ArcheAge

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3.7

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  1. CoRsOXY
    Sep 25, 2014
    9
    Really cool game, slow publisher. Trion Worlds, Inc. was not prepared for the launch of this game at all. Really low queues for practically two weeks, solutions for issues with Patron status (Payment method) delays 3 entirely days, and when they fix them, there's no refund of wasted days. Maybe they are good, but i have not this impression.
  2. 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.
  3. snooze321
    Sep 25, 2014
    5
    The localisation job Trion did is below average, not awful but still. There are still NPC's rattling off Korean, and English voice acting is at a minimum. The quest text dialogue is good but highlights the lack of voice acting as every quest is given in a cutscene like process while zooming in on the quest givers face while he acts out his text in silence.

    The majority of cutscenes are    The localisation job Trion did is below average, not awful but still. There are still NPC's rattling off Korean, and English voice acting is at a minimum. The quest text dialogue is good but highlights the lack of voice acting as every quest is given in a cutscene like process while zooming in on the quest givers face while he acts out his text in silence.

    The majority of cutscenes are narrated by a woman trying to imitate an upper class British accent but not quite getting there, combined with her breathing out the lines like an asthmatic, removes any emotion or
    weight from cutscenes. The naming scheme is also ridiculous with main story elements getting labels such as Aranzeb and Dahuta (pronounced da hoota), which when narrated has me laughing at most scenes. Which is a shame because the story itself is alright.

    Basically Trion had two jobs for a game that has already been created and released; fiddle around with the game mechanics to suit their micro transactions and translate the game for a western audience. I can't comment on firsthand experience but judging from other reviews they have failed to foster a healthy f2p environment where people are happy to pay for skins and other items that didn't effect gameplay but rather the amount of time invested. Judging by the $150 founder packs that were up for offer they have instead decided to go down the pay to win route in an attempt to get as much money as possible.

    In short it is still possible to enjoy Archeage, as a free player, despite it's below average localisation and blatant monetisation. Just don't encourage bad business practices by financially supporting Trion, go into the game with lowered expectations, and you'll still have a good amount of fun.    … Expand
  4. NanaelSoloer
    Sep 24, 2014
    5
    The first days allways have issues, on this case, i agree that it was a disaster, but Trion was able to solve the queue problems, reduced the lag, and is fixing every issue that is reported to them. For exemple, today many players started spamming the chat with bots, they allready fixed the issue, yesterday there was people running in circles while AFK to not be kicked, they allreadyThe first days allways have issues, on this case, i agree that it was a disaster, but Trion was able to solve the queue problems, reduced the lag, and is fixing every issue that is reported to them. For exemple, today many players started spamming the chat with bots, they allready fixed the issue, yesterday there was people running in circles while AFK to not be kicked, they allready fixed, patron not arrived on the last days? Most of the players allready received, and if u enter in contact with a GM in-chat or on the support, u'll receive that. Patrons are not P2W, the Apex system is balanced, any player can bought it easy if economize his Money while doing the quests to lvl up. The auction house is ACESSIBLE FOREVER after u buy it, and it's not that expansive. Public farms still full, but if u search well, u can find spots to plant your trees. And if u need more space, use the farm of a friend, he can invite u to his Family and u'll be able to plant there. The game is good, funny, and Trion is trying to solve all issues as soon as possible. U don't need to spend anything, just test it ;) u'll have a lot of fun.… Expand
  5. alowercasename
    Sep 24, 2014
    0
    Pay to win? I think not, Pay to queue. Welcome to FartAge, where you get banned while in queue for supposed goldselling even when you can't even play the game. Now that i'm not gonna play FartAge, like many other thousands, should we be worried all of your queuers are going to queue up all other games? or will you finally realize the amount of servers and client slots you provided was farPay to win? I think not, Pay to queue. Welcome to FartAge, where you get banned while in queue for supposed goldselling even when you can't even play the game. Now that i'm not gonna play FartAge, like many other thousands, should we be worried all of your queuers are going to queue up all other games? or will you finally realize the amount of servers and client slots you provided was far below the minimum you had to provide to kick off your **** game launch, that btw had an emergency maintenance after like the first release day, thanks for that, I saved myself the trouble by not downloading the 28 GB that apparently represents this **** people dare to call ArcheAge.
    More like ArcheAged, the game is dead before your queue ends. I wonder how many hours the devs will be roaming the streets to be able to pay back all the founder packs that were so disgustingly overpriced.
    I can pay less for runescape and have the same fun, dont even have to download it.
    Anyway enough about decaying fetuses, Crash the grey is a great guy and you should call him at night when he's sleeping or playing with his mandingo 06whatever123, hi crash
    What am i even doing here    … Expand
  6. zombiechan
    Sep 24, 2014
    6
    It's an interesting game, I love the class system. I kept on making new characters to try out different combinations. The combat system though is quite boring, even with the combo setup, it's rather dull. Tab targeting is too old of a concept.

