New ArcheAge thread.
The last one died due to bump limit.
Summary of the last one:
>P2W cash shop is basically gone but sub is pretty much mandatory
>TrinoPLS fired the old team back late last year and the new one is doing much better
>returning players get a bunch of cool shit
>boats are heavily customizable and physics based now
>labor is equal online and offline
>bots and hacks are kill for 8 months and running
>lots of people are rejoining
>random streamers are playing (possibly for money)
Anyone have any more questions about the current state of the game?
Before all the shill posting youre gonna get, this sounds fun but im gonna need some video evidence of how the game has improved
>>342134037
You could always look at Kripparrian's broadcast from yesterday. Had about 16k viewers and ran for ~7 hours.
No one else?
All questions answered?
>p2w cash shop is gone
Explain this to me. Are those shitty crystals gone? Is crafting still gated behind ridiculous RNG?
>>342135516
The archeum crystals are still in the game, but they're a dime a dozen and not in the cash shop.
Explain what exactly a f2p player cant do without a sub to the game
>>342135516
>>342135668
They removed all of the P2W bullshit besides labor potions which they throw at you in game like candy at children on halloween.
Most costumes, vehicle plans, upgrade items, ect are now from login rewards and achievement tokens.
>>342135668
>>342135842
Sounds amazing. Too bad I played on Caleil and that server was beyond repaireable. I just want to defile shitty nuians again
>>342135828
You cannot own land and your labor (crafting stamina) does not regen online. You can, however, buy a sub with a plex-like system using ingame currency.
>>342135958
Does not regen offline*
>>342135948
They merged a lot of servers, and they now have server transfers for ~15USD.
>>342136081
>we will never ever own Idolland again
Fuck it log in and see what changed.
Eve player here
Would I like this game
>>342137459
It has compareable mechanics but not nearly as deep as EVE. I enjoy both games a lot for different reasons.
I liked the combat in this game and the world was pretty nice to explore, so I might download it again.
How big is the folder now?
>>342137546
Well, I'm a nullbaby so maybe it'll give me something to do when there's no fleets running
>>342137745
Going into enemy territory with a small group, steal tradepacks and haul them across the ocean while huge ships are hunting you is pretty fun. I really enjoyed small sized skirmishes
>>342137565
~10gb download
~20gb extracted
>>342137459
It's a fantasy eve with pirates and the ocean. It's not as deep with the micro management, but pretty much everything including plex is intact.
>>342135958
How much do patron tokens cost nowadays?
What exactly happened in the game that caused them to pull the pay 2 win stuff off cash shop, i'm confused why they would suddenly do this now.
>>342138035
Depends on the AH cluster.
On kraken they're 550-600g which you can make in ~12 hours of fishing.
How is the population? it was absolutely dead last time I checked. That was on Kyrios, the most popular server
people actually believe this?
what the fuck happened to this place
>>342138128
Because it had completely died. They're trying, and largely succeeding, to resurrect it.
>>342138206
There were ~90 people in Austera at any time last night on kracken. Aurora is as busy as ever.
It's not alpha level of 40,000 vs 40,000 on ever land mass at all times, but the pop is growing again.
>>342138405
Try it yourself. It's all legit.
yep, sounds like a new team alright!
I'm going to need a link
>>342138634
>gm wants to stop barrens-tier politics spamming
How is this a bad thing?
>>342138690
What kind of link?
>>342138634
>waaah why can't I shit up this online game with inflammatory political bullshit
I bet you post off-topic /pol/ shit on /v/ too
>>342137962
>>342137459
>>342137546
>>342137916
>it's basically fantasy eve
Welp, dropped.
I'm always the dumb faggot that gets looted.
>>342138819
Censoring the opinions of their players because they don't like them? I bet if he were speaking positively about Shilary it would be fine.
>>342138895
There are safe zones.
Not as profitable, but no worries about getting rekt there.
>>342138819
Some sort of evidence things have changed.
>>342138990
Nice strawman, broseph.
>>342139072
There's patch notes all over the main site.
>>342139141
I'm just pointing out the facts bro. It's only because he's speaking positively about Trump that theres a problem.
