Allods

don't be put of.....

just consider how many of these there are to play.

D&D Online is my first advice, but this is ... pretty good.

It's DEAD smooth too... scales well with all PC's

For a fairly decent free MMO I still like 9Dragons, the martial arts flavour and lovely fighting animations drag it enough off the normal fantasy path to hold my intrest.

It's the girinding, farming and lack of teams that put me off it, that and loseing enough of my life to MMOs over the past few years :surrender:


Then again I still morn the loss of AutoAssault.

I tested that game during the late beta stages and was really impressed. I liked the graphics, the art and the innovations. The fascist Russian themes for the evil side (forget the term) was really interesting - it was extremely immersible.

It was very fun testing the game, but when it was release the F2P model really strangled a lot of the game. Classes were changed specifically to cater to the item shop. Example: Psionist had a trait that you can get around lvl 20 which boosts your speed and all of your party. They took that out because there are items in the shop that they would rather you buy instead of getting a "free" speed boost.

The reason for this change was that the developers and the publisher were completely seperate so the devs made a pretty awesome game and then the publisher looked at it and said, "Ok change this, take out that and add this and then we can make a profit." I understand this is a game that was made to turn a profit but when you see the changes right in front of your face the game becomes worse and worse and your interest for paying for what it used to be diminishes.

It was fun, but I was interested in paying for items that seemed to be dictating the direction of the game. I'm not cheap, I just would rather play a game that isn't pulled this way are that because of profit.