    The housing in this game is more annoying than it is fun. I prefer the WildStar housing were you could do a lot more with it and it was instanced    It's an interesting game, I love the class system. I kept on making new characters to try out different combinations. The combat system though is quite boring, even with the combo setup, it's rather dull. Tab targeting is too old of a concept.

    The housing in this game is more annoying than it is fun. I prefer the WildStar housing were you could do a lot more with it and it was instanced off though I do get what ArcheAge is going for with having a sandbox. My main problem with sandbox MMOs is always the same. People abuse the sandbox system ruining the fun for people.

    Overall ArcheAge is a fun game to try out for a while, it's pretty, and you can spend hours just exploring. But it's not an MMO I'll stick around to see what max level is like, at least not for now.    … Expand
  7. Phored
    Sep 24, 2014
    0
    Can't give a fair review since I spent most of the time in a queue or disconnecting.

    As far as I've seen it's the same as other MMOs even worst than others that I've played.

    Voting 0 for the frustration and hoping that other MMOs that might come in the future don't make the same mistakes.
  8. MarohDFC
    Sep 24, 2014
    9
    The game is stunning and a fresh breath of air in the MMO genre. It offers freedom that no other mmo outside of Eve or Ultima Online has. The class system is wide open. The crafting and trading in this game is what inspires the awesome PVP. The player ran economy goes far beyond what a simple auction house does in every other MMO.

    With all that said, the server stability and queue times    The game is stunning and a fresh breath of air in the MMO genre. It offers freedom that no other mmo outside of Eve or Ultima Online has. The class system is wide open. The crafting and trading in this game is what inspires the awesome PVP. The player ran economy goes far beyond what a simple auction house does in every other MMO.

    With all that said, the server stability and queue times have been an issue for many. I suspect as the new shiny title fades, the queues will also drop so that's really not an issue for me.    … Expand
  9. Aerisa
    Sep 24, 2014
    10
    A beautiful game all round, Archeage is an MMORPG that anyone can enjoy.

    The game has so much to draw you in and keep you playing and playing and well, playing!.. Housing and Farming, a truly in depth and immersible trading system, an intelligent well thought out and sophisticated (yet surprisingly simple to understand) PVP system with Pirates; Crime Points, Jails, separate continents,    A beautiful game all round, Archeage is an MMORPG that anyone can enjoy.

    The game has so much to draw you in and keep you playing and playing and well, playing!.. Housing and Farming, a truly in depth and immersible trading system, an intelligent well thought out and sophisticated (yet surprisingly simple to understand) PVP system with Pirates; Crime Points, Jails, separate continents, war zones, trade routes, treasures and more. Crafting, different currency's, flying, all sorts of different mounts and pets, an amazing selection of different live stock, trees and farming goods, ships of all sorts and so so much more!

    This game is easy to pick up, but very hard to master! Making it something to work for and enjoy along the way. One thing I have loved about this game is that it gives you so many options to choose your path and create your way... Whether that be through trade routes, renting or selling land, being a pirate, PVP, stealing or committing crime, questing, grinding, crafting, stealthy missions or simply taking on adventure you can become somewhat unique.

    I guarantee after finishing your early quests and becoming familiar with how the game works you will enjoy yourself for countless hours.

    I must note though, this game is definitely more enjoyable with friends and I recommend gathering up as many as possible, whether they are new to MMOs or not!    … Expand
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  12. MrBuckie
    Sep 23, 2014
    5
    This game had potential, but turned out to be quite bad in the end.

