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Hello! If you're confused about what Albion Online is, please refer to this handy TL;DR summary:  Albion Online is a 5v5 MOBA timegated behind an almost laughably long grind that does everything possible to make you work as much as possible for as little fun as possible.Now the less TL;DR: Albion Online was fun about a year ago, in the alpha. But a cancer riddled community and completely out of touch developers at  have ensured that any potential for fun in this game has been completely destroyed. Sandbox Interactive developers, quite literally, have no idea how the mechanics in their game work, but don't tell them that, because if you post about it on their forums with evidence, they'll just ban you. Here is a good example of a lead developer having literally no conceptualization of how core mechanics work within his own game:  After friend goon Kimsemus pointed out he was wrong, friend goon Kimsemus was permabanned from posting on their forums and Korn followed up with this gem:  Whoops!  Be careful about interacting with that community though, when you call out their favorite shills for their antics, you'll get in trouble!  I guess the furry forum moderator really didn't like me coming at his fanboy like I did:  And absolutely don't ever question the devs when it comes to design decisions in the designated forums for doing just that:  As for the game itself? It's not an MMO in any way, shape or form. It qualifies as one only in the sense that you will be spending hours hitting X resource in the same area as everyone else. Excited for those big PVP battles?  Good news! They don't exist. The game has baked in mechanics that will ENSURE a solo or small handful of players can quite easily wipe your entire zerg out with virtually no effort whatsoever. The game actually PUNISHES you for having more than an arbitrary handful of friends in the same area through various mechanics. Excited about defending guild territory? Too loving bad, you pleb! Because of the way territory defense works, guilds will only EVER send their a-team of their 5 best players into the pre-determined MOBA battles, as a loss means you could lose hundreds of hours of guild work! If you're lucky, you'll be slaving away funneling resources to players better than you. Quit your dreams of greatness now friends, GvG is only for the most hardcore and dedicated of poopsockers. But there are no character classes! You are what you wear! Yeah, okay. If the grind for using ONE weapon and ONE type of armor doesn't make you want to kill yourself, it's a minor miracle. You're going to be spending a massive amount of time to cross train, and you're cockblocked by any mistake you make early because of Learning Points, the arbitrary timegate system has implemented to extend the grind even further.  B-b-b-b-b but mah territory control! Yeah, unless you're a part of one of the major poopsock powerblocs (goons aren't FYI), you won't be owning poo poo. Oh, but don't forget, the best resources in the game are ONLY in the zones where you can own that said territory. Enjoy getting kited and bowed to death by one of the blatantly overpowered weapon combos in the game while desperately trying to gather that half stack of ore you need, which you'll just drop and lose anyway on death. But losing gear on death is awesome and gives me a reason to PVP! Sure is! Except in a game where death could mean the loss of a significant amount of time and reasons, there also isn't any kind of anti-cheat whatsoever, which results in a coming together of known cheaters from other games coming to AO and just absolutely exploiting on and wrecking you   Seriously, if you want open world sandbox PVP, go play EVE. This game is stacked poo poo, hamfisted by an amateur developer with no consistent design or mechanical vision whatsoever. In a sea of bad MMOs, Albion Online is a bad MMO even by that comparison. There is nothing fun or good or redeeming about this game whatsoever. Every alpha and every beta, the goon guild reforms, then drops off a cliff within a week because there is simply no reason to play this game. Do not under any circumstances waste your money. Learn from my mistakes, I was already dumb and wasted my money on this game for you. Kimsemus fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jul 26, 2016 |
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forge posted:All of your info is still pretty much wrong btw. The game has changed since 2015, for better or worse is up to people to decide. But it doesn't take any time at all to get T6-7, and GvG defense is now open world. They also used our suggestion (hi round table) to lock specific areas into US, EU, RUS/Anzac. This means the territories can only ever be attacked for example during US prime. Polished poo poo is still poo poo, and this poo poo was polished by a group of people who cant even explain how the stats on their own items are calculated. Also no, none of my information is wrong. I brought up fundamental design problems that they will never be able to fix.
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Jul 26, 2016 21:41
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forge posted:Whats a picture about some other game have to do with AO? That same guy was caught exploiting on AO multiple times by multiple guilds with video evidence. I would link you to the threads on the AO forums, but uh...
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Jul 26, 2016 21:45
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avatarinwin posted:
This company is the best thing ever.
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Jul 27, 2016 07:35
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forge posted:So I just learned that .2 .3 .whatever items are now just hidden and not on the destiny board with no explanation of what's needed to make them. I think I'll just delete this thread as a solution. This is a good strategy, and nothing of value would have been lost.
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Jul 27, 2016 21:53
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Blazing Zero posted:yeah they added some email 'security' that you cant disable. it kicks in when you log in from a ip different to your last or maybe it keeps a list. im not sure speaking from experience: 
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Jul 31, 2016 19:49
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' before they ban you for account sharing. it does have the side benefit of letting you use your same terrible password that is being traded on the deep web for buttcoins. provided that your email is actually secure
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hakimashou posted:i know kimesumus says its bad but he also violated the fishing pact so... I will always make the sacrifice for the greater good.  Just like I sacrificed $100 on this pile of poo poo to warn you of it's terribleness.