>>342139292
Then log on, spam about shillary, and post results here.
>>342139141
You mean the 2.9 patch or what?
Can't find anything relevant there
trion even paid kripparrian to play this for a few hours. fucking hilarious because you could see how much he absolutely hated the entire game and how UNFUN it is.
>>342139528
They've been working at it since 2.5.
>>342133887
Wait are you kidding?
I actually really liked the game, is any of the houselording cancer still in? Is the pirate island no longer inhabited purely by bots? Can I actually win in random pvp without paying for gear?
>>342139559
Kripp hates everything these days including his own life and I'm waiting for the day he kills himself
>>342139673
They give all returning players a mid-to-high end gear set to allow you to compete.
Bots are kill.
Castles are restricted to 1-per-guild.
There are ~5 new large landmasses without castles added since launch and a shit ton of islands.
>>342138458
>largely succeeding, to resurrect it.
Are there stats for this that has a timeframe larger than a weekend?
>>342135958
>You cannot own land
When it came out i was able to own a piece of land as a f2p player. I think i bought some land thingamajigger from someone. Cant do that anymore?
>>342140032
3 of the US servers have been hitting high for the first time in over a year during peak hours the last week or so.
Kyrios
Kraken
Morpheus
>>342140207
Oh you can. You buy apex (plex) from other players using gold and then get a sub for a month with that.
Exactly like eve.
There much endgame content?
>>342140958
>theme park babies asking about MUH ENDGAME in a sandbox MMO
lol
>>342140958
There are 5 raids, 2 zones dedicated entirely to end-game PvP, a land-based mega-boss, and 3 oceanic mega-bosses.
Not as much PvE raiding content as WoW and FFXIV, but shit-tons of sandbox stuff to do and great open-world PvP.
>>342141198
So i guess that means no
>>342133887
This has to be a shill thread. I played this game hardcore for like 2 years, in competitive guilds fighting over bosses daily and pushing organized large scale pvp.
There is nothing to go back to. The new community manager is a literally tyranny sjw. They ban you on the forums and in game for cussing or discussing anything controversial even mentioning Donald trump for example.
P2W never ever left the game and never will. Trion is incapable of making any changes to the game directly all they can do is price the cash shop and give suggestions to the Korean developers. And the developers are just like most Asian devs. They don't listen to the community and since the game was new archery has been so weak it's useless while melee classes seriously 2 shot everything.
They are paying kripparian and other twitch streamers to play their game and try to spark interest in their dead game.
The only positive about the game is that the devs suck at tracking gold sellers so I was able to cash put my account for like a grand.
>>342139934
source on anything you're saying? This used to be one of my favorite MMOs
>>342141378
>jaded NEET /pol/fag who's stuck in the past
Okay.
>>342141513
My experiences over the last week.
It's free to try. Check it out yourself.
>>342133887
I heard there were a lot of complaints because in order to farm things you had to basically spend real money to be able to do so, is this true?
So the mounts and gliders have been made different again? Fuck though, you can't get me to come back to this pile of shit.
>>342141378
these are all the things I was worried about, I bought into the game for founders package to play alpha and loved the game, I never spent a day in retail when I saw what the cash shop was like. Between what you are saying and OP I'm not sure what to believe.
>>342135958
How much is the subscription?
>>342139673
I fucking love huge ass worlds, even if its tons of dead space.
>>342141625
Are you the OP?
>>342138634
This is good and i'm glad they are doing it.
>>342141378
OH and you say it's not P2W but i still talk to people who play the game and apparently Trion just made regarding easier, something like divine doesn't break anymore I think? And old friends of mine have spent money trying to up their gear and got jack shit. That's the definition of P2W because you can still buy APEX for $10 and sell it for 500-600gold and I personally was in a guild with people who dumped tens of thousands of dollars to have godly gear and they still are geared like gods to this day.
>>342141378
I'll never, ever support a game that hires mentally-ill people and puts them in charge of the community or anything other than non-public work.
