All Posts by Satan

So I was looking for a MMO to fill some time until AoC or WAR came out, had a quick browse and this looked like the best option as I was a bit strapped for cash at the time so I wanted a F2P.

The graphics are alright, nothing special although I do like how the armour is done but that seems to be the only good thing about it. I was disapointed straight away when creating a character, the reason for that being that there is no gender option, I usually play a spellcaster but I didn't want to play a female character so I had to play a knight, well I could of played a ranger as that was the other male option for the humans. Customization is poor, you have a few sets of hair and faces to choose from but more can be unlocked as you progress through the levels. GM support is terrible, on multiple occasions gold sellers have been spamming shout for 24hrs straight and not a GM in sight, I have support tickets well over 2 weeks old with no responce, not even to say they are looking in to it other than the automated e-mail responce.

As for the gameplay its not to bad in the lower levels as most of the grind is covered by quests but that is short lived, as you hit the 20's it starts to get a bit steeper but if you can afford to enter the dungeons this is pretty quick as well, then you hit the 30's and it becomes your classic korean grind game, sit there for hours bashing away at the same thing to get one level. Those hours are made even more tedious when you find yourself trecking back to the hunting area because you've been PK'd for the 8th time in the past hour. To be honest with you the community are complete a**holes, of course that doesnt go for all of them as there are a few nice players actually on the game but they're in the minority. The PK'ing isnt so bad outside of the dungeons areas but inside them (talking i particular about Forgotten Mine) you will be lucky to get 10% of your level before some idiot comes through and kills you. The PK doesnt kick in until you reach level 30 and up until that point I was enjoying the game, and I probably would still be if the community had a bit more maturity. Many times i've confronted a level 50 player running though a level 30 area killing everyone and you get the responce "stfu noob go level".

One final issue I have with the game is the lag, it really is something, when theres a battle of more than 10 players, talking about the siege events on weekends in particular the game stops working in realtime and becomes a turn based MMO. On average I find myself waiting between 1-2 minutes to recieve updated information regarding my characters position, ok fair enough it has the potential to be a nice event for the players but why bother with it if the lag is so incredible. Actually now I think about it there is one more thing, the korean version of this game is on Episode 5, however the western world version is only episode 2, largely because the developers refuse to give codemasters the next episode with any haste and I dont really see this chainging.

I suppose you get what you pay for, in this case I paid nothing and got minimal enjoyment in return. Playing Archlord has pretty much made my decision final, I'm sticking to P2P MMO's. It seems that when you dont have to pay the flood gates open to all pubescent teens who like to act hard over the internet, no offence to all young teens of course I know there are many respectable players in that age range but its just the minority that ruin the game for me.

Anyway Rant/Review over.