
  30. Oxage
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    9/16/2014 was a sad sad day in my life as I decided to pay for patron status. I was left 4k+ position in queue and still waiting (It's been over 3 hours). This is unjust and I've requested a full refund. I'm never going to play this game solely based on the fact that Trion **** up.
  31. Traciatim
    Sep 16, 2014
    1
    Pay2Win PVP ganking and zergfest with systems designed around farming free players. Terrible implementation of Free2Play systems, has subscription which gives major advantages in game and a pay2win cash shop on top of that.
  32. N1nja_Jesus
    Sep 18, 2014
    1
    Another boring p2w mmorpg. I have played it for two days, I made 25lvl and I quited because I was so bored with this game. If you are f2p player you are restricted in almost everything. You wont have "labor" to even open coin purses, so you can only dream of crafting/gathering.
    Avoid at all cost.
  33. 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
  34. stormgnoef
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    The game was fun on beta till launch in eu.5k queue time and 8 hours wait time just to get on server is not acceptable.And trion is doing nothing to fix it seems.
  35. Quental
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    Trion completely botched launch of this game. With any new release issues are to be expected, but lets face it, this isn't the early days of MMOs, and Trion isn't new to the genre. Unacceptable queue times, random disconnects, subscriptions not working, the list goes on and on.
  36. jseph1234
    Dec 1, 2014
    1
    Well Trion/XL Games have reached a new low with "Archeage the Disaster". ALL Servers have been down or soo laggy that its virtually unplayable for 26 hours and counting and over 1000 pages of complaints on the Official forum for this one issue.

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

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

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

    Its basically a badly orchestrated Money-Grab and currently. RIGHTLY, deserves its name as "Trash Age!"    … Expand
  37. Sky-Moondrift
    Jan 17, 2015
    1
    Initially fun, but soon shows itself for the broken POS that it is.

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

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

    Arch age is dead now so who cares. I stopped playing with 90 days credit left from my pre-order, it's that bad. RIP and good riddance!    … Expand
  38. Dracobane
    Oct 22, 2014
    1
    Do you like completely random crafting? If you don't get lucky, you will have half the damage of someone that did get lucky or paid enough to win. The concept is cool, but the P2W and item numbers are a huge problem. Save yourself the time and frustration by avoiding this one.
  39. Panderous
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    This game was on the right track, and then nose dived. If you are going to release a founder's program, you need to be able to allow them to play. Servers queues, laggy worlds, and not enough land for founder's to use to enjoy their perks means you are losing a lot of value for your money. Its honestly better to be a free to play, and ignore the perks you wouldn't get even if you did pay.This game was on the right track, and then nose dived. If you are going to release a founder's program, you need to be able to allow them to play. Servers queues, laggy worlds, and not enough land for founder's to use to enjoy their perks means you are losing a lot of value for your money. Its honestly better to be a free to play, and ignore the perks you wouldn't get even if you did pay. Rather disappointing. They did say they were DDoS'd, but they also rolled two servers out immediately after the attack, which goes to show you that the DDoS wasn't fully the reason, otherwise there was no good call for more servers.… Expand
  40. Brodde
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    Looked really nice on paper. New cool sandbox features, rewarding player interaction and free economy.

    Is probably OK in Korea. Does not live up to international standards. Full of game breaking bugs. Lots of standard features missing. The server problems at launch are just minor compared to the game design problems. Having the game available outside Korea seems like a spontaneous    Looked really nice on paper. New cool sandbox features, rewarding player interaction and free economy.

    Is probably OK in Korea. Does not live up to international standards. Full of game breaking bugs. Lots of standard features missing. The server problems at launch are just minor compared to the game design problems. Having the game available outside Korea seems like a spontaneous decision to just get some quick cash from the hype. I suggest waiting at least a year before even trying it.    … Expand
  41. Aricus
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    ArcheAge is a great game but it's being ran by a horrible company that won't listen to it's customers and won't even acknowledge there is anything wrong. I'm having a blast playing AA but I can't log out of the game because I'm afraid of being stuck in a queue for 3-4 hours to get back in. I decided yesterday I wanted to support Trion and subscribed but even that system is broken and theyArcheAge is a great game but it's being ran by a horrible company that won't listen to it's customers and won't even acknowledge there is anything wrong. I'm having a blast playing AA but I can't log out of the game because I'm afraid of being stuck in a queue for 3-4 hours to get back in. I decided yesterday I wanted to support Trion and subscribed but even that system is broken and they won't give me the subscription I paid for.

    The game in itself is quite fun. I'd give it an 8. But the cash grab Trion is doing, the amount of support they have given and info they have given about what they are doing to fix the issues have been nill. And that is enough to drop my rating to a 2.

