Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
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Part of the immersion of an MMORPG for me is being able to tell roughly how strong a character is from the gear they are wearing, I worry that it will turn into a colourful mess of players with over the top gear running around.
Everyone running round with flashy gear trivializes players actually getting good gear through merit as you're not gonna pick out the mighty warrior in a crowd.
... <i>I will be playing " Devils Advocate " in this Post. I am a Backer ( lifetime sub ) so i truly do hope for the best of this MMORPG. Now then</i> ...
No its quite simple - delete & shred every "line-of-code" of this Cash Shop and put every item in the Game via vendors, loot-drop, crafting, etc
i mean ... seriously ... just being able to enter Alpha & Beta is already the Reward in itself ... why anything else ?
( KickStarter Rewards are not included - since they are not part of the Cash Shop ... but rather part of the KickStarter CrowdFunding )
And to be utterly honest with you ... my initial thoughts , after seeing that Cash Shop, gives me the impression that the Devs don't* have the Utmost-confidence/ faith that their MMO will succeed - so the Cash Shop is their FallBack plan
( i.e. in case if it goes F2P ... they'll just add what they need to the Cash Shop )
So i strongly & confidently disagree with this statement of yours - it is NOT fact ... for it can easily be erased and never be seen again
I like the Merchandise via Shirts, Caps, MousePad, Lanyand .... why stuff similar to that ? Why not just have that ?
( i.e. Any item that is not Virtual .. rather something thats a " physical copy " of something ... )
All-in-all ... i will be optimistically and think this
- The game does SOOO well at launch .... that the Subscribers increases instead of decreases ( i.e. More Player staying vs Players leaving .. or none leaving* at all )
- Then Intrepid may very well remove the Cash Shop - and only have the Shop on their WebPage instead of in the Game ... and moving all items in the Game
EDIT: But i will not be naive about it eitherEven if they plan to keep it ... and even if it'll forever remain as cosmetics .... don't have it in the MMO within the Game itself - because it'll then be reminiscent via:
- New Player Thinks: " ... another Cash Shop in an MMO with a different 'skin'... and its f!cking P2P too ... fug this, I'm out ... I'm done with this Genre "
I'm NOT trying to bash the game, its just ... well ... we've all been there and experienced "that moment" ... why can't we just have a Upcoming MMORPG without* a Cash Shop, eh ?Because i guarantee you ... the moment more News spread out that
- I want to experience Ashes of Creation like most other Players will in the Future - they aren't going to have that "cool" mount ... or that "sweet" pet ... they're going to start from Zero and work their way to the Top ( most likely ). So they won't have a mount to move faster (?) either. Nor will they have the Unique Skins/ Costumes/ Gear ... to see things from a different perspective
- The way i see it ... if want to give my absolute 100% legit feedback ... i think it'll be best if i don't use any of the Rewards for awhile - and try my best to experience Ashes of Creation like most/ all Future-Players would - because i think " THIS " will be the best FeedBack
Because I'm honestly glad to have the LifeTime Sub ... i'm sure that'll be enoughCash shop with cosmetics is in the game not sure why you do not consider it a fact.
because anything can happen. And it doesn't have to be this way
I too hope PvP flourishes and is not later toned down, although I am interested to see how the corruption mechanic survives the alpha and beta test phases.
I am merely stating facts to a new person by telling him/her that ashes is not a murder box.
Although city guards should do something to help out if you are in town and they see you getting attacked while staying green.
I played Enchanter in EQ, Controller in CoH/CoV, and Skald in Dark Age of Camelot and I really miss those extra group support type classes.