I jumped in this week. The idea of a 2d MMORPG seemed kinda strange but I got used to it and it’s a pretty neat concept. I toyed around with a couple chars before settling on a Magician. All the first jobs suck, the game doesn’t seem to start to get cool until at least the second job. The magician has an ice/fire option as one of the second jobs, and that looks like it’d be pretty cool.
However, I am not really liking this game too much so far. Here’s some of the reasons:
I’m finding the leveling really tedious. Except for a few instances, it’s taken me 2-4 hours or more of blasting the same crap over and over again to level. Basically, it’s taken me four times as long to get from 15 to 22 as it did from 1 to 15. Hitting a new level results in me making one of my few skills slightly better than it was, so I can maybe kill a monster in one less hit. Wooo! Does the game get less tedious later on? Is it worth working up to the 2nd job and beyond?
With maybe 2 exceptions, everyone I’ve encountered is a jerk. People will just walk up and start attacking the same monsters as you, stealing your xp. Ok, you can switch channels (there’s 12 or 13), so this isn’t that big of a deal, but it’s still annoying.
People beg for low level crapple so they can finish their quests. Someone standing right next to a green mushroom spawn site will spend 20 minutes asking for green mushroom caps.
I seem to be constantly bombarded with trade requests. The few times I notice this in time to open a trade window, someone will either ask for freebies, or offer some item for a ridiculous price. Once I bought a helmet from the shop for 3000 mesos, about 10 minutes later I was hit with a trade request. It turned out to be the same helmet I just bought, only they wanted 5000 for it. Um, no. I haven’t had one decent trade offer, although I’m too low (22 currently) to really need much.
There’s a “cash shop” that you have to pay real money for. Doing so gives you nx to spend on stupid crap like pets and useless clothes. The regular game currency can’t be used in the cash shop, you have to spend real dollars on that. From what I can see, almost everything in the cash shop is purely cosmetic, yet a lot of people in game spend tons of money on it. Am I missing something here?
One of the reasons I started playing this is because I know someone else who’s been telling me to give it a shot. I’m about ready to give it up though. Any maplers want to chime in here?
