If only I could read Korean :/
Game seems really deep, maybe too deep for western markets. Not sure I wanna grow trees in am mmo. Sounds too much like XI's gardening.
If only I could read Korean :/
Game seems really deep, maybe too deep for western markets. Not sure I wanna grow trees in am mmo. Sounds too much like XI's gardening.
Puts Western companies and their 'sandboxes' completely to shame. Wtf have they been doing?
Oshi.. Let's do thissssssssssssssssssssssss
Don't think I wanna do minecraftesque activities in an mmo either
But hey it could be great.
There is no lvl's only skills, and you can skill up anything you can think of. You can only max out 3 skills. Once you max out your 3 skills you can go into advance class, and that opens up new skills in that advance class.
Over 12 races (most haven't been officially announced yet), with 2 NPC factions. You pick what faction you want to belong. But you need to feed yourself, build a house to keep you dry. You can get married, have kids, grow a farm.
Has a day/night cycle. Season cycle. Rains can cause floods (and drown your house), snow accumulates in the winter. Making it harder to move.
Over time you can join a guild, and that guild can ditch the faction they belong to and start up their own faction. So now instead of 2 NPC factions, there are 3 factions on the server. The guild can build boats, cities, towns you name it. Soon many guilds will become strong enough to go their own way and soon there will be many factions on the server. So now you have PVP Darkfall/Eve online style.
You can have a guild that belongs to no faction. They are Pirate factions. Pirate factions don't have any land, but they can raise cities to the ground, burn peoples homes, rape your women and kill your kids, and take all your loot.
PVP is full loot, but their really isn't much of a death penalty, at this time. But people complained and they make do something about it.
That is about as basic as I can get. This game is very complicated.
Here is the opening cinematic
Gonna go out on a limb. This game is going absolutely nowhere, at least here in the states. Too much shit going on, and trying to go out of the standard too much reminds me of that MMO that flopped so hard not too long ago. Anyone remembered it's name?
Are you referring to Mortal Online or Darkfall?
There are a ridiculous amount of people that want a well funded sandbox MMO. Neither MO or DF were given the financial backing to give the players the level of quality to really be more than niche games. While it's obviously not going to sell millions of boxes, it will have an entire subclass of MMO to itself.
I tried googling it and nothing, but it wasn't DF or MO. You're right about the funding aspect of it though.
Thanks for the explanation Bombur! Do like the sound of it all, reminds me a bit of Eve, which I'm currently playing, though more depth and completely different environment.
@Alderaan - Figured it out, but now I'm ashamed to say it. :3
You thinking about Earthrise or Xyson, Fenux ? Both of those are niche sandbox games that are poorly funded. Earthrise being a complete disaster.
As for ArcheAge, it will never be huge over here in the west. But like Alderaan said, there are tons of us old farts that want a AAA sandbox MMO. Heck even Darkfall has like 60k subs, because people are so desperate to play a sandbox mmo.
But their are some positives, that Archeage has going for it. First is the head developer and creator, Jake Song. He is the Father of Korean MMO's, and in the Korean gaming industry he is considered a god. So when he speaks people will listen.
XLGames (Jake Songs new company) started with $300m won (30million us)for the initial budget of the development of ArcheAge, but has gotten export contracts for ArcheAge in several countries. Now he sits on top of $600m won+ extra funds/credits he can choose to utilize. With this much funding they decided to upgrade Archeage to Cry Engine 3.
That's right ArcheAge has a huge budget.
Remember, $300m is like $600m ~ $1200m if spent on game developers in korea. They get nearly half the salary compared to western developers while they work atleast twice more hours with no extra payments.XLGames got great talents, more than enough budget, and the will to make it all happen.
Or it could be the biggest flop of all time...lol
We will have to see.
XL Games has posted some new video shorts
All dungeons will be in the open world, no instances at all, you have to go find them.
A fly over of Falcon Plateau, people could build houses or cities up in the mountains for better protection.
More fly overs
As you know Arche Age has no jobs or lvl's, just skills. Just like in Eve Online and Ultima Online.
You can lvl up any kind of skill you want. For example f you lvl up your mount skills you can carry 2 players on a single mount. If you get your skills really high, you can even fight on your mount.
You can max out 3 skills and that opens up an advance class. Becasue of so many different combos, there are literary hundreds of different kinds of advance class you can get. These are some that people have found out in closed beta, that people have posted on the Korean forums.
