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What it is:
An eastern themepark MMO based on the Gu Jian Qi Tan world.
It's been out in China for several years so there is content coming.
A buy-2-play model with a strictly cosmetic cashshop.
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What it is not:
No pay-2-win at all, not in chinese version either.
WoW, FFXIV, ESO, GW2... etc. It's a unique MMO with it's own identity for sure.
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Pros:
Beautiful, gorgeous world. Like really.
Amazing music.
Endgame system including dungeons on different modes.
Lots to do apart from dungeons, like treasurehunts, cardgames, fishing, gathering...
Best housing system I've seen in any MMO.
PvP is superfun and quite balanced if you know your class according to my guildies.
You have several ways to get better gear apart from strictly dungeons/PvP.
Lots of achivements and exploration.
Flying mounts and groundmounts that all look amazing and you get a few free.
Leveling and gearing is quite fast when you have done it once.
Friendly community (mostly)
Beautiful armor that's totally on par with many paid costumes.
Buying mounts, costumes and such unlocks for all your characters.
All classes have easy to switch dual specialization (dps/tank, dps/healer, melee/ranged and so on)
Much content coming soon, like raids, more zones, new classes and more.
Dungeons can be run in 5 or 10 with premade or matchmaking (which is fast and works great)
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Cons:
Laggy servers sometimes. FPS drops in big fights.
Leveling is tedious even if story is good it's 100% kill or fetch quests.
The localization is horrible. Worst I have ever come across. Please play in chinese with subs.
Dungeons gets boring once you've ran them daily for a while.
Cosmetics is expensive but also logical since it's no sub fee or pay-2-win elements.
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My score:
8/10

If Gameforge handles this IP well it has huge potential.
Needs some more marketing also.

This is the best feeling I've had in an MMO since I played vanilla WoW 16 years ago and I have played most of the big ones over the past years.

Bought this game during the summer sale without any previous knowledge about Sword Art Online, neither the anime or games. I can strongly recommend watching the anime to get some connections to the characters since there is quite a bit of dialouge and interactions with SAO characters in the game. The game itself plays like a loot-shooter and you can upgrade weapons you find. The more I play it the more I get into it to be honest and also watching the anime now. Thumbs up if you're a fan of anime, looter shooter and mmo-type of gameplay.

It's...
NOT Destiny.
NOT Anthem.
NOT Borderlands.
NOT The Division.

It's Outriders and it borrows from many different games in the same genre. It starts of a bit "meh" but the more skills you unlock and when crafting opens up it really grows and finds it's own little niche in my opinion. It's not open world but very nicely crafted maps and hubs. I am as I am writing this probably a bit over half into the main story and there's not a oscar award winning writing here but good enough to keep me playing. Endgame looks fun with 13 or so expeditions which rewards more the faster you clear them.

If you're on the fence, try the demo. It dosen't really show crafting and how you can really make your own builds but will give you an idea about the combat (it get's waaaaay harder as you progress and some really challenging boss fights on higher world tiers). Also do look up their youtube videos where they detail endgame and crafting.

The campaign is great. Endgame is an infinity loop of first leveling up heroes and then gearing. Combat is fun and fluent and each hero feels unique once you unlock all skills and mastery. If they keep pumping out new heroes and stuff to do this game has a bright future because the core is fun.

One of the best games ever made.

One of the best loot-shooters there is. Very solo friendly and enough content to keep you playing everyday.

Really one of the best F2P games there is. If Destiny is a AAA series then Warframe is a AAA+

Took a 3 year break. Came back end of 2023 and f**k this game is good. Addicted again....

Like the games art style and combat is fun. It's more open then Darksiders I, but just like that game it's a pretty linear story. Of course there is some exploration and side-quests. I really feel this game is better played with a controller rather then mouse and keyboard. It's well worth a buy if on sale if you enjoy a mix between hack-n-slash/platforming and some rpg elements thrown in.

Awesome ARPG and well worth the money. If you like PoE, D1, D2, Titan Quest etc then just buy this. It's really fun.

Gorgeous game and deep strategy. Recommened for fans of 4X games and fantasy genre.