>>342141851
a part of me is bothered by this shit because during alpha I was begging for GMs to get involved and take care of gold sellers and they wouldnt touch chat. In a 150$ buy in alpha there were fucking gold sellers and trion wouldnt do a damn thing about it. Now fleeting mentions of politics has them descending to give a damn apparently.
>>342141819
Yes.
>>342141752
Standard fare $14USD per month or 1 apex which can be bought from other players for varying amounts depending on the server/cluster.
>>342141737
His info is outdated as of when he quit which sounds like right before they purged the old team. His complains were proper, and I had many of the same when I first quit back in Jan '15.
>>342142139
The new team cares a LOT.
Bots are completely gone.
>>342141514
You can call me whatever you want but nothing I said was untrue. This game is a nightmare on so many levels and trying to hide that to lure people to playing it won't work. The game cannot be picked up by new players anyway because getting good gear without a credit card takes 10 hours of game play a day for a year to catch up.
I have 6000 hours logged into this game on steam and probably another 10k for the first year that this game was removed from steam. I've been through it all and I know what I'm talking about. It took overwatch to break me from the addiction and I'm glad I can finally walk away from the computer.
>>342142917
Mhmm.
>>342139934
>returning players
Uh fuck I'm tempted
Did they balance the skill trees at all? I really wanted to be a greatsword tank but the skills weren't really there
>>342141812
Gliders make the game really shine imo
>>342133887
Already gave away all my stuff when I quit, sorry
>>342143482
They give returning players a 3500 level mid-to-high end celestial set and weapon as well as gems and stones for it.
Not worth playing unless we actually see a brand new server without ways of people bringing their retarded shit in, including using labor pots in other servers to raise labor.
>>342143406
Yes and no. They're as balanced as they are in Korea since 2.9 is a copy/paste of the Korean version.
They're WAY more balanced than they were, but not perfect.
What is this new team? Trino is Trino.
>>342133887
have they optimized it a bit better?
>>342143678
They literally did that a few months ago with Morpheus and say they'll keep doing it every so often.
>>342143827
No scapes, no fat whores, just a dude and some of the rift team.
>>342142213
Stop lying I played this game until March 2016. That's only 3 months ago. I just checked the livestream archive from last week and it's the same people; Celestrata the tranny who only got their character to level 18 before they were hired as community manager, Amary the down syndrome faced sjw who told the community to "deal with it" when they spammed ladyboy kappa in the chat, Khrolan the only person who actually played the game to know how it works.
Pic related is my playtime on steam which is only a fraction of full playtime because Archeage was removed from steam after Trion wasn't honoring steam's policy and it took over a year of negotiations to get it back up.
Take it from a veteran in the truest sense. Stay away from this game.
>This obvious shill thread.
I quit playing 2 or so months ago, and its still just as shit as when /v/ decided it was shit.
Gear regrading is still RNG based, and you can lose all your money just trying to get gear.
You can still buy Apex and sell it for gold, the absolute definition of pay to win.
OP said you can customize boat parts, right? Well he left out you need to regrade them to be worth a shit which costs a fuck ton of money, of course
DO NOT BE FOOLED: The game is as pay to win as ever, a set of celestial gear (the absolute minimum needed for PVP) is still a huge fucking investment that some retards can just PAY REAL MONEY for.
Also, the PVP is now as fucked as ever, with 3 classes dominating all of PVP and every other class being useless as fuck.
The game is fucked and beyond Jewish. Do not be tempted and go back, its the same old shit.
Tripcode has been put on for this thread f you have any questions, by all means ask away
>>342144451
They literally give returning players a full set of celestial soulforged and equivalents.
Regarding just got completely overhauled last week.
Your complains are outdated.
>>342144654
>They literally give returning players a full set of celestial soulforged and equivalents.
So, fuck everyone who worked for gear, we need new players so LOL FREE CELEST FOR EVERYONE
And all this shit does is make celest gear worth less, rather than be the new standard.
Retarded as fuck, and helps nothing.
>Regarding just got completely overhauled last week.
Go on?
