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Yeah I'm playing it and it scratches a similar itch to New World but it ain't no ArcheAge 2.

Is it still in ea? Can I play for free yet? How the monitization? Are important things locked behind a paywall?

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real shit on z nigga this game is dogshit
post up +1 last one you gettin

>>3156863
EA but no wipes
Never will be, buy2play
Monetization seems absent outside of the box price
The game itself but likely costumes

>>3156958
I didn't know it was a buy 2 play game

Put in 9 hours. Here's my take as someone who had a few hundred in original ArcheAge.
-There is no crime or jury system. Player housing is infinite so there is no land grab/real estate market. There are no illegal farms/tree farms. PvP happens in opt-in channels so trade packets are not forced to go into PvP, meaning there is ultimately no incentive to PvP besides 'the fun of it'.

Game is action combat but feels worse than New World, and much worse than a decent single player due to lag, hitboxes, enemies auto-aiming, no manual aim, etc.

Main campaign and side quests are all geared towards solo play. You CAN group but its a hassle due to the bad UI and the fact that multiplayer is a total afterthought. You have to friend-add someone, then inspect their name in the friend UI, then you will see an option to invite them to group. Whenever you approach an invisible Instance Line you will de-group and the 2nd person will have to rejoin the first. This happens repeatedly and its easy to wind up separated as they disappear from the map with no warning. There is no UI to show you their name/hp/location.

I'm all for "less handholding", because the original had the questlines you could follow and basically told you everything on the map as well. However this game goes in the opposite extreme: no quest givers are marked and they look exactly like the 'filler NPCs' so you have to walk around and spam INTERACT with every NPC you see in the game including the city. Very easy to miss side content, very easy to be vastly underleveled when you continue main story. Monsters give almost no EXP so quest completions are everything.. and I was still about 6-7 levels under where I was supposed to be in main story around the 10 hour mark.

You can't ignore people in chat, I shit you not. You can only report gold sellers but not actually ignore anyone. However! If you go into options and literally turn off all of Asia chats, the gold sellers mysteriously disappear. etc etc.