ArcheAge

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3.7

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 775 Ratings

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. paddlerboarder
    Dec 22, 2014
    0
    Game has gone to @!#$%, another one bites the dust. The company (Trion) is giving preferential treatment to people and guilds in the game (The White order) for whatever reason. Maybe they know people at Trion, maybe they are bribing them, either way, it's destroying the play experience of everyone else. On top of that, Trion is now giving away items to some players that arent evenGame has gone to @!#$%, another one bites the dust. The company (Trion) is giving preferential treatment to people and guilds in the game (The White order) for whatever reason. Maybe they know people at Trion, maybe they are bribing them, either way, it's destroying the play experience of everyone else. On top of that, Trion is now giving away items to some players that arent even released in the game yet.

    Just go look at the forums and you'll have all your answers. You can't post though, not until your level 15 of course. Of course as a new player, good luck getting any help then on the forums as the actual game is write off. The chat is filled with gold spam while a good chunk of the players are absolute losers.

    The one positive thing to come out of all this though, the game is on track to die by Jan or Feb as predicted. Don't expect Trion to keep their servers up, not when they are losing money hand over fist due to their bad management.    … Expand
  4. HazardXMediaz
    Nov 18, 2014
    4
    It doesn't have the longevity that an MMO should have. People will play until end game, but why do you want to play anymore of it? You have everything already because of how linear the questing is, and the only thing left for players to do is to build a house, but there is no reason for it anyway because it contains minimalistic interactivity. The combat is mediocre at best taking afterIt doesn't have the longevity that an MMO should have. People will play until end game, but why do you want to play anymore of it? You have everything already because of how linear the questing is, and the only thing left for players to do is to build a house, but there is no reason for it anyway because it contains minimalistic interactivity. The combat is mediocre at best taking after pretty much every MMO nowadays just without the charm. The environments are dull, and the enemies are like something you would find out of Wizard 101, including their AI. Also, as is with many free to play games, there is an in game shop where you can buy currency to purchase in game items. In most games this would be really fair, take War Thunder for example, but in this game, you can have exclusive items TOP TIER items when you get to level 30, which is 20 levels below max. This game is not worth anyone's time unless they just want to get through the tedious questing to see why everyone says this game is great, because you won't find that answer while going through your questing phase, and you will most certainly never find that answer after end game.… Expand
  5. gathor
    Jun 3, 2015
    0
    Lots of potential ruined by greedy companies and pay 2 do anything model.
    This game requires you to play hundreds of hours to be competitive or pour money like the wallet warriors do.
    This is definitely a pay 2 win game full of hackers and bots
  6. JoshuaQ
    Nov 5, 2014
    3
    Loved the game in Beta. The last beta was terrible. Incredible amounts of lag. Game went live I have had very very very bad packet loss ever since. I constantly disconnect and packet loss.
    I contact support and they took about 4 days to respond with an "open these ports" response. It sorta helped, or it was in my head. It seemed like it did. I logged in a couple weeks later (I was out of    Loved the game in Beta. The last beta was terrible. Incredible amounts of lag. Game went live I have had very very very bad packet loss ever since. I constantly disconnect and packet loss.
    I contact support and they took about 4 days to respond with an "open these ports" response. It sorta helped, or it was in my head. It seemed like it did. I logged in a couple weeks later (I was out of town) and the lag and disconnects were even worse than before. I got a refund of my pre-order and now I am trying to get a refund for my starter kit because this game sucks if you have an issue like I do. I can't figure out what is causing it or how to fix it. I tried lots of different fixes and nothing made any difference at all. I even had my ISP come out and there was no change after their "fix." I am at a loss and support has not helped. I think it is time to just go twiddle my thumbs and wait for EQN. This is a great game is their servers weren't made out of trash...if that is even the problem. If they only had a fix or would actually help me...    … Expand
  7. aaronvf
    Dec 16, 2014
    3
    Game itself is good. Trion worlds has managed it poorly. I played in RU version and it's almost a completely different experience under different management. It's a cash grab straight up. Trion worlds has made promises and then switched them upon delivery. For example, for everyone who bought into a founder pack, they promised a 10% discount on marketplace purchases. After launch they saidGame itself is good. Trion worlds has managed it poorly. I played in RU version and it's almost a completely different experience under different management. It's a cash grab straight up. Trion worlds has made promises and then switched them upon delivery. For example, for everyone who bought into a founder pack, they promised a 10% discount on marketplace purchases. After launch they said they cannot deliver the 10% discount and will instead provide a 10% bonus on future purchases. You have to make more purchases to take advantage of the benefit now. Check the reviews on the better business bureau. I would say play free but do not give them money. They are known for being shady right now.… Expand
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. Dave-Champagne
    Mar 27, 2015
    0
    This game oblige you to play to pay your taxes in-game, and you need to take care of your field to be able to farm some gold. If you don't, you lose your field. It's a game that makes you addicted and it's a waste of time. Don't play this game.
  16. 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.
  17. Mrteabag
    Nov 4, 2014
    3
    I like the game. Overall the crafting system is in depth the housing system is cool but challenging. Pvp is fun, and there are many other aspects about the game that makes it a great game. HOWEVER, The game administrators and developers are incompetent. Patch after patch there are problems, obtaining land is near impossible with the hackers and bots consuming every inch of usableI like the game. Overall the crafting system is in depth the housing system is cool but challenging. Pvp is fun, and there are many other aspects about the game that makes it a great game. HOWEVER, The game administrators and developers are incompetent. Patch after patch there are problems, obtaining land is near impossible with the hackers and bots consuming every inch of usable land worth any value. Hackshield creates even more problems and makes logging in a giant frustration. If you plan on playing this game as a new comer, wait for another game to roll out. if you started now you wont be playing for long once you realize the need to own land and its importance in advancing in this game. Simply too many hackers to contend with, communication from GMs to the community is sadly enough minimal and completely unapologetic about "known issues". They just released the new phase of pvp content which included new lands where guilds can build castles and fight to retain ownership there of. HOWEVER... loggin issues created an unbalanced and unfair land grab for less than half the server. It has been 5 hours since this new patch and I have yet to get online, while reports from guildies state that the new land has been completely filled. This has been a problem since early launch and unfortunately makes a great idea for a game completely a terrible and frustrating experience... Im bidding my time for the next MMO to come out and I'm leaving Archeage for good… Expand
  18. kansaimike
    Nov 16, 2014
    3
    It started as a promising continuation of Skyrim. I was hoping I would be able to come home from work and get some good Skyrim type adventure in.. You know, explore and fight a bit yet see and experience some interesting yet not so dramatic or bloody confrontations. I just want to explore and see what I can do in a few hours. I'm not looking to be a dick pirate or griefer. That's for theIt started as a promising continuation of Skyrim. I was hoping I would be able to come home from work and get some good Skyrim type adventure in.. You know, explore and fight a bit yet see and experience some interesting yet not so dramatic or bloody confrontations. I just want to explore and see what I can do in a few hours. I'm not looking to be a dick pirate or griefer. That's for the young kids. I have some money now. I've grown out of being a pirate. It's just too time consuming. This game gives me hope. But, unfortunately, I was was banned for speaking up against playing the game as a non-pirate. The banning policy kicked me out. I said a few words in local chat I shouldn't have and got booted -- end of game. Well, I wanted to be a good guy for once but got kicked out instead. I'm not sure what my future will be. Maybe I should go back to hacking.… Expand
  19. Gatanotoah
    Mar 25, 2015
    3
    Archeage looked good - in marketing. From the first trailers to the final western release, it was on my radar.

