Originally posted by alextodo

 

QFT ! Go Bushy Go ! Stick it to the MAN.

:P Hey Spoons! You up this early? Come on man, I made a new toon in Aion and enjoying the crap out of it! Lets go play!! lol!

crap, forgot... my new toon is named "Kaiju" Im a ass-asin! Fun stuff! PM me, Im heading in game now!!!

Originally posted by reanor

Maybe its because you missed the "journey" and your whole goal was to get to 50/50 asap and the best gear... Asian games are always like this. They are either for PvP for grinders or PvE for those who buys CS items. There is nothing else to do. I don't know what I'll do when I get to 50/50, I may not even get there, but I am enjoying myself on the way there... Hopefully there will be more of good down the road. And by that time maybe either JGE or BP betas will be out.

This.  I've playing for a few months now, and I've got a 37/36 Rogue Priest and 26/25 Knight/Warrior.

I've been enjoying the journey. Perhaps like people say, once I get to 50 there won't be anything to do, but there sure is alot to do on the way.

Some folks say you need to spend godly sums to pvp. Maybe so, Pureevil on our server spent 4K on his gear.

Yet the player who kills the most is named Drayden, a level 39 Mage Priest who routinely kills 20-30 players a session.

He's not wearing godly gear, nor does he always win, yet manages to pvp quite a bit.

Maybe level 50 pvp is a giant gear contest, but there's a heck of  lot of pvp to be had long before then.

Just weighing in here as the previewer... I have to agree with Sean's rating of "good" though I probably would have been a tad more pessemistic. After some extended play, Rune's of Magic is pretty bland, reaching for Warcraft and more but falling way short in every area I care to think of while attempting to float success on the extras and dual classing.

Runes is a decent time waster, but nothing to be taken seriously at this stage and certainly not what I was hoping would come out of closed beta. It's certainly playable for a free to play- even surprising in several ways -but still rough draft quality in a number of areas when placed side by side  with a comparably finished project.

I think RoM is a pretty good game keeping in mind its 'age' and genre. And i think its doing pretty well, here and there, I see people everywhere, not as many here as there maybe, but while playing on the weekend I see quite a few people running around. Weekdays are a bit quieter. I mean comparing to some other games just release RoM is actually REALLY good.. lol. Also don't compare 5+ year old game with buncha expansion packs and everything released with a game that is a barely few months old. *wink* I like the way RoM is organized. Even though most of the Items on Item Mall are pointless to buy, its still quite well organized game for F2P. Devs did a good job for an F2P game. Housing, double classing, crafting, furniture, crafting facilities for your housing, Elite skills etc. Of course there is grind, which F2P doesn't have it. But its an ok game if you don't start to take it apart under a microscope. *rolleyes*

Taking it apart with a microscope... But... But that's our job! ;)

And don't take the comment the wrong way... Compared to other free to play MMOs, Runes is heading in the right direction. In terms of implimentation, it doesn't bend players over or overtly rape them like most cash shop games do. We'd still be remiss if we didn't put its flaws under the microscope however. That said, I was comparing it to a pre-expac warcraft... back in the days when soul link was a 30sec buff and death coil didn't horrify :p

...And a free to play vs up front money argument doesn't gain any sympathy here either. These people are playing for money. If they expect that money, they had better push a polished product up front, not yank gamers around on the promise that maybe someday it will fix the rough edges that should have never made it out of beta.

Just my POV, not nessisarily those of my sponcer ;)

Yeah I know. Its not like I am RoM fanboy. I have my own concerns about the game. Like most of items on Item mall are actually worthless, and really expensive... Take for example Advanced XP Charm. It allows you to store 100K XP and then use it on any character you want. Problem is that it costs 15$ a piece and after level 30 you need more and more of the charms per level up to 20 charms at 45. Since at 45 its 2mil xp to level.

It only makes sense actually to buy that charm ONCE, when you're around 20. It will fill up around the time you hit 25-27. So you can use it after that on the secondary profession and save some time. Before 20 its too little exp to fill it up. After 27 it becomes way to expensive to use charms to help leveling. Multiple charms per level, well I'd say you devs can shove that charm you know where.

I don't have good opinion about graphics either, it just WAY similar to WoW. I was enjoying it for a while, but now when I see all the flaws and grind quests start to fill up my quest journal, I awant to get back on less and less. I think I am gonna give a try to Aion together with my wife.