    This game doesn't seem to be P2W .Subscription just makes things quite a bit faster, and allows you to own property. It's acceptable to me. Although, the game has some serious design flaws, regarding to PvP. One example is you can't help your allies if they're being attacked at enemy territory, all you can do is watch    This game had potential, but turned out to be quite bad in the end.

    This game doesn't seem to be P2W .Subscription just makes things quite a bit faster, and allows you to own property. It's acceptable to me.
    Although, the game has some serious design flaws, regarding to PvP. One example is you can't help your allies if they're being attacked at enemy territory, all you can do is watch your friendlie die, how awesome and well designed is that!
    Labor point gain and mount experience gain is poorly designed as well, it encourages player to be afk in game = more queues for f2p and some patrons.
    Questing in this game is just plain boring, kill x amount of y, or obtain 5x of y items. And all the quests are like that, doesn't really keep me interested.
    Dungeons aren't really difficult either, and most of them are just poorly done.
    It's a korean game and seems to be rushed a bit too, would I recommend this game to others? Not anymore.
    Did I mention problem with bots? Bots are flooding the chat with spam, and there are teleporting bots killing mobs& gathering ore, + trading.
    Overall the quality of game is poor, or at least questionable.

    Let's talk about some positive things for a change then!
    The housing and farming was quite fun experience, farming is rewarding and worthwhile to do, and courages you to do some crafting or trading. Only bad thing about the housing spots are limited, even though there's free space.
    Criminal system in this game is something you don't see in any other mmo. At least for my knowledge. You can plunder friendly people in neutral locations, or steal friendly crops in unprotected & illegal farms. If you get enough criminal points, you get sent to jail after you die by a player, and can be judged by other players.
    Vehicles are awesome, getting your first boat with a harpoon was amazing, and you can do lots of things with it. There are lots of pets too, mounts to battle bets. Also pets and mounts have different abilities, so mounts aren't the same, so they offer you variety and that's a really good thing.
    Also you get gliders which helps getting to certain areas and exploring. -Although exploring in this game doesn't seem to be as rewarding.

    Positive things: Housing, crafting, farming, criminal system and mounts/vehicles.
    Negative things: Overall quality is bad, or at least questionable. PvP, design flaws, questing, horrible dungeons.

    In a nutshell, this game isn't that great, and would I recommend it to friends? No.
    Korean games, not even once.    … Expand
  13. k0to
    Sep 23, 2014
    5
    While the game is entertaining and satisfying when it works as intended, its greatly overshadowed by its frustrations and inefficiencies. A list of gripes are, no land available as one guy with 4 or 6 accounts has grabbed land at the very start of the game release is is extorting the player base to pay for unfinished houses (not complete houses mind you) or zones and having thisWhile the game is entertaining and satisfying when it works as intended, its greatly overshadowed by its frustrations and inefficiencies. A list of gripes are, no land available as one guy with 4 or 6 accounts has grabbed land at the very start of the game release is is extorting the player base to pay for unfinished houses (not complete houses mind you) or zones and having this multiplied by 10 fold makes for inefficient land hogging and extortion. Land which is probably the main reason why people purchase patron status have to wait 1-3 weeks which is half a month to even consider the prospect of owning property should they find that someone has stopped paying tax; which makes for an unhappy customer. Next up is the game's poor optimization, when you have tons of people fighting in one area especially in the ocean the game gets extremely laggy with invisible characters spawning 20 seconds too late only to find yourself dead and unable to control your character because of it with frame rates jumping from 4 to 40 at random even with a decently powerful GPU. Queue times still seem to plague the game, especially for free players (as if they haven't had it bad enough with no labor points to do anything) wait from 3 - 6 hours which eliminates the prospect of new players wanting to subscribe as it just leaves a bad taste in the player's mouth knowing that 70% of the game's features are locked out and you can't try them unless you take the risk and shell out the money to find out there is not land available. And lastly the game's focus is on interaction with fellow players, trading, and fighting which is no where near complete. Wanna hire a farmhand to pick your crops? He just made off with both your money and your plants. Wanna hire someone to convert your logs into chopped lumber? He just made off with your lumber. The trade function has not been tweaked to allow players to trade goods and have them trade back the refined product and yet another game *cough (WoW) allows you to trade an item for enchant without him swiping it away. Now is it a horrible game? No, no it is not however the lack of "love" and effort from the devs to polish the game has made the game much more frustrating than it has to be. One feature that could ease the pain of patrons with no land would probably be the guarantee of ONE house plot, as houses do not effect the market demand / goods in fluctuation (and mainly so we have a roof over our heads as we cry about how we do not have farmland) Come back in about few months and check back with the community, otherwise please do not god forbid try the game with patron or free otherwise.… Expand
  14. AceCooper
    Sep 23, 2014
    0
    The game took a 180 degree turn for the worse, they completely turned the game P2W and absolutely scammed all the founders money. I'd stay away as far as possible from this garbage.
  15. rasalhead
    Sep 23, 2014
    0
    Disregard queue timers. Trion has shown no ability to handle this game, they milked so much money off the Alpha of the game, which is pretty much what everyone is playing on. All the glitches are there.

