DK Online is centered around a heavily PvP centric world. We've been playing DK Online for the last little while and have some thoughts to share in preparation for our official review. Check it out before heading to the comments to tell us what you think.

DK Online (Dragon Knights) is the latest offering from free-to-play publishing giant Aeria Games, publishers of Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine and even Battlefield Heroes. Billing itself as a heavily PvP-oriented world, with large guild battles and castle sieges. It has intrigued me so far, but doesn’t seem to have any staying power.

Read more of George Dimmock's DK Online: Finding the Way to Dragon Knighthood .

Just wondering if this is being reviewed by someone who doesn't like PvP.  Most of the staff at MMORPG usually professes in their reviews that they don't like PvP, and then they go on to review the PvP aspect of the game which (no surprise) they didn't like.   If it's a PvP centric game, can we PLEASE have someone who likes to PvP actually review the game for a change?

Thankfully this seems to be the tail end of the current gen of generic Korean imports. I played it for a bit and can't say a single thing struck me as remarkable or unique with this.

A f2p game focusing on PvP is going to be horribly ruined by the cash shop. Like every f2p port out there, we're going to see a slew of " enhancement gems" and "ultra upgrade hammers" that will be required to even begin to compete in PvP. It will take a strong will to keep the cash shop from going p2w. It does say they are responsible for Battlefield Heroes; I dabbled in the game a while back - the cash shop there does offer a slight advantage but nothing too outrageous...so they may pull it off, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

Also, Bind*.

Originally posted by remyburke
Stopped reading at "Gender locked"

I almost did the same but looked up and watched a combat trailer. Between that and how choppy combat looked I wont look into this one. Gender lock really is a fail, as MMOers we would rather less class options over being forced to play a gender to play the class we want.

Originally posted by rojo6934
this game feels like a tab target version of Tera with much lower graphics, but it still looks good. Gender lock is a let down. Also, when you have a community that wants p2w you know theres something wrong. I hope AeriaGames dont listen to them, but it will be hard knowing they love it too.

Tab targgeting combat with Tera style gfx.  Pass.

Originally posted by remyburke
Stopped reading at "Gender locked"

Basicly this.

WHY ON EARTH WHYYY are developers now going BACKWARDS in order to give players more freespace on how to uniquely create a character.

This is oh so laughable.

dont waste ur time playing or even testing this, unfinished game, lots of bugs, faction vs faction so unbalanced since theres always the same wining side, if u tested tera the gfx are better than this one and consume less the Gfx card, cuz with dk online one full settings even the latest cards work at 99%, so badly optimized, server crash often, the xp gain with party is so low, make no sense.

its another rushed game, into the market trying to get money to continue dev it on the run given the players an unfinished game and much more problems.

basicly 2 clases, melee or mage, skills are bugged or unbalanced between clases, alot of gold spammers and botters, not a good game experience.

really aeriagames messed it hosting this fail game, its true that the bigger the company, the more greedy it become.

I've played quite a bit of this game, and the only thing I can say about it on a positive note is that the presentation is good. But once you get into the gameplay you realize that it's more of the same. One of the things I paticularly dislike is the "skill tree".  There's only two of them, and there isn't much room for creativity or deviance. Also,  the point structure requires that you have to dump at least a point into a skill you don't want or use in order to progress down the tree.

Originally posted by remyburke
Stopped reading at "Gender locked"

Ditto. Going backwards makes no sense!

Tried the beta and have to say it's yet another miss for Aeria. I have no idea who chooses the games for them to publish, but that person needs to be fired. There are a lot of decent second-rate MMOs, but lately Aeria keep choosing the bottom of a trash can. :(

Cheers.

I don't mind the genderlock, but after trying out the closed beta (and a bit of the stress test) I'm not at all impressed.  It doesn't really offer anything new over other mmos, has some of the same glaring imbalances in PvP (that Aeria keeps on overshooting with their 'adjustments'), and absolutely clunky abilities everywhere else.  Oh yeah, pretty poor community as well, reminiscent of a ton of Aeria's games.

I won't call it a terrible MMO by any means, but it's really just mediocre.

Originally posted by Theely

Originally posted by remyburke
Stopped reading at "Gender locked"

Ditto. Going backwards makes no sense!

Same here.  Gender lock loses all my interest instantly.