    But it failed miserably. Instead of a refreshing new take on the MMO genre you get WoW 1.0 with a tiny dash of novelty that doesn't make up for how boring this game is. From the beginning you are greeted by the same old way of doing things - Animated over-the-top intro,    Archeage looked good - in marketing. From the first trailers to the final western release, it was on my radar.

    But it failed miserably. Instead of a refreshing new take on the MMO genre you get WoW 1.0 with a tiny dash of novelty that doesn't make up for how boring this game is.

    From the beginning you are greeted by the same old way of doing things - Animated over-the-top intro, character creation with 4 races split up into 4 races and marginal appearance options (Don't let the amount of sliders fool you, you can basically just change the face of your character and pick from a dozen or so hairstyles) and then you're thrown into the world.

    Instantly you will get the "same old" feeling as you start in a regular starting area full of copy/paste monsters, unvoiced standard NPC's and bad localisation. Conversation options? Not in this game. Active combat? Nu-uh! Quests apart from "Get this and come back" or "Kill 10 Y and come back"? Nope!

    You stand in front of enemies unleashing your attacks, moving around just to strafe a bit. Your skillbar looks like a blast from the past and the general UI could as well be from the early 2000s.

    On top of that, the game tries to present you with an open class system that is just a way to rename the classic triad into 120 different options. Yes, you can mix and match, but in the end you won't do anything more than in the early days of WoW, Guild Wars or any other MMO of that era.

    Now comes the big thing we all looked forward to: The building system.
    It's nothing. Star Wars galaxies did it better, and that's saying something.
    There are some areas in the game where you can put premade houses. No individuality apart from interior objects. You can farm on your own land and move some basic town services there, but that's it. Everquest Landmark, Oort, Rust and a dozen others offer more individuality than this. If you want that typ of game, go download Neocron from 2002 (!!!).

    On top of that, the game is F2P with a strong incentive to pay - Labor points. This system lets you use up "Labor points" for everything from looting a monster to harvesting resources. You regenerate those at a very slow pace in F2P (5 min for 5 labor) and a slightly more speedy pace in subscription mode (5 min for 10 labor). In payed mode, you regenerate while online.
    Let me rephrase that.
    In F2P this game ENCOURAGES going AFK.
    Encourages! Going! AFK!
    To do stuff like looting or harvesting!

    Stay away from this game. If you want a good standard MMO experience, there are far better options out there.
    You like the eastern style F2P? Lineage is superior.
    You want to build stuff? Go check out Oort, Everquest next or any of the dozen other games like this.
    You want a standard MMO? WoW basic is F2P now too.    … Expand
  20. 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.
  21. kfricheson
    Jun 4, 2015
    4
    Pay to win. If you are combat only the game may be ok for you. The graphics are nice. By automating the farming and crafting they have made it so the builders have no place and they have sealed that deal by announcing the mergers of the low pop servers.
  22. thedesertwolf
    Mar 21, 2016
    6
    Played since the US alpha and a lot has changed.

    The good; Archeage has well polished pvp mechanics and a metric ton of stuff to do. Stuff includes land based, oceanic, and transcontinental trade routes as well as building your own farms, housing areas, and finding other ways to make landmasses productive for you and your group. It also has some of the most amusing naval combat put    Played since the US alpha and a lot has changed.

    The good;

    Archeage has well polished pvp mechanics and a metric ton of stuff to do. Stuff includes land based, oceanic, and transcontinental trade routes as well as building your own farms, housing areas, and finding other ways to make landmasses productive for you and your group. It also has some of the most amusing naval combat put into an MMO to date.