    Bots are common and spam is everywhere. There is no point of even trying to gather resources to craft. You want to report a bot? It costs 25 labor (labor is used for everything,    Disregard queue timers. Trion has shown no ability to handle this game, they milked so much money off the Alpha of the game, which is pretty much what everyone is playing on. All the glitches are there.

    Bots are common and spam is everywhere. There is no point of even trying to gather resources to craft. You want to report a bot? It costs 25 labor (labor is used for everything, opening quest rewards, gathering resources and so on), which takes you 25 minutes to get. So yea, enjoy running out of labor.

    I don't get these 10/10 reviews. How can you say a game is perfect when it has so many texture issues or memory leaks and causes BSOD? It's so poorly done, you can tell it's a cash grab and they are buying reviews left and right.    … Expand
  16. Xhaero
    Sep 23, 2014
    0
    TRION doesnt give a **** for its players, they should change the name to QueueAge, 12 hours waiting to play, get in, get kicked by server, wait another 12 h
  17. Lightbringer11
    Sep 23, 2014
    0
    A rushed product that Trion is buying 10/10 reviews for. Textures don't load, memory leaks, BSODs and they are giving 10/10 reviews to it? You can tell they are fake.

    Gameplay is stale, and pay2win. The developer is handling it so poorly when they made millions off Alpha and Beta, then they act like they can't afford another server. NA/EU launched with 5 servers each, South Korea /    A rushed product that Trion is buying 10/10 reviews for. Textures don't load, memory leaks, BSODs and they are giving 10/10 reviews to it? You can tell they are fake.

    Gameplay is stale, and pay2win. The developer is handling it so poorly when they made millions off Alpha and Beta, then they act like they can't afford another server. NA/EU launched with 5 servers each, South Korea / Russia launched with 20+ servers each. Brilliant.    … Expand
  18. ZeCritic
    Sep 23, 2014
    0
    If you like waiting, more waiting, and yet some to play a game, then this game is for you!

    - You get to wait to go to the character selection screen and wait in a queue of up to 5000. Don't hold your breath as you will stay waiting for several hours. (Hopefully you don't get disconnected in the process of waiting as is regularly the case). - You try to get a quest done only to find    If you like waiting, more waiting, and yet some to play a game, then this game is for you!

    - You get to wait to go to the character selection screen and wait in a queue of up to 5000. Don't hold your breath as you will stay waiting for several hours. (Hopefully you don't get disconnected in the process of waiting as is regularly the case).

    - You try to get a quest done only to find 20 other players like you doing the same quest trying to kill one of the 5 or so mobs available in the area. First player lucky enough to 'tag' the mob gets the quest done.

    - Playing this game as a free player is just ridiculous. Just to mention some of the 'limitations': you can't list an item on broker, you can't buy land on which to farm which is what this game seemingly revolves around, a serious cut on labor points (needed to do all sorts of things such as crafting or gathering) and many, many more.

    - You try waiting for news from the developers working on a fix only to get a poor excuse ("We want to be open with everyone: Yes this is a DDoS, and yes we're all over it. Please stay tuned for updates".)

