Sword of the New World

I was looking as this game, and it looked really good. Ive heard its a great F2P game. I noticed that you can buy a retail verson for 20$. I was wondering, does the retail version open extra features or is their no need to buy it? Please help. Thanks.

Oh, and please tell me about the gameplay and all of that. Is it good? Is their a lot of armour and weapons? Is the world big? Questions like that. Thanks.

It was originally a pay to play game, but they changed their model to "free" a month or so after they launched. The retail boxes give you 1000 cash shop gold (which is about $10 worth). So no need to buy it, unless you want to save some downloading.

Is it good? Well, the combat is a lot of fun, but there aren't many quests and the community is horrible.

Armor and Weapons is a bit weird. You used to upgrade them every 4 levels or so, but they introduced more powerful items in the game, and generally now you only need to upgrade 20 levels.

Armor isn't that varied, but there is a pretty big variety of weapons. Swords (and and two handed), polearms, rapiers, blunts (like maces), spears (javelins the game calls them, but you don't throw them), daggers, main gauches.  Pistols, rifles, shotguns and cannons. Martial arts.

simple answer: No.

unless you like the kind of game were you can sit your group of toons in one spot and afk for 3 hours come back 5 levels higher and wondering how to use skills..

Originally posted by Pepsipwnzgod

simple answer: No.

 

unless you like the kind of game were you can sit your group of toons in one spot and afk for 3 hours come back 5 levels higher and wondering how to use skills..

That actually seems to be the main audience for the game, though, people who like AFKing or semi-AFKing (playing while surfing the net or something).

The grind becomes intolerable!

And don't even try to compete with the high end guilds (The One) as they botted their way up to max level while K2 kissed their a$$es for spending so much on the cash shop.

Yeah, that also takes the fun out of it.  If you are an active player, you simply cannot compete with people who AFK all day (of which there are a lot) or botters (of which there are also a lot).  And he's correct, if you spend money in the cash shop, you can bot all you like and get a slap in the wrist at most.

On Orpesia, we even have a clan named "The Autobots", founded by a guy who was caught botting (two accounts, no less)  and kicked out of his old clan after being banned for it for a week.  I've had one of the vices taunt me about their botting in a PM when I complained publically about it. And K2 does nothing, because I guess they spend a lot in the cash shop.

Thankfully though, they aren't really a major clan, the ones that are big are pretty much bot free on Orpesia.

Its a grind fest, if you love to grind, Hate to quest, Hate to customize your character, and hate innovative game play, Then you will want to play this.

Well after all that AFK madness and grinding with no good content, is there anything at the end of the road? Good endgame? Good PVP? Any good reason to be the "Highest level"?

PvP is pretty fun, actually.  There are tournaments a few days a week and on Saturday, faction battles.

There are raids, but not that many that can be done by most clans, and they aren't instanced, so you either have to fight over them, or come to some other agreement (on my server we shoot off a firecracker that produces a number to decide who wins the right to a raid).

So to answer your question, not really.

The appeal of it is that it's an easy game to play (since you can afk or semi-afk) and the pokemon nature (collecting all the various NPCs)

PVP is a sad joke as it comes down to a 1 point of ar/dr difference.  And to get that you have to spend tons of in game money as well as real money.

The business model is for the cash shop.  Just about everything in the cs is accessible by the f2per, however it all still originates from gold purchases and is then repackaged or resold to the f2p community.  The cs drives the ingame economy.

AFK is the way...period.  Zero socializing.  Not many goals.  Not much payoff.   After a year already, I still don't feel connected to my toons.