Free to Play Archives - Hobby Legacy https://www.hobbylegacy.com/tag/free-to-play/ Hobbies including Video Games & Technology Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:48:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 https://www.hobbylegacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-HobbyLegacyIcon-1-32x32.png Free to Play Archives - Hobby Legacy https://www.hobbylegacy.com/tag/free-to-play/ 32 32 Warhammer 40K Lost Crusade a scam to avoid! https://www.hobbylegacy.com/2021/11/23/warhammer-40k-lost-crusade-a-scam-to-avoid/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=warhammer-40k-lost-crusade-a-scam-to-avoid https://www.hobbylegacy.com/2021/11/23/warhammer-40k-lost-crusade-a-scam-to-avoid/#respond Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:27:47 +0000 https://www.hobbylegacy.com/?p=4478 Well this subject is a doozy for sure. When was the last time anyone has seen first hand of a mobile game shoot itself literally in the foot with an update and community response thereafter?

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Warhammer 40K Lost Crusade has another mishap! Well this subject is a doozy for sure. When was the last time anyone has seen first hand of a mobile game shoot itself literally in the foot with an update and community response thereafter? Ok, so don’t quite answer that. There are quite a few games on the mobile stores that fall into that narrative. However, how often do we see that with major big Intellectual Property licensed games such as Warhammer, Ragnarok Online, and etc?

Warhammer 40K: Lost Crusade in particular is another mobile spin off of the dystopian sci-fi massive war tabletop game by Games Workshop. The game is more or less another reskin of the many mobile war base building games you would have come across. Such games include titles similar to Lord of the Rings: War or Warpath. These games are often heavily “Pay to Win” as you would expect with multiple server domains popping up each week or even every few days.

So what happened?

Without a doubt Monday of this week, Warhammer 40K Lost Crusade by Nuverse, certainly pushes the envelope. After all offering even on accident 1.5 million crystals is a recipe for disaster. This is especially so when a spending player barely gets 30k from 100 US Dollars. Whenever there are issues on development, Nuverse decides to penalize their active spending player-base rather than finding a positive resolution.

Following the two maintenance’s spanning Monday evening to Tuesday morning, chaos ensued as players returned. Players woke up and straightaway found their crystal balances in the negative. Yes, Nuverse reset the crystals of hundreds if not thousands of players into the negatives. Even more disconcerting is the fact that many according to responses in the official discord were set to a blanket -120K crystal amount.

The package was made available from which players purchased. Then by the time the development noticed the game was taken down in the evening where resets occurred. After that they had another further maintenance with which they decided to do what they do best. To push a blanket penalty to all involved players and not own up or attempt to resolve their own mistake. In response to this, the community has been extremely furious.

And of course all across the recent reviews, it only gets worse. With all of the reviews along the lines of the same issues. With some even pointing out similar “mistakes” made by Nuverse in just the past week on other events.

Now keep in mind this isn’t the first time..

First thing to remember is that this isn’t the first for this game title. A major previous update failed just in a similarly spectacular fashion just months prior. As a matter of fact issues had caused players to be able to indefinitely claim major reward packages. This caused an exact similar response from the game company.

Players had been forced to deal with a heavy negative crystal credit balance from this as well. In one case on a certain server there even had been many appeals made for one player who was outright banned when attempting to speak up on the issue with support. This individual was fully ready to commit to getting back to whaling out to continue his progress. The response was, however, as expected they did not want to rectify or even work with the community for these issues.

All things considered, the game lacks many features for a quality war game. There are lack of animated content or even properly working mechanics. Just compare the recently newer Lord of the Rings: War game which boasts even animation for the combat.

My two cents, if nothing is holding you here. Find something better to play. It’s really not that hard in case of Warhammer 40K Lost Crusade.

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Is Ragnarok Origin the best new Ragnarok Game? https://www.hobbylegacy.com/2021/11/23/ragnarok-origin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ragnarok-origin https://www.hobbylegacy.com/2021/11/23/ragnarok-origin/#respond Tue, 23 Nov 2021 06:37:05 +0000 https://www.hobbylegacy.com/?p=4449 Ragnarok Origin, also titled "Beyond Ragnarok", is the latest reboot of the Ragnarok Online IP to release globally.