    Don't take my suggestion and ignore this review. Go try the game yourself and have all the fun I coudn't get.

    (Disclaimer: I only managed to log twice, once during Beta and once after release each time waiting for a couple of hours to get in. Tried later on after launch with no luck - 5k queue and disconnect as soon as I reached 2k or something place in the queue which happened more than once.)    … Expand
  19. HELLruler
    Sep 22, 2014
    3
    Could be an awesome game, with the best class system (combine 3 archetypes whenever you want). But labor point system forces players to afk, making the servers full and queues unbearable
  20. Neftyn
    Sep 22, 2014
    10
    Y'all need to stop complaining. The game has been released for a week, yes, there is a high queue on the mots popular servers. Trion is adding new servers, upgrading capacity, working on resolving issues every day. The gaming community now a days is too entitled and stupid to understand that queues is hard to get around. The game is very polished, and i love to play it. You feel free.Y'all need to stop complaining. The game has been released for a week, yes, there is a high queue on the mots popular servers. Trion is adding new servers, upgrading capacity, working on resolving issues every day. The gaming community now a days is too entitled and stupid to understand that queues is hard to get around. The game is very polished, and i love to play it. You feel free. Unlike other games. You can do whatever you want, dont wanna quest? Go climb the highest mountain, and glide down it! Go craft a boat and defeat the kraken. But, for a boat, you need tree. You dont have a farm? Go plant some and hide them on the mountains, but be careful! There are pirates everywhere, and yes. They can steal your trees, but if they get caught, they get in court. This game is awesome! And in no way Pay2Win, you can get everything in-game as you can in the cash shop, even more in-game. The Cash shop is mainly for cosmetics, and then there's a few things you can exchange in game gold to cash shop, and buy Patron and APEX!

    Overall a 10/10, great game, great atmosphere, polished. Would definitely recommend it! ;')    … Expand
  21. jdotjdot7
    Sep 22, 2014
    0
    So I've reviewed this before, but I'll be posting this to change it and reiterate the point of my first review.

    This is literally P2P right now, if you do not pay money you won't get placed into the priority queue and good freaking luck getting into the game. Combine this with what others are saying and it becomes a game that you spend 12+ hours to get into to be ganked by higher level    So I've reviewed this before, but I'll be posting this to change it and reiterate the point of my first review.

    This is literally P2P right now, if you do not pay money you won't get placed into the priority queue and good freaking luck getting into the game. Combine this with what others are saying and it becomes a game that you spend 12+ hours to get into to be ganked by higher level players and do poorly compared to people who have paid money. Oh wait, even if you wait 12 hours, GOOD LUCK GETTING IN!

    That's right, yesterday I just said, screw it, and waited 13 hours for a queue I started at 8:00 in the morning. I watched as the queue ticked down 3...2...1.......... "The gods have disconnected you." And that was the moment I decided this game didn't even deserve a second chance.    … Expand
  22. Paladine
    Sep 22, 2014
    0
    Trion used misleading and deceptive practices to grab millions from people with founders packs and then failed to deliver anything that was promised. instead they have delivered queues - 6+ hour long queues and a bot playground. They are facing a potential class action lawsuit and I would recommend anyone who was thinking about playing this game, to seriously reconsider.
  23. retok
    Sep 22, 2014
    0
    This Game is a Joke. Trion Had the figures and still manged to screw this up. A Four day headstart period was given to founders who paid between $50-150 and this consisted mainly of sitting in queues for anywhere from an hour to six hours. Receiving numerous complaints from the community about the inadequate amount of servers how do they respond.... By Opening the Game to F2P players andThis Game is a Joke. Trion Had the figures and still manged to screw this up. A Four day headstart period was given to founders who paid between $50-150 and this consisted mainly of sitting in queues for anywhere from an hour to six hours. Receiving numerous complaints from the community about the inadequate amount of servers how do they respond.... By Opening the Game to F2P players and adding two more servers. Needless to say queue times became even worse and as a premium player, I couldn't even get in the game to play it. It's an absolute joke to expect someone to wait in a queue for more hours than they will play for a game that they paid for. The graphics are also outdated by four years and when maxed out some objects such as enemy ships dont render in until you're essentialy touching them. I've never been so disatisfied with a game in my life, and i've purchased some pretty medicore games, biggest waste of money ever I wouldn't reccomend this to anyone.… Expand
  24. 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.
  25. Xix
    Sep 22, 2014
    8
    the game is excellent. only thing is the ridiculous queues. the people which come here to give such horrible reviews are just mad because they cant get on when they want to because of this(both patrons and free to players). the thing is devs realize their mistake and are actively updating the community via the forums and trying to resolve this. people tend to over-react about P2W. pay tothe game is excellent. only thing is the ridiculous queues. the people which come here to give such horrible reviews are just mad because they cant get on when they want to because of this(both patrons and free to players). the thing is devs realize their mistake and are actively updating the community via the forums and trying to resolve this. people tend to over-react about P2W. pay to win is a noticeable problem but time and effort actually can circumvent this(buying apex from other players/etc).… Expand
  26. Elderstealth
    Sep 22, 2014
    3
    The graphics in this game are current MMO Gen high quality. The combat, class system and skill trees are a lot of fun and very adaptable, some aspects of this look copied off Rift (a good game from Trion)

