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1 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 I'm glad I bought it here for less than half the retail price!, 2007-09-04
Because it is definitely not worth full price. I'd been wanting to try this game for a while, hearing about being able to ride dragons and things and control the flying parts of the game sounded cool. It was fun for a while, after I spent two days going back and forth with tech support trying to figure out why it did not work. After their ideas bore no fruit, I decided to take matters into my own hands and looked at the INI file. It was as simple as changing the default resolution from 1280x1024 to 1024x768, my monitor is the only part of my computer that has remained the same for the last 12 years and does not support higher settings. From there it was just a matter of making a character and starting the game. It was fun for a while, I played it for two days before I ran into some major problems. One more day than I played WOW before I gave up on it, but that was only a demo and cost me nothing. Anyway, the first problem was that there are nasty things too close to the newbie area. I saw the only hostile creature in the area two seconds before it saw me, and since it was 4 levels higher it made short work of me. The second problem is a lack of exact location determination, your waypoint is marked on your compass and on your map but only a general idea of where that person or place is will be shown. The mini map does not zoom in enough to detail where it is, and I gave up on the game all together when I was told my trainer was in a temple that I spent 20 minutes circling the solid rocks that the map and compass said contained him. A simple trail like the EQ games have would have made this situation not become so frustrating. I'll keep an eye on VGPlayers for updates, but my last 25 days on the free 30 are going to be unused and I'm going to be sure to cancel the subscription until I see an update that fixes these problems. I was not looking forward to the bad parts of other MMORPGS (which were patched to remove them) like corpse retrieval and harvesting to make little pieces to be combined later, but now I don't have to worry about that.
1 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Go elsewhere, 2007-08-17
The game itself is flawed and buggy. There are major lag issues. It's not all bad as there are a few well thoughtout aspects in the game. Unfortunately, early players found ways to hack in-game gold and other monies so the economy is way off center. They may have worked out some of their issues but I wouldn't bank on it.
1 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 Worst online game I've ever played, 2007-08-10
Even with an above average computer, I had to reduce the graphic settings down to a bare minimum, making it so ugly that it was painful to look at. Even then I had terrible lag when I was near a congested area or town. Very very grahpics unfriendly game. The gameplay and quests weren't great either. When my level 4 character died the game spawned me in a place next to much higher level creatures and it was impossible to safely return to the newbie grounds without asking for help. At that point I quit in frusteration and never went back.
1 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Wasted Potential, 2007-08-04
What could have been a good game is ruined by laggy play and the inclusion of all the worst "time wasting" parts of RPGs... interminable travel times, body recoveries and endless "Kill X number of X beast and report to me" quests. Everything just moves sooo slowly...
Not enough people to play and insanely uber computer required, 2007-07-20
I was really excited about this game and even played it in beta. Having played WoW, SWG and DDO, I have to say this is probably a pass. I got my character to level 33 and though it can be enjoyable at some points you need a group and it is difficult to find people. I am on one of the most popular servers.
The game also requires _the_ latest hardware to play. I thought I had a pretty uber computer, but the performance is terrible even on the "balanced" setting. I basically had to set it to triangles and squares in some situations...the trees looked like dangling cocoa puffs.
One thing I did learn from this is after they charge your credit card, cancel the game (any game) so when the game time expires you know you are renewing and charging your card. I got stuck with more months than I am interested in. All these games work this way.
I enjoyed WoW alot more, but this was probably better than DDO
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