The Best NFT MMORPG...Is A Failed Game No One Plays

[@crunchyfrog555]

It amazes me that some developer that has been around years makes consistently so many horrible mistakes and keeps on doing the same thing. Of course, it ended up in NFTs. Of course.

[@sir_irk]

Gives vibes of "lets make a bunch of quick cash and quit game dev"

[@crunchyfrog555]

@@sir_irk I would say that if they were independent but they aren't. It sounds more like - I'm clueless how to make money as I keep making poor decisions, so we might as well just cater desperately for the whales.

[@Draknass]

spoiler: they made no mistakes, they want to squize out as much money possible, even when it hurts their reputation (they dont care)

[@fadedthreat1957]

They don’t listen I play archeage and even with the publisher change , they don’t listen trust me the community that plays archage has voiced their opinion and concerns multiple time, the publishers being Korean based don’t listen to a word the west has to say. The CMs don’t know anything, and still when they pass on the message the company doesn’t listen. Lots of CMs quit in the first 2 months kakao took over. Shit publishers that just don’t care.

[@Yue_Jin]

@@sir_irk That's what Archeage has always been. They use it to make some quick cash and then let the game die and then repeat. Saddest part is Archeage is genuinely the best MMO i've ever played. It's always been managed extremely poorly but they'd make so much more money if they actually cared and tried to make the game survive in the long run.

[@juances]

To me the problem is obvious. Investors and CEOs don't play videogames, lol. So we end up with games that no one really wants to play, with investors having no clue why their "perfect" plan to earn massive profits isn't working.

[@einsiedler5075]

"Iterating from the AAA Formula to make better games? Too much risk! Investing in a market plagued with inefficiency and scams, in which all prices and values are completely speculative? Sign me up!" -Their mentality in a nutshell

[@sideaccount6198]

This is the case almost time and time again - too much money and too focused on the profits makes for shitty games

[@estinsidebottom]

CEOs Really Be Out Here Thinking That Their Expertise In Being In Management Automatically Means They Know More About Video Games And The Gaming Market Than Actual Game Developers And Consumers In That Market Do. It's So Baffling Honestly- Imagine If This Attitude Was Applied To Literally Any Other Medium. Just A Bunch Of Out Of Touch CEOs Who Don't Read Books Making Books No One Wants To Read. Maybe They Should Just Make Like A Failed Kickstarter And Leave

[@5RndsFFE]

Good games make profit by the virtue of actually being played. Trying to make a game purely for profit results in no one playing and no profit.

[@txdmsk]

@@5RndsFFE I disagree. Look at mobile games. 99.999% of them are insulting to the intellect of the stupidest people. However, they abuse human cognitive shortcomings, such as gambling addiction and weird reward pathways of the brain successfully that mobile games make a colossal profit despite all of them being 0 effort, 0 fun scamming cashgrabs.

[@martymcfly88mph35]

"Let's shoehorn NFTs in to literally everything, even where they make no sense." Everyones trying to seriously find a problem for this new fancy 'solution'.

[@GameDevNerd]

As a professional game developer and a knowledgeable blockchain engineer, I'm put off by the way I'm seeing 99% of people using NFTs. They're probably the most widely misunderstood and abused blockchain technology around. They have legitimate uses and potential uses, but almost no one is exploring those at all ... everyone is trying to ride the collectible or over-monetization hype waves. And a lot of them pick shitcoins as their basis, which doesn't even make sense. There's like 7 cryptos in the entire world, out of hundreds of thousands, which I think actually have a shot at surviving and doing well. It's kind of sad, because it's slowing down progress with the viable and potentially legitimate blockchain technologies. It's all very unfortunate. My strategy is to ignore those guys, don't buy anything they're selling and eventually they will go away and their crap will cease to exist ...

[@benjaminmeusburger4254]

@@GameDevNerd Sorry but I don't understand your comment. All the crypto usage is essentially to create a write-only database. In what circumstances is that useful - except to prevent manipulating entries? Just remove the 'update' and 'delete' options from a database + use auto-icrement unique IDs as token and you have the same thing.