    I CAN NOT recommend this game to anyone even though I like it.    … Expand
  42. Lyrocide
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    I would love to be able to review the gameplay for Archeage. However as I've never seen anything outside of the Queue and Disconnection Notices I am forced to write about that. The screenshots and forum speculations gave me high hopes for this game and I hope that should I ever manage to get in and get a chance to play the game it will live up to some of those expectations. Trion'sI would love to be able to review the gameplay for Archeage. However as I've never seen anything outside of the Queue and Disconnection Notices I am forced to write about that. The screenshots and forum speculations gave me high hopes for this game and I hope that should I ever manage to get in and get a chance to play the game it will live up to some of those expectations. Trion's handling of the server queue, patron status (from forum notes), and the reports of AFK players running in place leads me to believe that only a game of the most extraordinary nature could survive under the management provided by Trion as they scramble to collect as much cash as they can from "founders", subscribers to the patron status and micro-transactions.

    Maybe a game to check out in a month or two when the hordes have thinned down.    … Expand
  43. yourgamesucks
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    4 hour queue time even with patron status. Are you kidding me? The only way they would have been able to avoid this problem is by providing enough servers at the beginning of early access. Instead they provided us with 6 servers that filled up instantly. If you can even get on one of the servers all of the land is already taken. It will take a long time for this game to recover from4 hour queue time even with patron status. Are you kidding me? The only way they would have been able to avoid this problem is by providing enough servers at the beginning of early access. Instead they provided us with 6 servers that filled up instantly. If you can even get on one of the servers all of the land is already taken. It will take a long time for this game to recover from this botched launch.

    So much potential wasted.    … Expand
  44. 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
  45. wolfpax181
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    This could be the greatest game ever made. It could have the most responsive controls, the best FPS, the most intuitive UI.

    I have no idea, I can't make it past the queues. I've been in the queue since launch, with the exclusion of the down time for server maintenance (which is a reasonable thing for any MMO launch). Twice it's crashed when I was near 100. Once I lost my internet    This could be the greatest game ever made. It could have the most responsive controls, the best FPS, the most intuitive UI.

    I have no idea, I can't make it past the queues. I've been in the queue since launch, with the exclusion of the down time for server maintenance (which is a reasonable thing for any MMO launch). Twice it's crashed when I was near 100. Once I lost my internet connection and place in queue. Just earlier I gave up and uninstalled the game. They might sort this out in a few weeks, but I won't be bothering to come back.

    Actually, I have to give them at least a 1 for managing to launch better than Diablo 3. Not that that's setting the bar high or anything.    … Expand
  46. edubkn
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    This game is not even pay2win. It's slave2win. Either be a slave of the game and stay logged in 24/7 or face the terrible 2 hours minimum queues. It is a fun game though and would lure people if it had a decent publisher that could handle it. In South Korea it has 25 servers. Trion had 8 in NA in headstart. Thanks to them people are actually massively asking for refunds and running awayThis game is not even pay2win. It's slave2win. Either be a slave of the game and stay logged in 24/7 or face the terrible 2 hours minimum queues. It is a fun game though and would lure people if it had a decent publisher that could handle it. In South Korea it has 25 servers. Trion had 8 in NA in headstart. Thanks to them people are actually massively asking for refunds and running away from the game. It's really an achievement how they are able to screw it.… Expand
  47. Drewski
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    This game is terrible in the fact that they are essentially ROBBING people of what they paid for initially with patron status...Trion has single handily STOLEN potentially $1000 from people in game time just by having ques and not being prepared for the launch of this game. They provide a Measly 8 servers for NA and 7 for EU while Russia and Korea have 20 + servers devoted solely to AA.This game is terrible in the fact that they are essentially ROBBING people of what they paid for initially with patron status...Trion has single handily STOLEN potentially $1000 from people in game time just by having ques and not being prepared for the launch of this game. They provide a Measly 8 servers for NA and 7 for EU while Russia and Korea have 20 + servers devoted solely to AA. This game is a travesty and i doubt it will be around for very long.… Expand
  48. 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
  49. moarsi
    Sep 17, 2014
    1
    So I have been a founder of the game since Alpha, and I can attest that the game is a lot of fun with a guild or friends. Me and my guildies planned for weeks for headstart for land rush and come head start what do we get... almost NOBODY in our guild was able to log in due to disconnection issues or being shown a looping scene of the intro or worse of all, the hours long ques. End result,So I have been a founder of the game since Alpha, and I can attest that the game is a lot of fun with a guild or friends. Me and my guildies planned for weeks for headstart for land rush and come head start what do we get... almost NOBODY in our guild was able to log in due to disconnection issues or being shown a looping scene of the intro or worse of all, the hours long ques. End result, our entire strategy was flushed down the toilet, because by the time we got in the lucky few who were able to get in and the luck few who got multiple founder awards from the bug had grabbed almost all the good spots and we were left scavenging for leftovers. Naturally, the guild was unable to get our farms/houses together like we had planned. Apart from the land rush, the entire headstart has been a disaster owing to the hourly long ques and the constant disconnections only to be put back in hourly long ques. Extremely bad performance on Trions end and I will not be spending another dime on the game.… Expand
  50. 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.
  51. 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.
  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. Armory
    Sep 18, 2014
    1
    Trion screwed up. The game has turned into the community trying to screw over eachother because of 8-12 hour queue times. They don't have enough servers.. Players are getting banned/kicked into a 8-12hr queue for being too idle (Making dinner for 30min, check back every 5min or so to prevent getting kicked into 7hr queue.. Get booted by GMs into a 7hr queue anyway)
    This is not how you    Trion screwed up. The game has turned into the community trying to screw over eachother because of 8-12 hour queue times. They don't have enough servers.. Players are getting banned/kicked into a 8-12hr queue for being too idle (Making dinner for 30min, check back every 5min or so to prevent getting kicked into 7hr queue.. Get booted by GMs into a 7hr queue anyway)
    This is not how you launch an MMO. 75% of my time has been queue, 25% actual playing.    … Expand
  54. 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
  55. Giane
    Sep 19, 2014
    1
    Trion has failed at the game release is unacceptable that a company not size his server at minimum for the number of payment player. Moreover they could block the registration for the server that have many players for balancing the load
  56. DexTrraNox
    Sep 19, 2014
    1
    Negatives:
    ultimate sandbox mmo, what a joke, Rift rip-of combat system without rifts dynamic world , boring generic button smashing mmo witch u find everywhere, *itch questing non-stop, sand-boxing only where they tell you, and only after a ridiculous time effort, login ques over 4h just to get kicked after 20min if u afk, labor system is a joke just to force money out of ppl , pay2win    Negatives:
    ultimate sandbox mmo, what a joke, Rift rip-of combat system without rifts dynamic world , boring generic button smashing mmo witch u find everywhere, *itch questing non-stop, sand-boxing only where they tell you, and only after a ridiculous time effort, login ques over 4h just to get kicked after 20min if u afk, labor system is a joke just to force money out of ppl , pay2win all over it

