((SUMMARY OF MY OPINION: Don't waste your time with this crappy
click fest. ))
click fest. ))
My opinion (extended version):
Things that make Eternal Lands worth playing:
* A lot of nice community members
* An acceptably big world to explore and discover
* Most of it is free
Things that make Eternal Lands not worth playing:
*CRAPPY graphics.
* EL is forever and ever under development.
* The developers are the personification of ARROGANCE, and treat their player base like SHIT!
* FREE? Unless you want: A cool race, a bot, a guild, certain items that almost never appear in game... For all those things you DO have to pay a fee.
* If you die, you lose part of your stuff.
*Not so many creatures/monsters, so that spawns are always crowded.
* 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. SUMMARIZING: A CLICK-FEST
* The market system in Eternal Lands is completely out of control. Many players complain about this, but no solution is given.
* Some mods/admins/devs think of themselves as demi-gods.
* 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...
The reason to play Eternal Lands, is basically having an old computer that is UNABLE to handle bigger games, like the magnificent (AND FREE) Shadowbane, Rubies of Eventide or Planeshift.
If you play Eternal Lands and like it, it is because (IMO):
-You haven't played it for a long time.
-You already clicked your way to a high level, and don't want to waste you effort.
-You haven't got to know Entropy&CO.
-You feel too much attached to your guild mates.
-You think that THAT is all a f2p MMORPG can offer.
Please, browse this crappy web, and you'll find links to other REALLY GOOD free MMORPG. When you try them, tell me what you think (if you still have Eternal Lands in your mind, by then).
5 comments:
Hi..well i must say screw El...the mods'dev's or whoever they think they are ruined that game for me. I found a secret ..in the tavern it took forever going in and out of buildings clicking all the time. So when i found it i promptly notified channels on my fortune ...well didn't that go down like a shit sandwhich without bread. I got muted 20 minutes...Then i received the do's and don't or i will routine from Asgnny. Who the hell do they think they are. So next thing ...boot....a trogan was suddenly detected on my machine so i fed it too them. Then they decided to tell me how to play my toon ..pigs arse it's my toon...nope got muted again.So then they started to threaten me about how to do this and that on this game. Pigs arse mate it's my character so i threatened back...how would you like to have a bounty placed on El to have it screwed up...needless to say i was permanently booted. This game is a clickfest game that well and truly sucks . DO NOT PLAY IT
Well anonymous... I have to say I agree with you. I think there's no other game where the developers spend so much time controling what the player do-say ingame. When it's not Asslin, it's any other.
Many people have emailed me their issues with the mods... I just have to say, give them time, they'll screw up the game themselves.
Take care, and I hope you already found a better game to play (that's damn easy to do, on the other hand).
Elcheats.
Some of us dont have a choice, like those who run linux or mac. You find me a good and free mmo that runs on both Linux, Mac and Windows, then we'll talk. Until then you can just sit and spin.
It has always stuck in my throat that an above average crafting system is spoilt by a well below average game. The community is friendly, but unhelpful - no map co-ords in chat, no quest hints, no secret location hints, and certainly no explanation as to why - and the overall feeling you get is not "friendly helpful community" but rather "brutal Orwellian regime."
"Anonymous said...
Some of us dont have a choice, like those who run linux or mac. You find me a good and free mmo that runs on both Linux, Mac and Windows, then we'll talk. Until then you can just sit and spin."
Now you all know why they still have players on that shit game server...
people on linux... they dont have a choice..
WRONG
You people have a choice, go and serach for Regnum Online, its a very nice game and you can play it on linux
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