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Hey folks.
This post is mainly for you veterans out there (like myself, but quit playing Allods long ago). I assume most of the people who are actually active in the forums here have been sticking around for a while. Some of you seem to never give up on this game. I gotta ask, what's your secret to being able to hold on for this long?
Would love if you could answer these 14 questions. It might give an idea of what's actually required to be able to enjoy the end content of this game.
1. What server do you play on?
Nezeb -> Yul -> New Frontier (always F2P server)
2. For how long have you been playing Allods?
Since June of 2011 -> almost 5 years.
3. Approx. how much money have you spent on this game?
I'm actually not interested in sharing this, however, it's much more than many people...and definitely more than "a few thousand."
4. Approx. how much money are you spending a month?
Now? Much much less, maybe $50-75 a month? (Which I consider very small...since it's my ONLY hobby... I don't go to the movies, I don't play golf...I don't go to sporting events or whatever other "silly" things people spend money on. I think of the game just like that and spending $50-75 a month on a hobby is really not that much in my opinion.
5. What are the levels of your runes?
12/13/12/10/10/10
6. Got Pat5?
Yes
7. Do you prefer PvP, PvE, or both?
Depends what class I am playing that month hahahahaha. I really like both to be honest, but I am more of a PvE player.
8. Do you play competitive PvP? If so, do you stand a good chance against players with more/better cash shop items than yourself?
Not a whole lot have more CS than me, but there are some. I would consider myself "average" and nothing more. I am a very knowledgeable player, however, I am just not as quick or quick minded as some of the "best" players, so therefore, I consider myself "average."
9. Do you have a guild? If yes, do you like/enjoy it, and the members in it?
I was basically Co-Guild Leader of Disturbed for quite some time as my girlfriend (at the time) was the guild leader and talked many things through together rather than just having one make a decision. So...I've been an officer for ALMOST as long as I can remember. Disturbed is truly the best atmosphere I have ever had in any type of guild. I have tried the "hardcore" guilds and stuff and that is just not for me. I love to be top geared, I love progression, I love trying to be "the best" however, a lot of that I can put to the side very easily when friends are involved. This game is really about the friends you make here. I couldn't make friends in those top guilds I tried because egos run high and so does tension. I'm here to play a GAME. I work 40+ hours a week...when I'm at home doing leisurely things like gaming...I wanna game, not be at another job like some of those guilds are ran at. The members in Disturbed always strive for the best, but don't become discouraged if things don't go their way. They get right back at it the next day, week, whatever and do it again until they're able to do it at their own pace.
10. Do you play Allods with real life friends, or with friends/guildies ingame, or solo?
Originally I started playing this game with one of my RL friends and he had quit about 2 months into me playing the game. I met so many incredible and different people from all over the world that I became very attached to their friendship (regardless of being "virtual"). I have visited one of my friends from this game on two separate occasions. I have had two other friends stay with me in my home for a few days. I have also had about 12 friends from the game (mostly in my guild) come to my and my wife's wedding party which was incredible. The friendships you make online/in games/whatever are real and those people are real people. Make sure to treat everyone the way you would want to be treated, because you never know who is going to be your next best friend, your next officer, your next guild leader.
11. If you play solo, what's the reason?
I do not, but I have. It's a lonely game which is for some people, not me.
12. How do you like the community on your server?
It is actually probably the only reason I am still so attached to the game. Without this incredible community I would have dropped this game forever ago based on how insanely cash shop intensive it can be.
13. On a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is really bad and 10 is really good, how kind/caring/social/mature would you say the majority of the players are?
On the AVERAGE? I would say it is definitely one of the highest of all MMOs out there, somewhere near an 8.5-9.0 slight edit based on Xonaz's response below...maybe a 7.5-8 on maturity level jk, we just ignore the immature so still at a 8.5-9.0 .
14. Finally, all in all, how would you rate Allods in it's current state on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is really bad and 10 is really good?
4-5. I am DEEPLY disappointed in how things have become recently with the my.com taking over the last 2 years have been hell to this game. We are underappreciated, we are overlooked, and our opinions seem to be meaningless here. It's incredibly unfortunate.
