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11/25/10 9:45:46 AM#21
I occasionally play FreeRealms with breaks here and there since launch. I bought StationCash for more than 40 dollars ... well in one and a half years. FR is designed for kids and has _a lot_ to do for adults too. I can "hardcore" play FR a whole weekend and don't have the faintest feeling of having seen it all. LU was just the complete opposite for me. I must admit that it's fun, really. I wanted to keep coming back. But after two weeks there was nothing left but frustration. About no meaningful content, about ridiculous quest objectives for multiplayer minigames, about missing bricks for my property. Yes it is nice to build anything you want. BUT you can't. You have to farm bricks. Or buy them at different vendors who are scattered over the whole world. Frustrating UI, missing filter options, missing features I know from Digital Designer. I just was no fun at all. So whats left? LU without building. So thats about 10 hours fun, 10 hours revisiting fun and 10 hours grinding. ... and a chat filter that makes every guild meeting a laughable experience. |
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11/29/10 8:21:22 PM#22
Sounds pretty lame. No adult servers? Why not play minecraft instead and spend a fraction of the sub money on hosting? |
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8/05/11 3:15:48 PM#23
This game had so many stupid problems it was a joke. There's a severe shortage of content and the content there is repetetive. Chat was a horrific nightmare with their censor so that any mispelled words got your whole sentence erased and you had to start all over. No way to group, no way to meet up with players either since it was all instanced and you went to whatever instance they sent you. Theres no way to store items other than what you can carry, so all those neat rewards were a total waste since you had to vendor them. Zones were absurdly small with even smaller zones inside them so my quad core pc was lagging like mad just from the goddam loading constantly. Walk across an area and you quickly discover that in each "zone" you actually had dozens of smaller zones inside them so roughly ever 10 steps in any direction you froze up so if could load the next 10 step zone. Customer support is the absolute worse I've ever encountered in a game. If you get stuck, you have to destroy your char to get free and that didn't even work properly. I had to log my sons char in and out 6 times in order for the self-destruct command to actually work since the first five times it wouldn't. The help request went unanswered so he sat there waiting for an hour for a gm to unstuck him before he asked me to try to get him unstuck. Any even vaguely negative post or one that points out a problem in their game gets denied for posting by the mods before anyone sees it so you can't even get help from other players on their forums. The game is supposedly geared for children, but is so hellishly done that most children would just quit in frustration as my son and his friends did. While you can actually build with the lego's you collect, that's the only real upside to this game but for free, you could just download the builder from lego.com and do the same thing without the need to collect individual bricks, pay for the game and a monthly fee. The overall business model in use by this company is "Get their money upfront for the game then they can go to hell while we go to the bank." The upfront cost and the sub fee are so overpriced for what you do get. |
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