Julio Santos

Free wasn’t good enough.

I will not. I cancelled two years ago because the game was boring, and not much has changed since then. If nothing else, those “little” annoyances that you take as part of life, or part of online life, haven’t changed at all. This is exacerbated by more modern games, such as Guild Wars or even to some extent, World of Warcraft.

The servers go down, no never like GW, not once a week like with WoW, but every freaking morning. That’s hardcore sloppiness.

I still like the fact that you can play with people from all levels, and their level gets boosted to yours, while they’re close. I like that, that’s an idea that should be adopted by other games, but that’s not good enough to make a game.

It’s still extremely repetitive, with the same 2-3 dungeon layouts over and over and over. The monsters (mostly npcs) are the same everywhere, except they have different names. That’s lazy.

I had to reinstall the game from the CD (okay I guess) and then patch it. The patch alone is twice as big as the original game. wtf!? It took 12 hours to download on my 5 Mb connection. Compare that to Guild Wars, where you’re up and running within 15 minutes, if you had to reinstall the game.

The game crashed a couple of times, and a third time I got a message saying that the server was going to be brought down in 30 minutes. I guess once a day is not good enough to get those servers tight. At least they’re polite and give you some warning. I was in the middle of a long mission, and obviously had to start over.

The fact that they now have PvP is nice. I went to one of those zones where you’re supposed to be able to PvP and never saw any people to mess with (for me that would be the Villains). I’m sure they exist though…or do they?

It was also cool to check on my old characters. There they were, waiting to be revived for the weekend. That was sweet.

Bottom lline is that I understand it doesn’t cost PlayNC much to give everyone a free ride. Someone might get distracted and actually sign up. When the ride is so bumpy though, what’s the point?

My big fat toon can still fly!!