[@GameDevNerd]

@@benjaminmeusburger4254 well, your assumptions or ideas here are technically incorrect. Blockchains are not creating a "write-only database" at all. It's technically not a database at all, it's a very different thing called a distributed ledger, and it's also not write-only, it's both read & write. Removing options from some database software doesn't solve the problem, offers no protection against Byzantine fault or malicious manipulation. As a database is a centralized storage system, there's a single point of failure. The entire thing can be brought down in one fell swoop, not to mention the database is highly susceptible to manipulation by the person or group that holds and controls it. When you consume information from a database, you have to put your full trust in the person or group serving it to you. Blockchains and distributed ledger systems, which work in tandem with decentralized p2p node-based networks, do not have those same flaws. They have some flaws, don't get me wrong, such as being significantly slower. But the hash algorithms we're using such as the SHA variants provide proof of the integrity of the data you're consuming. It's mathematically impossible to retroactively change any of the data in a block without breaking the entire chain, as changing a single bit of one byte will radically change the hash of that block then the next block (all the way to the end) so that clients are instantly able to recognize your data is corrupted. Even the length of the chain serves as proof of integrity of the data, because of the immense resources that would be required produce a fake chain of a similar length to the real one (thus it's basically impossible). The implications of these features are huge ... we never really had a "trustless" system of this nature before, and never had a viable, open-source solution to the Byzantine General's Problem. This made it possible, for the first time ever, to _have_ a cryptocurrency, which economists and computer/data scientists had been trying to figure out for decades. It finally made it possible to have a system to transfer value that you could count on _not_ being corrupted or hacked/cheated, and you didn't have to trust anyone involved, only cryptographic science. And this has big implications outside of finance. If we can rely on this technology to verify the integrity of financial transactions and value, we can also use the same principles to verify the integrity of _any_ type of record or data. We can even use it for executable code, and we do. Quite a few major companies have made investments into their own internal blockchains which are for non-financial purposes. So, the fact is, there's a nearly endless number of ways to use the technology, and we're far from discovering all of them. Just like we were very far away from discovering all of the potential uses for the internet in 1995, and we still are in 2022.

[@fairytaledollpatterns7258]

@@GameDevNerd see. theres the problem. the "solution" of block chain makes no sense. so we have a distributed write only database that cant be changed. great, you've removed functionality and privacy for not enough upside. id get out of that burning bush as fast as you can say "skillshare"

[@Tempestan]

My head hurts, make it stop! Getting fatigued with all this NFT/Blockchain non-sense. I just want to play a good game to escape from real world madness.

[@Blstnpls216]

Nowhere/nothing is safe no more

[@Tempestan]

@@Blstnpls216 I am afraid you are very very correct with that statement, sadly.

[@RuSosan]

This is why I much prefer older physical copy console games from Ps1 - Xbox360/Ps3 eras.

[@pokermitten9795]

Everything wants to nibble your soul a bit at this point.

[@randomuserame]

Haha. That ship sailed in 2015 at least

[@BernardoOne]

It's amazing how bad business it is. MMOs that charge 15$ a month are struggling right now, and they're trying to release a game that requires you to spend 600$ to get in...

[@einsiedler5075]

Not only to get in. It's P2W. You will have to shell out more cash if you want to be able to have any fun at all.

[@BC-ny1fn]

*They are trying to sell NFTs to rich people for $600 who believe that they will be more popular later and sell for $6000 or more.

[@randomstuff-qu7sh]

So, recognizing digital ownership and issuing NFTs means that you'll have players selling goods to other players...kind of like the Diablo III auction house, except with artificial scarcity added in and probably cryptobros snapping stuff up as an "investment" and then price gouging the people who actually want the stuff for gameplay reasons. This is like the worst of microtransactions and player auction houses combined...plus , with how power hungry blockchain is, it adds to global warming. Thanks, I hate it.

[@Nerathul1]

The Problem with Traditional subscription MMO is that they need a strong player base to defray server costs and the likes, pay to win games just need to have hooked a handful of whales, which can be worth hundreds or thousands of regular players.