    The bad: Unlike in the beta and the Korean release the claimable land zones do not change size based on population, they are absolutely static. This creates massive inflation on land values that just doesn't exist in the same fashion on the original release. Want anything in a safe zone? Be prepared to bleed gold. The LP system directly punishes both paying subscribers and their FTP crowd, Labor is required to build/do most things that generate income such as trade runs, ftp only get 5 per 5 minutes while online, subscribers get 10 per 5 minutes while online and 5 per 5 minutes while offline. Your play time will be punished.

    The Ugly; Mass normilization of specialty items such as the nearly unique ships, hang gliders, and mounts. Paying RL cash for in game power (reforging), and the community (At least on the west, dear bloody god do they have problems on Calleil before it merged. East was livable.) If you ever wanted to see people tear each other apart for utterly zero reason, here's a great example what not to do. Use your guild as a MLM scheme, set up a pyramid scheme, deliberately steal in bulk from members land and tell them "Oh well" when they can't afford to maintain their claim.    … Expand
  23. 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
  24. Tiros
    May 18, 2019
    1
    Локализатор полный швах, всё упирается в донат и донат акции, постоянные лаги, вылеты
  25. BeatHour
    Mar 31, 2015
    6
    ArcheAge started as a very attractive concept, but its developers and publisher were too blind to capitalize on that potential. It starts out as a decent open class system questing MMO, which goes on for about 40 levels (or ~200 hours). Suddenly, the game becomes about literally farming. Raise animals, raise plants, ship their products across the map to get money and experience. There isArcheAge started as a very attractive concept, but its developers and publisher were too blind to capitalize on that potential. It starts out as a decent open class system questing MMO, which goes on for about 40 levels (or ~200 hours). Suddenly, the game becomes about literally farming. Raise animals, raise plants, ship their products across the map to get money and experience. There is no end-game, aside from a handful of grindy dungeons for which parties are rare and the rewards are inconsistent.

    Pirating in ArcheAge is clearly the best part of the experience, allowing for separate dynamic rolls like boarding party, captain, cannoneer, radar operator, small craft operator, harpoon operator, etc. Most of these rolls can be filled by a player of any level, which is a great way to get your more casual friends involved. Pirating when it goes well is a brilliant experience, but groups for doing so are usually cloistered, elitist, and the game's massive gear depravity/dependence virtually nullifies the importance of every roll except boarding party, captain, and harpooner.

    Furthermore, trading has become significantly less frequent as the current (1.7) patch's focusing is aimed toward indefinite PvE farming. This was a huge waste of potential, where the game's most promising feature could have been expanded instead.

    Otherwise, the game is chore-ish at best, requiring hours to just complete money making tasks, which are not fun in the slightest. Its something to do with friends or while listening to an audio book. Its like the MMO equivalent of Cookie Clicker, but it is not an idle game and it is not about min-maxing industry. The game's focus is on repeating similarly menial tasks ad infinitum until you don't want to get out of bed in the morning and face another few hours of grind.

    Abuse of cosmetic item drop boxes for cash is rampant. Player purchase a box for real life dollars and each box has an extremly low drop rate, with best reported drops around 1 in 8 chance, dropping to such abysmal rates as 1 in 100. Most free to play games selling cosmetic items actually let you buy cosmetic items, not simply have a random chance of getting them. In this way, the publisher exploits the addictive nature of the MMO.

    I would recommend this game for leveling up with a friend, its as good as any other MMO for that. Its something to do. But most other MMOs, even free ones, have some kind of meat past that point. ArcheAge offers practically no endgame despite being in development for years and having been released in US beta for about two years. This is not acceptable for a released MMO title which is making good revenue. The developers seem to have given up and reverted to a cell phone game style pay to pay model.    … Expand
  26. Snovonim
    Jan 7, 2015
    4
    Archeage has ground-breaking game mechanics, deep (overly so imo..) crafting system, and great sandbox environment for PvP. HOWEVER, if you want to succeeed at PvP in Archeage, and that is really what the game is all about, it is in fact Pay 2 Win. No question about the fact that this game is money making Juggernaut for Glyph/Trion etc.. that is geared towards getting you to spend money inArcheage has ground-breaking game mechanics, deep (overly so imo..) crafting system, and great sandbox environment for PvP. HOWEVER, if you want to succeeed at PvP in Archeage, and that is really what the game is all about, it is in fact Pay 2 Win. No question about the fact that this game is money making Juggernaut for Glyph/Trion etc.. that is geared towards getting you to spend money in their RM market place on items that make it feasible for you to advance your post lvl 50 toon.

    Is it possible for you to gear up without paying? Technically it is, but it would take such a prohibitively long time (think over a year..) grinding mundane tasks such as fishing, and farming (literally.. like on a farm), that you would want to burn your eyes out with a hot poker. Meanwhile you would be getting PWND in any pvp you attempted within a couple of seconds with anyone who has payed to gear up. Sound like fun? It's not.

