ArcheAge

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3.7

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

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

    Nothing to see here (if you've ever played any post-WoW MMO before). Really....nothing.    … Expand
  2. Kreirravia
    Oct 16, 2014
    0
    While outwardly a beautiful, complex game Archeage hides a number of un-scalable issues. If you can get past the fact that this game is a pay2win pvp centric gank feist there is also the issue of housing. One of Archeage's biggest features is the housing and for lack of a better term the developers showed outright incompetence in this area. Not only are the housing areas poorly done butWhile outwardly a beautiful, complex game Archeage hides a number of un-scalable issues. If you can get past the fact that this game is a pay2win pvp centric gank feist there is also the issue of housing. One of Archeage's biggest features is the housing and for lack of a better term the developers showed outright incompetence in this area. Not only are the housing areas poorly done but the manner in which players may place them allows them to block an entire segment of land from use by other players. Some use this to give them the ability to place larger buildings down the track while others so that they can simply be an **** to others.

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

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

    In conclusion, ArcheAge in its current state is a potentially great MMO being ruined by the poor, and outright questionable (at times) decisions of the developers in charge. At its current state I can't even remotely recommend anyone start playing this game unless a new server comes up and your a hacker (which is another issue with this game that the developers seem keen to ignore).    … Expand
  3. blumpy
    Oct 21, 2014
    0
    I will change my review when trion decides to fix this game. The daily 5 hours downtime's are just killing it. I don't know why I bought 150 founder pack and then get treated like a f2p person lol. Or paying a sub monthly just doesn't make any sense yet. Trion get your bs in order.
  4. ahzqdfrbi
    Nov 4, 2014
    0
    The game is about 2 things: farming and PvP. The farming is great, way better than a farming app game, provided you can find land. All available land for placing your farm was grabbed up during the first day of the headstart, leaving nothing but scraps for the majority of players. Even now that they have opened up the new continent, Auroria, all the land is grabbed up by those few who wereThe game is about 2 things: farming and PvP. The farming is great, way better than a farming app game, provided you can find land. All available land for placing your farm was grabbed up during the first day of the headstart, leaving nothing but scraps for the majority of players. Even now that they have opened up the new continent, Auroria, all the land is grabbed up by those few who were able to get past the login issues. No land means no farming. Oh, and prepare to get ganked a bunch while trying to farm, as most areas aren't safe zones. PvP and farming don't mix.

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

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

    This game really only caters to the worst kind of PvPers. And you can't get any land to place your farms. Very poorly done.    … Expand
  5. LeroyJ
    Nov 7, 2014
    0
    Bots/hackers EVERYWHERE avoid this **** at all cost folks.They can teleport all over the map to steal land this is just amazing failure.Economy totaly ruined they dont do nothing.Massive P2W cash grab get ready to spend thousand of cash to get good gear.Simply the worst fail EVER in MMO history no joke.
  6. Vidicus
    Nov 8, 2014
    0
    At first glance Archeage seems like a fresh take on MMOs. Digging deeper you find out it is a huge cash grab by the company that made it. Even paying subscribers are limited by earning labor. Of course you can get more labor by spending cash in their shop. Getting land is also a joke. The land is snagged the second it appears by bots, so having any land is near impossible. CraftingAt first glance Archeage seems like a fresh take on MMOs. Digging deeper you find out it is a huge cash grab by the company that made it. Even paying subscribers are limited by earning labor. Of course you can get more labor by spending cash in their shop. Getting land is also a joke. The land is snagged the second it appears by bots, so having any land is near impossible. Crafting has been made obsolete by the farming of drops for loot in one area that is camped by all players at the same time. it is total chaos and bad planning by the developers.