[@randomuserame]

They're selling to idiots who don't know they're idiots, hoping they will be able to resell to bigger idiots later on at a profit. -Asmongold (parahrased)

[@asteranx]

For years, Archeage has merely been passively neglected. Now with the advent of NFTs we can finally enter the era of active neglect.

[@randomuserame]

Press X to Actively Neglect. *X*

[@midwestbox]

I remember keeping up with archeage for years and years for a decade. Then a south Korean buddy of mine lent me his account to try out the original version and it was rough with the monetization. He ended up quitting a few months into it. Ended up playing on a private server for years until the original version came out with trion worlds. They stumbled with it hard and gamigo stumbled with it even harder. This just reads like another bless and bless unleashed situation happening except archeage already had that and this is the third time. I bet these clowns are thinking "third time's the charm" 🤑

[@McDinglefart_69]

No. They're thinking how much money we get from this trash before throwing it into a garbage bin for third time.

[@Yue_Jin]

@@McDinglefart_69 Extremely stupid of them though, they'd be making far more money in the long run if they actually managed the game properly.

[@Justacheese]

@@Yue_Jin Or maybe they were always too scared to manage the game properly, and a scummy money hungry cash grab is all they know at this point. Either way they are pretty stupid to attempt pulling this off again. Even the most diehard loyal fan of archage is only going to get screwed over so many times before they go "No. No more. I'm not buying this shit again.."

[@LazyCloud9]

P2W with NFT? Greed knows no bounds.

[@Mysticgamer]

I hope COD developers don't hear of this.

[@july5345]

@@Mysticgamer CoD isnt P2W though, jusst countless bundles but who cares.

[@babstra55]

they're finally targeting their REAL core audience, the whales. XD

[@pokermitten9795]

I am going to donate to the developers streams too

[@randomuserame]

Same thing. Different skin

[@dustybikes86]

If at first you don't succeed, just add NFT's

[@AdumskaH]

No, if at first you don't succeed, go free to play, then add NFTs

[@ArktechFilms]

When Archeage was at rock bottom, zero players on Steam, before the briefly failed reboot, it was the first MMO I ever played. Saw it was free, so I hopped in. I made a character from every starter region, quested and explored. Absolutely loved the elven area and how you could raise a little elk into a mount. But the game was dead, like a ship riddled with holes, and I only really put about 60 hours into it before quitting because everything was dead and broken. Even after experiencing Archeage in one of its worst states I was able to catch a glimpse of how the game could’ve been. Seeing “Archeworld” just feels like someone is digging up a grave and defiling a long dead corpse.

[@shini2007]

i had an actual guild, and we saved up for the castle patch I was honestly stoked cause this was gonna be the first time I did something with a guild that would affect the world. After massive pvp and lag we click on the stone to start the foundation only to have the game crash, no one could get back in. And the thing that annoyed me is that they didn't reserve the patch and start over so months of work was lost. Needless to say the game died even more and I went back to wow

[@seifeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

Oh boy the game at launch was a blast, even in the unchained version. This game was one of the best world pvp mmos because you were encouraged to do so. Im not gonna explain every detail but transporting goods while defending it from enemy faction and your own faction was so exciting. You had to plan ahead and be in touch with your guild or be a sneaky ninja and do it at ungodly hours to not get caught. I loved collecting everything in this game like the different mounts and vehicles like the warship or the fishing boat, which speaking of it, they made fishing exciting for once because those fishes became goods and like every good in this game, it could be stolen. So it had a lot of player interaction and drama. The community and the game was alive. Too bad the grindfest and the 29h dailies to gear up made most players burn out. Oh well , at least i have my sweet memories of it.

[@gamingch4538]

@@seifeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee yo

[@LordSadCat]

The game is great the store isnt

[@Svensky]

noone gives shit steam thats because it has 0 players on steam

[@notatruestatement]

What they did to archeage is a shame, I loved that game

[@albertport2642]

I'd like to see how crypto boys fall for this, since it's a real mmorpg, hoping to profit out of gamers, not knowing gamers are, already, tired of this game. No doubt the company will make a lot of money and won't deliver.

