Allods Online Forum

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Dear players!

Our dear Goblin inventors announced a Mount rent test run and want you to take part! Therefore, they supplied us with some Manabikes that you can rent for a limited period of time. From August 28 to September 8, everyone has the opportunity to purchase a trinket that allows you to ride your very own Unstable Manabike for one week. You only have to pay for the period of lease. No additional costs like mana batteries for skills or even food! It even comes with a new skin: Currents of Infinity. (Please note that no other skin can be applied to the borrowed Manabike).

Mount this level 11 high-speed machine and feel the speed! But don't forget to equip a helmet!



Players who already are proud owners of a Manabike can buy the "Currents of Infinity" skin in the Allods Boutique during this time.

Enjoy the ride!

Join in the discussion on our Official Forums and tell us about your test results.

Your Allods.com Team

Quoted from "Spinecrawler"

Okkkkk. Now This is REALLY interesting.


Lets sum it up:
1st. PAY for trinket to summon mount.
2nd. PAY for using a mount.
3rd. <cut>
So it came to this. You no longer buying a mount, You are renting it from cash shop xD aka. You literally pay a subscription FOR A MOUNT




And I dared to call Strongboxes a walletrape. Silly me.

Quoted from "eviljournalist"

Hi, this is my first post on these forums. I thought I had to register first, so I didn't really bother before (silly me, I didn't have to do a thing). But now I feel like I have to speak up. This update seems like a joke. I thought that other people who responded here didn't really read the maintenance post correctly or didn't look for the bike in-game. I thought that they're just PRESUMING that they need to pay with crystals. I thought the rent was to be paid in gold, so I thought that was ok. I was even going to pay for it, just to try it out. Then I found out that you want people to pay 170 crystals for the bike. That disappears in a WEEK.

Quoted from "Wraith02"

yes, its a short term bike, but it also doesn't need to be fed, or takes up any mana.

Yes, but we're supposed to pay for this with our real money. Not with in-game gold. I have no problem spending money for immaterial things, but they would have to last longer than seven. Frikkin'. Days.

It is possible to get the item through ingame gold, if you have enough to buy 170 crystals.
There are plenty of temporary items sold within the game, if their not for you, then don't buy it.

I never noticed any mount to take up mana, anyway..? Might just be me though. As for feeding it, it would be frankly ridiculous if it were to be fed and still disappeared in a week. So not really a plus. See there's an idea right there - make it so that when you feed it, you prolong its existence for, say, a day. Or shorter. But buying this bike for real currencies as opposed to ingame gold is ridiculous.
The combat mounts use up mana batteries (as Dhamp pointed out, I used the wrong terminology earlier - my apologies for that) when they use their special abilities, with this one you don't need Mana batteries, or to feed the mount, like the others do.

Quoted from "Wraith02"

As for the bug fix thing...
This is already there in the code, it took moments to turn on.
Bug fixes require time, to find the problem and to fix it and ensure that it doesn't break something else.
There was meant to be some bug fixes this maintenance, but they had to be postponed as they did not work as intended. Hopefully those, and others will be available for next weeks maintenance.

While I feel that crying for more bugfixes at every occassion is childish, I kind of see the merit this time. You have essentially agreed that you TRIED to fix some bugs, it didn't work out, so you quickly had to come up with SOMETHING, just to justify the maintenance. It just doesn't look good to say "The servers were down for four hours and we changed... nothing, really."

While I can understand that proposed solutions to bugs don't always work as intended, maybe there's a way out. Maybe, next time, you set one bugfixer aside and let him fix something he can manage. Like translation issues, for example in engineer's talent tree. If such person were to look at these forums, he would find that someone else already pointed out most issues (kudos to that person) and he could be done with the work in 30 minutes or less. He could still join the rest of the bugfixers later and try to fix some bigger bugs. And in case they failed, you would still have something to show the players and save your face. This is just an idea, but it could work.

Instead, all we got is this rent-a-mount.
While I understand your frustrations, I'm sorry, you are mistaken , this is not part of the update, it was a sale that was already within the code that was switched on.

The update part (bug fixing) of the maintenance was postponed because the bug fixes did not happen, but that had absolutely no impact on the sale happening.
There was still a loca update installed, but the actual bug fixes didn't happen.
That being said, main points of the server maintenance is to clean up the database, and perform routine maintenance on the game servers while the game round is offline, not just to update the game. Game updates are usually done during the maintenance because its easier to do it when the servers are offline, and causes a lot less issues.