    Want to customize your character? That will cost cash... a lot of it. Want to sell your land... that will cost cash. This game is a total mess and a huge disappointment.    … Expand
  7. DarkDexter
    Jul 26, 2015
    0
    The game is not bad but keep in mind that you have to keep playing once you started, if u ever stop or take a break for more then 2 months all ur stuff gets deleted if u don't save it b4 you leave. It just happened like this to me. I had no time coz of RL issues for about 2 months and when I logged back in all my stuff was gone especially farming Station and such stuff. I asked Support forThe game is not bad but keep in mind that you have to keep playing once you started, if u ever stop or take a break for more then 2 months all ur stuff gets deleted if u don't save it b4 you leave. It just happened like this to me. I had no time coz of RL issues for about 2 months and when I logged back in all my stuff was gone especially farming Station and such stuff. I asked Support for help and they gave me most of the stuff back BUT not the most important things like farming Station and those things that took me months of ingame time to get them. I liked the game but I just cant recommend it due to this Problem especially if you like housing.… Expand
  8. ChirikiCricket
    Nov 15, 2014
    0
    This one looked promising, however, it's definitely not f2p. You have to be patron to do anything. I don't mind pvp, but getting pked while questing as a lowbie time after time after time is extremely frustrating. There are lots of bots and gold sellers, and even when you block them, they can send you mail in game. So you basically see nothing but spam all day. There's no land for housingThis one looked promising, however, it's definitely not f2p. You have to be patron to do anything. I don't mind pvp, but getting pked while questing as a lowbie time after time after time is extremely frustrating. There are lots of bots and gold sellers, and even when you block them, they can send you mail in game. So you basically see nothing but spam all day. There's no land for housing or farms. Trade runs aren't fun because you constantly get pked and lose your pack. Labor is very difficult to earn and in my opinion it's stupid to have to use all your labor to open coinpurses and identify armour/weapons. This was fun in the betas, but not in release. I sincerely believe you should look elsewhere for MMOs.… Expand
  9. Zebad
    Nov 18, 2014
    0
    First of all i played since june 2014 with founder pack (135E) :
    Pay 2 win, random injust ban, false promises, the game is poor at end game, and the worst part : Trion....is clearly incompetent to manage a mmorpg. i just deleted 3 account, i dont want to hear about them again. My bank consider Trion as frauder due to the numerous refund etc Don't give them a single dollar or euro it is no    First of all i played since june 2014 with founder pack (135E) :
    Pay 2 win, random injust ban, false promises, the game is poor at end game, and the worst part : Trion....is clearly incompetent to manage a mmorpg. i just deleted 3 account, i dont want to hear about them again. My bank consider Trion as frauder due to the numerous refund etc Don't give them a single dollar or euro it is no worth. That sad because this game should ave been great. But it is not.    … Expand
  10. Leithreas
    Nov 20, 2014
    0
    This game seemed interesting. You can combine different skill sets to make your own "class", etc. Lovely idea! The combat is supposed to be at least slightly skill-based in that you can dodge/avoid/move instead of the stand-and-push-buttons of MMOs of yesteryear. Great!

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

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

    There is a way to do it by downloading 3rd-party options or messing about with registries or something, but like hell if I'm going to bother. I didn't even finish the first quest. My experience with this game was four hours of downloading it, half an hour of installing it, five minutes in character creation, three minutes of going through the game options in minute detail, two minutes of idling while I googled where I could find the damn "invert mouse" option, and then quitting and writing this review.    … Expand
  11. muminnek
    Nov 21, 2014
    0
    WalletAge
    I really hoped I will enjoy this game much. Really. Even though the evangelist group in our country (started to play AA in Korea and evangelize it in our players community) decided not to play Trion version.
    After two months of doubts I took the calculator. How long you must be off to have max labors? 3.5 days How long on (without spending any labor away)? 1 day 18 hours    WalletAge
    I really hoped I will enjoy this game much. Really. Even though the evangelist group in our country (started to play AA in Korea and evangelize it in our players community) decided not to play Trion version.

    After two months of doubts I took the calculator.

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

    My first MMO where are very hardly handicapped not only F2P but also subs players. Disaster.    … Expand
  12. Pavel0
    Dec 18, 2014
    0
    There are a lot of interesting ideas in this game, but they've been very poorly implemented. This is made worse by the fact that botting and hacking are rampant.