[@5RndsFFE]

“A virtual world that recognises users ownership of digital assets” The NFT bros mantra.

[@knowwhoiamyet]

I loved Archeage. I thought the way you combine 3 classes into one final one was great, and the way you had the carts to transfer goods, and the open PvP element of it really encouraged networking. I enjoyed seeing what effects synergized with each other - like putting an enemy in a Bubble created by witchcraft, and then hitting it with a Fire spell from Sorcerer to make it rise into the sky. Then they'd fall and take fall damage they couldn't just ignore the damage of. Or rooting something, and then hitting it with the knockback attack from Witchcraft causing it to deal extra damage by tearing them out of the root status effect. It was so interesting and novel. And the housing system was really cool! Unfortunately it was incredibly pay to win in that regard. But the idea of it was awesome all the same. I liked it very much. What I played was incredibly fun. I just couldn't afford to keep up with it, because at the time I was in University and really didn't have the money to spare, nor the time to commit to it like I wanted. Still. I'm thankful that when I look back at that game, what time I did have with it was positive.

[@iReapez]

Yep Archeage had so much good going for it, sadly the gearing system which made gearing up only tolerable for small amount of people and the p2w ontop of it just completely kill the playerbase after a month or 2 when everyone hit the ''gear wall'' or so to speak. Then ofcourse the 4.0 and 4.5+ changes which just ruined the game altogether. A lot of people will blame the p2w for Archeage demise but in reality it's a lot deeper than that, it's more so the systems in the game that worked well with p2w rather than p2w itself.

[@James_Sunderland_]

ive read a lot of comments about what the original archeage done right (when the game was new and unfucked) and it sounded really fun. i wish some AAA company would take what this game did right and make a game with similar mechanics but not ruin it with terrible monetization. the class system and ships sounded really cool.

[@genhgiskahn694]

Good luck with that. All the AAA companies have been taken over by sleeze balls like Bobby Kodick that just see games as a quick way to make a buck.

[@joshk5206]

Ashes of Creation is a ways off but the main guy funding/running it was a big AA player.

[@Zaczac111]

I played during launch and it was amazing. Trading was an actual profession. My mates and I had one of the first ships on our server and controlled multiple markets at the start. But man, it went to shit fast once updates started coming.

[@Yourebeautyfull]

It was very cool and there wasn't anything else like it out there. But that said... I still resent the memory of actually having spend money on those bastards. I would literally rather pay to see this company destroyed then I would consider paying for their in game scam culture.

[@Svensky]

@@joshk5206 its because best mmorpg is Archeage. Admit it or not thats the truth.

[@1bluebirdz]

The only thing that ruined Archeage for me when I put my 100~ hours in was the Stamina cap bullshit, you only have XXX stamina and doing this crafting action costs Y stamina..... then you could pay for potions to restore it or buy membership for the ability to regenerate these points faster. It was a great MMORPG before money got involved.

[@txdmsk]

Not just crafing. Even grinding mobs required you to have stamina, otherwise you could not open the crystal bags...

[@Itsallgoodtogo]

Had a younger friend who was incredibly hyped for archage back in the days... I just looked at the shop to see how much you have to spend. Instantly knew it was a failure. Now after so many years I hear from it again and it's exactly where I expect it to be

[@kaungsi5613]

I tried it on release, played it a few weeks, saw the writing on the wall and left.

[@grayaj23]

Keep at it, man. You're doing a good job of documenting things not a lot of people are paying attention to (yet).

[@herneztollyot1794]

Can I just pay real money and skip all that "attention" nonsense? /s

[@sonay8420]

Man, Archeage had so much potential. It's a shame what happened to it. Unfortunately this can be said about a lot of MMO's this days.

[@Wheathn]

Hello from the future. Archeage player here trying out the alpha. It's worse than you can imagine. The game is running on current patch, but they've stripped 2 of the 6 races, the 4 post-launch skilltrees, taken away professions, illegal tree farming/fighting is no more, all major one-a-night pvpve world bosses, freedich and the northern continent which was about 90% of the endgame. They have added in a reskinned crimson rift to every conflict zone which I guess is supposed to be the new endgame to PvPvE over, but Its yet to be seen how fun that will end up being once one guild starts to zerg and dominate the server.

