|
Post Date: 04:14 10-01-2008
Rating: 0
Author: Chroniclesman
Comment: Since my first review the game has gone under even further changes, and this time I must report that the game has gone from in to sin. There has been three versions of the game and the first version was the best one, kind of like sequals to a movie, the first one is usually the best.
The developers of this game have decided that they should rebuild from the second version and promised that the game would be so much better than any previous versions. However, citing that they must make some money, they have designed this version to be just barely playable without buying in. Let me say this as well, the game is not cheap, and it has taken more than a year to complete considering the game on its third version is only about halfway from being done. While I can appreciate their efforts in providing an online gaming experience for MMO's where no client is required, this has some major drawbacks and I will go further into detail.
1. There is a log out policy where players can logout at anytime, even if being attacked by another player and enforces a 1 minute penalty where your ship is fully defenceless against player or NPC. Unfortunately, this has a major drawback, if you are in the middle of fighting an NPC, that npc will kill you because you cannot log back in for 1 full minute. When you sink, it will cost you either a restore *rare item* or 10 pearls at minimum to restore the ship. Pearls are purchased with real money.
2. The lag can be completely disasterous as there is only one server and it is located in Germany. So for you North American players this can mean poor connection rates and super poor lag.
3. The game is still pretty buggy when logging in and sometimes will hang on the loading screen and it takes a complete reboot of the PC to repair this.
I have been a big part of this game since near the beginning and along with being a GM, in-game news man and Alliance Leader I can safely say that it would be apparent that the developers or do not take seriously the players loyalty or a professional stand when it comes to releasing updates and events when promised. Also please take note that there are some exploits which have been brought to the attention of the developers and still have not been repaired.
I really wish I could say something positive since my last review for Dogs of the Seas, but I am absolutely unimpressed with the way this version was brought in and kept up. Players can been seen fighting verbally with each other in chats, word filters are enabled but only work on a very minimalist level and players have no way to deal with issues as the developers are never available, there are moderators in the game, but again, they have no direction, and are not supported to any degree either, in fact a few days before Christmas, all the devs went on a three week holiday, two of the mods were hacked and their accounts were reduced to rubble. It took almost a week and a half to get the developers in to repair this for them, and at the same time, players are banned for exploits that they never knew were exploits.
All in all, I will simply suggest that you use extreme caution when signing up for this game and please be very caution if you do decide to buy in. The game is very expensive and the uniques you are able to purchase with these pearls are only exhausted by normal game play and you will need to reload your pearl supply quite fast. I am giving this game a very poor rating based on the pretense the game is misleading when it says that it is exciting, like I said, more than half a year since it's release and still cannot even be considered halfways completed for more than just a beta.
| 
