Badly flawed

User Rating: 1 | ArcheAge PC

This game has quite a lot going for it, but 2 major problems break the game.

I'll start off with the good points.

It has very nice graphics. The quests aren't painful and not a problem to follow. Combat is fun with an interesting system of conditions that various attacks put on your target. So you use particular skills in order to make combos.

The economy of the game is very active and so much of what is used is player crafted. The crafting system is extensive and fun. You can get land and grow crops or animals and sell them on the AH, or use it to craft higher tier items. The more you practice crafts, the better chance for rare items to pop up, and access to higher tier crafting recipes.

OK, so the bad side.

Farming land and housing isn't instanced, and there is only a small amount "zoned" on each server. The net result is that the players that got in on day 1 own all the land and forget about it if you come late to the party. I even rerolled on one of the lowest population servers but I couldn't find a single plot of land anywhere. I looked through all the pve zones and most of the pvp zones, but nothing.

And to make matters worse there is talk of merging the low pop servers. That will only make it worse for new players and ensure the ultimate failure of this game.

Second major issue is broken pvp. In the pvp zones you can be attacked by your own faction, but the penalty for them doing so is they turn purple (able to be attacked) for a few minutes. They then turn back to green. If a purple is being healed by someone green, they stay green. (?) Did the developers even think about this? And you get a small penalty which can easily be negated. If you end up being sent to jail, its usually for 20 minutes or so and you can just go afk. So no real penalty.

This "green pirating" is used to steal trade packs which are then turned in for easy profit.

I predict this game will continue its bleeding of subscribers for another 6 or 12 months and then close. So don't waste your time or money.