Originally posted by BigglesVII

Originally posted by shane242

Originally posted by rupking

My only question is why does this website which is suppose to promote MMropg gaming is taking money for a banner ad.  Really makes me question the validity of MMORPG.com

Well the costs to run the servers and keep the comunity going maybe?

They bought some new servers last week to reduce lag at peak time aswell.

It's still worse than ever.  They have admitted the game is slow because the code they use is poor, and say they are trying to fix it, but the new interface they tested was even slower than the old one.  New servers do not help if the delay is because the code is aweful.

Originally posted by OmHideoshi

HI,

what you writing down is very interesting. I'm actually playing the FS now for one year. It's true that the content is becomming boring and I'm not PvPing, but somehow I still like to play as I'm No. 3 at the Top List of my month.

Where did you found that the SigmaStorm II is not anymore supported?

Hunted Cow announced it in the Sigma Storm forums.

SigmaStorm has been officially dropped by Hunted Cow.

FallenSword is in a decline and has fewer players every day.

Hunted Cow Studios just does not seem to know how to keep people playing their games long-term, and the game design makes it impossible for any but the spendiest new players to compete against the few long-term players that stick arund, many of whom seem to do so just so they can kick the snot out of newbies.  Plus many established players cheat a lot, using scripts and illegal multiple accounts.

They are not really free games, you need to pay to enjoy them because you start out with a character so lame that you spend all your time banging your head against the tiny stamina and backpack space you start with.  Think hard before you throw yourself in as fresh meat for the grinder.  Read the complaints int he FS forums that have not been deleted by Hunted Cow, and then imagine what the complaintrs that they did delete were like!

Fallen Sword is dieing.  Every day, there are fewer and fewer players online.  Many players with years spent playing the game are quitting, and among the few hundred people who are "online," many just have their browsers set to reload the page when they are not there (for a variety of reasons, like buffing people automatically)   or are illegal "multi" accounts.  HC never deletes inactive players or dead guilds, so the numbers they give are wildly inflated.  They may do that to please their investors or advertisors.

The game is tedious and full of sadists who enjoy driving other people out of the game.  The forums are dominated by these sadists and bullies, and the staff at Hunted Cow seem to favor them over all others.  For a new player this is especially bad, because new players have no chance at all against the established players.  Hunted Cow implemented a two-week Pvp-free time for new players because newbies were being gang-assaulted by organized PvP mobs and were quitting almost immediately.  Now they just quit after the two-week period of deception is over.  Customer support is run by some young woman with no clue who is easily manipulated into banning people from the game by the organized gangs that think they rule the game.  She is the most widely disliked person in the game, but she runs customer support - what does that tell you?

The interface is poorly designed and as a result if you play via smartphone or other pay-per-bit service you will pay a fortune.  And you will never be a competitive player without high-speed internet, even though it is just a lame grid-based browser game with no animations except a few animated GIFs.  It is a text-based game in a graphic interface, completely outdated.  Hunted Cow released a anew interface but it is just new artwork over the same obsolete structure, and where they did try to improve the underlying code they introduced a lot of bugs.

Hunted Cows recently announced that their other "big" game, SigmaStorm2, was no longer supported.  Fallen Sword is headed down the same road.  Read the Fallen Sword forums, much of this can be seen there if you read between the lines and figure out what was in the posts that are missing (you can see them in other people's posts as quotes some times and there are a LOT of missing posts!) 

Invest your time and money elsewhere.