[Skills] = Advance Class
[Fight]+[Illusion]+[Adamant] = Engineer
[Fight]+[Illusion]+[Will] = Contractor
[Fight]+[Illusion]+[Death] = Battle Mage
[Fight]+[Illusion]+[Wild] = Researcher
[Fight]+[Illusion]+[Magic] = Investigator
[Fight]+[Illusion]+[Vocation] = Assassin
[Fight]+[Illusion]+[Romance] = Drunkard
[Fight]+[Illusion]+[Love] = Consul
[Fight]+[Adamant]+[Will] = Warrior
[Fight]+[Adamant]+[Death] = Black Knight
[Fight]+[Adamant]+[Wild] = Wanderer
[Fight]+[Adamant]+[Magic] = Magic Knight
[Fight]+[Adamant]+[Vocation] = Daredevil
[Fight]+[Adamant]+[Romance] = Enamored knight (Not quite sure, but it has something to do with romance and knights)
[Fight]+[Adamant]+[Love] = Knight of Light
[Fight]+[Will]+[Death] = Battle Angel
[Fight]+[Will]+[Wild] = Inventor
[Fight]+[Will]+[Magic] = Tactician
[Fight]+[Will]+[Vocation] = Politician
[Fight]+[Will]+[Romance] = Poet
[Fight]+[Will]+[Love] = Monk
[Fight]+[Death]+[Wild] = Bandit
[Fight]+[Death]+[Magic] = Outcast
[Fight]+[Death]+[Vocation] = Scout
[Fight]+[Death]+[Romance] = Berserk
[Fight]+[Death]+[Love] = Martial Arts Master
[Fight]+[Wild]+[Magic] = Champion
[Fight]+[Wild]+[Vocation] = Spy
[Fight]+[Wild]+[Romance] = Battle bard
[Fight]+[Wild]+[Love] = Skilled fighter
[Fight]+[Magic]+[Vocation] = Robber-Witch
[Fight]+[Magic]+[Romance] = Magic Warrior
[Fight]+[Magic]+[Love] = Quack
[Fight]+[Vocation]+[Romance] = Brigand
[Fight]+[Vocation]+[Love] = Fighter
[Fight]+[Romance]+[Love] = Conqueror
[Illusion]+[Adamant]+[Will] = Exorcist
[Illusion]+[Adamant]+[Death] = Warder
[Illusion]+[Adamant]+[Wild] = Keeper of the forest
[Illusion]+[Adamant]+[Magic] = Paladin
[Illusion]+[Adamant]+[Vocation] = Scientist
[Illusion]+[Adamant]+[Romance] = Strategist
[Illusion]+[Adamant]+[Love] = Doctor
[Illusion]+[Will]+[Death] = Shaman
[Illusion]+[Will]+[Wild] = Ranger
[Illusion]+[Will]+[Magic] = Dark Mage
[Illusion]+[Will]+[Vocation] = Life-Giver
[Illusion]+[Will]+[Romance] = (Unknown how it is translated, but has something to do with elegance)
[Illusion]+[Will]+[Love] = (Unknown how it is translated)
[Illusion]+[Death]+[Wild] = Smart Geomancer
[Illusion]+[Death]+[Magic] = Wizard
[Illusion]+[Death]+[Vocation] = Construction engineer
[Illusion]+[Death]+[Romance] = Prospector
[Illusion]+[Death]+[Love] = Elemental Shaman
[Illusion]+[Wild]+[Magic] = The Wizard of nature
[Illusion]+[Wild]+[Vocation] = Guide
[Illusion]+[Wild]+[Romance] = Archaeologist
[Illusion]+[Wild]+[Love] = Summoner
[Illusion]+[Magic]+[Vocation] = Master
[Illusion]+[Magic]+[Romance] = Dancer
[Illusion]+[Magic]+[Love] = Magician
[Illusion]+[Vocation]+[Romance] = Headhunter
[Illusion]+[Vocation]+[Love] = Doer
[Illusion]+[Romance]+[Love] = Jester
[Adamant]+[Will]+[Death] = Defender
[Adamant]+[Will]+[Wild] = Forester
[Adamant]+[Will]+[Magic] = Defensive Wizard
[Adamant]+[Will]+[Vocation] = Hermit
[Adamant]+[Will]+[Romance] = Humble Poet
[Adamant]+[Will]+[Love] = Bodyguard
[Adamant]+[Death]+[Wild] = Manager (Seems like manager of nature)
[Adamant]+[Death]+[Magic] = Archmage (Not quite sure, but something that has to do with magic)
[Adamant]+[Death]+[Vocation] = Guardian
[Adamant]+[Death]+[Romance] = Policeman
[Adamant]+[Death]+[Love] = Priest of Death
[Adamant]+[Wild]+[Magic] = Technician
[Adamant]+[Wild]+[Vocation] = Muller
[Adamant]+[Wild]+[Romance] = Hunter
[Adamant]+[Wild]+[Love] = Battle-Chronicler
[Adamant]+[Magic]+[Vocation] = Apprentice
[Adamant]+[Magic]+[Romance] = Playwright
[Adamant]+[Magic]+[Love] = Scribe
[Adamant]+[Vocation]+[Romance] = Warrior-poet
[Adamant]+[Vocation]+[Love] = Friar
[Adamant]+[Romance]+[Love] = Warrior-protector
[Will]+[Death]+[Wild] = Shadow Hunter
[Will]+[Death]+[Magic] = Necromancer
[Will]+[Death]+[Vocation] = Inquisitor
[Will]+[Death]+[Romance] = Tragic poet