    Positives:
    the games looks awesome, only in some locations i was in could use some little tweeks

    Thats it .. will wait 6-12 months .. and maybe i give it a try when they balance the game more for f2p    … Expand
  57. LucidRenegade
    Sep 19, 2014
    1
    This game is being called QueueAge for good reason. Trion can't get their &@*# together. Stay far away, at least for a few months until the F2P people give up.
  58. Jjdoglegg
    Sep 19, 2014
    1
    It's not a game, it's a queue simulator. 8 hours and still waiting and I have patron status. This is simply unacceptable. They should have made it subscription based.
  59. Hagbard55
    Sep 20, 2014
    1
    Unless you have 3-4 hours free time to wait to play this game, don't bother. Even with patron status, the queue time are unbearable, though I have heard that the f2p queues are shorter
  60. 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
  61. 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.
  62. ElJefeVador
    Sep 21, 2014
    1
    I'm a patron, and paid $50 for a founders pack. When I was able to play the game I enjoyed it, that was during beta and once during head start when I woke up at 4 in the morning and logged in. That time ended in a crash to desktop and then a queue of around 1700 people after I got back in. Since then I have tried multiple times to get into the game and each time failed to do so. I triedI'm a patron, and paid $50 for a founders pack. When I was able to play the game I enjoyed it, that was during beta and once during head start when I woke up at 4 in the morning and logged in. That time ended in a crash to desktop and then a queue of around 1700 people after I got back in. Since then I have tried multiple times to get into the game and each time failed to do so. I tried every day since head start and have waited hours in queue just to give up in frustration after waiting 3-4 hours and seeing 1500 people still ahead of me. I can't imagine how people who have subscribed to this game must feel. They have to feel even more cheated than I do. It's such a shame that Trion has utterly ruined this game and their reputation by such a horrible launch and screwing founders out of their money. They have done nothing to fix the queue issues that started during head start and have not responded to any of my customer service issues.

    My patron status means nothing, I obviously missed the land rush, and I'm unwilling to wait hours to play a game I paid for. Trion will never get another dime from me or waste any of my time. Never again.

    On top of it all, when I tried to ask a live agent on Trions website if I could get a refund I was placed in a 4 hour queue to talk to someone. I only tried this option because they have never responded to one of my tickets I've opened. Way to go with the queues Trion.

    I feel like Trion lied to me and hasn't delivered on what the product promised at all. They will fail with this game which is very unfortunate as it had so much promise.    … Expand
  63. isidore12
    Sep 22, 2014
    1
    AA sound so promising: total liberty due to the Sandbox model, CryEngine for great graphic experience, great PvP, etc.

    Then you start playing the game… You are Patron but there is not enough land, there are always 4 players rushing on any mining nodes, etc. If you finally get a farm, you can plant only 4 trees on it. Public farms are saturated. The game is full of AFKers, gold    AA sound so promising: total liberty due to the Sandbox model, CryEngine for great graphic experience, great PvP, etc.