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Aug 1, 2016 16:04
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Zephyrine posted:Does this all still apply? I need a new goon MMO. It still applies. I shilled this game like crazy before they destroyed it, so it's not like I'm going in with rose colored glasses. Dodgin (FireWhizzle) is the same way. If you want to spend your money, feel free, you WILL get bored in a few weeks, and the goon guild (what's left of the population) will simply evaporate not long before or after that. Everything I said is true -- some people just can't accept Albion for the garbagedick poo poo it is. So to answer your question: Albion is neither an MMO, nor for goons. Hope that helps.
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Aug 6, 2016 19:45
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It's like Bercilak really does want to copy EVE in every way except the ways that make EVE a good game.
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Aug 12, 2016 03:27
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Suxpool posted:kimsemus you should try to send them an apology email in an effort to get unbanned because this game is really pretty fun "Dear and Bercilak,I am sorry your incompetent forum staff and grossly ill informed developers take it personally when someone else points out their obvious mistakes. I am sorry that you banned my account for RMTing when I tried to switch from my company email to my private email, both with my real names that are identical. I guess that's the best way to solve a problem. I am sorry that no one is going to play your game and you could never quite figure out what direction you wanted to go or how to effectively plan and execute a game development cycle. Sincerely, Kim" I guess now I'll just wait until my account is turned back on.
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Aug 12, 2016 16:58
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Ruggan posted:nice meltdown thanks bby
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Aug 15, 2016 02:44
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At least SI is consistent in their design choices. Consistently bad...but consistent.
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Aug 25, 2016 20:02
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I can already see that much like the game, this thread is dying.
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Aug 29, 2016 21:36
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Next Beta: All combat is being changed into a quicktime event. If you lose the event your character is deleted.
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Sep 22, 2016 15:45
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avatarinwin posted:How to fix the game: Some of these things people wanted over a year ago. Most of these ideas are bad but please 
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Sep 24, 2016 15:06
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avatarinwin posted:counterpoint: all of these ideas are good counter counterpoint: don't play albion
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Sep 24, 2016 21:44
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do you remember when I got banned for calling devs bad something something something irony
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Oct 18, 2016 03:09
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Blazing Zero posted:for real though, you got banned cause they asked you to stop insulting staff and you didnt. but hey since gloating over the titanic will never not be the thing to do I don't recall just like devs can't recall how their own game mechanics work.
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Oct 23, 2016 16:12
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1001 Arabian dicks posted:unfortunately stunt invited the worst of the worst of his eve friends to come play with us, it was widely regarded as a big mistake eve people ruining another game unprecedented
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Oct 24, 2016 19:00
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2DCAT posted:A perpetual beta wouldn't hamper a game with fun dynamics imo. What kills AO is that it's a needless grind with no payoff. The first two weeks are fun as hell. Then it feels like you're forced to grind skeltals for years on end (unless something major changed in the last testing period). If a game offered fun dynamics from the start of game until the end of game, people wouldn't care about wipes and say "welp, I don't feel like forcing myself to grind through yet another beta; i'm out guys!" The game lacks fun; it's going to be hard to fix that, without first acknowledging it. And no, adding gems back into the game isn't the answer to the 'fun' question. I think even taking that out, the combat isn't fun. The long GCD for what should otherwise be a twitch game and the relatively slow pace of everything because of the holdover from tablet ambitions make it kind of bullshit. Frankly, WoW is probably the only game that does the small team competitive PVP thing properly, and it's only now getting to a place where it's fun for everyone after years.
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Oct 25, 2016 22:22
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FireWhizzle posted:Twitch game? Aren't the zones haphazardly hosted in random locations throughout earth's surface - or did we fix that Perhaps I was being overly generous
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Oct 30, 2016 16:32
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Blazing Zero posted:i think that banning cheaters and fixing the client so screen resolution mods didnt work is a better idea but i understand the trump vote to spite hillary stance as well the problem is both of those solutions would require actual competency in programming
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Nov 9, 2016 19:22
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1001 Arabian dicks posted:the fact that they didn't fix this in alpha 1 is a huge gently caress up. it's such an easy fix in so many different ways. Especially considering how widely reported zoom exploits were, among others.
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Nov 9, 2016 20:04
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1001 Arabian dicks posted:what is it this time? when is not being stupid?
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eonwe posted:albion is hamstrung by the fact that basic design decisions were made around it being playable in tablets / mobile devices 4 abilities on an extremely long GCD makes for...riveting gameplay. 
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Dec 19, 2016 03:46
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2DCAT posted:is this a cryptic reference to Korn finally being fired due to being more useless than a hanging turd? It is as the prophecy foretold.
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BadLlama posted:I await Green Knights apology about korn. 
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forge posted:Kimsemus you should put in a serious application and see if they respond. Then let them know you'll need a new account because you were banned. They banned my game access 1 day after the Paypal 6 month chargeback window expired for "obvious RMTing" so while I appreciate it, SI can go burn in a dumpster fire just like their terrible game as far as I'm concerned.
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Jan 24, 2017 23:58
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Suxpool posted:everyone will stop playing after a month I admire your optimism.
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forge posted:don't i am glad to see you have finally succumb to reason
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Blazing Zero posted:at one point, this was a good game. we can argue when that point passed if you want but i dont think its that important I had the most fun, strangely enough, just crafting hundreds of carrot soups to feed the goon base. Those were simple times.
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