[@purplefreedom1631]

I love how scammers have started to tell everyone they're scammers by self-listing with the NFT tag

[@shadesmarerik4112]

"How bad is it gonna be? -Yes!" - Kira 2022

[@christianlewis6789]

Oh, yay, another AAA company trying to make money the same way a money launderer would. Yay...

[@Yor_gamma_ix_bae]

You don’t understand what money laundering is haha .

[@christianlewis6789]

@@Yor_gamma_ix_bae I was just being sarcastic

[@Edzewkurai]

what would be funny and sad is if they actually made some of the changes a lot of people have been asking for sense it first launched like git rid of that gawd awful resource that would burn up whenever you tried to do something like crafting or gathering (i forget what it was called now) that alone made me quit the game and i bought one of the expensive pre order packs B^(

[@myththryl]

you mean Labor? xD

[@Edzewkurai]

@@myththryl yea i hated that B^P

[@Edzewkurai]

@@clumpofclumps o i agree... but it would be funny/sad if they did fix some of that stuff and the game became more playable than it is now. that would be my kind of luck any ways B^)

[@JustTheDutchGirl]

Archeage used to have the most playtime on my steam when it got relaunched with less agregious monetization. Have some good stories and fond memories, especially the fishing raids were great. Such a shame to see this happen to it.

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

Sooooo... Why wouldn't you just use a centralised server for literally all of these features?

[@iReapez]

WTF I just the other day revisit Cryy's channel for certain reason and now you have his footage in your video, lmao the timing.

[@omgg4031]

I see NFT's working best on MMORPGs for collectibles and rare items where you can then transfer them to another game but for that it would need a blockchain in common and future proof objects/items.

[@benjaminmeusburger4254]

that does not make sense from a programmer point of view You need multiple games AND people actually playing both games AND all assets of those swapable items would need to be dublicated Even if this all applies - you don't need blockchain for that; just a simple unique-id as it was used in e.g. Diablo 3 where every item has unique stats and is generated when dropped - linked to the player with the inventory

[@herosupport1606]

Archage fking labor point system was the one of the biggest mistakes and the reason I uninstalled it encouraged players to remain logged in all the time to pad their active player count.

[@raafmaat]

i never tried archeage back then, but i keep hearing it was such a unique and good game in the beginning..... could anyone give a summary of what was unique about it?

[@howdenking]

the thing that had me trying it was the class system - you could just build your own class out of 3 subclasses, instead of being locked to a single type. for example a mage that has occultism, sorcery & songcraft would be called "Requiem", and there was a ton of combinations that could make your character unique. (obviously some combinations are worse than others but for the sake of customization, it looked cool)

[@luniartic2409]

Ok I didn't play either the Alpha or Beta but it was one of my favorite games before it got destroyed by monetization. It had no instanced housing an awesome crafting&farming system that was actually useful through most of the other game modes. It catered to different audiences with balanced openworld PvP (not skill wise but reward and punishment wise), interesting enough PvE, but I think the most important was the player driven economy that gave it such an amazing flare. Basically, no matter how you liked to play you were important and rewarded. I was mostly an explorer and lore hunter with a side of crafting and trading and I had a ton of stuff to do always. I would spend some time breeding and selling mounts, then find exploration points that gave me some unique coin rewards, then hunt for books and side-quests with interesting lore. I would get my boat and sail with my guild to trade with the enemy side on the risk of having pirate players get you killed and have everything stolen but you could rush back and those pirates that died would end up in prison for real time sentences picked by a court of players. I'm sure it had far more than that but I unfortunately joined on the time when monetization started to peak so I only got to experience a year of gameplay before it became unbearable. To this day I wish someone would pick the game up, clean up ALL monetization and new patches and just give us the gem that was at the beginning. Truly a sad story...

