This is a quote from my friend who's played this game since beta along side me and it pretty much sums up the state of the game:

I totally agree.

I know kabal from the game we almost started together and i have the exact same opinion.

I think every player that has played the game a lots has the same opinion.

As i have said to an other post the game can be very good at the beggining but as time passed and you realise the unlimited bugs and problems and money you need to spend you turn to hate this game.

Did he mention the "hell patch" we got in Beta?      

this game is that bad?

The game is good but it has some death bugs.. mostly the game crash(es) issues. The next is dealing with overgaming players.. mostly those that "hate" or dont want to share a leveling area... not to be of an issue though, most people pretty adult about leveling

Another issue is the growing Gold Seller community and spam bots.. less they fixed those.. which i doubt. There doesnt seem to be a built in or 3rd party anti-hacking software so thats really bad.

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Originally posted by Vaden
There doesnt seem to be a built in or 3rd party anti-hacking software so thats really bad.

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However [topic derailment] does that mean I could run Archlord in Linux with Cedega or WINE? [makes plans to test this] Those third-party "security" apps are the reason it's impossible to run any of the Asian MMO's in Linux.

All in all what I have just read is a sad account of a game that looks and plays pretty well at least at first take. I played the game yesterday for the first time and leveled to level 8. I thought the game was fun although I didn't completely understand the Chantra(sp??) shop until now. Real money for game items??? That seems somehow tacky, however if you play the game for free maybe it is fair so to reimburse the coding team for their time and effort. I probably will not be playing the game anymore after reading the above posts. I will go back to WoW or find something else. I am bored with WoW so have tried several of the betas. I like fantasy based games (no sci-fi for me).  Thanks for the informative posts and I wish all well and have a happy holidays!

Knoiro

Archlord is a loser...as are most free games because you stand a huge chance of getting hacked in these games.  There is no safety net to prevent hacking and if your system does not have good enough security..you will surely get hacked.  There is also the giant problem of the farmers...gold sellers and griefers all over making the game a pain in the arse to play.  The "game" itself is good...just not playable as a free thingy.  I now prefer to spend money each month join a game that I know will not have hackers. Even though I have awesome security... it still makes me upset.   

IMHO the idea of a free game is rediclous anyway since in order to play well...you really need to spend money and in "free games" you will spend lots more then if you are paying a monthly fee.

My opinions :).

archlord on the eu side is good tho.

no lag to mention, gold sellers are a nuisance tho since ignore lists dont work. servers are reasonably populated. people behave pretty well.

I quir cause i found it boring at lvl 24.

I agree with most of these people here, there is alot of bugs, there is alot of spam bots. I see at least two everytime i play with names like "jhykji" and the ignore feature doesnt work against these "Shout" msgs. I still like this game, will i ever use my real money to buy anything from archlord or codemasters? NO! I hope codemasters wake up and don't act like k2 networks... they only care about the money.

Wow all this hate for a free game.

Well Codemasters finally got off there asses after a exploit caused the in game economy to crash.  They have banned over 1000 acounts in the last few days  mostly RMT but also hakers and PLs. 

In true the game mech is good and the art is not bad.  It is much better with out these RMT now. 

I like the easy way they make parties and there are lots of cool ppl.  If you like PvP you shuld give it a try there is pretty regular orgnised and not so organized in game all the time. 

Me Im just a PvE with a few friends in low places 

- My take.  They are slowly building the game as they go.  Since they dont have the money of a WoW or LOTR.   If you got no money to spend on a game or a second game.... it is not bad. 

Oh look me up in game on weekends - Human Knight - Katim -

the real truth is.

back in open beta of the game people like myself reported all the bugs and exploits, and codemasters did nothing, then released it as a p2p game, aafter not getting enough people subscribing they made it b2p.

and announced the EP2 coming soon, almost a year later we got ep2.

none of the bugs from the original beta got fixed, and neither did any from the ep2 beta.

shortly after they messed the game up by limiting the amount of mobs you could grind and also the lvls you copuld grind on, weher as before i was pulling 30 + lvl 75s at lvl 70, now you can pull 15 and lose exp because the mobs are higher lvl.

After many accounts were hacked, items going missing, in game currency going missing, and even codemasters deleting items. they decided to make the game free to play, but you still need to buy credits from codemasters to be able to really have any chance of being up with the big guns.

Then Codemasters fall out with their GM company and have to do it themselves.

If you red the archlord forum you will see its full of complaint after complaint about the poor service, the lack of support and the false promises.