Originally posted by Kyleran

Originally posted by Axewielderx

then you obviously either got in before the membership started trickling down to nothing or you joined a guild and became a "guildie" to get your quests done for you..err, I mean to have help in the quests. Either way you can have tons of quests but if they require a party to complete and nobody is around to join your party. then the quest might as well not exist.

Problem is, your results may vary. I'm playing the game right now, and on the US PVP server, we're suffering no loss of low level population.  Fun to be had in every zone right now.  As for you slams about grouping to kill bosses or joining a guild to get some help, er...yes, your point?  Why shouldn' t you have to exercise some social skills to complete the better content?  Truth is, I've killed most of my bosses in PUG groups, just takes a bit of effort and I lack social skills in a big way.

When I quit at lvl 28 I had only 3 quests to do.2 of them were epics(requiring parties to complete and one of them was a boss,requiring a party. I was too low in lvl to do NOM and Ystra quests, most I could not even get because I was not high enough lvl. I suppose sitting around for days on end trying to get parties for Fa runs(time sink) together did not help either.

See, here's where you are just talking BS.  I've got my character at level 34/33 and my log sitll has 20 quests in it.  I suspect one thing you overlooked was daily quests.  That's 10 per day that you can do that will give a ton of experience, and you have to do them.  As for FA runs, people seem to organize them all the time on my server, but I chose the easier route and paid somone 5K to run me through it.  (normal rate is more like 25k)   Got all but one quest done in just one run.  As for the materials you need from FA for you lvl 25 skills, not worth running 30 times, I just paid in gold an bought the damn things. (making gold in game is very easy, esp if you chose to gather materials and sell them)

Is it my fault not enough new players were coming in to fill the parties up? I was not aware that I had the power to change that and it seems you are implying I did something wrong.

Must have been the server you were on.  No problems where I play.  So your error was playing on the wrong server I guess.

I suppose it is my fault that Frogster would not issue me a credit also.I notice you did not even broach this subject. I wonder why that is??? Perhaps it is just easier to point a finger at the poster rather than at your beloved game,fanboy.

More exaggeration from you on this. The actual cost of a mount is 400 diamonds.  You buy 500 diamonds for 22.00 (less if you buy them on a sale weekend) so your mount cost you what, 18 bucks?  Why you ever expected to share mounts between characters is beyond me.  Yeah, so what, it was on the web site in error for a bit, no big deal. Suck it up.  I bought mounts for two characters when they were on sale for 199 diamonds each, so not a problem. (though my thunderchicken is a bit silly looking to ride)

My position and feelings stand true to the experience I recieved. Therefore, there is NOTHING you can say to change it.The truth is the truth and you can either accept what is or live in denial all you like.I am not the only person who sees this game for what it is.

The truth is obviously in the eye of the beholder and certainly isn't universal. Your experience as a bad one, mine has been pretty good so far.  It it the greatest game ever? No, but its fun for now, (the pvp is quite fun actually) and that's all I ask from in a game.

Axe

 

This is prolly one of the greatest posts I've ever read. The one thing that he forgot to put in here though is that it's FREE to PLAY. if you choose to spend outside cash on it, that's a choice you make......No one is going to make you pull your credit card out and pay for something, you have to make that choice. And the simple fact that you are not paying a monthly may just make that much easier. How many of us that have played WoW or EQ2 or any other MMO in recent years pays there monthly and then on top of that buys gold or platinum online as well. I just started playing this game. It seems pretty good so far. I think it will survive lone enough for SWTOR to come out.......Hopefully. I dont know that I'll put any money into it, but it seems to me when you have a free top download/play game, the company has to make money somehow.

AxisStorm

Ah. but the game is NOT free to play.  You cannot PVP in this game without spending far beyond normal subscription rates to outfit your character, despite claims to the contrary above.  The deeper you get in this game, the more you get excluded for not spending money on it.  If you enjoy that type of playstyle, fine, but most of us do not.

Originally posted by Yamota

Any review that fails to mention PvP is not a good review...

