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Final Thoughts as a f2p
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2nd tip. Companies trying to make money are not greedy, it's called running a business.
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"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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The real issue with Archeage is still their Cash Shop though, they still didn't learn.
The Cash Shop still has lots of P2W items, so even with a Patron Status you will be left behind if you don't spend extra money on CS.
I think this game is well and truly done.
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Pro tip : Patron status + F2P can be achieved both at same time in Archeage.
which are ...?
It's probably because Trion has to comply with the wishes of the game developer. Heavy Cash Shops and P2W are standard practice in Korean and Chinese games.
*creepy whisper in the air
Come.. return to GW2.. you know you want to
One of us.. one of ussss.....
Done also means it is dead......
There are better and more honest ways to make money, forcing people to buy from the CS is not a good way to do business, particularly when you already pay for Patron.
1. The Community:
Everyone thinks they're an elitist troll. As a competitive PvP player, no matter how many times I won a fight or lost a fight, without fail, I was a noob and all of region/global had to know.
I once killed 3 players, 2 above my gearscore and 1 below. Once I killed the last one, as I stood over his dead body, he said, ''rekt''. I could only imagine he was commenting on the fact that I apparently rekt them, but I was wrong, somehow, in their minds, I was the one who got rekt. This was the most extreme case of denial though I ever was faced with. Every other time, it was just endless insults in region chat and exclaiming their loss of 2 freighters of packs was chump change and I sucked. It got old. Couldn't even own land next to a red player without having to block an entire guild.
2. There's no taking breaks:
The game was really fun and I could make 1500g a day in only a few hours taking Gweonid packs to Austera (most valuable packs) using a 2nd red-alt account to load my merchant safely in Cinderstone and deliver them to my faction's base only to use all that gold destroying weapon after weapon in regrades. Like I said, it was fun. I really enjoyed the fights I had on Cinderstone beach/on the sea with pirates/PK'ers at Austera and it was worth the gold sink at the end of every day.
But naturally after 2 years and never having reached more than a Divine weapon, I wanted to take a break. After going through what I went through to obtain the land I had, I didn't want to sell it else I wouldn't have been able to get it back and didn't trust anyone to hold onto it for me nor did I want to concern myself at the end of every month to log in and pre-pay another month, let alone log in every week to craft more tax certificates - that's besides the point of taking a break.
By no means am I saying players should own land permanently. What I am saying is, someone like me who spent hours everyday for 2 years (f2p or not) should come out with more than a Divine weapon/armor and 3 toughness gems so that I CAN have the option to sell all my land and take a break, knowing when I come back, I have what I need to PvP competitively vs. the epic+ tier players and not be required to grind anymore.
So,
I believe if either of these reasons don't bother you, there's no reason why you can't enjoy Archeage.
Yes, it's pay-to-win considering how much an advantage Epic+ weapons are but a majority of players don't have them or know how to use them and, in my experience, won't stop you from having fun. If only RNG was easier and every person wasn't an idiot (especially guild leaders and their guilds).
Well playing a single player game like Legend of Zelda for a couple of months before beating the game isn't really a waste of time since you had fun.
I'm saying I had fun for 2 years. Wanted to take a break but couldn't. If I could have returned to the game later, I would still be playing. If the time I spent playing would have rewarded me with better armor, someone else could take my land and enjoy my game more themselves while I devote myself to 100% PvP but the game didn't do that.
The fact you can log into your EVE with everything you left with is nice. I can do that too with LoTRO but personally, I wish Archeage had that feature so I wouldn't have had to quit because it is a good game.
Just saying, F2P is almost completely viable and the game is fun. Just dont expect to take any breaks or meet any nice people.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Just limited options for loyalty.