Couldn't it be that there are no sandbox MMO's (or at least, multiple ones) out there because it takes _years_ to build an MMO? Just because someone demands something today (or last year) doesnt mean its there tomorrow.. These things take time..

try this ;)

http://phpbb.acclaim.com/spellborn/viewtopic.php?t=5123

Please do some research on the game before reviewing it ;) This game is by no means made by acclaim, its made by a small dutch company.. Acclaim is just publishing it :)

Also, there are a thousand quests :) and only the beginning ones are the usual X and Y quests ^_^

Armor and gear perhaps dont have stats, but you can put them on though! So yeah.. you grind for the looks of a piece instead of the stats that are on it.. that way at least not everyone walks around with the same Flaming Sword of Monkey Shit, even though they have the same stats on it ;) So if you really want to feel the urge to get something good, then go farm sigils :) (the beginner ons arent much of a help, but the higher you get, the better sigils drop ;) So you can always farm for those and show off with them :P Higher level sigils have effects on the weapons, so that other people can see that its a good sigil). You have to start with an open mind when it comes to the gear.. lots of people go: 'theres no stats, so what is the point?" .. Well.. why do YOU wear clothes ? Because they make you look good right? Or just so your butt doesnt freeze off? :P Just because there is another point as to getting armor, doesnt mean its useless.. I would try to get an awesome looking armor piece, just because it looks so cool :)

You dont loose all your pep, just one pep level.. It is a way to still have a death penalty but without making the person loose his exp.. I mean.. no one likes to loose stuff they worked for, so ofcourse you wont like it, but if there was no penalty, you wouldnt like it better.. right?

You had expectations about the skinshifter class.. and they werent there.. so it sucks? I think that is partly to blame on your own expectations. Yes there might not be a way to use the bodyslots in combat, but that doesnt mean its useless.. Just before you said that running was such a pain.. if you shift, you run WAY faster. Next to that, when deshifting you get a buff which is also sort of usefull..

^____^

Im just curious.. what level are you with any of these classes? And unless you played them all, how do you know all those "faults" in the classes? Just interested in where you get the info from..

Back to topic: Im an AM and yes sometimes the pets arent as responsive as one would wish, but you have to know how to handle them. I for myself have no problem with them whatsoever :) (put them on aggresive, use the attack command? those things help). Also, I dont exactely see what the problem with ranged is, as said before, im an Ancestral Mage and even I can kill a mob on ranged. So my guess (a "guess" im not stating it as a fact) is that you didnt really play any of these classes until a level where all the skills opened up to you (34) OR you might perhaps have statted in a way that you perhaps do less ranged dmg?

Now each class uses any armor and weapons (odd from typical MMOs), and the armor and weapons are the same regardless of choice (2 hander does same damage as a dagger), whereas the only way to modify the damage or effects is to put a sigil onto the weapon or armor.

That is a design choice they made, Dress To Impress. (so yes its different than other MMO's but isnt that what most ppl are looking for? ;) )

Some of them have more skills in range than others, but for the most part all the classes are melee oriented, since nothing that you fight to actually gain exp is killable at range (unless you crit nonstop). In fact out of the 9 classes, only the rogue based seem to have any type of long range skills.

Not true, Im an AM and I havent got a single melee skill in my six tiered deck :) (on a side note: there are not crits in this game). Rogues have the most amount of ranged, but most surely not the only ones out there :D

Skinshifter (transforms into a wolf, human, etc. for the purpose of sneaking by not attacking) is at first interesting, but seems to devolve into a typical thief.

not sure what to say about this.. in a way every class in every MMO out there could be put in a box.. but you got to have some imagination :P (also, whats wrong with a "typical thief" as you call it? I mean.. im sure they have lots of ranged :D )

Trickster (uses bombs that cause status effects) is also slightly interesting with some long range attacks, but the skills that you would think be key to the class do not quite work correctly.

First off: there arent any real "key" skills.. it all depends on your deck, on your bodyslots, sigils etc etc. I think this one has the most ranged skills of all, but I have to check that ;) Check: it has 9 long range skills, the bodyslots not included. An AM has got 4.

Deathhand (poison dot using thief) now this has the long range skills, but the poison abilities don't seem to really do much in terms of damage quickly enough to warrant it being useful.

You just said it: its DoT, so no wonder it isnt quick damage :P I dont htink the poisons are intended to be a kill skill.. its just something that helps you take down health so it dies faster. (there's also range poisons, so that gives you more time aswell!)

In fact each of the classes seem to have faults (or bugs) that seem detrimental to being able to kill anything in game without a lot of backtracking, weaving, moving, and dodging.