    Then you start playing the game…

    You are Patron but there is not enough land, there are always 4 players rushing on any mining nodes, etc. If you finally get a farm, you can plant only 4 trees on it. Public farms are saturated.

    The game is full of AFKers, gold resellers, and bots/hackers.

    Old servers are fully crowed and controlled by few big guilds. New servers have mostly f2p and have only few guilds. As no guild means no end-game, these new servers are already called ghost servers.
    Farming is “I plant, I water, I pick-up 30 min later”. Do you want to spend your time like that?

    To maximize a skill, you need 50,000 LP. f2p players gain 5 LP every 5 minutes connected. You need to stay connected 70 days (24/7) to maximize 2 skills. For example, one mining node adds 10 LP, so you need to farm 5,000…

    Still want to play? Please be my guest.    … Expand
  64. djkorr
    Sep 22, 2014
    1
    Had to wait 7 hours to play this game. Why should this deserve more than 1 point?
    Yes, the devs had very good ideas and im very sorry that some idiots at Trion don't get their **** straight. Another example of: Good idea gets slaughtered by greed.

    Wait before you buy this game, because at the moment it's literally unplayable.
  65. Aeonbringer
    Sep 29, 2014
    1
    I'm not even going to talk about the launch problems. They are bad, but I believe they will be gone in time. I'm also not going to talk about how free players are hugely disadvantaged because that is the publisher's business model, and if they think free players should be only a little more than trial accounts, I am fine with that as this is the case for every subscription based game. AlsoI'm not even going to talk about the launch problems. They are bad, but I believe they will be gone in time. I'm also not going to talk about how free players are hugely disadvantaged because that is the publisher's business model, and if they think free players should be only a little more than trial accounts, I am fine with that as this is the case for every subscription based game. Also because there are worse things to talk about for this game.

    Short Term Problems:

    1. Bots, hackers everywhere and publisher does not seem competent to do anything about them. There are areas in the game infested with bots camping on spawn points, making certain quests impossible, or extremely difficult to complete. Having trade runs in the game is a main way to make gold. However, when you see hackers teleporting directly to the end of a trade run that might take you an hour to travel to, you just feel kind of screwed and any motivation to do trade runs are gone.

    2. Because of the above problem, there are also tons of gold sellers spamming the chat channel. Forget about reading anything in the chat channel, they are spammed full with gold selling ads and Trion does not do anything about them.

    Now, these could be short term problems if Trion managed to stop the hackers/botters, but could just be a long term problem because so far I do not see any improvements, only it getting worse.

    Long Term Problems:

    These are some what more worrying, because not only are they problems, they are problems the publishers/developer do not even think is a problem.

    1. You are encouraged to find ways to afk in the game 24/7 else be left out. The game requires a resource called labor points to do a lot of stuff, like crafting, gathering etc. Free players get 0 labor point regeneration offline, and paid players get 10 labor points online and 5 offline. So this basically encourages players to be online all the time, finding ways to get pass the afk system like running around in circles or attacking target practice. I am not a fan of leaving my computer on 24/7 running a game to not lose out. It does not help that Archeage is not sufficiently optimized and might cause overheating to your hardware. What is more worrying is that the publisher announced that the developer will not change this no matter what. This either means that Trion does not have much of a control over Archeage and totally helplessly dependent on their Korean developer, or they are just using it as an excuse. Both outcomes are equally worrying for the players.

    2. Land problems. Long story short, you don't get land on all but the newer servers if you did not prepurchase the game as a founder. All the land are grabbed during the few days of early access period of the game. There are people using cheap scarecrows to occupy huge pieces of lands during early access, and now selling each plot for 800-1k gold. To put in perspective, if you quest from 1 to 50, you will have less than total of 100 gold from questing. And if you change real money to in game old, 10 USD is equivalent to about 50 gold in game. Trion's response to this is that it's all part of the competition. But I do not see any competition when all the lands are already gone before the game is even released. Of course, it would not be a problem if you are willing to convert over 100 USD worth of real money to gold and buy it off some profiteering land hoarder.

    3. Grindy Korean MMO not adapted to western culture. Most western publishers, when bringing in a Korean MMO, will tweak the game some what to cater to the taste of western audiences. But it's either a design choice, or simply out of laziness, Trion just goes, screw all these. What you get is a hardcore grindy Korean MMO. Don't get me wrong, some people might like this kind of game, but it's just not really to my liking.

    Let me just give you an example. When you reached level 50, there is a quest reward weapon that is really good meant to start you off for end game. The problem is, there's this small area in the game with around 10 mob spawns, the mobs drop 8-9 different tokens depending on chance, and you need to collect 150 of one type of token for then weapon. Now, the twist? There are usually 50-100 players from both factions camping those 10 mob spawns. If you are lucky and is able to play at an ungodly hour of say 4am, you might be able to get by with just 5-6 hours of this grind. Otherwise, prepare for days of frustration.