I'll share a quick story here with everyone on how good the gPotato team was back in the day.
gPotato was in a rut with Allods as population was diminishing instead of increasing so the company reached out to the community and asked for suggestions (which my.com has not even thought of doing yet). When they did this the community's reaction was HUGE. We wrote pages upon pages upon pages of suggestions for improvements. Many of which did not end up happening, but some did! I wrote a really large "novel" essentially to one of our GMs at the time, PioPico. He was incredibly receptive to this and was interested in more of what I had to say...so what did he do? He set up a skype meeting with myself to discuss what we could do to help out the game - he wanted to know a REAL TRUE GAMER'S opinion on this... and I was lucky enough he chose me. We had a 2 hour skype meeting discussing the many, many issues I had brought up to him and how the company could go about implementing fixes to them.
As stated above, some of them were answered, some were unfortunately not and that is because they just couldn't be.
But...they showed so much heart towards this game I am so sad we lost them as our hosting company.
With that being said, the support staff is minimal to none, the suggestions we have are not heard, sales are poor, cash shop prices have not dropped, despite being told they need to and how much it would increase their profits, and many other issues.
The game is beautiful and one of the best MMOs available but it's run poorly which is sad.
The game could EASILY be a 8.5-9.5 on my scale, but, with our current hosting company...unless some serious changes happen...it will never rise above a 6.
Thanks for taking your time!
Any time.
This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "IAmGroot" (Feb 16th 2016, 8:02pm) with the following reason: for the lulz 2nd edit: typo
I was merely commenting on the community as a whole, whilst I do keep to myself a lot now and try to avoid speaking to people on any toon. However, I do remember the disturbed community being memorable and as a whole very friendly.Man...reading the answers to question 13 from the above me makes me so sad...
You really must be in the wrong guild lol...
There are really that many awful people as to where the community ranges from a 1 to a 4? o.o
I mean, honestly...Xonaz's response has to be taken with a grain of salt as he does like to troll 75-90% of the time he speaks...but still the others don't see to be too enthused about the community either...
I am finding this very interesting and very different from my experience with the community.
But to each their own I always say!
Make sure to surround yourself with those that make you happy...not necessarily those that are the best players to carry you and make your character the best...sometimes the friendships you gain, the people you know, is infinitely better than having that one extra realgar or piece of gear a week.
I was actually quite sad you hadn't said anything about us Xonaz.
I was merely commenting on the community as a whole, whilst I do keep to myself a lot now and try to avoid speaking to people on any toon. However, I do remember the disturbed community being memorable and as a whole very friendly.
However, my opinions on community can't really be taken into account as apparently I bring out the worst in people
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Quoted
1. What server do you play on?
Free server (New Frontier)
2. For how long have you been playing Allods?
~Middle of 2012
3. Approx. how much money have you spent on this game?
0
4. Approx. how much money are you spending a month?
0
5. What are the levels of your runes?
999-777
6. Got Pat5?
yes
7. Do you prefer PvP, PvE, or both?
both
8. Do you play competitive PvP? If so, do you stand a good chance against players with more/better cash shop items than yourself?
in regular battlegrounds i often reach top-scores and as psi its funny to cc-lock even the best-geared/runed
i dont care for dominion
9. Do you have a guild? If yes, do you like/enjoy it, and the members in it?
yes, i enjoy it & myself
10. Do you play Allods with real life friends, or with friends/guildies ingame, or solo?
mainly solo
11. If you play solo, what's the reason?
playing without consideration for others is much more pleasent for me, this game is supposed to give me a break from RL and RL has too much social interaction already...
12. How do you like the community on your server?
its like in every game, there are nice ppl and there are not nice ppl; i enjoy the exchange over the forum
13. On a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is really bad and 10 is really good, how kind/caring/social/mature would you say the majority of the players are?
eveything is given here (like in every other game) from 0 to 10, however the average allods player seems more pleasent than for example players in shooter games
14. Finally, all in all, how would you rate Allods in it's current state on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is really bad and 10 is really good?