The actual ARCHLORD title is gimp, and once dead loses the title, so hes usually found loitering in town and safe zones.

as for the accounts being banned, most of the people had never done a thing wrong, while in alot of the major guilds there are people who openly admitted to botting, hacking and power leveling and codemaster do nothing to them.

There is no security in the game, you can run bots, hack, cheat and codemasters do nothing.

its fun if you have never played an mmo before and your a kid who cant afford to play a well supported game, but honestly there are alot of other better free to play games out there.

The only real good thing about archlord is the graphics.

So if you want to play a free (but you have to but credits), bugged, hackable, un secure laggy game then this is for you. If you want to play a game which is none of the above, take your pick from the 100s of other ones out there that are better.

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its fun if you have never played an mmo before and your a kid who cant afford to play a well supported game, ...The only real good thing about archlord is the graphics /quote]

That about sums it up.  but I would add that the casual PVP and player parties adds to this game.  It is easier to meet people and kill people than in Guild Wars.

yet you still play the game and troll the forums flaming everyone all day, if you really feel this way about the game then STOP playing it yourself instead of telling others to stop while you still play.

But I do agree the game plain Sucks at this point, hence why I stopped playing.

Originally posted by xenex413

yet you still play the game and troll the forums flaming everyone all day, if you really feel this way about the game then STOP playing it yourself instead of telling others to stop while you still play.

 

But I do agree the game plain Sucks at this point, hence why I stopped playing.

after 2221 hours? you are a real masochist.

Originally posted by Arcken

Originally posted by xenex413

yet you still play the game and troll the forums flaming everyone all day, if you really feel this way about the game then STOP playing it yourself instead of telling others to stop while you still play.

 

But I do agree the game plain Sucks at this point, hence why I stopped playing.

after 2221 hours? you are a real masochist.

if you actually read I said "at this point", which means as the original poster said the game decayed and has gone down the drain, next time read well before replying.

Originally posted by xenex413

 

Originally posted by Arcken

Originally posted by xenex413

yet you still play the game and troll the forums flaming everyone all day, if you really feel this way about the game then STOP playing it yourself instead of telling others to stop while you still play.

 

But I do agree the game plain Sucks at this point, hence why I stopped playing.

after 2221 hours? you are a real masochist.

 

if you actually read I said "at this point", which means as the original poster said the game decayed and has gone down the drain, next time read well before replying.

I was making a small joke, had I known you were going to flip out like it was a personal attack, I wouldnt have wasted the effort. Truly humor is lost on you. You know what they say, if you dont use it, you lose it.

Originally posted by Arcken

Originally posted by xenex413

 

Originally posted by Arcken

Originally posted by xenex413

yet you still play the game and troll the forums flaming everyone all day, if you really feel this way about the game then STOP playing it yourself instead of telling others to stop while you still play.

 

But I do agree the game plain Sucks at this point, hence why I stopped playing.

after 2221 hours? you are a real masochist.

 

if you actually read I said "at this point", which means as the original poster said the game decayed and has gone down the drain, next time read well before replying.

I was making a small joke, had I known you were going to flip out like it was a personal attack, I wouldnt have wasted the effort. Truly humor is lost on you. You know what they say, if you dont use it, you lose it.

oh shi-

Originally posted by CherokeeRain

Archlord is a loser...as are most free games because you stand a huge chance of getting hacked in these games.  There is no safety net to prevent hacking and if your system does not have good enough security..you will surely get hacked.  There is also the giant problem of the farmers...gold sellers and griefers all over making the game a pain in the arse to play.  The "game" itself is good...just not playable as a free thingy.  I now prefer to spend money each month join a game that I know will not have hackers. Even though I have awesome security... it still makes me upset.   

IMHO the idea of a free game is rediclous anyway since in order to play well...you really need to spend money and in "free games" you will spend lots more then if you are paying a monthly fee.

My opinions :).

Are you joking?  I guess you haven't played Lineage 2 which has tons and tons of farmers and bots and hackers.  Even WOW has bots and such.  I don't think there is a P2P game out there I've played that doesn't have bots and hackers in it.  Just because a game is pay doesn't mean its free of hackers and bots, pkers and gold farmers.  If you want a game that has no cheaters then you have to get in on it early on before hackers make the bot programs and such otherwise your stuck.  Free or not there people out there that just can't help but cheat and screw things up for everyone who wants to actually play the game. 

Archlord does have its problems though, I admit that.  They brought it out to early and with tons of bugs so people didn't buy it and now that its free people play but if they think its worth their while to fix it they will, if not then they'll loose all their players and they'll take the game down.