According to the latest news from Age of Wushu's Snail Games, retail release is now a more nebulous 'spring 2013'. According to information disseminated by Snail Games, developers are taking beta tester feedback and using it to update the game.

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I am disappointed the company as a whole.  I have had a terrible time with support, going on almost a month now trying to get my purchase applied.  

They make the charge right away, but seem to ignore or close tickets when it comes to issues of the purchase not being applied.  Heck, they wouldn't even respond to Paypal dispute requests.  Though I found out the hard it was in their best interest as the charge then falls under intangible items and Paypal backs out.

Despite some obvious flaws, I really love the game and hope it sees a bright future. I  have to agree Customer Support is one of it's flaws, but if you contact them trough ingame chat they always seem to find a solution. I had the exact same problem as Jojin.

In much ways, the game is like Eve online. (f.i. pvp centric, offline leveling etc..) but the good thing here is that I actually connect with my character and that I find AOW much less complicated in the long run. Where EVE is sterile, AOW isn't and that is one great things that make we want to play AOW over EVE.

As regards to P2W, it;s really nonexistant. At least not as much as in many other mmorpgs. The only P2W aspect in AOW is that you can get an XP boost. But it is really expensive compared to the free daily Team Practice (like Power Hour in UO). And one can trade gold for ingame silver (ingame currency) but that same systems works and is wanted in many other online games like EVE, Tera etc..

The only thing I really did not like was the fact that items bought in the Cash Shop are only temporarily, even mounts. But this will be changed before it will truly get in Open Beta.

I just downloaded and tried it, The Games not for me.

And whats with the "Buy it now" i thought it was F2P?

Originally posted by Slukjan
It seems pay 2 win to me because you can buy gold and convert it to silver then buy the best weapons and armor in the game.  Unless weapons etc have a level restriction which I'm not sure if it does.

You can do the same thing in Eve Online and TERA as for many other games. There is no obvious skill restriction on times, but if you lack skill, armour will not help a single bit. Age of Wushu is primarily skill based.

Originally posted by Nitth

I just downloaded and tried it, The Games not for me.

And whats with the "Buy it now" i thought it was F2P?

 

It is Free 2 Play. The game is currently in closed beta. As a free player you have only limited acces to the closed beta (10 hours first 2 days afterwards only 1 hour a day). If you want to get full acces to the closed beta you will want to prepurchase some VIP time. However, time limitations will be removed when AOW enters closed beta which wont be a long time from now.

Originally posted by Kenshin_Himura
They are taking beta feedback? This game was long time ago released in Asia lol, also I can't take seriously a asian free 2 play cash shop game ever.

 

Haha you lack seriousness all the way. Age of Wushu is westernized in many ways, they are taking feedback from beta players to do this. For example, in Asia it is very common for cash shop items to only be limited in time. In the current closed beta this is still in place but in an interview with massively they decided to also bring permanent items to the Cash shop.

Originally posted by Slukjan
It seems pay 2 win to me because you can buy gold and convert it to silver then buy the best weapons and armor in the game.  Unless weapons etc have a level restriction which I'm not sure if it does.

I used to be hung up on the Pay 2 Win thing but after playing for a month now, I can tell you that

1) buying ingame currency is rediculously expensive. 1 Ding (think Platinum) is like $30 and will buy you maybe one piece of gear because the economy is heavily inflated.

2) Gear doesn't mean shit in this game. You'll barely see a power difference between the currently available best gear (Silver) and the noobie Wood gear. It's all about the skill levels in this game.

That being said, you can buy ingame currency and use it to train your skills faster, but this is limited amount per day and also it's beyond expensive with the afore mentioned exchange rate. Someone could drop hundreds if not around a thousand dollars to max their Inner level and at best they'll be capped like everyone else at inner level 36.

Maybe they need that long to figure out how to add mouse invert....

/sarcasm off

It's a decent game.  If you like PVP you will probably like the game.  The vast majority of MMO players want nothing to do with PVP though.  The PVE in this game is beyond atrocious, so you REALLY have to like PVP as pretty much all the little things to do revolve around PVP or you trying to avoid PVP.

I don't see the game having a big impact over here, it's a Chinese martial arts PVP orientated themepark/sandbox hybrid but you cannot alter the ingame world.  Beyone niche.

Though it IS a nice deversion from the western themepark games.  I will probably play this until TES Beta and EQ Next.  The big turn off for me is that you cannot build/alter the world.  So you really, really, really have to enjoy to PVP nature of the game to stick with it.  I like it....but not that much.