Allods Online Forum

Nice. I'll admit, somewhat red-facedly,(*) to having paid for early access to one game. I got to participate in the open beta events and also in the three-day early access time. Yes, of course they were having us pay for the right to test their game, but I treated it as a case of paying for an extended preview, and also the chance to see how it evolved during beta testing.

(*) When I say that the game's name might be abbreviated GW2, you might understand why the red face. They had the most gorgeously beautiful graphics I've seen in a MMORPG, a strong background story, and some interesting mechanics. However, the ease by which you can level up to the cap *without ever leaving the starting areas* felt a bit wrong, and the effective level caps by zone meant that your character was always struggling with powerful foes in whatever area he went into, which made all parts of the main story a source of stress. In Allods, if I have difficulty with a particular area, but cannot find anyone to help, I simply do something else for a couple (or more if necessary) of levels and then I can come back to overpower the hard bit. And if I'm feeling in that sort of mood, my L60 can stomp through XAES just for the fun of splattering everything, something you can't do in GW2.