This game... this game,  makes me happy with every fcking video. It's seems to good to be true,  but then you start to see the actual gameplay videos made from actual players and everything seems to work, everything seems so good. Only the combat feels the same old, but from all the videos the combat's ones are the least interesting. 

Sailing, house bulding, diving, ship bulding, tree climbing, farming (the actual farming), skydiving... and the most important of them all an Open Seamless World.

If they can create a great economic system and a good PVP system this game will be the dream of almost every mmo player.

And the Asian culture stuff just add to the game, i do like their style. But i wish the male characters were more... male. But i'm ok with it, its like everyone is an elf.

Man, i can't wait for it to release here.  

An example of the work they are doing, here are the Google Translated patchnotes from the curent weeks patch that go with the above video;

http://archeagesource.com/topic/496-cbt-4-patch-notes/page__st__40__p__9732#entry9732

Key points seem to be...

-Swim fins increase swimming speed +50%

-added crafting tools that can be placed in player homes, item upgrades can only(?) be done on these

-Item repair removed from npc vendors and added as a player craft skill

Originally posted by Pivotelite

Originally posted by Aerowyn

Originally posted by Pivotelite

Honestly nothing I can complain about in this game besides the combat, however I fear it will not find a EU/US publisher.

bite your tongue good sir!!!!!

 Just stating the sad truth, however I'm sure we could find a way to play in Korea should that happen. :]

This is pure speculation but it's very possible that XLgames is waiting for the asian release before even starting to negotiate a western publishing deal.

Why make the deal now when sandbox games are out of fashion and concidered "risky" in the West? No, if they're a smart company, they'll wait for the game to be a smash hit in Asia before talking publishing rights anywhere else, that way they can get a way better deal, with a top drawer publisher. That's what I would do.

Originally posted by CyclopsSlay

 

-Item repair removed from npc vendors and added as a player craft skill

They would do well to take a lesson from FFXIV regarding this.

FFXIV launched with this concept, and almost everyone really hated it.

Nowadays, in ffxiv, the NPC can restore your gear to 99%, but you will need a crafter to restore it to %100 so that you can resell it.

Originally posted by Charas

Originally posted by Pivotelite

Originally posted by Aerowyn

Originally posted by Pivotelite

Honestly nothing I can complain about in this game besides the combat, however I fear it will not find a EU/US publisher.

bite your tongue good sir!!!!!

 Just stating the sad truth, however I'm sure we could find a way to play in Korea should that happen. :]

This is pure speculation but it's very possible that XLgames is waiting for the asian release before even starting to negotiate a western publishing deal.

Why make the deal now when sandbox games are out of fashion and concidered "risky" in the West? No, if they're a smart company, they'll wait for the game to be a smash hit in Asia before talking publishing rights anywhere else, that way they can get a way better deal, with a top drawer publisher. That's what I would do.

And by then the graphics may be shabby and outdated and there will be a new game on the horizon which everyone will lust for. 

Look at TERA.  Once championed as the best thing to happen to MMORPG genre in terms of combat, and now everyone is so tired of it before they've even played.

Originally posted by CyclopsSlay

An example of the work they are doing, here are the Google Translated patchnotes from the curent weeks patch that go with the above video;

http://archeagesource.com/topic/496-cbt-4-patch-notes/page__st__40__p__9732#entry9732

Key points seem to be...

-Swim fins increase swimming speed +50%

-added crafting tools that can be placed in player homes, item upgrades can only(?) be done on these

-Item repair removed from npc vendors and added as a player craft skill

Nice, I find it cool that you need repairing as a player skill. : )

Originally posted by CyclopsSlay

-Item repair removed from npc vendors and added as a player craft skill

Sorry to contradict you, but this is not really accurate. The only way to repair now is by synthetising 2 items together. So what they actually added is an item sink, something I think is needed for an healthy economy.

Originally posted by Amate

Originally posted by CyclopsSlay

-Item repair removed from npc vendors and added as a player craft skill

Sorry to contradict you, but this is not really accurate. The only way to repair now is by synthetising 2 items together. So what they actually added is an item sink, something I think is needed for an healthy economy.

Oops, Going by what I can read out of the translation. They seemed to be saying it could only be done at stations in players houses, which I read to mean done by players.

Duly chastised. :) 

The more i see AA videos more i roll my eyes when i read things like 'How GW2 is going to change MMO genre for good'. Archage is a real MMORPG in every sense of the word

Originally posted by Kuro1n

Seriously, those koreans must work day and night to create so much new stuff all the time... ;o

maybe they arent lazy

Ok, everyone pony up and we'll bring it here ourselves.

GIT R DUN

Originally posted by Raxeon

Originally posted by Kuro1n

Seriously, those koreans must work day and night to create so much new stuff all the time... ;o

maybe they arent lazy

I don't really know how big team they have but creating a MMORPG you CANT be lazy, requires too much stuff to be successful yet AA is either working fast or they have a big team or just releasing things they have hidden somewhere. suggesting that other developers are lazy is wrong.

Originally posted by Kuro1n

Originally posted by Raxeon

Originally posted by Kuro1n

Seriously, those koreans must work day and night to create so much new stuff all the time... ;o

maybe they arent lazy

I don't really know how big team they have but creating a MMORPG you CANT be lazy, requires too much stuff to be successful yet AA is either working fast or they have a big team or just releasing things they have hidden somewhere. suggesting that other developers are lazy is wrong.

Well, maybe the SWTOR devs were lazy, deluded or high... LOL

Seriously though, every week it seems at times, there is some new "Gee-Whiz!" moment, lots of bug fixes and skill adjustments.  More changes than some games ever produce even monthly.

To everyone complaining about the look of the new mount... ITS A FOO DOG MOUNT!!! FOO DOG!! Thats fucking awesome!!!!

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Originally posted by Kuro1n

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Originally posted by Raxeon

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Originally posted by Kuro1n

Seriously, those koreans must work day and night to create so much new stuff all the time... ;o

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maybe they arent lazy

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I don't really know how big team they have but creating a MMORPG you CANT be lazy, requires too much stuff to be successful yet AA is either working fast or they have a big team or just releasing things they have hidden somewhere. suggesting that other developers are lazy is wrong.

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I think over in Korea they have a different mindset, my father-in-law used to work for a big Korean gaming company (he has since left and works for another). But he would wake up at 5 am, have something to eat, take the train to Soul, and not come back home till midnight. Eat and go to bed. Rinse and repeat the next day, 6 days a week.

It wasn't just him, it was expected of every employee to do the same. It's crazy over there !

Originally posted by Superduper69

The more i see AA videos more i roll my eyes when i read things like 'How GW2 is going to change MMO genre for good'. Archage is a real MMORPG in every sense of the word

Guild Wars 2 is trying to do it Thempark  and ArcheAge is doing it Sandbox.

I haven't seen this level of detail since UO and of course they are adding many new features that could make this game the richest mmo experience to date. 

I'm trying not to get obsessed with this game before the release date, but I'm very excited.

I think I'm going to explore and make some money, build a farm, and create my wealth with food and maybe some leathercraft on the side from hunting. 

Knowing that some other player decided to build a raft and start his pirating career instead brings the world alive. 

People making decisions while playing a game, not the game dictating how you play.

*sigh*

This is the game I've been so patiently waiting for.

will this have any form of looting in pvp?

Originally posted by mrcjevans

will this have any form of looting in pvp?

You can loot any crafting materials they have on them (or something like that).