    Conclusion

    This is not to say that this game does not have potential, that is what the 1 point is for. Things like naval combat and exploration is something I really like about this game. But it's overshadowed by all the other problems that simply makes the game frustrating.    … Expand
  66. 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
  67. nic871
    Nov 29, 2014
    1
    After nearly twenty years of playing MMOs, I regret to say Archeage is the worst I have ever played. While all games experience mishaps, bugs, and cheaters at some point in their life, AA is so full of these problems that the game is barely playable in a long-term sense.

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

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

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

    Like many others, I started out optimistic, then shifted to dealing and coping with the many many issues, and only too late accepted the truth. This game was a lie from the start, and the only smart move is to cut one's losses and move on as soon as you can.    … Expand
  68. 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.
  69. Ysa
    May 26, 2015
    1
    Have you read any of the other player (the only ones that count) reviews? Awesome, because they were all absolutely correct and i wont need to repeat a review about the myriad and epic failures of this p2w title. Have played MMOs for over 15 years, and am finding myself less and less loving to play them, but this one takes the cake. Archeage + f2p+p2w = hordes of execrable PoSHave you read any of the other player (the only ones that count) reviews? Awesome, because they were all absolutely correct and i wont need to repeat a review about the myriad and epic failures of this p2w title. Have played MMOs for over 15 years, and am finding myself less and less loving to play them, but this one takes the cake. Archeage + f2p+p2w = hordes of execrable PoS players,creating an environment so repellent i'd have a nicer time in prison, and this is on top of the other negatives. If you value the joy, laughter, friendship and sense of accomplishment derived through playing with other gamers online, this game isnt for you.… Expand
  70. 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
  71. Tiros
    May 18, 2019
    1
    Локализатор полный швах, всё упирается в донат и донат акции, постоянные лаги, вылеты
  72. Winters
    Aug 1, 2016
    0
    The game could have been one of the greats. It is beautiful and immersive. Those are the only good points that I can give.

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

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

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

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

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

    Not that this review really matters now, the server populations dropped off sharply after a few months, requiring server merges. I popped on a few days ago to see where the game was at. Dead, mostly.    … Expand
  73. 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.
  74. 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
  75. 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
  76. 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.
  77. sam712
    Dec 5, 2014
    0
    Game is good, but Trion publishing it is like taking a dump on a wedding cake. To fix this game, Trion must claim bankruptcy and its employees who condoned P2Y policies must kill themselves.
  78. 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
  79. 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
  80. gamer2012
    Oct 2, 2014
    0
    Stay away guys this game at its current rate is severly broken...I spent 15.00 already cancelled within a week my fastest cancellation of any MMO ever. Horrible support, NO land for patrons, BOTS everywhere, everyday the Hackers gain control of markets....a rating of 3.7 is generous should be more like 2
  81. amd117
    Sep 16, 2014
    0
    You can see the paid 10/10 reviews. Nice.

    I'll just address a few of the issues that this game has. First, the servers. Both the Korean and Russian had 20 or more different servers due to how land is handled. People can setup farms (paid players only) to grow materials or create crafting benches. Trion however, set up only five servers for each region. Five for NA, five for    You can see the paid 10/10 reviews. Nice.

    I'll just address a few of the issues that this game has.

    First, the servers. Both the Korean and Russian had 20 or more different servers due to how land is handled. People can setup farms (paid players only) to grow materials or create crafting benches. Trion however, set up only five servers for each region. Five for NA, five for Europe. This meant that there was a huge log in queue even before the game opened up to the F2P players. Patron players are supposed to be placed in a priority queue, but when the game has only five servers full of Patrons, there will be a queue. Many patrons sat in queue for upwards of 6 or even 12 hours, and were unable to play. Many managed to log in, and then get randomly disconnected as well.

    Second, was the patron item bundles, which included gold and gilda stars. Both are the in game currencies. Everyone was to receive one pack to their account, which contained items as well as gold. However, Trion somehow sent some people more than one pack. Due to massive currency inflation, the game's economy was ruined before the official launch date. There were people with multiple plots of land, which they were then reselling for more gold.

    Third was the issue of communication. People sent in support tickets as some patrons did not get all the items out of their packs, such as the title or gold and so on. Instead of someone reading their message, they were given a generic message stating that founders packs are being sent out and how to find them.

    Fourth, a fair bit of the content is still not localized or properly optimized. People with top of the line GPUs complain about textures not loading, and the game is prone to memory leaks regardless of what settings you run it at or the specs you have. Some content such as NPC dialog is still in Korean.

    Fifth, botting. Bots can do everything, they can gather resources, maintain a farm, and even do trade runs for gold. Spam bots are also rampant, because Trion relies on Hackshield (which is more than a decade old and doesn't stop much). The way a spambot works is that when you block one, you block the name. The spambot just needs to go and delete the character, which causes everyone who had the spambot blocked to unblock him, as that name is no longer claimed. All the spambot does now is remake a character with the exact same name, and repeat.

