LuvMonke
At the moment I got space, but I recently removed all my steam games. But I might put em back in the near future. I basically just wanna know if its crap or not. And I'm guessing not since you said there are both pros and cons. What are the cons?
The pro's are that it's not a point and click MMO. I mean, there are things you have to click and use hotkeys for, but it can be played using a gamepad. It's a beat-em-up MMO, where the dungeons work like those arcade games except at a different speed because of the difficulty of certain enemies. It's also free to play.
The cons are that...well...it's a Korean Free To Play game. And like most other Korean FTP games, they really aren't free to play. Or rather, they ARE free to play, and you can enjoy a lot of stuff without needing to pay a thing, but there are some things in it that you have to pay for that I find are too much of a headache.
1. The bank chest you get has few slots and limited weight capacity until you upgrade it. If you upgrade it once it doesn't cost a lot of money's worth of points at all, and you get more slots and unlimited weight capacity. So the first one is kindof worth it. But since it works off of the "weight" mechanic, you're going to sometimes find yourself having trouble with things you carry around.
2. You get a basic avatar that you can't change when you start the game, unlike the color/hair change that you can do in things like Ragnarok Online. In order to customize your avatar you need to buy avatar tokens, which gives you a random item from a particular slot. The choices change as time goes on, apparently, kindof like how Monthlies and Evolving Items aren't purchasable forever. It's like a random system on top of a limited system.
You'd think that the armor you collect would change up your avatar appearance, but it doesn't. The armor that gives you general stats is completely separate from appearance items. Appearance items also have their own stats, so people decked out in a lot of rare ones have another set of small boosts.
It's kindof like if you waste your money paying for it, you have a slightly easier time playing the game. :/
3. Because of how it started out, it was originally plagued with masses of Chinese farmers. Some still are around today, but you can imagine that the game economy is inflated. People sell things for millions of gold, and although I'm not at end level yet, so far getting millions doesn't seem like something you can get with a light grint. At least in WoW you can reasonably work your way up to a goal.
It would actually be a lot easier if you could sell things more easily. In other to open up a shop to sell things, you need to get a trading pass, which costs 4.50...per month. Soon they're going to implement an auction house for everyone that'll be free, thank god, but you'd still need the 4.50 a month thing in order to sell avatar items you want to get rid of, which is sortof understandable.
4. The worst sin of all is skill resets. You'd think it'd cost a good deal of gold to reset your skills like in RO, but that's not it. You have to buy this special reset item from their shop which costs 25 dollars worth of points. Now, you wont need to reset often or even at all if you did things right (or even if you did it wrong, since the game isn't THAT hard).
I only bought it once, when it was made cheaper due to an easter giveaway. That was actually a bad move, because once the game came out of beta in June, they gave every character over level 30 a free skill reset. :/
Rage was right. >_>
So yeah. It's a fun game but there are still problems. And apparently it has bad customer support based on what happened to Silver. I'd say if you're pressed for space it wouldn't be that worth it. x_x
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