PVP.....................nuff said. LOL

I played RoM since its release, had 2 char hit 50. I will givei t ist due it was fun for the most part, till later levels. the problem is the game turns into a  gear farming nightmare, Mst of the gear has stats (int,dex, stam etc) tha can be removed from one and added to another, in later lvls the bosses and instances are so ridiculusly overpowered its essential to start farming stats to upgrad your gear, while in concept this is a cool idea in practice it means several trip DAILY to the instances to grind for the "right drops" in hopes u can find the stats u need. even then your lucky to survive these later bosses. the othe rproblem is they have "elite" skills you can unlock every 5th lvl 15/15  20/20  25/25 etc but a couple of these skills require "crystals" that drop in certain instances, and as of yet both my char at lvl50 (along with 100's of others) are still working on our sets for 35. which means you log in do the dalies which are a major importance in this game, then go do some stat farming and maybe a few runs to do some crystal farming, then wander around with not much else to do becuase your either not stong enough to finish what u do have in your log or run around farming drops waiting for the new content to open. It was alot of fun till 45 or so after that its a cash shop and grindfest bonanza. where only the absolutly most decked out char hav any chance at all.

Very good review. I gotta say. I'm really having a great time with this MMO. One of the Best F2P systems so far.

I must say that i love the colours and effects, and magic is always a fun thing to play in my main in wow is Marcell the Mage an dhe kicks horde bu*t all the way bk to Kalimdor lol, But this is where i see a problem. To me the buildings, the people, the movements, are to similer to WOW, i know theres differences but visably theres not enough to make me stop playing WOW to play this.

In fact on a few of the pictures of this game i had to zoom in to make sure i wasnt looking at a wow picture , they have races like taurens and pretty much everything is similer to Warcraft.

I think a few major updates of this game and changes in texturing and shadowing and a few things off wow looking objects might help it do well. But until that time i wouldnt really like to play a wow copy cat when im already in wow my self with 500 people in my guild.

I've been playing this game for almost 4 months now and i absolutely love it. Now I'm not going to be blind to the problems this game has, for example: The servers crashing recently, end game stuff being more cash shop related, population problems in some of the servers, cover up tweaks instead of actual fixes, making choices with money in mind,and the list goes on. Every game is going to have it's up's and downs so that has to be put into conisderation.

I have a 35/31 priest/knight and a 32/25 warrior/rouge and i have had no problem leveling up both my characters. They give MORE than enough quests to get through your levels and if you don't feel like questing it up, which i can understand, they make grinding in that game pretty easy. As it goes for the boss's, I personally, have had no problems getting help from either my guild or pugs at any time what so ever. There's a lot of players(at least in my server) that are higher level and go back to help the lower levels all the time. The ammount of help you can get from the community is actually the best I've seen in a long time.(and i have been playing MMO's for a long time so i have a lot to compare too) A lot of people tend to compare this game to WoW but i think they are very different games.(yes it may have a lot of things in common but they are very different games) Depending on how good the market is on your server you can make a killing from the auction house. I personally have made and spent over 15m in this game so far and i didn't have to do much to get it. All it takes is a little bit of brains and some patience.

When it comes to the instance runs there PLENTY of groups doing every instance all day everyday. I was able to get a run for FA, WM, TToW, and NoM when ever i wanted to. As said earlier the community in this game(once again, this is experience from my server) has been more than helpful. I have had high levels come in and show me the ropes of each instance and what i have to do to get by, There are also many ways to get your gear modded enough to make getting to high level a lot easier. You just have to pay attention and look around. After a while the instances do get boring  but what doesn't get boring after doing it but so many times. It happens with every game not just this game.

This game for a F2P game is very refresing and if you give it the light of day is an awesome game to play. Compared to a lot of the other F2P games this game is in the top 10 imo. For those who had a bad experience, I'm sorry to hear that, but not everyone is meant to enjoy the game. Take the game for what it is and look past the problems(which every game has) and take a look at what it really has.

-Fakie

This game is just like free version of WoW. It is quality game, but it lacks of originality. It's for ppl who like wow, but don't want to pay money any money(but the cash shop is treacherous and make ppl spend so much money :p)

...Honestly.

I was bored in the first 10 minutes.

i think the dual class system isnt pros it suck

For those who complain about paying money in a free game, why dont YOU make a  game the way you think it should be, pay the costs for the server(s) and bandwith, and get no money for it.

....Well?

....anyone making that game yet?

Don't you want show everyone the right way  to make and maintain a free-to-play game?

Great game honestly it never gets old and always has new content its one of the best downloadable free to play mmorpgs out there.