"Originally posted by redjohn22

This game will crash and give you BSOD no matter what type comp you have... "

I have a Barton 2500+ (old Athlon type CPU), 1 GB RAM, 6600GT graphics card and i can say this game never crashed to me, unless i did something i should do (running many highly demanding aplications toghether with the game). My pc was mid range in 2005, now it's a very low end pc...

What makes me love this game is actually it's turn base, and you can controll 9 character instead of 1.

Which is very different from other mmorpg.  Which is just a clone of each other.

The reason this game is top rated is simple, its NOT a clone, and the "idea" of it is great.

In order to seperate this game from other MMO's is simply to rate it max, which does justify the rating.

All of these other "clone" games have ratings in the 7's and 8's, mostly from people who can barely run a psx emulator on their pc. Those games don't deserve 7's and 8's either, filled with bugs, and big one, again, CLONES. Cloning games is ok to a certain limit.

However, in the past..........4 years? All we have been see'ing is clone after clone with NO unique MMO's, just devs trying to copy the "old" good thing and bank on it. Its all about the money.

NDOORS took a chance and made something new and different, it wasn't so much about the money.

So, while I agree it doesn't deserve a 9, it does NOT deserve to be in the same rating classes as other MMO's on this site that are clones. Therefor, the only way to signify atlantica as "above" the clones is to rate it well, cause it does at least deserve that much (not be in same ratings as the clones)

Because more people played it, liked it, and rated it high.  That answer your question? or maybe did you just want everyone to know that "you" dont like it?

In addition to the above, I do like atlantica.

However, as so many people have stated it gets boring fast.

Around level 30 is where the repeatative (sp?) thing kicks in, most people will stop here, including my wife. Who enjoyed it at first but refuses to even look at the game now cause she doesn't see anything new and exciting in the games future.

If you happen to make it to the 40+'s where you start recruiting quests the game instantly got fun again, but...this also got old and didn't last. I got to about 70 before I became officially bored.

There are some things that would've eliminated that boring factor here.

1. Stop raising the level cap, its rendering old content pointless instead of building on it, and most people get bored before 70, which basically cuts off any effectivness of the patches that add things to level 70+.

A good stop WOULD have been between 70-80, although its too late now...... hopefully they stop where they are at.

2. Making mercenaries varied in levels to recruit in such a major level difference. Some level difference is nice and interesting, however by the time your 50... you should be able to recruit ALL the different mercs in the game. This gives players classes even more uniqueness, instead of see'ing a friend the same level as you with just about the EXACT same setup..... granted theres going to be little differences.... but more or less its the same. Of course this doesn't apply to levels 100+ but like I said, most people get bored before 70 with the game.

3. There could be tons more content that requires you to be with 2 other people in the party. The summon npc party thing is nice for the dungeon bosses if no one is around, but the most fun I've had when playing is when I actually was doing events I couldn't do without other people.

4. Put level restrictions on certain boss fights, or events in general. I.E. you get leveld down for the boss fight so you can't solo it.

This keeps the quest fun even when repeating it cause its constantly a challenge. And you constantly have a need to play with others, or if you really want it bad enough you can summon an npc party by spending a moderately hurting ammount of gil at the Auction house.

5. The item mall..... I have NO problems with certain things being on the mall as long as they can be obtained with effort in game as well.

My grip about the mall in this case may be unusual. They sell packages that to ME are key to having fun in the game. Without the packages to see health, warp to cities fast from anywhere etc should not be something you need to pay for. Waiting around for someone for 50 minutes at the bottom of the dungeon cause they can't warp there but you can kind of negates the purpose of having the package. And having a cannoneer in party just to see enemy health isn't something I wanted to do, and eventually lead to me quiting the game. I would have been fine with buying the packages, but if everyone doesn't have it you party with you might as well not get it, and I can't stand NOT having it........ The license packs shouldn't be something charged for, cause it hurts paying customers as well.

I would have dropped a ton of money on the mall in other items....IF the package was free full time. But instead I quit when the 30 days free package promo ended cause I couldnt stand playing without it, and couldn't stand if I did have it others did not and I had to wait forever and HAD to have cannoneer in party to see enemy HP......

6. If they had stopped at 70-80 people would have perhaps endured a few boring levels in order to get to endgame events.

And in the events they could put gears that you can ONLY get by part taking in. Not by getting in the item mall.

If I had the mall my way, I would sell a one time permanent license to "Gain Access" to certain endgame events. That would not grant me gear, I would need to win the event and get lucky on the drop or gain points from the event for winning and when I got enough could buy the item from an NPC (so you dont have to argue who gets the item with friends you did the event with)

Maybe if they plan on making atlantica 2.... these are somethings they could consider.

The potential for this game is so great, the community is awesome, but as it is they keep failing on they're patches... not fixing current issues and making that boring factor even worse then it has been by extending level increases.

