Ashes of Creation

Review bombed to shit, typical MMO release stuff.

Hatorade said:

Review bombed to shit, typical MMO release stuff.

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I'm thankful everyday Im not that petty.

Sloan said:

You will not get ganked alot the first week at all lol what? I have never been "ganked" in the year and a half ive played unless I was in a PVP flagged area or flagged myself. There may perhaps be some like lvl 1 shenanigans happening from the massive influx of players that is expected.

The game is beautiful, its one of the things that everyone who plays agrees on. The character models are perhaps a little dated, but the enemies are pretty well done IMO. Then again I surround myself with EQ peeps so maybe everything is beautiful to us in comparison.

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You're delusional if you think a flood of new players isn't going to equate to a flood of ganking, lol.

While I know all things revolving around aesthetics is subjective, in this particular case, the game has dogshit character models / animations. This is an objective fact, especially if compared to what -is- possible. Now the game world is great.

Zindan said:

You're delusional if you think a flood of new players isn't going to equate to a flood of ganking, lol.

While I know all things revolving around aesthetics is subjective, in this particular case, the game has dogshit character models / animations. This is an objective fact, especially if compared to what -is- possible. Now the game world is great.

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Agree, if they weren't going to juice things up with modern graphics/animations they should have went with an art style where it isn't so obviously dated looking. Maybe in 2035 when/if this releases it'll look better.

Zindan said:

You're delusional if you think a flood of new players isn't going to equate to a flood of ganking, lol.

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It isnt. I know because im playing, are you?

I did say that lvl 1 shenanigans are probable though. But you wont see ganking at higher lvls, too much risk

FYI, If you just bought it on Steam, I wouldn't sit around in that queue. It'll eat up your 2 hour window to refund it.

Sloan said:

It isnt. I know because im playing, are you?

I did say that lvl 1 shenanigans are probable though. But you wont see ganking at higher lvls, too much risk

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You've been playing with at most a few thousand other people who bought access, right? At most you've probably been on a server with 300 or so people prior to this, people who probably just want to "test" a game that gives them a hit of nostalgia. Give a much much larger group of people the chance to PvP is different than what you've been experiencing. Not sure why you're even contesting this. Also, in case you missed it in your rush to defend the game, I said such ganking would die off after a week (in this EA). On release, if there is a large playerbase, it will last a bit longer.

Chimney said:

Agree, if they weren't going to juice things up with modern graphics/animations they should have went with an art style where it isn't so obviously dated looking. Maybe in 2035 when/if this releases it'll look better.

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Hm, I think very little of what you're going to experience in this EA will change drastically, unless they plan on staying in EA for the 4+ years. Stuff that will be changed are going to be system lvl stuff, graphics are set.

Zindan said:

You've been playing with at most a few thousand other people who bought access, right? At most you've probably been on a server with 300 or so people prior to this, people who probably just want to "test" a game that gives them a hit of nostalgia. Give a much much larger group of people the chance to PvP is different than what you've been experiencing. Not sure why you're even contesting this. Also, in case you missed it in your rush to defend the game, I said such ganking would die off after a week (in this EA). On release, if there is a large playerbase, it will last a bit longer.

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No, I mean right now. I am playing right now with 25-30 people spread out across the starting areas. Noone is getting ganked anywhere. I understand you really want to be right, but you arent.

I am only 'contesting' this because it seems like you fundamentally do not understand the game yet you are very adamant about how much you know. MANY people think there is alot of PVP in this game, and there just isnt. There most certainly will be when the game is 'done', however right now you have to go looking for it if you want it and 90% of the game is EQ style PVE farming. I do not like PVP for the sake of PVP myself, this game has amazing PVE which is why I play. Some lvl 1 shenanigans is very different than "expect to get ganked alot the first week".

Also, once again, there has never been a server with '300 or so people' on it since phase 1. There has been phase 2, 2.5, 3 and now the EA. Last phase, there were over 6 thousand people on at any given time of the day (U.S. prime hours) the first week. The peak on the most populated server was pushing 10k.

Always like dual class systems, might grab this once it all shakes out. 25.5k peak players right now.

Hatorade said:

Always like dual class systems, might grab this once it all shakes out. 25.5k peak players right now.

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For that many people, and as few servers as there are - whatever they have worked out on the back end is working pretty fantastic.

Yeah I was pleasantly surprised at how long the servers went before a restart to fix characters getting stuck. I am enjoying the Summoner as I am able to solo at a descent clip for the moment. Looking forward to trying out group stuff. Hit 7th and actually did some alchemy. Will play some more tomorrow.

Alrite who is doing guild invites

Pasteton said:

Alrite who is doing guild invites

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need to be lvl 10 to make guild, ill have it up sometime in the am

K. Was fun while it lasted. The servers crashing every 10-15 mins now. Maybe itll be better tomorrow.

What server for the guild?

Shol server