    Once again, beware, the End Game IS DEFINITELY PAY 2 WIN.    … Expand
  27. NeoAres
    May 19, 2015
    3
    this is a game unlike any other game . however trion has made it impossible for the common person to make in this world .. wallet warriors who dump thousands of real dollars on there toons . are the only ones who win. the rest of you will be forced to farm thuosand of hours in places were wallet warriors will destroy you and keep you from getting gear so they can murder you some more ...this is a game unlike any other game . however trion has made it impossible for the common person to make in this world .. wallet warriors who dump thousands of real dollars on there toons . are the only ones who win. the rest of you will be forced to farm thuosand of hours in places were wallet warriors will destroy you and keep you from getting gear so they can murder you some more ... it was an amazing game but trions thirst for money has ruined it before it ever had the chance to reach its true glory… Expand
  28. 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
  29. esidonia
    Jun 23, 2015
    5
    Arche Age is an Open-World MMO PvP PvE Sandbox game.

    Ah... Arche Age. This game does not kid about how Open-World it is, here you will experience almost no load screens, except for the occasional dungeons. This game has boats. BOATS! You can sail the seas as an explorer, trade with different continents and cities, pillage and plunder as a pirate. What more could make it better    Arche Age is an Open-World MMO PvP PvE Sandbox game.

    Ah... Arche Age.

    This game does not kid about how Open-World it is, here you will experience almost no load screens, except for the occasional dungeons.

    This game has boats. BOATS! You can sail the seas as an explorer, trade with different continents and cities, pillage and plunder as a pirate.

    What more could make it better you ask? Houses! You can actually make houses! Be it the small little cute house you dreamed to have or the big costly mansion you wished you had. You can make it!

    In this game there is economy, where you make stuff at one place and sell it in to another. You can actually be a trader you wished of becoming!

    It goes deeper, this game has Professions, which basically enables you to be anything you want to be in the game! "Animal Husbandry?" Yep! "Weapon Smith?!" Uhuh! "Carpenter!?! Yes, and many more!

    Now it's time to open the box shall we? :)

    *Ta Da!*

    PvP? Pfffft... It's all about gear and 90% of all skills are homing, there is no such thing as 'actual skills' in this game. It's all about the running around pressing buttons! With Pay to Win armor and gear!

    Lets say you're an average player, with his average gear, but actually has 'skills'.

    Gear score : 2,800 for example. Yes there is such a thing as 'Gear score' in this game, anything higher than 3,500 and most probably 9/10 you can't win.

    There are even people up to 6,000 Gear score, they won't be able to tell you the story of how they go their gear. Each piece costing 67,000 gold or more, you got helmet to graves, plus weapons and regrades. They have this mystical bank where you put real money and gold comes outside the other end. *wink wink* gold sellers *wink wink*

    Okay let's say you've geared up now, you finally have 3,000 - 4,000 gear score woot! The guy I mentioned above will rek you no matter how good at PvP you are. A guy with full set Delphinad armor and an Ayanad weapon can't be taken on by 10 people.

    Well at least there are houses you may say, you are wrong, you cannot build freely, you require Patron status to do that, which basically means you have to pay. Or at least grind out the entire month for it in game and loose all touch with life outside a game.

    Let's say you payed or actually grinded for Patron status, "Can I build a house now?" No, no you can't, you gotta wait in line behind hundreds of people who haven't even gotten land yet. Even though there is an abundance of space and actual land in the game, only 10%% is allowed to be used for housing, you can't just build anywhere, so trash your dreams of making a house near a water fall on a cliff or on top of a hill.

    Well at least I can be anything I want to be, is probably what's left of what you are thinking. Wrong! Remember energy the thing we hate so much about facebook games? Well Arche Age has it, except it goes under the name 'Labor'. Each and everything you do requires labor, which more or less hinders you from actually doing anything. The thing is people with Patron status gets twice the amount you get per 5 minutes you are in game of labor, and the same amount you get when you are online when they are offline. FYI you don't get labor offline as a non-Patron.

    The only good thing about this game is the economy, not the economy in general, but the trading. Making it here, selling it there. THAT'S IT.

    So if you wanna be a tradesman and go #jobsimulator go ahead be my guest, play this game.

    But if you want PvP you're better off buying GW2 which has the best PvP and combat out there.

    Trust me, I'm a F2P player, and I know the thought of buying an MMO is awful. But if you like PvP and actual skills can win the game, Guild Wars 2 is for you.    … Expand
  30. feralshiv
    Aug 17, 2016
    4
    Very nice game with a lot things to do, open world pvp, sieges, sea wars, good skill mechanics.
    But was totally ruined by free to play model, had to go as monthly subscription without any chance for pay to win option.
  31. 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
  32. realitycheckxer
    Dec 20, 2014
    0
    If there is one phrase to sum up this game, it's Murphy's Law; however, Archeage takes this to a whole other level. The developers seem to go out of their way to make bad decision after bad decision.

    To further add to the problems now, confirmed reports seem to point at Trion to either taking bribes or giving special treatment to users whom spend a lot of money on the game. Not that    If there is one phrase to sum up this game, it's Murphy's Law; however, Archeage takes this to a whole other level. The developers seem to go out of their way to make bad decision after bad decision.

    To further add to the problems now, confirmed reports seem to point at Trion to either taking bribes or giving special treatment to users whom spend a lot of money on the game. Not that this is a surprise.. catering to those who spend money; however, Trions behavior (yet again) takes this to a whole new level.

    Confirmed in-game (and out of game treatment) include:

    - Unbanning players for certain hacks whereas other players have been perma-banned for using the same hack. The player was unbanned as they were a friend of someone who spent thousands on the game. We know this because the player actually streamed their hack on twitch.

    - The player in question getting people's forum posts removed (that don't violate any rules) within minutes of complaining. Again we know this because the player bragged about it, and also bragging about "being close someone at Trion"

    - Same player getting accounts banned from the game within minutes because they simply had a problem with them. Yet again, the player bragging about it.

