Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Aug 24, 2022

  An MMO that respect your time!!! I've played this game for 10 years on and off and it doesn't matter if I have some stressfull months where I can't or don't want to play. You don't loose any progress and the gear stays relevant. Also nice story and good music and you can easily play the game for 2000 hours and not run out of things to do. Of course this game isn't perfect (nothing is). There are still some problems with balancing (last updates were good though), and the game is not the most complicated, which some people might want. All in all I would recommend to try the game for free and then see if you want to buy the expansions.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 24, 2022

  Been waiting for this for awhile... enjoying it so far.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 25, 2022

  I loaded up the game as a human, joined into the starting area to a mess of flying mounts and disco themed characters I guess? I tried leaving the area as there was an event on the bridge ahead, by the time I managed to reach it, it was completed. No big deal I though I must have just been late. I went on to other parts of the map and started helping a trader get along their route with the bull, within seconds multiple all max level accounts started killing anything around without a chance to even get close, I wish I could say this was the last time it happened but everywhere I went I felt mobbed by people trying to either be helpful or trying to kill things before I got there on purpose. I like the look of the game but if this is how things are I'm very upset with my first few hours, I really would like to just be left alone or at least have a chance playing with people at my level.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 25, 2022

  Really cool people. Great graphics. All around fun.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 25, 2022

  Been playing off and on for a decade now. I love that I can jump back into this game every few months and my max level characters and their gear are still relevant and able to participate in all content. I'm a huge fan of the horizontal progression philosophy, where I can just pick something to go after (mounts, equipment, mastery points, zone completion, etc.) and focus on achieving it for a few hours or days without a much in the way of prerequisites or any ilvl requirements. The non-traditional approach to questing is great, as you can just organically explore zones and participate in world events as they pop up as opposed to filling a quest log, finishing quests, then having to run them back to a quest giver.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 27, 2022

  Loving this game. I got the "comprehensive collection" (all expansions and living stories) and I can tell I'm going to be enjoying it for many, many gaming hours. Totally worth it for me!
• gamedeal user

  Aug 28, 2022

  If you have 3 jobs, 10 kids (and a decent amount of partners..) and no time to play MMO's, this one is for You. The best massive soloplayer online RPG out there. Can be an MMO too, if you want to. "Your Soul Is Mine!" 11/10
• Trumpette

  Aug 31, 2022

  One of the better F2P (B2P if you get the expansions) that I have seen on Steam. I played it briefly a couple years ago off steam, but didn't stick to it because of other time commitments. The main reason I like it is that the shop is not in my face. I can easily ignore it. Unlike a lot of other F2P MMOs I don't feel gimped in the inventory department by ignoring the cash shop. I had plenty of bags just dropping out in the world. Things I like 1. Combat is easy to pick up and intuitive. Being in water, you get a different set of attacks based on aquatic weapons. 2, Your attacks change based on the weapons you have equipped which makes for a variety of game play and similar to Elder Scrolls Online you can swap 2 weapon sets. I play warriors so wont speak about casters. I did Necromancer when I played the first time but I barely remember it. 3. Horizontal progression rather than the usual boring vertical where you keep growing in power. Once you cap, the gear you have is the gear you have and rather than being like WoW where you are constantly chasing gear you work on completionism (playing the game rather than redundant game play loop of chasing gear through the same set of dungeons only to have said gear get obsolete next patch/expansion) 4, Character creator is decent, the races are interesting enough except for one but more on that later. 5. Everything you do gives XP and exploration is rewarded. 6. You have a personal storyline per starter zone/race and I enjoy it a lot more than FF14 because in GW2 they respect my time rather than force me to sit through long cut scenes for a story I do not really give a crap about. The GW2 personal storyline is entertaining and gives you something to do rather than the FF14 style that basically treats you like a movie audience. 7. Free form enough where if you just want to go around murder hoboing you can. The "quests" are really just suggestions and the main story quest can be done at your pace. Unlike FF14 that forces you to progress in it to get to the content you actually want to play. 8. Cash shop is easy to ignore and never in your face the way Elderscrolls online is. It's there for those who want to do that sort of thing, but for those of us not into such things it is as if it does not exist. Cons. 1, Race choice is limited. There are two human races, regular humans and Norns who are basically giant nordic types. Giant is meant literally. A human female standing next to a Norn female she is like more than half my height. I play human, my first time playing I played Nord and Sylvari. Sylvari are like "elves" more on them later. There is also Charr, they are sort of like if you mixed a minotaur with a tiger. Then there are the Asura. Basically huge eared WoW gnomes. So 5 races, 2 of which are really the same thing (humans and Norns). 2. Sylvari are cabbage people. They are basically the "elves" but they are so heavily plant based in looks that to me they are visually unappealing. My take on it is if you are going to put in an Elf race, do it right. Just take the page from Tolkien and do them right. I like Elves, I want to play an elf, not a cabbage person with elf like qualities. Even the name, Sylvari is elven. I hate when game designers try to be fresh and original by ruining elves. They are perfect as they are depicted in traditional fantasy media -- they are elves after all. If you want to play an Elf and you like Elf stuff, this game wont deliver. They should have just called the race something planty like Greenfolk or Leafae (get it leaf fae) and I would not have this petty complaint. 3. Dwarves are mentioned but there are no playable dwarves. 4. When there are few players in your area the game spams you to let you know so you can move to a more crowded mapset. Most mobs, and ALL trash mobs are easily soloable so having more players in your area while leveling just slows you down. Let those of us who actually enjoy playing with few other players around enjoy the experience. After all, Sigurd didn't have any friends killing Fafnir. Yeah, yeah, I get that MMOs are Multiplayer. But most people like to solo play them anyways. Oh, and when they spam the message about few players, they give you an hour to accept moving to another world server instance with a buff. If you decline it, they move you anyways after that hour. Because waiting around for respawns is so fun, NOT.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 31, 2022

  fun and lots to do
• gamedeal user

  Sep 2, 2022

  kinda old but still kinda fun