    This game is fantastic for griefers; goonswarm will love it.
    Most will find the mechanics very annoying and the justice system in the game is a joke.
  27. 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
  28. Joy-Energiser
    Sep 21, 2014
    9
    This is my first sandbox MMO.I have been playing subscription based MMO’s my entire life mostly theme parks, and I have to say I am very impressed with this game.The whole land ownership and farm system has been a real hook, I am farming my little heart out and planning my next entrepreneurial endeavour and farm expansions.

    The actual game looks great but at times also seems to lack    This is my first sandbox MMO.I have been playing subscription based MMO’s my entire life mostly theme parks, and I have to say I am very impressed with this game.The whole land ownership and farm system has been a real hook, I am farming my little heart out and planning my next entrepreneurial endeavour and farm expansions.

    The actual game looks great but at times also seems to lack detail. The levelling is theme park-ish and the first 20 levels is kind of like a tutorial introducing you to the mechanics of the game.

    To be honest the levelling is to lvl 30 is quite tedious but the game really opens up after that.The patron system is how the game is meant to be played(15$ a month sub)
    It allows land ownership, labour point regen the way it’s meant to be (Labour points are used in basically every part of the game, especially crafting) and most importantly you don’t share queue times with Free-to-Players ,enabling you to log on immediately.

    From a paying person standpoint, this is a great game, from a non paying standpoint, you won’t get everything out this game, and why should you.Cheapskates need not apply here.    … Expand
  29. pmant
    Sep 21, 2014
    9
    Actually I created this account just to make a review for this game after watching other people criticizing queues. Awfull thing. The thing I hate the most. Tecnical stuff. bad launch thinking of queues. But the game is more than this. Happy eastern designed game, that you love or hate. Amazing sandbox where you can do almost anything. I mean it is player driven to such extend (with theActually I created this account just to make a review for this game after watching other people criticizing queues. Awfull thing. The thing I hate the most. Tecnical stuff. bad launch thinking of queues. But the game is more than this. Happy eastern designed game, that you love or hate. Amazing sandbox where you can do almost anything. I mean it is player driven to such extend (with the goods and bads that come along) that you can become whatever you want. Graphics: nice, music: too eastern for my taste. Quests : quite many in the begining. features : very good (overachieving quests, early birds, climbing, physics, watery effects, quite deep skill system, deep and complex professions system, even rp elements with linguistics etc.). Overall quite nice game.. Trion, fix queues and you have found golden goose. Do not, and face the rath of score = 0 , from all the angry users queing up for hours...… Expand
  30. wer785
    Sep 21, 2014
    0
    Badly optimized game and the game can hardly sync with the server causing loading problem. But the worst of all the paid customer are getting no help from publisher. Customer support is non exist and some game bugs that hasn't been solve since alpha test.
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Awards & Rankings

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#74 Best PC Game of 2014
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#14 Most Discussed PC Game of 2014
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#22 Most Shared PC Game of 2014

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Metascore
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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