    The player or user in question? "Sorcerer" Naming and shaming is the best way to remove the cancers from the game before it has any hopes of getting better.

    Draw your own conclusions, but my advise, stay far away until the game gets a complete overhaul . This is about as poorly run game as you can get.    … Expand
  33. dendygar
    Sep 29, 2014
    0
    Set aside the server and queue issues for a moment. Let me tell you about the game's most egregious pay to win feature: the regrade system. Like many MMOs, ArcheAge's gear has color coded grades representing an item's quality relative to its level. In ArcheAge there are 11(!) grades. Any piece of equipment can be regraded using a consumable item. This is a massive gold and time sink,Set aside the server and queue issues for a moment. Let me tell you about the game's most egregious pay to win feature: the regrade system. Like many MMOs, ArcheAge's gear has color coded grades representing an item's quality relative to its level. In ArcheAge there are 11(!) grades. Any piece of equipment can be regraded using a consumable item. This is a massive gold and time sink, because you will need very many tries to successfully upgrade an item, especially considering that there is a chance of downgrades as well as total LOSS of the item you are upgrading. Keep in mind that max level gear with stats that you want is already a RNG-based pain to get. In short acquiring BiS is a soulsucking toilet for your time and money, just like in every Korean grinder.

    But wait! For a mere 2000 credits, or about $12, you can make the regrade much more likely to work with a cash shop consumable! Not only is this highly incentivized due to the cost of endgame gear, but it puts players with way too much disposable income that much farther ahead of those unwilling to pay. In a game with full PvP in most of the game world, this is completely inexcusable.

    But honestly, what could anyone reasonably expect? The scumsucking **** who run this game are the same scumsucking **** who charged people $150 for alpha access. These are the same **** who knowingly launched their cash-grabbing game without enough servers (supposedly the Korean and Russian versions have 20+ servers due to the limited game land). These are the **** who charged $150 for early access so headstart players could hoard all of the land they possibly could with no limitations. These are the **** who were warned by their community beta testers (who paid $50+ to test a goddamn beta) of the numerous issues that eventually did happen at launch, resulting in the QueueAge debacle.

    This is a game by ****, for ****. The winning move is to play something else.    … Expand
  34. Rhinosaurus
    Sep 21, 2014
    0
    One of the worst MMO launches in history. A good game but poorly executed by Trion Worlds.

    Bait and switch move by Trion offering 10% Discount on Marketplace purchases to founders at launch and then not delivering that promise after launch.
  35. Ethion
    Sep 21, 2014
    3
    Impossible to play, queue system requires hours of wait time for preferred paying players. 2-3 hours.... Once you get in game play is extremely linear. Quests are kill x of y with little variation on that theme. Cut scenes are some rambling story about gods etc with graphics that are so pointless fuzzy pictures, are they trying to be artistic??

    A key difference in the game is    Impossible to play, queue system requires hours of wait time for preferred paying players. 2-3 hours.... Once you get in game play is extremely linear. Quests are kill x of y with little variation on that theme. Cut scenes are some rambling story about gods etc with graphics that are so pointless fuzzy pictures, are they trying to be artistic??

    A key difference in the game is crafting which involved growing crops and animals. Oops you can't log in so you crops all died.... Oh you can't find a plot of land to own since everything is already claimed. Maybe they will work out all the issues and maybe the end game pvp will make up for all these issues. But I'm highly skeptical...    … Expand
  36. 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.
  37. pughug
    Sep 27, 2014
    5
    Game is flooded with bots and gold spammers. Trion can't even keep the advertisers off of their website let alone the game.

    Bots are being reported with no action taken whatsoever. Bots are taking all available land when it becomes available, just in general such a poorly designed system.

    Absolutely disastrous, not worth installing until these issues are fixed.
  38. archanjo
    Nov 10, 2014
    5
    bots. hacks . pay to win. pure crap.
    one of the worst community ever also.
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  39. Lunysgwen
    Sep 21, 2014
    0
    Basically paid for a game I can't play. Not because of the 2-3 hour wait times (Expected) but because the the game is LITERALLY locked from creating new characters. I can't play with my friends and with my guild because they locked character creation on a bunch of servers. $150 Founders that I thought was perfectly reasonable given the amount of time I had invested into the Betas (80+Basically paid for a game I can't play. Not because of the 2-3 hour wait times (Expected) but because the the game is LITERALLY locked from creating new characters. I can't play with my friends and with my guild because they locked character creation on a bunch of servers. $150 Founders that I thought was perfectly reasonable given the amount of time I had invested into the Betas (80+ hours) and I'm locked out of the game because of their short sightedness.