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

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

    I still gave it 1 point since the boats are cool.    … Expand
  13. TheReviewMan22
    Dec 21, 2014
    0
    I can also confirm what realitycheckxer is saying. There are clearly individuals in the game who clearly know people at Trion and are receiving special treatment. Aside from them outright bragging about it, their antics in-game without ban are crystal clear about this. Sorcerer is one of them.

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

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

    If there is ever a game to avoid, this is it.    … Expand
  14. synd1931
    Feb 20, 2015
    0
    Wallet warrior 2.0. Got plenty of cash to spend? GET THIS GAME. Otherwise you shall be the prey of the other wallet warriors. & I don't mean small amounts of money to be good either.. if you want the best stuff in the game. Look to spend over one thousand.. Real life money. If you got that kinda cash. and for some reason need a huge online ego boost. this is the game for you.
  15. ingmferrer
    Apr 9, 2015
    0
    I played 3 months, maybe a revolutionary mmorpg but worst publisher ever. pay2win, bots, exploits, unprofessional staff, among others. Support via email is mediocre.
  16. Hookleg
    Mar 21, 2015
    0
    I had the worst experience with this game. Let me start of by saying I never actually got to play the game. the installer is so buggy that it took me three days to clean the muck of files out of my computer. I tried following the web help to get through the plethora of errors that can crop up on installation. these are all known issues to the developers. I was unable to do so.

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

    I would recommend no one attempt to install the game. I am on windows 8.1 Pro and the installation software made my system unstable and it took me hours to fix. It was like installing a game from the old days of computer gaming install at your own risk.    … Expand
  17. ErraticOCD
    Mar 27, 2015
    0
    Please do not listen to any review that is not 0, and please do not visit any site that gave this a green. A group of us (around 15 people) paid $150 to suppor this game. We played for hundreds of hours and had a great time. Then the patch dropped. Hackers, pay to win, hackers, hackers. People hacking from underground, hackers teleporting across the world to deliver trade packs that shouldPlease do not listen to any review that is not 0, and please do not visit any site that gave this a green. A group of us (around 15 people) paid $150 to suppor this game. We played for hundreds of hours and had a great time. Then the patch dropped. Hackers, pay to win, hackers, hackers. People hacking from underground, hackers teleporting across the world to deliver trade packs that should take hours. This drove up in game prices on rare items.

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

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

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

    I am calling all of you out as frauds.

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

    Stop supporting Trion and their garbage company.    … Expand
  18. eijimeh
    Mar 30, 2015
    0
    A great MMO if it werent for the way trion handled the game. A bot infested game, random bans, full of exploits that never seem to be fixed. Pay to win, economy is influenced heavily by the game creator instead of letting it be what it is. Lots and lots of bad things and too may to be name.
  19. EugenesCure
    Apr 1, 2015
    0
    Pay to win, bots, and community left in the dust by the devs, unless you sucked them off, in which case you were still left in the dust, just not banned for it.
  20. Widamaker
    Apr 30, 2015
    0
    Just P2W. Nothing more to say. You cant play the game without spending a lot of money. Oh, you can farm a bit and can interact with most players, but thats all. You need the point you get when you pai and you need to get the materials that you can buy... just a P2W and impossible to reach the dame standard of state of the art Equip as none paiing gamers. I would have paid it, when thereJust P2W. Nothing more to say. You cant play the game without spending a lot of money. Oh, you can farm a bit and can interact with most players, but thats all. You need the point you get when you pai and you need to get the materials that you can buy... just a P2W and impossible to reach the dame standard of state of the art Equip as none paiing gamers. I would have paid it, when there were only monthly cost, but you need to buy things in the store to get a normal gear.. so spent monthly money and spent many many extra in the shop... damn useless trion… Expand
  21. SenselessNoise
    Jun 29, 2015
    0
    Just another pay-to-win KMMO. I really enjoyed the game (max leveled one, had 3 others in the 40's), but it's plagued by hackers, a new exploit comes out almost every week, and the RNG is just awful. Buying a box from the store is like playing roulette - you may get lucky once, but you'll always lose.

