Ashen Empires

Hello. I have played Ashen Empires.. Well.. For a quite long time. The first time I played it it was Dransik Beta. They had just started making the game isometric. Well, I was hooked pretty fast, although the game was nothing like it is today. I did play for a while, but I quit when they turned it to p2p. After a year or so they updated the game a little and made it free for a while. I played the time it was free. Then, when it was p2p again, I started paying and playing. It was really fun.. For a long time. I quit the game again when I got harassed by a player that was good friends with my friends. That was about the time when Demon Spire ( the biggest update since Dransik Classic turned into Dransik Beta! ) came out.

I just started playing Ashen Empires again a few months ago, and I have to say that despite the lag (that we sometimes have, _NOT_ all the time)the game is absolutely great. The community is something that no other mmorpg I have played has. For example the players on Legends server (the game has 2 servers, one where you can kill other players, and one where you can't, Legends is the one where you can't. ) help everyone that start playing the game. You never feel lonely in Ashen Empires unless you want to. It has so much to offer. Today, when you start playing Ashen Empires, you start at Valinor island. The level cap on Valinor island is 10, and skill level cap is 15. There are 2 bosses on Valinor. On Valinor, you don't have to pay anything to play the game. When you move on to Mainland, you don't have to start paying if you don't want to, but almost everyone who continue playing do. That is because on Mainland, if you don't pay, you have severe restrictions. Limited exp/day and no partying, etc. The fee isn't too much anyway. I don't think 8USD / month is too much ( 6€ ). Today you can play Dransik Classic too.

I have noticed a person called Kulta here in MMORPG.com (she plays WoW)telling other people that Ashen Empires is a bad game. To me, it looked like she just hates the game. Like she wanted to damage it somehow. She said that Iron will games is a greedy company. I disagree. I strongly think game developers do have to earn their living too. Why tell other people not to try it if she doesnt like it? I like it and so do many others. I played WoW for a year and I had to quit for it was not fun anymore. I didn't really want to spend all day looking for a group, going into an instance, dying a few times, and spending 5 hours to complete the instance.

Try Ashen Empires, if you don't like it, then it's not for you. Create an account for Ashen Empires or Dransik

I apologize, for my English isn't the most fluent.

-Shaein

EDIT

Lol. I just realized what my post looks like. It looks like I was working for IWG and advertising AE :D. Oh well.. Oh, and for Kulta: AE became cheaper now, because it has the token system. Now AE subscription is cheaper again.

Very well put Shaein.

I think AE is like any other MMO in the terms in that it is ever-changing.

Thats one of the gripes I always see on message boards, its not like the old days. But look back at any other MMO, its not like the old days. Think of a MMO as a organism, and it evolves.

After reading your post about valinor, I think i need to start a new character and revisit Valinor.

Cheers

You can't stay away from it.  You can try, but you'll be back.   Eventually  it  will  be free to play (the price was  recently was reduced from $8.95/mo to about $6.00 USD)  but until then, it offers a micro-payment system which allows you to pay only when you play.  It has a very involved crafting system, a choice of non and pvp servers, devs who correspond with their players and  its community roxors. 

I myself played when it was free and when Ashen Empires was called Dransik instead. And when the owner was different. Once it was pay to play, I ended up stopping. But I always got the urge to play, so I ended up paying for a little. And now I'm getting the urge to again, and I just may end up paying. The only annoying part is, now there are several expansions, so now you could miss out on a bunch of junk. Problem is, if you plan to pay for a month or three. But you want to do the things with the expansion packs, unfortunately you'd pay $20 on an expansion and then in the month or so, you'd realize you wasted the expansion pretty much.

Well anyway, Ashen Empires is a good game. Good community as said. Don't find too many idiots around, well I don't anyway. Last time I checked, they had a good moderation team going around under a certain name. Good gameplay. Several monsters, several things to do, several quests, always something to do.

Ashen Empires overall is great. Coming from another person, try it out if you haven't already.

So you people know, you may see me in game as Jethro/Snakester/Snakesta. '

I like Ashen Empire too. It has a really nice community, good crafting system and a quite an atmospheric world. I stopped playing because it lags all the time for me (from almost bearable to unplayable).

I have 24mbit down and 3mbit up so there's not a problem with my connection. Maybe the combination of living in Europe and bad servers isn't that good.

I would love to return when they fix their servers. And I really hope they change their mind about this free-to-play crap, it'll just attract a lot of ungrateful snots who only play because it's free.

Have any of you played runescape?  If so, how similar is this game?  I used to play Runescape and liked it a whole lot....until the updates...so I am in search of a game thats as similar as possible to RS before the updates announced on Dec 10th.

TIA for any help or advice.