Eternal Lands (EL) is a free OpenGL-based multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) initially created by Radu Privantu in 2002/2003. Its outstanding difference to other role-playing games is that there are no castes, that is, your character is not tied to a certain profession or certain racial attributes. Every character can basically do everything the others can do. Background, attributes and profession can be developed during gameplay and changed or amended anytime.
My opinion:
Things that make Eternal Lands worth playing:- Ok graphics
- A lot of nice community members
- A huge world to explore and discover
- Most of it is free
Things that make Eternal Lands not worth playing:- EL is forever and ever under development.
- Devs should make use of those players who could contribute to the game in an active way. Many players have complained that Eternal Lands developers are narrow minded in that sense.
- Devs should have put more effort in completing C1 than in providing more areas and leaving them incomplete.
- If you die, you lose part of your stuff. Taking somebody's death bag (db) is not illegal; however, Eternal Lands forum has a section devoted to people who do this legal thing (bagjumping). Isn't that a bit contradictory?
- The isometric view gets very annoying, specially if you have to scroll in and out and left and right, to guess where your target is among tons of tree branches, and hit it.
Movement in Eternal Lands is slooow, and running is (of course) not possible.
- The levelling system in Eternal Lands is problematic. Not because it is slow, which it is, but because it takes ages of dumbily sitting and clicking the "use" button to mix, blend, create, and some more other ages to run around clicking on creatures, hopping to hit your target (as I mentioned before, a nervebreaking task). Some more ages, nevertheless, are required to harvest items.
- The market system in Eternal Lands is completely out of control. Many players complain about this, but no solution is given.
- Some mods think of themselves as demi-gods, and are nasty and arrogant.
- Some players also think of themselves as demi-gods, specially Blodoks.
- Watch out what you mention and to whom, you'll get (at least) censored, and sometimes banned from the game, if a mod dislikes your topic.
- The possibility to customize your character is very limited. Not many options given. 3 races are free, but for the other 3 races you DO have to pay (let's not call it donate, donating is voluntary, and this is not the case).
- Locating secret places and C2 can also drive anybody nuts. They are not placed in any logical way, and that requires the player to either be told about the secret place by a merciful player, either run around clicking on anything they see... A brick in the wall, a stone in the ground...
- If you're a bad boy or girl and post a site about Eternal Lands that devs and mods dislike, you'll get your site harassed and flagged by a crowd, until Blogger and Google are convinced that you post hard porn.
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A few weeks ago, I decided that I'd had enough of playing the online click-fest known as Eternal Lands. There was just too much sitting around clicking the 'mix' button to manufacture ingame items, and not enough actual fun... 
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