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At last the dawn of a new Ragnarok game available for the global audience! Back in August of this year, South Korean game publisher Gravity, announced the initial pre-registration event on their official site for Ragnarok Origin.

Although this would not be the only Ragnarok Online IP spinoff that we have seen over the years. Nevertheless it is still the latest refresher that Ragnarok fans have been waiting for. Whether or not this is a good thing or bad is another story.

Ragnarok Online was first released by Gravity for the PC in 2002. During the early years of 2000, Ragnarok Online was undeniably one of the major pioneers of the online MMORPG genre. Initially Gravity adopted the subscription model for players, but over the years have since instead moved towards the Free to Play micro-transaction model.  In particular, Maplestory itself did not release until the following year. Then after that World of Warcraft in particular released in the year following Maplestory in 2004. In spite of the fact that the gameplay was a 3D top down styled genre, the rich gameplay mechanics still drew many fans.

What is Ragnarok Origin?

Ragnarok Origin, also titled “Beyond Ragnarok”, is the latest reboot of the Ragnarok Online IP to release globally. As the extended title suggests, Ragnarok Origin aspires to be true to the original while still drawing the attention of new players. The game boasts of having high quality cute anime styled graphics as well as a level of customization that players would expect on a recently released MMORPG. Gravity went as far as even teasing the grand prize of a Tesla Model S for their pre-registration event which was available up until global launch.

This release like all of the other Ragnarok PC and mobile titles are all owned by Gravity. Therefore, the cash shop and micro-transactions can be expected to be very similar to the still popular Ragnarok Mobile Eternal Love (ROM) release. As a result some players may find this to be an unfortunate deterrent to pick up this game. By comparison, the core mechanics to this new release does not seem quite different than that of its predecessor.

Features

  •     Customize their characters looks and genders.
  •     Start as a novice and choose among available classes at LVL 10 and up.
  •     Choose their own status and skill builds for unique combinations.
  •     Join player-vs-player events.
  •     Employ up to 3 mercenary NPC’s in the party for player assist, similar to the cats in ROM.
  •     Upgrade/enhance all gears, or really just cry at the RNG failure rates like every game.
  •     … and more!

What classes are available currently?

Consequently as Ragnarok Origin is a throw back to the original, the issue of content is seen regarding the class availability. You may have played the other Ragnarok games and have a special preference to a specific class such as the popular 1-hit champion class. Well, you are in for disappointment. By all means we would love to see some of the fun classes such as the champions, paladins, or other branch 2 classes. However, those are currently unfortunately unavailable yet as of the writing of this post.

Players basically have the simple options once they reach level 10 in the tutorial to choose one of the six basic classes. Moreover their progression currently is linear with the options only available up to the transcendent class tier.

  • Swordsman -> Knight -> Lord Knight
  • Magician -> Wizard -> High Wizard
  • Merchant -> Blacksmith -> Whitesmith
  • Thief -> Assassin -> Assassin Cross
  • Archer -> Hunter -> Sniper
  • Acolyte -> Priest -> High Priest

Is Ragnarok Origin free or worth playing?

Without a doubt Ragnarok Origin has a lot to offer. The game has a further polished and refined graphical system and mechanics that truly does feel similar to the original. Conversely the game does offer the same level of micro-transactions one would expect from these mobile titles. In a similar fashion, most of the micro-transactions are similar to that of ROM. Enough to be enticing, but at the same time not impossible for Free to Play gamers to enjoy.

There have been many bad Ragnarok releases out such as the questionable Ragnarok 2 re-spin or the many mobile variants. At the very least the polish and potential content there to come for Ragnarok Origin is possibly worth a look. And let’s be real here, we’re all crossing our fingers hoping that it won’t be another flop like Ragnarok X: Next Generation

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