    I'm not even scratching the surface with their pinwheeling of promises. Founders stuff? COMPLETELY **** CHANGED. That awesome cape you wanted? HALF A CAPE NOW. All those sweet bonuses? GONE! What's that? You wanted a 10% off on the store? HAHA. **** you! You don't get **** Easiest $150 they ever made spun with lies and deceptiveness. Look at Reddit and the huge backlash here. It's ridiculous. If I can't get into the game by next weekend, I'm getting a refund in full.    … Expand
  40. Verkimis
    Sep 21, 2014
    0
    This game is not for people who work 8-10 hours a day. The game takes 3=4hours to log and by that time its bed time. If you have a lot of free time feel free to wait in the queue. From my 15 hours of playing it seems like a great game, but that fact you can't play is its downfall. When the game is like 6-12 months old ill give it another try,
  41. 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.
  42. 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
  43. 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.
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. PeopleIsCancer
    Nov 9, 2014
    3
    Critic Reviews 78
    User Score 3.7
    it's sad, bad game can get a good estimate of the critics.This game is really bad,it looks more like a farmer simulator.
  47. KittyDraconi
    Sep 18, 2014
    0
    This game should change it's name for QueueAge. It will suit better.... Why such big company like trion can't handle 3-4k more people in 1 serwer? it will solve problem....
  48. fullstep
    Sep 18, 2014
    0
    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.
  49. 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
  50. 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
  51. 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
  52. 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.
  53. 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
  54. 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
  55. 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.
  56. NightDoom
    Sep 26, 2014
    0
    The beta was great. Fun crafting, decent combat and a lot of friendly people. I can't comment on launch as I haven't played it due to 4 hour queues that I don't have time to sit in. Also they recently introduced restrictions on 3 or 4 of the EU servers to prevent players making characters in servers to full for them. So now I can't play with my guild in the server we chose. To sum up myThe beta was great. Fun crafting, decent combat and a lot of friendly people. I can't comment on launch as I haven't played it due to 4 hour queues that I don't have time to sit in. Also they recently introduced restrictions on 3 or 4 of the EU servers to prevent players making characters in servers to full for them. So now I can't play with my guild in the server we chose. To sum up my experience. Long queues and bad dev decisions. No game should get worse from beta stage to launch. By the way the 0 is because I haven't been able to play the game for the 10 days it has been out.… Expand
  57. 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
  58. 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
  59. Kahl
    Oct 2, 2014
    3
    Do NOT pay money for this game at this stage. Limited resource (land) is all gone, bots are ruining the economy and make global chat impossible to read. It's an interesting sandboxy game - leveling to 30 is the intro and gives you enough guilda stars to buy plans for a boat or house. Naval combat is fun, and the pirating of tradepacks is good times.

    That said - the primary reason to pay    Do NOT pay money for this game at this stage. Limited resource (land) is all gone, bots are ruining the economy and make global chat impossible to read. It's an interesting sandboxy game - leveling to 30 is the intro and gives you enough guilda stars to buy plans for a boat or house. Naval combat is fun, and the pirating of tradepacks is good times.

    That said - the primary reason to pay money for this game is to own land as land is required for safe farming and growing of resources for crafting. If you want more labor than the 2K F2P max, buy labor pots or apex off the auction house. Money isn't very hard to make with the trade system, just time consuming.

    All in all, easily the worst game launch I've seen in the last 5 years. Great potential, but unlikely to renew when my founders pack expires. Bots, racism/hate speech, griefers everywhere. One of the worst (and least moderated) communities.    … Expand
  60. LVX156
    Sep 18, 2014
    0
    I bought a Founder's Pack which included a four day head start. A week after the launch of the game, I still haven't been able to play. I haven't even been able to log into the game client to download the necessary updates. Many people have experienced the same thing, and we are getting NO help from Trion's support whatsoever.

    Do not spend money on this game. They are only after your    I bought a Founder's Pack which included a four day head start. A week after the launch of the game, I still haven't been able to play. I haven't even been able to log into the game client to download the necessary updates. Many people have experienced the same thing, and we are getting NO help from Trion's support whatsoever.

    Do not spend money on this game. They are only after your money, and as soon as they have it, they don't give a damn about you.

    Despite Trion not fulfilling their contractual obligations, they refuse to give me a refund, so I'm trying to spread the word about this scam. Stay as far away from Trion and ArcheAge as possible.    … Expand
  61. 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
  62. Foxfyre1981
    Sep 20, 2014
    3
    My review is based on the following three points.

    - first long queues, both free to play and patrons are stuck in long queues for hours just to be able to play. This along has caused me to rethink my love of the game. - Overloaded player housing areas, if your a new patron you can't even find a plot to drop a farm nevermind a house. - lack of foresight on player demand. I can    My review is based on the following three points.

    - first long queues, both free to play and patrons are stuck in long queues for hours just to be able to play. This along has caused me to rethink my love of the game.

    - Overloaded player housing areas, if your a new patron you can't even find a plot to drop a farm nevermind a house.

    - lack of foresight on player demand. I can understand under forecasting a little bit however whoever seriously undershot the demand really needs a lesson on how to properly forecast demand and load. I'm sure this has cost someone a job somewhere in the line.

    However there are a some positives. The quests are fun and the graphics and play style are sweet. When they add more servers this game I'm sure this will become a decent game. Until this happens expect a lot of justified player complaints.

    Recommendation: If your thinking of getting this game or buying a patron status wait a few months. If your already playing like me, hang in there and pray.    … Expand
  63. Gaarashatan
    Sep 18, 2014
    0
    i played it shortly. didnt enjoy it much. small amount of pve. super clunky. pvp isnt that great even though its focused on. and the list and can go on. but the main problem is the game has been out for over 7 days now. and guess what. it takes over 24 hours to get past que for any server. its a joke.
  64. Jian
    Sep 19, 2014
    3
    The queues will abate over time. The glitches that kick you off servers, leading to your character's demise will probably be fixed. What will not be forgotten is Trion's bludgeoning attempt to force all negative threads associated with the schmozzle they very loosely called launch into one convenient to manage (and hide) location and the absolute lack of any discourse by it with itsThe queues will abate over time. The glitches that kick you off servers, leading to your character's demise will probably be fixed. What will not be forgotten is Trion's bludgeoning attempt to force all negative threads associated with the schmozzle they very loosely called launch into one convenient to manage (and hide) location and the absolute lack of any discourse by it with its unhappy fan base, particularly those who have paid for the privilege. Perhaps the cold as ice forum mod who quickly and efficiently jack-booted any form of dissent, even if that dissent was in the form of a mere question, into a single forum thread should have been replaced with someone from the company actually telling people what Trion was going to do about the problems? Information would have gone a long way here. It would have at least assured people that Trion was trying to help, actually gave a crap, and would have also demonstrated a level of respect for their paying clientelle.

