Despite the rather dire news about the cash shop, I decided to try Allod's online. The ability have my character consist of three cute fuzzy guys is just way more than I can resist. I decided to record impressions as I go. As this isn't a twitter feed, I'm posting them all at once at the end of the night.- Downloading the client now. They must have a lot of bandwidth for their download servers. Current speed 1,300 KBps. This would have blown my mind in the 56K days.
- The patch after downloading was super quick. 40 minutes for the client, and then less then a minute to get to the current version, yay!
-What the hell?!? Yeebo is already taken as an account name. Does someone from the global conglomerate play? [An aside, they just started showing up on Google about a year ago] Do I have a stalker? Crappity crap, I guess I'll have to go with an older acronym.
-Not only do I get play three short fuzzy guys, and not only do I get to name them all, but we start with a giant pink squirrel as our pet. This may be the best game ever created by humans.
-Team Grizlith, Yeebo, and Gigi is borne. Frita the giant pink squirrel rounds out our roster.
-The first quest is literally to kill rats. Presumably it's tongue in cheek . . .
-Holy crap, I love this game. I'm playing an animist, which means I am a ranged DPS that gets a pet squirrel in my choice of colors. Do not underestimate Frita, she will kick your ass.
In my first hour I have taken down zombies, a demonologist, and finally a giant elite demon. The game sort of cheated on the last battle, it was seemingly hard coded that I wouldn't go below 70 health. Regardless, the lore that has emerged from the quests I've done is really interesting. For example, I have learned what an allod is, and I've learned a lot about the psychology of the race I picked. If gPotato (the NA handlers of this game) can come up with a slightly more sane pricing structure for their item shop, they will have one of the best FtP MMOs on the market. As it stands, it looks like I'm in for a lot of fun until I hit whatever the soft cap for free accounts is.
Here is my team:
Hell to the yes!
I have read nothing but good things about Allods, and players are willing to pay for things in a game they like, I've done it with DLC for games. So why the sudden price hike in the cash shop, it just doesn't make any sense.
ReplyDeleteI can understand the company wanting to make money, nothing wrong with that at all. But the sudden change to the cash shop seems a bit extreme to me.
Yeah I'm hearing a lot of people really having fun with it. If not for the pvp I'd be there!
ReplyDeleteLook forward to hearing more of your adventures there. :)
@Jaydub:I totally agree, I just hope they haven't sacrifice too much marketplace momentum with this blunder.
ReplyDelete@Apsendawn: apart from the item shop insanity, it does seem to have good buzz going. I haven't had this much fun in a FtP since I tried DDO.