I disagree.. Not sure where you got that info from.. (besides, all the classes play differently: the rogues are supposed to be the fastest in the fight, so yes naturally you will have to move and use that advantage to kill your mob.. Mages on the other hand are almost constantly rooted.. I wish I could move around as much as the rogues! So really.. its a play style, not a bug)

or in the case of the Ancestral Mage (pet based), the pet does not listen most of the time

You just got to know how to handle 'em ;)

But there is no mob ownership, so a lot of KSing, no true PvP (even on the PvP server, very odd)

There is mob ownership, whoever hits it first should get the xp (or maybe there is something wrong? At least thats how it works for me). No true PvP? Makes me wonder what you see as true pvp.. once you get out of the starters zone (did you?) you get FFA PVP zones. Next to that, there is also the arena and the demon room ;)

You get bonuses for not dying, but until later in the game, the bonus has little effect. There are no mounts in game, but you will run a bit faster at higher levels. Finally while some classes have no specialized offensive skills, they still have the base ones, which makes classes like the Void Seer (a pure healer sortof), somewhat more playable than others with no real healing abilities.
Those bonuses have as much effect on a low lvl as on a high lvl. At pep 5 you get +30% moving speed, and thats the same for a lvl 1 as a lvl 50. You get +% dmg output and faster rotating skill bar, those work for everyone, not just high levels. (High levels dont run faster, unless they have +% moving speed sigils). Sure other classes have more healing than others... what did you expect? Its the same with range, some classes have more than others.. Besides, there are more type of healing skills. Not just the click a button and get health skill, but also the buff that when you melee hit a mob you gain health, or transfer an opponents Physique/Morale/Concentration into your own health.

I hope it somehow helped :D

You might want to take a look at Global Agenda.. Im not sure if it is what you are looking for (or if it is what I think it is) but so far, thats the only game that interested me :)

At least they have an FPS combat system ;)

could you elaborate a bit please.. what launcher did you download, EU or US, what firewall do you have, does a gameguard image show up.. etc etc.. with just the "................wtf?!?!" I cant do much...

login to the player site, go to the forum tab, at the dropdown click "Select forum name" (or something), select a forum name, click update forum and you should be able to login on both the forum and the game.

You mean in-game advertismentr right?

There isnt any :)

Originally posted by Loke666

Upcoming Mortal online is the only game with MMO+FPS+RPG. Darkfall online is a MMOFPS but have no RPG part (or almost no).

You might want to take a look at The Chronicles of Spellborn ;)

www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/207

Originally posted by Cortechs

BTW, they also mentioned that a marketing push is coming soon,

Where did you read that?

You can also try and download them manually?

https://eu-players.tcos.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2475

Originally posted by Vrazule

Originally posted by Deathreat

One of the biggest reasons it died so fast is because they offered all the premium for free for two weeks stuff and everyone leveled for two weeks and once it went away, bam. Everyone forgot that the game was free to play untill level 7 and all those people for the first two weeks who were 8+ couldnt log in anymore without a sub. Pretty big reason to be pissed and rage quit.

 

How can any company call their game F2P if they only let you play the first few levels.  That's a free trial, not F2P.  Wizard 101 does the same thing.  Call it what it is developers.  F2P games are suppose to be free from beginning to end, only with added cash shops for items and you're locked out of special content unless you subscribe, but you can play most if not all of the classes to max level.

Even SOE, the king of money grubbing, lets you play half of their classes all the way to max in Free Realms.  For only 5 bucks a month, you can ulock the rest of the classes and it also unlocks special quests.  If Sony can play fair, then these other companies can too.

You might want to check your facts. It is Free to _download_. Also, it is called Freemium (combination between f2p and p2p) but nowhere are they stating they have a f2p game.

So its kind of hard to not notice all the complaints about the boredom of the starters quests.. and just the starters area in general. It has even been adressed in the (EU) Webinar, and today there has been a first glimpse of what the new patch will contain, among which is the "new" starters area!

www.tcos.com/en/news,id291,creating_better_newbie_experience.html

Originally posted by socrates656

Damn, some of you People are really angry emo'd out flailing little kids on these forums. I was just wondering why people like this game. I wasn't saying it in a rude way, I was actually trying to ask it in the nicest way I could possible. Thats why I said "It is just my opinion" (Meaning my opinion dosn't mean anything) I was just curious, because I thought maybe they added or changed the game in someway, and maybe it was better then what it was when I tested in beta. I saw the 8.3 rating and thought it was a joke, because thats not how some of my guild mates in beta thought it as.

You know, Not everyone is going to like your game you know. It's just a matter of opinion. I'm shure some of you guys hate the games I like, but I don't go around sitting behind a computer screen acting like a biggot, and telling them to drop dead just because they have a differnce of opinion. Seriously, Grow up, and get a pair. Christ

No offense but..  your constantly talking about the number not matching up with how it was in beta..

the game has been released for .. 5 months? There _could_ be a difference

P.S. The irony in this: "Seriously, Grow up, and get a pair. " I thougt only kids curse with those parts xD

Maybe you guys should wait with calling it dead until it actually "died"?

The servers are still up, the population is increasing and im having quite a good time..

this might be the EU-side tho

[quote]Arena is in, but you can't que for it anywhere you want, so i have only gotten into 1 arena game. I don't want to sit around waiting for an arena to pop, while I could be waiting while grinding or questing.[/quote]

You can queue in, and then just go on leveling ;) when your up, you get a screen with a countdown (you can turn it down or join it) so you dont really have to wait :)

great post btw ^_^

Originally posted by lordabbadon

Originally posted by Minozi

Acclaim? :/

 

Its eu department.

really? wow..

did you send a ticket about it?

Acclaim? :/

Originally posted by MrSeb

Why do instances when equipment doesen't matter?.. What does the mobs drop?..

Why would armor only matter because of the stats? I mean.. theres one piece of armor ive been hunting for ever since i could enter the zone that has it :P not because of its stats, but because i thought it looked kick ass!

4 instances which you can do

plus this: eu-players.tcos.com/forum/showthread.php