    The game itself is quite beautiful, and the mechanics of trade risk and reward and PvP actually encourage teamwork. So there is a lot to like about the game. It is this beauty and thoughtfulness alone that has led me to give the game any sort of score at all. But if you are thinking about playing it, think again. With multiple hour waiting periods, numerous bugs and glitches (for a period of time half my hotbar skills were unable to be used), and A LACK OF TRANSPARENCY AND SEEMING AVOIDANCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY BY THE HOSTING ENTITY, I would strongly, very very strongly, advise you to stay away. I'd only be lying to you if I said anything different.    … Expand
  65. 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
  66. NewMenace
    Sep 28, 2014
    3
    The never ending queque in this game for people who dont have a subscription. I have actually managed to play on the first day it released for the general public but not so much since then since i have to wait at least 5 hours to get into a game. Trion isnt doing anything to fix this also, hope they will understand that by doing this they are losing alot of players and money.
  67. 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
  68. 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
  69. 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
  70. 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
  71. Frube
    Sep 18, 2014
    0
    I've been playing games and checking Metacritic more years than I care to remember, but if ever a game deserves bad reviews/a quick death; this is it! And it's made me sign up just to do this.

    The game itself is not bad, until you realise just how disgusting the pay model is. Even if you subscribe, the game still wants you to spend more money buying small items from the cash shop.    I've been playing games and checking Metacritic more years than I care to remember, but if ever a game deserves bad reviews/a quick death; this is it! And it's made me sign up just to do this.

    The game itself is not bad, until you realise just how disgusting the pay model is. Even if you subscribe, the game still wants you to spend more money buying small items from the cash shop. Basically, if you have no job, and loads of money, this is the game for you.

    If this game was in the hands of another publisher/developed, I think this could have been a huge success.

    Trion are a truly disgusting company. Even if I don't rage uninstall this game, there is no way that I'll ever part with my money for this game now, not after this. You cannot just sit back and let this all blow over when you have a duty to ensure your customers are happy. 4hours 45 mins in queue and still not in-game.    … Expand
  72. 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
  73. 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
  74. 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.
  75. 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!
  76. macharius39
    Sep 26, 2014
    3
    NA and EU versions of the game published by TRION are riddled with the exact same vulnerability to bots, hacks and exploits that have plagued the Korean and Russian versions of the game. TRION has been extremely bad about banning bots and hackers so far. Bots have been running for days after being reported. There are teleport hacks that allow the users to instantly move trade packs toNA and EU versions of the game published by TRION are riddled with the exact same vulnerability to bots, hacks and exploits that have plagued the Korean and Russian versions of the game. TRION has been extremely bad about banning bots and hackers so far. Bots have been running for days after being reported. There are teleport hacks that allow the users to instantly move trade packs to anywhere in the world. Between them, they are already destroying the in-game economy.

    The game forums are drowning in cries and pleas for TRION to take action against the exploiters and gold sellers and there is only silence. Even the forum name of the TRION community rep is a sarcastic play on the word "scapegoat"...

    Land ownership is advertised as being a perk of being a "patron" (e.g. subscriber), but hackers (there are hacks that allow one to grab demolished plots due to failure to pay upkeep before any legit player can place there) and the low penalty for owning extra property have given rise to "land barons" already. Between them and the messed up placement system and limited spacing to place houses it has made getting land nearly impossible without getting ripped off. If you are lucky, you might find a spot to place your "free" quest 8x8 grid scarecrow so you can grow a few crops safely but that's it.

    For these reasons alone, I can't recommend the game to anyone at this point. Sure, there is some fun in the game and the graphics are very nice when you crank up the video settings but it's not enough to redeem the mess that it is in right now. TRION used to be a shining star in the MMO/gaming industry and had a good reputation. Something happened to them. The TRION that is running ArcheAge is not the TRION I used to know. They've lost their way and are sliding into disrepute. It's sad to see.    … Expand
  77. toodletown2011
    Sep 17, 2014
    3
    I played this game i open beta with no problems. It seemed ok but the graphics and combat seemed a bit dated. Wasn't up to spending real money on it but when i heard it was free to play i decided to check in. One day after launch and i'm looking at hours long queue to get into game. It looks like you really do have to pay to play. Founders who purchased early access get a queueI played this game i open beta with no problems. It seemed ok but the graphics and combat seemed a bit dated. Wasn't up to spending real money on it but when i heard it was free to play i decided to check in. One day after launch and i'm looking at hours long queue to get into game. It looks like you really do have to pay to play. Founders who purchased early access get a queue priority. Seems they would have known after open beta what kind of server population they would have. Clearly they are just looking to cash in.… Expand
  78. Darmist
    Sep 19, 2014
    0
    Do yourself a favor and stay away. Once everyone gets really upset and quits playing come back and check it out. The game itself was fun and has/had plenty to do. I say has/had because I haven't been able to play the game in days due to the extremely long queue times. Personally I'm trying to get a refund for the $150 that I spent on this game. Also if you have any interest in theDo yourself a favor and stay away. Once everyone gets really upset and quits playing come back and check it out. The game itself was fun and has/had plenty to do. I say has/had because I haven't been able to play the game in days due to the extremely long queue times. Personally I'm trying to get a refund for the $150 that I spent on this game. Also if you have any interest in the housing/farming you should be aware that only subscriber are allowed to own a house/farm and from what I hear all the land is already gone, again I can't play so I can't verify.… Expand
  79. 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
  80. 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.
  81. Ragnarock250
    Sep 19, 2014
    0
    Waited 4 days in a damn que to play with my friends on their Salphira server. Bought patron status and everything to try and get in. After the 4th day I finally got thru then got disconnected and found out they locked character creation on that server. Not only this but their support is a damn joke. Unplayable at the moment not worth the damn stress.
  82. 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
  83. roflmeo
    Sep 20, 2014
    0
    came here just to give 0;