9 as it has almost no space for improvement, i only would wish there would be full singleplayersupport (mercs for raid, singleplayerships and stronger mercs for harder sectors, 1 vs 1 battlegrounds), an adjustable FOV & autosellgreyitemsoption
i dont judge the management/support as i only needed support once and it promptly solved my matter
1. What server do you play on? F2P
2. For how long have you been playing Allods? I started playing in 2010
3. Approx. how much money have you spent on this game? 15 euros, I was a kid when I started playing and I couldn't afford to waste money on games
4. Approx. how much money are you spending a month? from now on 10 euros/ month. Don't laugh i live in a eastern European country
5. What are the levels of your runes? 5.5.5/5.5.5 - I have them just because I won a photo contest on the forum, and because i wasn't a serious player until a few months ago. we'll talk again in 1 year
6. Got Pat5? nope, neither magpie, not even a 36 slots bag.
7. Do you prefer PvP, PvE, or both? I like them both, too bad i suck at both of them
8. Do you play competitive PvP? If so, do you stand a good chance against players with more/better cash shop items than yourself? I would like to... i'm the usual player who gets raped in every skirmish and then gets kicked out by some douchebag. Luckily i'm a psionicist, and even though i don't deal too much dmg in skirms , i have a lot of fun playing with my enemies with all the cc skills i have, and sometimes i'm quite useful.
9. Do you have a guild? If yes, do you like/enjoy it, and the members in it? I recently joined one, can't say much about it
10. Do you play Allods with real life friends, or with friends/guildies ingame, or solo? I introduced it to my gf a few months ago but she didn't continue playing it
11. If you play solo, what's the reason? I like the freedom and the lack of responsibility
12. How do you like the community on your server? everything is great until I enter goblinball.
13. On a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is really bad and 10 is really good, how kind/caring/social/mature would you say the majority of the players are? people on allods are generally nice, I would say 7/10
14. Finally, all in all, how would you rate Allods in it's current state on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is really bad and 10 is really good? Allods is a really great game, I couldn't find another one to beat it in 6 years. it is really beautiful to look at and very immersive. probably 8-9/10. people are talking about the population...I find the pop on f2p really good, p2p on the other hand...
I saw all the lvl 11 runes players posting here who spent thousands of euros and i thought that some diversity would be great . You don't have to spend a lot of money to enjoy this game.
This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Lioo" (Feb 16th 2016, 9:00pm) with the following reason: Typos xd
I was waiting for you!I saw all the lvl 11 runes players posting here who spent thousands of euros and i thought that some diversity would be great . You don't have to spend a lot of money to enjoy this game.
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Professional
Location: New York, NY
Occupation: Software Developer, Allods Online Moderator, Cloud Pirates Moderator
1. What server do you play on?
I don't play anymore, I used to play on F2P, but I might give it another try with 7.0, I've yet to decide tho.
2. For how long have you been playing Allods?
I first played in the CBT back in 2009, I did some long breaks tho (Like I'm currently doing)
3. Approx. how much money have you spent on this game?
Not that much, about 700-800€ in 6-7 years
4. Approx. how much money are you spending a month?
I used to spent ~50-60€ on new CS events, but currently nothing
5. What are the levels of your runes?
I had a full 9 set, but currently 888777 with my new account (Yeah, for some reasons I deleted my old one xd .. Well it's the second time I did that, btw...)
6. Got Pat5?
Yup, 2 times
7. Do you prefer PvP, PvE, or both?
PvE, I don't rlly like PvP
8. Do you play competitive PvP? If so, do you stand a good chance against players with more/better cash shop items than yourself?
Well, I used to be in the top 10 tho
9. Do you have a guild? If yes, do you like/enjoy it, and the members in it?
I have, but since I don't play, I don't give a f*ck about them I'm just kidding...
Well actually .. I'm in a guild, to not receive any guild invitations anymore xd...
10. Do you play Allods with real life friends, or with friends/guildies ingame, or solo?
I used to, but I'm the only left of my rl dudes and dudies that actually have AO installed
11. If you play solo, what's the reason?
Pff.. The mercs showing mercy on me... (I'v green eq on my new acc)
12. How do you like the community on your server?
A bit much 'mememe'.. But that's maybe 'cuz Ima MOD, so I have to deal with it every day No, I actually like u guys xd
13. On a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is really bad and 10 is really good, how kind/caring/social/mature would you say the majority of the players are?
Ofc. there're very helpful dudes out there, but in generally speaking it's about 5-6 / 10
14. Finally, all in all, how would you rate Allods in it's current state on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is really bad and 10 is really good?
Expensive but still awesome. 7 / 10
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