[@ninja12333444]

They basically added this system a week before release called "Labor" that timegates your farming and money grinding. But allowed you to buy potions in their shop to surpass the regeneration, and also added a premium monthly fee to expedite the regeneration, and expand the pool to a larger labor pool. On launch, people spent thousands to get gold faster the the others, and completely broke the game. People begged for them to remove labor, but they didn't listen. And since gear upgrading / crafting was gated behind gold, it was gg.

[@rinkashikachi]

It had 120 possible classes almost none of which sucked. The variety of classes for PvP was also huge, it is not like two classes rock and 118 suck. The biggest thing for me though were ships and sea PvP. Not instanced, not downsized to a weird minigame. You just hop on a ship, you can walk around it, it has cannons and all that. On sea GvG was crazy. This thing alone made AA stand out for me forever. Flying was cool back then and Archeage had an elegant solution, that prevented the destruction of huge world feeling that happened with WoW. You couldn't actually fly in Archeage, you could only glide

[@Edzewkurai]

Basically it was SWG (star wars galaxies) before the NGE hit. open world, player driven economy, not really locked into a single class with a lot of room to customize your build, player housing that wasnt instanced. fairly balanced pvp (as balanced as you can get of course) ships (boats not space ships like SWG)

[@geariousone1983]

i Honestly uninstalled Archeage Unchained due to this scummy move by XL Games and with the recent ruling against NFT scammers i pray and hope these companies keep a close eye on that as NFTs are a lawsuit waiting to happen :P

[@aninternetuser4306]

As if the disaster of archeage couldn't get worse

[@okmate]

"So we have this game right here that players have abandoned and is completely dead. Let's re-relase it with NFTs, the thing that nobody wants in games, I'm sure people will love it this time."

[@danlowe]

If they made the whole map able to be settled or even just areas with no mobs, it could be fun

[@Milianaire]

It wasn't the video you wanted to upload but its still mmos and I found it interesting to learn about since it doesnt seem to be covered anywhere else, so still A+ second monitor content :D

[@Danyelitoman]

When i saw the video about the history of korean mmorpgs i SOMEHOW felt like this was the next step, and behold, NFTs, what a surprise

[@emanmodnar2]

I was just reminiscing with another friend of mine who played this with me, about how lopsided the PVP was and the long string of bugs and cash shop traps that rivaled the insanity of New World. NFT ArcheAge was not on my bingo card.

[@StunlockxD]

Well, there goes my last glimmer of hope for Archeage or Archeage 2 R.I.P the best mmo that never had a chance to flourish.

[@heyamberray]

I played beta ArcheAge all the way into the first three years of its life, and it was lovely but so much potential lost. Everyone looks at the steam number alone, which is a huge disservice to the game and that didn't help in it's "live or dead" state. I wish they would just deal with the issues it currently has and rerelease it, but as an NFT trash bin in it's current state? Not even worth touching IMO.

[@RaidenKaiser]

dunno if i should feel bad for this guy or laugh at him at this point. So much misfortune and great talent yet at the same time so much greed and incompetence.

[@augustneva5751]

did you see that mmorpg wing of misadventure? there's a private sale going on now

[@lucasLSD]

What happened to Archeage was the second to last nail in the coffin for me and hyping MMOs.

[@ridmiIy]

im Done. AA Has already died to me. Well SO much for Archeage 2. (Ashes, we await you.)

[@dragonboyjazz]

WOAH holy shit, the man is a genius, he found a way to add lootboxes and nft's to a game... at the same time... the suspense is building like a rahzel song except rahzel actually had a product/song at the end of his ventures -.-

[@dragerien2]

I remember playing the OG ArcheAge.... I quit after the beta. Lots of promise.... lots of nice things... instantly had a massive bot program where bots locked up all the player land with un-finished structures so the "decay" would never kick in, so they could sell the land for RL money. Dumb that they decided THAT was the best idea out of the flop of a launch.... SO now THEY will sell their land for RL money. What a joke...

[@ZaraMaBa]

Archeage was my game back then. For a solid 4 months I invested so much time and money into that game. It was amazing. I loved it. But it was just so broken...I remember my trade runs with the guild, building the first Black Pearl in EU and having so much fun an almost no sleep. I even got off work early when there was a kraken call. But the shop destroid everything so fast. I needed to quit for my own good and well being. In those 4 Months I played 1.3k h....

