Excellent that Huxley will be Free to Play now as this will mean many benefits that a retail release would not have. One thing will be a lot more people will at least try it out, meaning full servers with more people to play with/against than yet another retail game where you can't find a match after a couple weeks because everyone goes back to TF2 or COD4. Whether or not Huxley will be able to retain players is in the hands of the developer - if it's good it will, if it's not it won't. But being free there is nothing at all to lose with at least trying it out right?

And it seems like it could fill a niche that  could turn out to be pretty interesting, a persistant shooter with levelling and armor upgrades and so on inside an UE3 shooter? A lot of people will be going in for a look that would NOT have if they would have had to purchase it.

Shame, this game could have been great but "free" is really more expensive than a subscription.

Never played an MMO with micro-transactions. Always been subs based. I know it's an open-ended question, but how much do micro-transactions games cost roughly per month? Any examples anyone can give?

was lopoking forward to this game, now i am not cause its going FtP.  FTP games always lack dev support, and the game world really suffers because noone is getting paid enough to care about it.

Originally posted by Katilla

was lopoking forward to this game, now i am not cause its going FtP.  FTP games always lack dev support, and the game world really suffers because noone is getting paid enough to care about it.

Thats not allways the case. I know of a few good free mmos

Originally posted by Slayblaze

Excellent that Huxley will be Free to Play now as this will mean many benefits that a retail release would not have. One thing will be a lot more people will at least try it out, meaning full servers with more people to play with/against than yet another retail game where you can't find a match after a couple weeks because everyone goes back to TF2 or COD4. Whether or not Huxley will be able to retain players is in the hands of the developer - if it's good it will, if it's not it won't. But being free there is nothing at all to lose with at least trying it out right?

And it seems like it could fill a niche that  could turn out to be pretty interesting, a persistant shooter with levelling and armor upgrades and so on inside an UE3 shooter? A lot of people will be going in for a look that would NOT have if they would have had to purchase it.

F2P will ruin this game,  its going to turn out like fury and thats ........... what you never heard of fury, thats cause it dont exsist anymore.

Huxley has great terrain and landscaping graphics that look appealing. but deep down its not going to appeal to the mmo genre i think personally didnt, and the leveling system my turn away the fps people but who knows

Might get a push at the start but dont count on it lasting long, soon as more people join and  get tossed around by higher level ppl they just going to leave, theres places for ppl and games can be level restricted but  to me this game is just a fancy game lobby with a few perks of being higher level better weapons and skills

the PvE aspect is lite right now but decent,  PvP on the other hand is everyone with rockets and splash damage weapons shooting the ground and walls

this isnt a one sided opinion either i have all classes leveled to 15 so ive dealt it aswell and dealth with it 

Just my opinion on a game  ( havent posted much so prolly get laughed at and get no credibility but whatever )

overall I give this game 2 out of 5

Originally posted by Taram

Depends how they handle the microtransactions and whether you can compete without paying them.  If  not paying them just turns you into cannon fodder for those who do then I'll lose interest fast but right now I've enjoyed the game a lot and it's probably going to stay on my PC once it goes live unless something drastic changes at release.

lol remember this is IJJI though, one of the biggest abusers of microtransactions, right up there with K2, though not AS bad.

Nexon hosting this game would be nice... or better yet a freaking american company

The game looks great but the game play is lacking (many asians bash this title on there forum boards).

Originally posted by stayontarget

The game looks great but the game play is lacking (many asians bash this title on there forum boards).

Then this game has hope, anything the koreans bash MUST be good. Heck they love Lineage 2 and all their games f2p with microtransactions, so that you must pay 2000$ to compete in a free game. Gameplay to them is mindless grinding, the less of that the better, I honestly hope this game BOMBS in Korea and China...

Gave the beta a chance...this game is an easy pass. The gameplay is worthless. RPG elements and such still to come you say? Doesnt change the fact that at its core its a bad FPS.

Going micro is a good move though, will give it a slightly longer life...still gonna be a short one though.

Originally posted by MotorYogurt

Gave the beta a chance...this game is an easy pass. The gameplay is worthless. RPG elements and such still to come you say? Doesnt change the fact that at its core its a bad FPS.

 

Going micro is a good move though, will give it a slightly longer life...still gonna be a short one though.

It plays exactly like unreal tourn, so unreal tourn is a bad fps? (or maybe your just bad at quake style fps)

You gave the huxley LITE a chance, which i admit never should have been made. You did not do any real pve or battlegrounds.

Huxley is 100x better than combat arms, crossfire, blackshot, sea,and  battlefield heroes. So i think it will be around for awhile.

"(or maybe your just bad at quake style fps)"

must be it, you've conviced me this is going to great...

Lets mark this day and revisit Huxelys life prediction a year from the release date eh? =p

Now I could be wrong, sure, hell for the designers sake, I hope I am. However, beta "light" or whatever shows only cause for concern in my opinion. Also I've been reading a lot of posts around the web from people about what they think Huxelys going to be, big open world running around with guns and shooting each other (which it is not)...this is not going to be the game the hype has turned it into, and thats gonna let a lot of people down and dig into its community size.

maybe you just suck at quake style fps, and dont know a bad game when you play one. <---sarcasm

Originally posted by MotorYogurt

"(or maybe your just bad at quake style fps)"

 

must be it, you've conviced me this is going to great...