    first of all: the game doesnt install, gives you error 1005 even if you correctly follow the steps (just google that error and see threads) causing you to download the game many times over, wasting bandwidth second of all: the client it uses is just terrible and buggy. avoid third: p2w content and full of bots. bots are up to level 40 and it costs    came here just to give 0;

    first of all: the game doesnt install, gives you error 1005 even if you correctly follow the steps (just google that error and see threads) causing you to download the game many times over, wasting bandwidth

    second of all: the client it uses is just terrible and buggy. avoid

    third: p2w content and full of bots. bots are up to level 40 and it costs resources to report them    … Expand
  84. 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
  85. Darthgnomo
    Sep 18, 2014
    0
    It is not a F2P game but a monthly subscription, it seems correct punctuation low for misleading people.
    Me parece correcta una puntuacion tan baja porque el juego no es un F2P sino un MMO que solo es funcional al 100% con una suscripcion mensual, de lo contrario solo es jugable como una DEMO.
    Trion a actuado de forma CHAPUZERA, INCOMPETENTE y PESETERA.
  86. Norloth
    Sep 19, 2014
    0
    OMG pls dont waste ur time on it! PLS! Its not as good as you think!
    Would a game that looks good really be completely F2P??? Its PAy2WIN!

    Sad day indeed :(
  87. glue2
    Sep 17, 2014
    0
    I played in Alpha, It was handles well during that through to open beta. The publisher should have should have handled a quality mmo like archeage in better aspects. There were lack of server of the growing population when launched. They have failed to do that and fully adequately calculate the outcome upon launch therefore they should have had atleast 10-12 server in NA upon launch.whileI played in Alpha, It was handles well during that through to open beta. The publisher should have should have handled a quality mmo like archeage in better aspects. There were lack of server of the growing population when launched. They have failed to do that and fully adequately calculate the outcome upon launch therefore they should have had atleast 10-12 server in NA upon launch.while EU is stable with 7 servers Now its a queuing system and frustration pretty much sums it up.… Expand
  88. 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
  89. 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
  90. whatever523
    Sep 30, 2014
    3
    If you're a game designer or developer, you should play games yourself to get a good idea what you're doing and how to do it best. The Archeage team clearly don't have a **** clue what they're doing.

    For starters, the default party loot system makes you roll for items, but you can't automate the rolling or even assign it to a key. That means FOR EVERY ITEM you have to click a box that    If you're a game designer or developer, you should play games yourself to get a good idea what you're doing and how to do it best. The Archeage team clearly don't have a **** clue what they're doing.

    For starters, the default party loot system makes you roll for items, but you can't automate the rolling or even assign it to a key. That means FOR EVERY ITEM you have to click a box that asks if you want to roll for it. What year is it again? This system is so annoying and hostile towards players, it begs the question if they even want people to play their game.

    On the technical side, there are problems with the launcher and server queues. Problems that should take a few hours to solve, yet have been there for months.

    Hackshield Pro is horrible anti-cheat software. It needs admin privileges every time you start the game and is very invasive, but doesn't stop cheaters and botters at all.

    Beneath all that, there's a game that looks good, offers a lot of freedom to do different things and generally has potential, but it will never live up to that with these people developing it.    … Expand
  91. 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
  92. 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.
  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. Orhunkk
    Sep 27, 2014
    3
    Definitely Pay to win.Boring quests.Worst combat system.Nothing is different than the other mmos expect the naval battles.Wasted potential.Disconnection problems...
  96. Viper482
    Oct 9, 2014
    2
    Korean grindfest of a game, EVERYTHING IS A GRIND. People who say it is not a grind are just naive. You are either grinding farming to get mats for trade packs, grinding running trade routes for more mats to craft...which is the worst most ridiculous crafting grind in any MMO to date. Or you are grinding in Hasla to get a weapon. Grinding for gildas, grinding for gold, grinding forKorean grindfest of a game, EVERYTHING IS A GRIND. People who say it is not a grind are just naive. You are either grinding farming to get mats for trade packs, grinding running trade routes for more mats to craft...which is the worst most ridiculous crafting grind in any MMO to date. Or you are grinding in Hasla to get a weapon. Grinding for gildas, grinding for gold, grinding for everything.....all so you can gear up to pvp better while you are grinding. F this game.… Expand
  97. 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.
  98. Paramour
    Sep 19, 2014
    0
    What an utter shambles. Launcher is buggy. I spent ages faffing around to install the game, lots of errors. Then spent an hour waiting to get on, when I did it was so late I couldn't be bothered playing it. Tried to log on the next day and it wont even launch. Re-Installed (another two hours) and couldn't apply the update. Now removed. Really poor implementation.
  99. 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.
  100. 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
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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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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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