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

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

    Seriously, this game is so bad. The story is boring, the pay2win aspect runs incredibly deep, and the biggest thing going in the game (player housing) is impossible to find. When they released Auroria, it was full within an hour or 2. It's just an overall terrible game.    … Expand
  22. sentarix
    Jul 22, 2015
    0
    publisher has botched every patch. credit limit must be huge to "win" at this game. worst community manager "scapes" that i have seen in any game. so much hacking and boting.
  23. MagnusafBerg
    Aug 9, 2015
    0
    This game could have been so great. Instead P2W with getting weapon that you can rule others with. So expensive to grind up your gear, but the worst part the RNG for enchantment and get the correct weapon inside the game is so low for success and cost you a fortune. A guild can control an entire area and also ruined the in-game economics + in-store items for real money helps with this to.
  24. Robobobo
    Aug 12, 2015
    0
    Archeage is a game that, on paper, sounds amazing. It has housing and farming, and an interesting loot system. In reality, it is poorly programmed and rigged with paywalls and hackers. The game has good features. Sea combat in this game is the best that I've seen, however, any hope for a bit of enjoyment is ruined by the greedy developers. I will update if they decide to start acceptingArcheage is a game that, on paper, sounds amazing. It has housing and farming, and an interesting loot system. In reality, it is poorly programmed and rigged with paywalls and hackers. The game has good features. Sea combat in this game is the best that I've seen, however, any hope for a bit of enjoyment is ruined by the greedy developers. I will update if they decide to start accepting player feedback, but at the moment, it seems like they have their wads of money shoved firmly in their ears.

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

    The money greedy developer RUINED a completely good concept. The Korean version of the game shows blatant favoritism. It's clear that XL games just wanted to port to the US so that they could milk us of all our money and then throw us in the garbage. At it's current state, people are leaving, and the ones that are staying are only doing so because they're attached to their current gear. I've talked to many players and they are ready to leave at the next failed update, which at this point is bound to happen. This game is a scam, and I can't recommend it to anyone. I had a lot of fun in alpha, but I was also blind to the shady business practices that the developers use. Trion got a screwy deal, with not being able to update... but they are equally at fault. This game needs to crash and burn so that something with better execution can take it's place. There is a need for a game that is similar to archeage, save the ****    … Expand
  25. Rantul
    Aug 21, 2015
    0
    The greed of the developers is unbelievable, they created a great game just to ruin it by pure greed, and didn't do anything about the hackers destroying the economy. I was unable to play a lot of this game but enough to experience the pay to win. Also, they patched it and it become incompatible with my old computer, after doing everything they said and trying everything other playersThe greed of the developers is unbelievable, they created a great game just to ruin it by pure greed, and didn't do anything about the hackers destroying the economy. I was unable to play a lot of this game but enough to experience the pay to win. Also, they patched it and it become incompatible with my old computer, after doing everything they said and trying everything other players suggested, it still would not run. It wasn't anything on my end, it was on their end and something they did. For lack of proper support and giving me the same exact response (automated). After 6 months of checking back I gave up. This game is going downhill fast, already down to less than 60% approval on steam which pretty bad. The ratings here is a lot more accurate on how good a game is.
    The short list is, Developers Greed, hackers, bad costumer support, forum censorship (as in negative feedback gets you banned).    … Expand
  26. Kyle_Makore
    Mar 6, 2016
    0
    I played the game since the beginning, and I really did enjoy the game, but like all reviews there is a butt.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    I can only leave a 5000 character long review, and I have allot more I could say. Unfortunately this game is the most pay2win game ever.    … Expand
  27. billiejo1216
    Jul 23, 2016
    0
    So much potential here with this game. It could have been great. So much P2W its ridiculous. I will never recommend anyone to play this game nor any other Trion game ever again. I played during beta. Purchased a founders pack, constantly bought packs they released as well. I spend a good bit of money in the game. I began gearing myself and was grinding and working hard to do so. I go awaySo much potential here with this game. It could have been great. So much P2W its ridiculous. I will never recommend anyone to play this game nor any other Trion game ever again. I played during beta. Purchased a founders pack, constantly bought packs they released as well. I spend a good bit of money in the game. I began gearing myself and was grinding and working hard to do so. I go away from the keyboard one night, standing still. To be honest, I just was tired and forgot to log out. I woke up the next day to find my account had been banned. After repeated attempts to contact Trion they state I was botting, although they will not show any form of proof nor tell me what i supposedly used due to the main fact i was not botting. They have zero proof. Yet, rather than admit they were wrong, they send me an email stating they aren't saying i would do such a thing but being as it is possible they will be keeping my account banned. All the hard work over 2 years gone. All the money i put into the game, gone. They state they can ban you at any point in time for any reason. Why would I recommend someone else to play the game after this has happened to me? I won't. Sadly, this game could have been amazing. It's falling apart. More and more people are quitting and believe it or not my particular situation has happened to more than just me. If I could rank this game on the negative scale I would. Never again will I play or give any money to any Trion game after this experience.… Expand
  28. Rickos
    Sep 8, 2016
    0
    I played this game for a few months and I've got to say this is one of the worst customer service oriented MMO's I have ever had the displesure of playing in my 15 years of MMO's. Some guy showed me a trick by using a 3rd party mod, he teleported a vehicle of mine and got his account and my labor account banned. when I tried to explain what happened and get my labor account un banned theyI played this game for a few months and I've got to say this is one of the worst customer service oriented MMO's I have ever had the displesure of playing in my 15 years of MMO's. Some guy showed me a trick by using a 3rd party mod, he teleported a vehicle of mine and got his account and my labor account banned. when I tried to explain what happened and get my labor account un banned they banned my main account too seizing about $150 dollars worth of in game credits and refuse to refund it back on my credit card. I will be taking this company to small claims court soon and warn anyone else about this company… Expand
  29. AndromedaDelux
    Jul 6, 2017
    0
    Played since 2014, game is a terrible pay to win Korean grind mmo, that has no actual content expansions per patch that give the game any sense of longevity past the initial week of the patches release. The amount of randomness required to progress your character are so prehistoric its like being vaulted back into 2005. Trion, the North American publisher of the game admits to having noPlayed since 2014, game is a terrible pay to win Korean grind mmo, that has no actual content expansions per patch that give the game any sense of longevity past the initial week of the patches release. The amount of randomness required to progress your character are so prehistoric its like being vaulted back into 2005. Trion, the North American publisher of the game admits to having no actual control over any content that gets pushed into the region. And XL treats the north american and european versions of the game extremely bad. Most Other korean developers of mmos have gotten over this xenophobic approach to development yet it still seems XL holds onto its ideas of a Korea First focus in the game.