>>342144451
I was in full divine with a few epics and 2 epic weapons. Almost everyone in my guild had epic weapons. We were the cream of the crop in that game and only a few other guilds were comparable. The last golden moments of that game was when they opened server transfers and every good guild went to kyrios for a massive 3 faction war, a hundred players on each side duking it out with enoans.
That will never happen again because when all the strong guilds clashed they burned each other out after having to contest world bosses 12 hours straight that weren't designed to be split between a few hundred people. Your guild collectively burned more gold on pots than the boss you're contesting rewarded.
>>342144654
Socialism doesn't work. They give celestial to newbs and piss off players who can't get to divine. Suddenly divine becomes the bare minimum and everyone who thought they were ahead of the game is at the bottom.
So players push for epic. Thanks to Korean RNG regarding divine to epic is a 5% success rate with a 95% chance to break the item. They break their gear and quit the game because they lost everything to a gamble. The only people I knew in full epic were guild masters and oil princes. You need to swipe to get that kind of gear because luck will only carry you so far.
>>342141812
whats good about the dead space is that a lot of it is filled with secret/"illegal" farms that people try to hide away, so exploring areas around the fringes and off the map is worth it
>>342144776
>>342146054
Only returning players, not brand new ones get the soulforged sets.
Regrading RNG was completely overhauled, and you can't even start downgrading until divine.
so why are the steam ratings still total shit?
>>342133887
>>P2W cash shop is basically gone but sub is
Holy shit they actually removed,i stopped playing for like a week and was about to shit on but god damn man, wtf happened?
>>342146809
>Holy shit they actually removed,
He's talking shit.
>>342141378
Fuuuuck i played for 2 years too and you made a fuckin grand cashing out? i only made like 400 bucks selling gold on player auctions. I would consider joining again if there was a new fresh start server since this new patch because the game was totally fucked.
>>342147130
Morpheus is fresh start server thing.
>returning players
Haha you guys have no fuckin idea how geared the players on the servers are and how much money the whales have dumped into their gear. The game was basically just a bunch of whales competing to see who could spend the most cash. All the free to play players left the game and it was fucken barren. Thats the environment you're going to play in, a barren waste land with a bunch of gods you will never catch up too.
Is the game fun for a casual player who's not really interested in getting deep into endgame content? I recall playing it a long time ago and I had fun stealing peoples outdoor plants, gliding off tall hills, and rowing my boat. I never got to max level though.
>>342147354
Prepatch its ruined.
>if there was a new fresh start server since this new patch
Thats the only way people will play again.
Is sorcery still underpowered, because I remember quitting after realizing I could kill no one as a daggerspell since that shit got nerfed for no goddamn reason.
Also are land barons still a thing?
Are you still able to attack your own faction?
Whats the level cap now?
Is there any way to actually make gold as F2P now? Because it was basically impossible to get that amount as F2P.
>>342147716
what happened to it?
Still a shit game
>>342147730
>nerfed for no goddamn reason
>daggerspell
>the class that if you are competent at it you can keep someone frozen/inbubble/stunned for a solid minute
only a few classes could counter a masterfully played daggerspell and in order to do that you'd need to do stuff like frame cancel their bubbles and invuln switch through meteor. its fucking ridiculous how overpowered a master level daggerspell was
Can someone fill me in? Is Archeage revived or something?
>>342149364
Well I knew all the combos but was only average at it, largely because my computer was too shitty and ran the game at like 17 FPS. Also I had fucking zero gear and yeah I can keep you CCd for a while but I'll never burn down your HP, then my cds run out and you run up to me hit me and I die.
Then they nerfed it and I couldn't do shit.
It was disgusting how the average player was fucked over. If you didn't abuse that one cheat to grab tons of land in the initial land rush, you were basically fucked for the rest of the game.
game needs a full reset or new server or some shit i dont know
I was going to pick it up again, but reading the thread...
>banned from at all discussing Trump
Yeah, no. Guild Wars 2 was bad enough with SJW mods, I'm not going to touch this pile of shit as long as those mods still work. There are better MMO's to play that won't ban you for talking about news.
>>342151560
You're banned from discussing any politics, from what I understand.
>>342133887
>Anyone have any more questions about the current state of the game?
