12/27/2022 0 Comments Allods online game debate![]() ![]() ![]() I’m not quite sure what went on in Cryptic’s Monday morning meetings, but it must’ve been massive bewilderment for the sheer vitriol that players kept throwing their way. As a result, Allods went from golden boy to black sheep within a month. Allods Online: Unlike the other two games, Allods is pretty solid and polished - it’s just that it had a lot of promise and excitement surrounding the launch, and then the company shot it in the foot with a horrid cash shop prices that seriously crippled players unwilling to pay.The only positive news is that GamersFirst rescued it and will revive APB as a F2P title next year. But Realtime Worlds quickly went under and dragged APB with it, so it doesn’t really matter how good the game was or wasn’t. ![]() By all reports, it wasn’t that great of a game, although it had a good character builder and some folks loved the concept of it. APB: Winner of the shortest-lived MMO award.I know that some folks love this game and appreciate it for what it is - and good for them - but it’s not a good sign when the company is still not charging a monthly subscription for a AAA title out of fear of the playerbase fleeing entirely. From out-of-touch developers refusing to listen to testers to a cryptically bizarre subscription model to terrible reviews to the sacking of a good chunk of the dev team, watching the launch of this title became sheer rubbernecking after a while. But that’s how the cookie crumbles - no other MMO this year was as highly anticipated and failed as horribly as Final Fantasy XIV. Gah! I feel so torn on this - partially because APB deserves it just as much, and because piling more onto FF14 feels like you’re picking on the weakest kid in the class. ![]()
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