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

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

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

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

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

    That being said, Stay away from this game and avoid it like ebola. Let it rot with all the other korean cash grab imports that settle their way over to other countries only to be shut down a few years later.    … Expand
  30. DiscordOfSound
    Dec 26, 2017
    0
    I started this game at the NA Launch. The gear gap is one of the worst I've experienced in an MMO, especially in terms of crafting and the RNG factor is ridiculous when you are spending in game currency and energy to upgrade weapons and armor, only to have a very, very high chance of failure. The pvp factor is fine, but open world pvp does need to have limits and even up to the currentI started this game at the NA Launch. The gear gap is one of the worst I've experienced in an MMO, especially in terms of crafting and the RNG factor is ridiculous when you are spending in game currency and energy to upgrade weapons and armor, only to have a very, very high chance of failure. The pvp factor is fine, but open world pvp does need to have limits and even up to the current changes, there's very little done to manage it. Basically, if you don't mind grinding daily for currency, or paying IRL money for patron while buying apex to sell on the auction house to line your pockets (or several alt accounts to bot for you), this is the game for you. Expect to have high geared players block content, and weasel out exploits that have yet to be fixed.

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

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

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

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

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

    Granted, these are only suggestions, and alterations and think tanks on the subject are welcome. I ended up leaving the game in November after years, so I'm by no means new. I enjoy pvp as much as pve, and have seen games come and go. It would be great to see XL pay attention to players on NA/EU and their concerns. There's still a lot of money they can make from their cash shops and subscriptions.    … Expand
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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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80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

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