1.Are there still gambling boxes being sold?
2.Can you buy costumes and shit without gambling boxes?
I really loved ArcheAge but I don't think I can go back after how they treated us.
Had a fun time in beta and somewhat early release.
I bought the Archeum Fonder pack and regretted it massively a month down the line.
Kool game picked up by a shitty company.
>>342152570
This.
ArcheAges failure can be directly laid at Trions feet.
>>342133887
>Trannies in charge of community
Everytime
>P2W cash shop is basically gone but sub is pretty much mandatory
>TrinoPLS fired the old team back late last year and the new one is doing much better
I refuse to believe this horseshit. Trion US is an incapable company from the ground up, not just a few individual members.
>returning players get a bunch of cool shit
This only reaffirms my opinion that it's flopping. The start of giving away griffin mounts basically signaled that the game was in decline, let alone with the server merges.
>boats are heavily customizable and physics based now
Been like this for a while now. No real point in bother when most sea-warfare is dominated by zerg guilds and worthwhile inter-continental runs are all but luck to pull off successfully.
>labor is equal online and offline
Labor is still a cancer regardless. Once you start delivering 60 packs per run because you've max skill in economy, it's a complete drain and still a poor excuse to sell cash-shop labor pots.
>bots and hacks are kill for 8 months and running
This should be standard in all games, not an accolade.
>lots of people are rejoining
>random streamers are playing (possibly for money)
Great, so now we've secondaries and people doing it for le twitch fame. Exactly what we needed. Maybe their piss-poor PvP skills might be enough to water down warfare en masse.
The game died for me when they introduced the Haulers and Thunderstruck boxes. Everything before then you had to rightfully earn. The fact buying scarecrows with cash money even became an availability made me absolutely disgusted with the game.
Anyone from Calleill on the Nuian side reading, I still love you.:3 -lick-You know who you are.
>>342137459
>>342137745
As someone who went from this to Eve, I can say that the economy is much more micro in comparison. Unfortunately the bigger guilds don't choose to gear the markets in a way that corps in Eve do. Good luck in finding one / forming one though. Also >tfw C5 WH corp for life.
>>342133887
You forgot
>/v/ learn about the current status of Archeage because some faggot streamer went back to the game after he said he would never do this.
>>342133887
And all this happened through an update or something?
>>342154215
These games really fuck over the solo player like me. The autist thats incapable of making friends or getting a guild/corp.
>>342154587
If it's anything to you, I'm in a corporation of five people that live in WH space. The owner sold plex for an Astrahus and we keep to ourselves. I met them when looking for small corps that were hiring. Even still, look up day-tripping into wormholes. It's a great way to get your foot in the door. Just throw yourself out there.
>>342154587
Then sandbox MMOs aren't for you. I'm not particularly social but even I had no problem applying to a corp and flying with their fleets
Theme parks would fit you perfectly, you don't have to talk to a single damn person in those anymore
>>342133887
is farmland safe zones still? if not, fuck off.
>>342154587
Fuck you.
it sounds like all the servers are completely fucked on population balance
>>342156419
if so*
fuck you lame, boring ass carebears
>>342152263
Anyone?
>>342157251
Why do you hate me so, its not like I actually play your games.
>>342157251
I'm sorry friend. I just hate people who have ruined the genre and made everything into a wowclone.
I actually love you and every other user on this cantonese animation imageboard
>>342133887
>The last one died due to bump limit.
self bumps don't count you retarded shill
>>342157980
>farms no longer safe
>they get raided
>carebears quit
>no more farms
>no more goods
>no more traders
>raiders get bored
>no more raiders
>ded gaem
>>342159565
right now it's
>farms safe
>ded gaem
LMAO
>>342133887
>amazing game get fucked hard by Trion , rape it until his death.
Beta days will never be back
>>342141851
>>342138819
>>342138839
AMERICA IS ABOUT FREEDOM
THIS IS NOT FREEDOM THIS IS RUSSIAN BEHAVIOR !
Death to all commies death to all terrorists!
what are the meta classes right now? i used to be an earth cloth, spear using class with vita/shadow/battle