    How Trion handled all this.

    Trion launched the headstart on the 12th, and then that was pretty much it. Trion was absent the entire weekend from the 12th till the 15th. On the 15th, response was limited, and Trion resumed operation on the 16th, the day the headstart ended and the game launched.

    Patron's who paid for the headstart were ignored. The economy inflation was ignored. Communication has been scarce. And on the day of launch, three more servers were added to NA, bringing it up to a total of eight servers. Which did nothing for the patron queue, and those who were trying to play the game for free were out of lucky, some have been in queue for 12 hours.

    Server queues are still rampant. This is because they did not expect a need for so many servers, despite the Korean and Russian versions having 20+ servers.

    The economy is a wreck, those with gold bought up plots of land which they are reselling. Trion is not interested in addressing this issue.

    Communication is still lackluster. Trion will instead post happy pictures of their employees with junk food, but not respond to any complaints or issues people have.

    As for both optimization and localization, it's still 'in the works' Textures don't load, and dialog from NPCs is still in Korean, and there is no estimate of when it will be fixed. Dialog will probably come first, as Trion's staff has not changed anything in terms of optimization since the start of 2014.

    Finally botting. Trion will rely on hackshield which did nothing in both the alpha and beta. Reporting a bot however, is grounds for a ban as Trion feels that there can't be so many bots, especially in the chat or in resource rich areas. If a person reports too many bots, they can be banned.

    Thoughts

    Trion managed to take a decent F2P and make it pay to win. However they also managed to make it very tedious and tiresome to play the game, even for patron players, maintaining a farm or gathering feel very tedious. The economy being ruined on day one meant that trading and selling is not working. During both alpha and beta, the players informed Trion of issues, which were ignored.

    In Closing

    It's a bit of a sandbox, but the sand is more akin to kitty litter. Yes you can sculpt and make castles out of the 'sand', but it smells a bit funny and it's oddly clumping. You can play with it, but please don't eat any of it, and wash your hands after touching it. Then when you realize what you've done, you'll be filled with regret. Then you realize what those clumps are...    … Expand
  82. helm123
    Sep 19, 2014
    0
    Game looks interesting when you can get in after 3 to 4 hours of waiting. But if you work this just isn't possible to do. Wasted money on a product I can't even use and would love to be able to turn the clock back and stay far away from Archeage.

    Gold sellers flooding the chat and AFK toons riding their horses around in circles make the experience nothing short of a three ring circus    Game looks interesting when you can get in after 3 to 4 hours of waiting. But if you work this just isn't possible to do. Wasted money on a product I can't even use and would love to be able to turn the clock back and stay far away from Archeage.

    Gold sellers flooding the chat and AFK toons riding their horses around in circles make the experience nothing short of a three ring circus if you do get in.

    Save yourself the headache and look elsewhere for your MMO fix.    … Expand
  83. 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.
  84. Corvin
    Sep 21, 2014
    0
    I would review the issues surrounding the land rush in ArcheAge, but Brianna Royce of Massively already did so in an excellent article titled: Working As Intended: Lessons from the history of MMO housing.

    So I will simply state my own reason for not purchasing a pack along with an observation: As a gamer with no interest in being ganked while trying to craft and farm, I did not even    I would review the issues surrounding the land rush in ArcheAge, but Brianna Royce of Massively already did so in an excellent article titled: Working As Intended: Lessons from the history of MMO housing.

    So I will simply state my own reason for not purchasing a pack along with an observation: As a gamer with no interest in being ganked while trying to craft and farm, I did not even attempt to purchase a head start pack in order to claim a bit of the very scarce land that is located in the safer zones. I saved myself some money because I knew perfectly well that all of the land would be snapped up by those lucky few who successfully eluded the launch queues and that they would probably be gold farmers and large guilds speculating in hopes of future resales to everyone else. And since I had that figured out months ago, I refuse to believe Trion devs could not have predicted this fiasco and done something to stop it. Instead they allowed the game to launch knowing that housing could be cleverly placed by speculators in such a way as to hog up large swathes of land. Therefore I can only conclude that Trion devs allowed this to happen because Trion has a profit angle in it somewhere. Perhaps they're desperate. So desperate they're willing to crash and burn their reputation. Rift is dying, Defiance was stillborn, and to rub salt in the wounds, ArcheAge, which at least offers some unique features and created a lot of buzz, especially among the PvP crowd, isn't even Trion's baby.    … Expand
  85. duckteller
    Sep 27, 2014
    0
    It's tremendous to see that people are recognizing and now instinctively feel the need to revolt against those abusive and utterly unholy money worshiping business strategies. The Catholic Church excluded of course. As the magnate, the tycoon, the plutocrat would say, "All I Ask for Is an Unfair Advantage". Now you get to be a mini-oligarch in the virtual world, while the real world ones,It's tremendous to see that people are recognizing and now instinctively feel the need to revolt against those abusive and utterly unholy money worshiping business strategies. The Catholic Church excluded of course. As the magnate, the tycoon, the plutocrat would say, "All I Ask for Is an Unfair Advantage". Now you get to be a mini-oligarch in the virtual world, while the real world ones, occupying the space of reality, sip piña colada while playing with your emotions as expendable cheap toys. What a wonderful world they have created for you to live in, like a razor blade trick-or-treating.

