For western folks, especially for Europeans, most Korean MMOs feel like nothing but a cheap cash cow. No depth, no creativity, no real fascinating story line, overdose asia type characters and a very bad localisation. Now we have ArcheAge. I gave it a try with zero expectations and got desperately disappointed :(.
ArcheAge is really the upmost clunky, ugly and cheaply made piece of Korean junk i’ve seen for a long time. ArcheAge shows simply an incredible bad quality compared to other games like Guild Wars 2 GW2, The Elder Scrolls Online TESO or Rift. The story is totally retarded, uninspiring and unimaginative, the quests are ridiculous. After half an hour my first impression was: OMG, what a crap! Honestly: ArcheAge is a piece of shit. Period.
Maybe Trion is deeply disappointed, about what happened to Rift. They obviously put all their passion into Rift. Results? Not much. Rift went F2P and not many ppl are actual playing this beautiful game. ArcheAge seems to be the “revenge” for the “stupid”. And for the young guns, fast rushers, 24/7-players reaching endlevel after 2 days, the F2P folks, who won’t pay a monthly fee, but are happy with a ton of micropayments. Obviously the motto is: You Get What You Are Paying For. And that is dirt cheap Asia crap. Oops – ArcheAge has a Patron Status …
Trion Worlds is the publisher of ArcheAge in the West. After Rift they obviously hate us MMORPG gamers. ArcheAge feels like a revenge to me. All nonsense? Maybe. Maybe not. Look: Blizzard has officially buried the MMORPG genre with the Titan cancellation. It is much easier to make a trading card game like Hearthstone. For such a game you won’t need a big dev team, but earn approx. 200 Million $ per year. Why invest a lot of money, passion and time with a MMO then?
The Start of Rift was purfect. Professional. Kudos. The Headstart and Start of ArcheAge was a disaster. Trion really disgraced themselves. ArcheAge ist a very good example, what is the most obvious problem of this kind of games. The publishers, especially the younger gen, don’t have any clue how to make a modern and good MMO. All they want, is quick money at minimum costs. That may be ok for the biz side of life, but will fail at player base.
Can you imagine, why e.g. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will become a real blast for players AND publisher. Go figure it out yourself and be amazed! The Witcher is an eye candy. Oh yes, Trion: Bye, bye. I won’t play ArcheAge. Game deleted.