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Originally Posted by Gillespie
Are they planning on making money through microtransactions?
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I heard about this game in a PC Gamer mag a few years ago and have been following it ever since. I had such high hopes but sorry to tell you that:
This game sucks. I played through the whole closed beta phase with a key I got from my paid File Planet subscription. (yes you heard right,
paid for beta)
I haven't touched the game since open beta. It's nothing like Planetside (no open world pvp).
The only PvP in the game is instanced matches almost exactly like UT. The only difference is that you level up and acquire more gear and more stuff to make you stronger, better weapons, etc...
Oh and you can also do single player quests by going and killing a bunch of things in an instanced zone which help you level up.
We were hoping for so long that it was going to be a monthly subscription game with no micro transactions but low and behold they sold the title to a KOREAN company called WEBZEN which is known for F2P micro transaction games.
Needless to say it did not fare well in the US market, but maybe they weren't aiming for us.
Also, the game in open beta still felt like it was in Alpha. A small amount of quests actually worked and the game crashed every 5 minutes. Not to mention the several thousand other bugs it still had. They should never have released that game, so much hype for nothing.
My $0.02.