    You need to wake up now. The imposed dreamy roll-play world, has become an unspeakable nightmare, where hellish imps unchecked run amok, doing the evil bedding of their masters, the most cunning of Mephistopheles.

    The question most be, can they carry their wealth to heaven? And if no, have these ivory tower robot humans had the epiphany, that heaven is in fact, just another oxymoron. That then gets projected into their own game world creation? Now reflecting their outlook upon the material world with the perfect knowledge that they're not begin watched. They're in fact certainly the same coup d'état-makers, the hostage-takes of reality, that invented the revengeful God in the very first place.

    Don't buy into their phony make-believe world.    … Expand
  86. Coasted
    Sep 16, 2014
    0
    This game has a big giant PAY TO WIN stamp all over it. This may work for some people but it certainly doesn't work for me. There is a whole host of problems, the game basically was not ready for launch. The developers also seem to have a bad habit of pulling the wool over the eyes of those who already spent money on the game. A lot of unhappy folks at the moment.
  87. nuclear
    Nov 5, 2014
    0
    This game could have been good. It is completely ruined by hackers and bots. Much of the land in the game has been claimed by hackers. An entire continent was opened on Mon. and within 10 minutes all available land was claimed by bots. Trion has done nothing to address the issue. Also, the game is very unstable and crashes constantly. It could be bad code, Hack Shield or that the game isThis game could have been good. It is completely ruined by hackers and bots. Much of the land in the game has been claimed by hackers. An entire continent was opened on Mon. and within 10 minutes all available land was claimed by bots. Trion has done nothing to address the issue. Also, the game is very unstable and crashes constantly. It could be bad code, Hack Shield or that the game is infested by hackers.… Expand
  88. xveganroxx
    Oct 28, 2014
    0
    Download it and play it. Seriously, you need to see it to believe how outrageous it is. This could have just been a straight-up World of Warcraft clone, but the developers really went the extra mile here: all crafting relies on a single premium currency called "labor." Not only do you need labor for crafting, but you need it for almost everything else - including simple things likeDownload it and play it. Seriously, you need to see it to believe how outrageous it is. This could have just been a straight-up World of Warcraft clone, but the developers really went the extra mile here: all crafting relies on a single premium currency called "labor." Not only do you need labor for crafting, but you need it for almost everything else - including simple things like looting. No, you don't have to pay for it - it trickles in at the paltry rate of 1 per minute of ingame time, which isn't anywhere near enough for any kind of crafting, or even for looting enemies. Paying the subscription does NOT fix this, it just doubles the pathetic rate you acquire "labor." One way people have found around this is autorunning into walls overnight so they have enough labor to do five minutes of crafting in the morning. Seriously, if you've got time you should try this just to see how free to play can be done so unbelievably wrong.… Expand
  89. Vtrgott
    Nov 19, 2014
    0
    Bad game, dated combat system, no endgame content at all, dungeons are simplistic and buged, no raids, arena 1x1 totaly unbalanced, 5x5 too, cant even call that a battlegound.

    Typical asian grinding and RNG, dont waste your time.
  90. Revyn
    Sep 11, 2015
    0
    The publisher completely train-wrecked the game into a wall of greed. One of the most innovative games ever made went to **** because of Trion, by far the worst publisher I have seen. I didn't know you could **** up as badly as EA without any hesitation.

