ArcheAge

[LordBerenger]

Good timing on the release, and it sucks your soul in and keeps it forever.

Tru. Only thing i dislike with WoW is the setting. I don't really love fantasy games such as that really that much. I for example prefer much more a Star Wars, Mass Effect, Fallout MMO than a fantasy with swords, magic and stuff like that. But the gameplay features and stuff in WoW is amazing.

[Umbra]

I doubt anyone here still plays this lol

I just reinstalled 

[Christo]

Tru. Only thing i dislike with WoW is the setting. I don't really love fantasy games such as that really that much. I for example prefer much more a Star Wars, Mass Effect, Fallout MMO than a fantasy with swords, magic and stuff like that. But the gameplay features and stuff in WoW is amazing.

Did you play and enjoy any of the Warcraft games back then? I played the hell out of Warcraft III, so that's why WoW could draw me in so easily.

[Voso]

I doubt anyone here still plays this lol

I know quite a few people still playing this. Its gotta be the best f2p mmorpg out right now, despite its many flaws.

[Gravoth_iii]

Went fishing and got 142g from a single trip, 2 large, 1 medium and 5 smalls. Dem golds. This game is the best fishing simulator, dont judge me.

[Vibe]

its the best ripping people of their money simulator

[Gravoth_iii]

Bought 1 patron on launch, then f2p. Feelsgoodman.jpg, just fish for labor pots and live the dream.

[Vibe]

A necro, but a legit one.

This game is coming back under the name ArcheAge: Unchained on October 15th. The publisher company that handled this game previously went under and got taken over by a different EU publisher. They are making a special version of ArcheAge called Unchained, with no pay2win in the cash shop, only cosmetics.

The game will have an entry price, starting at 25$ (no subscription!).

The old legacy servers (pay2win) will continue running in parallel, but there will be no connection between the two.

Since most of the people played this game back in 2014/2015, there have been a number of updates since then, too many to go through, with a lot of changes for the better and some bad ones in between. The latest update (6.0) comes with a bunch of graphical improvements to the game:

[Gravoth_iii]

Aw hell, i loved archeage, but im knee deep in wow. Maybe i'll find some time

[Ikarus]

so, what makes this game good?

[Vibe]

It's just a properly done MMO with a few features that make it stand out: sea/naval warfare, unique trading system, open pvp, castle sieges and faction warfare, ability to own your own piece of land and use it to grow your wealth, piracy. Honorable mention to OST that is only beaten by FFXIV when it comes to MMO music, imo.

[Gravoth_iii]

Agreed, i really like the soundtrack a lot. And yeah, mmo aspects are all good. Not log in and do daily quests, but more like you can log in and always find something to do. (though there are daily quest'ish aspects like the farming, probably more stuff i cant remember).

I just spent 90% of my time fishing on my fishing boat.

[Vibe]

Not log in and do daily quests, but more like you can log in and always find something to do.

Well... sadly that's not true anymore There's quite a bit of daily quest stuff you want to do for optimal growth, but the sandboxy stuff is still all there if you want to do it.

As I mentioned in my necro post, many good changes with some bad ones sprinkled in. Overall from what I read I think they made the game better and more balanced. The three biggest gripes I had with the game back in 2015 are all basically gone: pay2win, gear upgrading RNG and hackers/hacking landgrabbers.

[Gravoth_iii]

Im a little hyped now, i hope i can juggle 2 mmos. Depends on the rank grind in wow...

edit: reading up on it some more it seems we are not getting the original release, but the recent one. There seems to be a lot of changes and i dont know much about them from experience, but generally a lot of it sounds bad. I hope since its a local company doing this now, we can perhaps see community input make changes that actually interest western audiences.

[Vibe]

Im a little hyped now, i hope i can juggle 2 mmos. Depends on the rank grind in wow...

edit: reading up on it some more it seems we are not getting the original release, but the recent one. There seems to be a lot of changes and i dont know much about them from experience, but generally a lot of it sounds bad. I hope since its a local company doing this now, we can perhaps see community input make changes that actually interest western audiences.

I originally thought the changes were all bad as well, but I let myself get convinced that in terms of balance and frustration the game is in a better state now, but for that some of the sandboxiness was sacrificed. What did you hear that you didn't like?