[Will]+[Death]+[Love] = Apostle
[Will]+[Wild]+[Magic] = Instructor (not sure)
[Will]+[Wild]+[Vocation] = Treasure Hunter
[Will]+[Wild]+[Romance] = Night man
[Will]+[Wild]+[Love] = Mentor
[Will]+[Magic]+[Vocation] = Dark soldier
[Will]+[Magic]+[Romance] = Wayfarer
[Will]+[Magic]+[Love] = Judge
[Will]+[Vocation]+[Romance] = Bard
[Will]+[Vocation]+[Love] = Prophet
[Will]+[Romance]+[Love] = Priest
[Death]+[Wild]+[Magic] = Psychic
[Death]+[Wild]+[Vocation] = Butcher
[Death]+[Wild]+[Romance] = Dark musician
[Death]+[Wild]+[Love] = Musician (Not at all sure here)
[Death]+[Magic]+[Vocation] = Angel of Death
[Death]+[Magic]+[Romance] = Reaper
[Death]+[Magic]+[Love] = Elder
[Death]+[Vocation]+[Romance] = Athlete
[Death]+[Vocation]+[Love] = Writer
[Death]+[Romance]+[Love] = Votarist
[Wild]+[Magic]+[Vocation] = Shooter
[Wild]+[Magic]+[Romance] = Rover
[Wild]+[Magic]+[Love] = Errant Priest
[Wild]+[Vocation]+[Romance] = Earth Keeper
[Wild]+[Vocation]+[Love] = Preacher
[Wild]+[Romance]+[Love] = Missionary
[Magic]+[Vocation]+[Romance] = Herald
[Magic]+[Vocation]+[Love] = Cleric
[Magic]+[Romance]+[Love] = Entertainer
[Vocation]+[Romance]+[Love] = Adventurer
There are still more to be found out I am sure.
That list is just insane.
Gotta be Darkfall Online. These MMOs never work. Its a novel idea, but the average person doesn't have the patience for this, nor the tolerance for having their hard-earned shit destroyed by other assholes. These games will never get the subs needed to keep the cash coming in.
Sorry.
The sooner that these companies realize that sandbox doesn't have to mean FFA PVP, the better.
Amen to that.
You guys are probably right, it probably won't do very well in the west. But hey games like Eve Online are thriving, and Arche Age is pretty much Eve online done in a fantasy setting.
Arche Age does have a "bounty system". Which means players can be put other players on Trial for their criminal actions. In CB2 the jail system was working however the trial system is limited to a cut scene at the moment.
If you go around and gank players and steel their loot. You will be branded a criminal and wanted posters will be placed all over the world. Their will be a bounty placed on the gankers head. The gankers guild will be branded as outlaws as well. If the guild is branded as outlaws, it means your a pirate guild. All NPc's will hate that guild, if that guild own a city or town, they will lose everything, and all player housing, farms.
Also if any of those guild members die by pvp, they lose everything in the guild bank, and the winner gets to keep as bounty.
The game does have 2 NPC factions, when you start the game you choose what faction you want to belong to.
The Western faction is European themed. With Dwarves, Elves, Gnomes, and other races.
The Eastern faction is Asian themed. With Cat people(yes more cat girls),loli's, and other odd races.
If you belong to a NPC faction, and you don't leave it to go at it alone. If you build your house in the faction borders, there will always be elite guards protecting your house/farm. But you will have to pay a tax for that protection, if you ignore the tax eventually your house will be destroyed by your own faction guards.
Also the world is big. It's going to take a long time for the other faction to get to you. The 2 factions are separated by continents, if you want to do some pvp, your going to have to make ships and set sail to the other continent.
The 3rd continent is like the new world. Free to claim by any guild, and set up their own faction.
World Map
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...ap-AA-CBT2.jpg
Detailed map inside the circle
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...mermapcopy.jpg