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

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

    The list gets bigger and bigger but I'm too lazy to list it all.
    Best MMO, worst publisher. Such a shame.    … Expand
  91. damaged
    Sep 17, 2014
    0
    Trion are complete scammers, run, don't walk away from this game. They told patrons they'd get queue priority, then removed the queue indicators (which tell you if you are a patron or not) and lumped everyone in the same que, then they released better packages for post-supported than they had for founders and trailblazers, essentially telling those who supported them pre-launch to go ****Trion are complete scammers, run, don't walk away from this game. They told patrons they'd get queue priority, then removed the queue indicators (which tell you if you are a patron or not) and lumped everyone in the same que, then they released better packages for post-supported than they had for founders and trailblazers, essentially telling those who supported them pre-launch to go **** themselves. And I won't even get into the fact they did not deliver patron items to patrons a,d gave F2P players the packages meant for patrons, then instead of giving patron the 30, 60 or 90 days, after the headstart, they actually deducted the headsteart days (which were mostly unplayable) from their subscription time. Dear Trion, go **** yourself.… Expand
  92. berkay1122
    Sep 19, 2014
    0
    stupid publsiher trion ruined this game so bad. its just freaking stupid. fcking brainless trion fck you fck you fck youu for every mistake you made fck uuuuuuu
  93. wtfux2
    Sep 28, 2014
    0
    Extremely horrible godly long epic wait times. ArcheAge literally has the worse wait times in the history of gaming. Every server has a queue of 1000+(1-2 hours wait time) and to add to the problem, when the servers have a queue too long, it won't even show up as a selectable server! This means that you have to wait even longer to get your server so you can play your character. On top ofExtremely horrible godly long epic wait times. ArcheAge literally has the worse wait times in the history of gaming. Every server has a queue of 1000+(1-2 hours wait time) and to add to the problem, when the servers have a queue too long, it won't even show up as a selectable server! This means that you have to wait even longer to get your server so you can play your character. On top of that, the servers keep crashing constantly so you are always getting kicked out and guess what? You get to start at the back of the line again and it will be another 5 hours before you can get in.… Expand
  94. Abelli
    Nov 16, 2014
    0
    This is a game that would be pretty fun if it weren't a F2P game run by Trion. They've seemingly made every effort to screw it up with their cash shop making it P2W amongst other things. They do not test their updates and they roll out broken. The game is easy to hack so there is no sense of it ever being legitimately competitive. F2P means every public chat channel is filled withThis is a game that would be pretty fun if it weren't a F2P game run by Trion. They've seemingly made every effort to screw it up with their cash shop making it P2W amongst other things. They do not test their updates and they roll out broken. The game is easy to hack so there is no sense of it ever being legitimately competitive. F2P means every public chat channel is filled with spam and they might as well not have them. The game also revolves around owning land which you have to sub to the game to own and after doing so you'll find out there is none left. But I suspect that is going to not be a problem as people stop playing.

    Their customer support is trash, I waited about 2 weeks for them to reply to my ticket where they said they hadn't looked into it yet and if i didn't reply to it that they'd just close the ticket and consider it solved. I was on vacation so they automatically closed it then when I reopened it they said oh that issue is too old for us to handle. If you do play this game and intend to spend money on it I highly recommend buying money from the gold sellers because they seem to be better people which is something I never imagined I'd say.    … Expand
  95. skarr
    Nov 1, 2014
    0
    No game will make you feel it is a PAY2WIN as Archeage does. In fact, no game make you grind so much for so little and on top of it pay real money to progress. An utter insult to gamers!
  96. 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.
  97. TheChiaroscuris
    Sep 20, 2014
    0
    I bought the Founder's Pack about two months before launch, to play in the Alpha and Beta stages. Never did get to play more than 10 or so minutes before I would be randomly disconnected.

    The actual launch has been even worse. Can only sit in que for an hour or two, finally get logged in, and then get disconnected almost immediately. I don't recommend buying this game. Atleast not    I bought the Founder's Pack about two months before launch, to play in the Alpha and Beta stages. Never did get to play more than 10 or so minutes before I would be randomly disconnected.

    The actual launch has been even worse. Can only sit in que for an hour or two, finally get logged in, and then get disconnected almost immediately.

    I don't recommend buying this game. Atleast not until they address the lack servers and the game's instability. It's just a waste of money at this point.    … Expand
  98. Fulghn
    Jan 14, 2015
    0
    The recent trend in MMORPGs has been games with enormous potential floundering due to poor implementation and features falling far short of expectations. XLGames and Trion has turned that on it's head with ArcheAge as a well done game overflowing with engaging features and gameplay floundering due to frustrating and even unethical monitization of the content, abysmal customer support andThe recent trend in MMORPGs has been games with enormous potential floundering due to poor implementation and features falling far short of expectations. XLGames and Trion has turned that on it's head with ArcheAge as a well done game overflowing with engaging features and gameplay floundering due to frustrating and even unethical monitization of the content, abysmal customer support and communication, and totally inept handling of goldselling spam and rampent cheating and exploiting.

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

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

    The only thing that will likely save this game is a total reboot as done for FFXIV. Square Enix had that kind of commitment and courage, does Trion? I doubt it. Trion will likely follow in the footsteps of Funcom soon to exit the MMORPG development field for good.    … Expand
  99. AmandaRR
    Sep 16, 2014
    0
    The only thing I can say about this game is wasted potential, so much wasted potential.

    It took the Diablo 3 route, the bigger the credit card, the bigger the advantage. Not for me. Good look at the forums, it's nothing but a stream of negativity.
  100. GamezWarrior
    Dec 23, 2014
    0
    To sum Archeage up in a few sentences, there were naysayers back before the game even launched that predicted a few things. It really wasn't a prediction as what's happened was a sheer given..

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

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

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

    If there was a game of the century to avoid, folks, it's this one. Do not touch this one with a 10 ft pole. If you know people playing it (like I did), do everything in your power to get them to quit (like I did).    … Expand
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80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

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