If they had offically cut the level cap at 70-80 ... and made it so all current mercs were obtainable in the 50's (and rebalanced them so one is extremly overpowered over the other)....... they could've focused on content for within the levels, and perhaps we currently would NOT have so much of a boring stretch in xp grinding........ But again... instead of building on top of what they have, they're "adding" content to levels 75% of starting players aren't wishing to reach, cause even then..... is there really many endgame events that wont be rendered useless later? Useless cause they keep raising the damn cap!

P.S. The community is indeed great, I think ONE person out of my 500 600 pvp matches had a "WOW" mouth on them for losing(or winning in someones case).

/end rant

Actually I don't get bored with the game because of it's pvp system which is unique like others say... And you can rarely see this kind of pvp nowadays... unlike other mmo clones...

Originally posted by Celebi

Actually I don't get bored with the game because of it's pvp system which is unique like others say... And you can rarely see this kind of pvp nowadays... unlike other mmo clones...

I agree, when I retract my previous statement.

I actually did get another few months out of this game cause of the PVP, but thing is about that.

1. Not everyone wants to pvp to xp

2. The boring factor still exists for those that don't

Thats great they have more then 1 way to xp, but still, even you who like AO admitted to xp grinding to get boring fast. And they're just ignoring the community about it. (I know you didn't flat out say it, just kind of seems like you implied)

So much potential

Originally posted by vixen2

I don't understand why this game has such a high rating, I didn't find it that great.  It's turn based which is old and time consuming, the graphics aren't that great, the quests aren't innovative, and it's item mall based which generally sucks more money out of players than a p2p game.  Some fanboys must be pumping this score up, or devs from the company, because this game is yuck.

the crafting system is better then p2p the guild system is better then p2p the game play is different but its ok the tiems have a degree of collectablity and then pvp is fairly balanced

the game is above avg and out does a p2p in 2 areas they will get it a high rating

the problem is the cons for the game are just as bad, but no alot of the votes are made after just a short time of playing a most players only play a short time so its understandable the rateing

although its customer service rate should be at 1 if you dealt with them then you know that

@Unrealdj

You need a Artilerist (lv 30 D class merc) and not a canoneer (lv 87 C class merc) to see the opponents health. And most people don't take the artilerist because of this part of the skill but for the very heavy defense decrease that this skill does to the enemy. You can kill enemies twice as fast if you cast deep insight on them.

And also, there'sa lot of ways to do in the game not just grinding because you can gain exp just in Free league alone.... And one more thing that makes me stck to the game is that I'm waiting to the TBS(tactical Battler System.. and they called this a Atlantica Troy, if you haven't know about this you can check out this video:

atlantica.hangame.com/center/troy/html/main.asp

So this game is really cool never saw other turn based game that has open a TBS as cool as this one.

 I found the game to be quite boring so I am not sure why it is so highly rated.

I dont play anymore, but when i did, i found the game refreshing and entertaining. This game is, bar none, the most polished free to play game out there. It is "constantly" receiving updates and new content. The GMs are very active and hold events in game. Prizes are always being given away. Any problems you may encounter are handled quickly.

This game has an immense amount of support. Soooooo many NA players. Alot more than you'd expect from your typical asian grind fest. Which it eventually does become unless you spend in the item mall. Speculations of score boosting should be laid to rest. It's a deserved score for a very decent game.

I played the game to level 103.  It is a very different (in a good way) game and the quest line does a GREAT job introducing you to how to play the game and use it's features I wish more games would do this.  The game also has great ideas like donating to noobs as part of quests and other great things like trading what you don't need for what you do.  The cash shop used to have a package that gave you teleportation, auto-battle, and 3 other things that made the game much easier for about $15 a month (normal sub fee) and almost all other things can be purchased on the market but you will have to grind the gold for it.  The PvP being turn based like the rest of the game involves a lot of strategy on what classes you have and what classes the other person has.  I have seen people regularly beat people 10-20 levels above them.

The down sides are the cash shops return rate on boxed for gear and mounts is well below what it should be, when the main item in the box is one of 20 possible items then you should over time get it once in ever 20 boxes but with about 400 boxes opened I got 6 of the unique items.  I also heard  through my old guild leader GM's can be paid $5 a box to guarantee the unique item each time, and I am pretty sure it's true when you see the message pop up 5 times in about 20 seconds that so and so go a unique item each time.  Once you reach lvl 90 the game SLOWED down for me and I found I had to grind more and more before I could finish quests lines.  The game punished the gold buyers and not the sellers (not a bad thing) there are bots all over the game but if you receive a large sum of gold they are quick to flag and ban your account.

In all it was a great experience to level 90 for me after that it was a repetitive grind, but I would suggest giving it a try.

Boring for some.. because we have different preference when it comes to the games.... for me still unique... specially when the TBS comes this is one of the anticipated feature! weeee