 

Lets mark this day and revisit Huxelys life prediction a year from the release date eh? =p

Now I could be wrong, sure, hell for the designers sake, I hope I am. However, beta "light" or whatever shows only cause for concern in my opinion. Also I've been reading a lot of posts around the web from people about what they think Huxelys going to be, big open world running around with guns and shooting each other (which it is not)...this is not going to be the game the hype has turned it into, and thats gonna let a lot of people down and dig into its community size.

 

maybe you just suck at quake style fps, and dont know a bad game when you play one. <---sarcasm

Your right I apologize I should have said "maybe you dont like quake style gameplay"

(alot of cs type people will not play the quake type)

I agree that the hype will not match the game, but the hype came from people looking for planetside 2 which it is not. It is an instanced game sorta like an unreal tourn version of guild wars.

If you take it for what it is, a very well made free fps with great graphics, rpg aspects, skills, crafting, pve, and vehicles. You should not be disapointed. If your looking for an epic huge mmofps you will be.  To be honest the people here arent who ijji is looking for they do not want to steal eq, wow, lineage2 people they want to bring in the untapped fps market to an entry lvl mmo.

Nothing will kill huxley in one year. Now if it was p2p by a new company it would go under, its not designed to be that.

Originally posted by ElGuappo

Never played an MMO with micro-transactions. Always been subs based. I know it's an open-ended question, but how much do micro-transactions games cost roughly per month? Any examples anyone can give?

well it is hard to answer that cause it all depends on personal preference, and the price of said items. and whether the item is a 1 time use, or mulitple.

Example: Dungeons and dragons online: Unlimited * F2P and in beta*they have a shop there that, you can play the whole game without ever having to buy from it, but they have some nifty items like "adventure packs" where you can unlock new hi level quests and raids.

*all adventure pack prices vary, they don't go any higher then 600 though*

Those are a one time good use item, and will be unlocked forever. The Pack could cost 600 points  and you buy a pack of 1000 points for 13.99 * and thats it, so thats $14.00 bucks for content that will last you a while.  And this particular pack that i am using as an example gets you 9 hand crafted quests, and 41 wilderness quests.

$14.00 might not seem like a good deal to you  but if thats all you buy you end up saving alot of money cause on a normal subscription fee, you would be paying $15.00 a month to access that content when you can just buy it once.

Multiple use would be their exp scrolls, which let you level up faster for 1 hour. You might find yourself addicted to those in the earlier levels, or in the very later levels.Lets say those are 200 points each, you buy a pack of 1000 for, $14.00. Thats 5 scrolls, you decide to use them all on the weekend, they you buy some more the next week for $14.00.  You might have saved yourself some time in leveling up your chracter but it just cost you $28.00 to do that, which is almost the cost of a 2 month subscription.

So if your not careful in managing your money you could be spending more then $180 *which is the cost of a 1 year subscription at the price of $15 a month* in less then a year.

I think, or Hope microtransactions are a fad , games like runes of magic are just huge scams fleecing stupid people out  of their money.

This is an awful, awful, awful game. Everything in it is stock Unreal 3 Engine other than textures. The latency is awful because small matches are hosted peer-to-peer, with absolutely little distance calculation, and the lobbies crash all active games when  more than 99 people are in them(yet their limit is 200).

I was personally hoping that it would take the Guild Wars route and be B2P, seeing as they are 2 games structured almost identically to each other. I tend to hate these cash shop free MMOs, mainly because the developer has an incentive to make things annoying enough for someone who isn't buying cash shop items to make a purchase. Usually, the main way they do this is through exp gained. The games always end up far too grindy to promote players buying items in the shop that double, triple, etc their exp gained.

I personally adore this game during beta but cash shop will most likely ruin the experience.

Originally posted by MarL

Originally posted by MotorYogurt

Gave the beta a chance...this game is an easy pass. The gameplay is worthless. RPG elements and such still to come you say? Doesnt change the fact that at its core its a bad FPS.

 

Going micro is a good move though, will give it a slightly longer life...still gonna be a short one though.

 

It plays exactly like unreal tourn, so unreal tourn is a bad fps? (or maybe your just bad at quake style fps)

You gave the huxley LITE a chance, which i admit never should have been made. You did not do any real pve or battlegrounds.

Huxley is 100x better than combat arms, crossfire, blackshot, sea,and  battlefield heroes. So i think it will be around for awhile.

 

You might say Huxley is 100 times better..Until the hackers show up..All those FPS you mention..Those company cannot control the hackers.And Huxley will be the next target for hackers if not all ready..

Didn't HELLGATE LONDON try this and fail miserably?

Originally posted by NovaKayne

Didn't HELLGATE LONDON try this and fail miserably?

 

 

Nopes. HGL has a sub model of $9.95 a month. This is something completely different.