[@tinypixiebread]

Remember lads, NFT: No F*cking Thanks

[@felipe-vf5np]

I thought it meant Non Fuckable Toucan

[@tinypixiebread]

@@felipe-vf5np I-... hmmm.. well.... you see..... ummm...

[@terrybranch8861]

This is nice, Dragon evolution gamefi too could have some credit, the p2e gamefi is one that would prolly do very well in the nearest future

[@emojack]

I loved Lineage and sunk large parts of my early online gaming time in it. After Ultima Online it was my first 3D MMO. Really sad to see what this has come to...

[@justinmileman7863]

I still play Archeage daily, and completely enjoy it. Just do what you enjoy, and ignore the toxic idiots in public chat. There are a LOT of gorgeous houses and vehicles you can craft, farming you can do, animals you can raise, and about a million little quests. It's well worth checking out. There IS a flap with the new publisher, Kakao, and some issues with transfer and credits and such. But, they have also dropped the banhammer on thousands of botters and spammers, and hundreds of toxic idiots, too.

[@pshpsh5247]

I still remember yogscast first look at archeage back in 2011 when it had just come out in Korea.

[@xdennee_]

I waited for that video when I saw the announcement for archeworld yesterday :D

[@artisans837]

It was a great video and very informative but the colourful language well yeah... I am one of the oldest players and now have started on the Private Server NA Arche Rage its great I still have patron for AA for a year this game is the only one like it is and your right but I feel they have just added a big problem doing this specially after banning gold sellers they are doing a similar thing seriously the players there at the moment and not many have had enough so I be interested in seeing what happens thanks for the colourful videos.

[@Kiltem]

Entropia Universe is in a veeeery similar basket. Might be worth your time looking into, very interesting environment for a game.

[@user-hh8il2fn5j]

keep doing your thing on speculating NFT gaming. A lot of bad NFT games out there just scamming and sucking liquidity. There are going to be only a few NFT gaming platforms that will make it in the future.

[@SparkySummers]

Someone that was involved with NCsoft making poor decisions? Never.

[@TuffMelon]

I like how it says it recognises player's ownership of stuff like that's not something games already did. Like, its not about recognising people's ownership of stuff, its about them making money off of turning functionally unlimited items into an overpriced limited item.

[@Hungrymage]

I remember when they introduced a tree, that could be used to fasten vagon construction(by giving materials), into cash shop.. guess what, whole games economy went belly up.. fun..

Im playing on FS Eu servers on archeage.. its not that bad.. not really p2w at all.. small community, decent pvp, doing pve raids as well as sea battles. I can easily reccomend it to people.

[@Manashroom1]

This really just boils my piss. Archeage was one of the best MMO's ive played till a certain point then greed sets in and ruins it, Fuck I hate NFT monitization on everything....

[@lynxfirenze4994]

Holy shit, Archeage. Nostalgia right there, I never got that far in but I got super hooked for a while.

[@GamezinvadersDude]

Great channel and videos (love the way you say monkees!). So many terrible projects you manage to find. However there are some good projects too. I try to play the best ones on my channel (although have played my fair share of crappy ones). I only play games that don't require any investment to play, so they have to get my attention by being fun. I recommend blankos block party (on pc) and crazy defense heroes on your phone. I have made actual money playing these game for free and although there not the mmorpg that your looking for, they are good at what they do.

[@AljoschaSINNLOS]

Such a shame, that all of us plebs have this incredible super power to simply not buy a product. Stop developing/produce games, that no one wants. How stupid are these people. Seriously.

[@zac-1]

Clearly someone wants it because they're making money lmao

[@bjornapostel248]

yesterday the game #CornucopiasGame had a NFT sale. Unfortunately, technical problems occurred, so the team decided to give away the NFTs worth 1 million USD. This has never happened before in Crypto space and shows how much the #copi team values its community. just beautiful😍

[@GianaManetheren]

I just can't get over how when I look at a video on how bad nfts are, there's alwasy a commercial that's about buying "digital art".

[@TWEEMASTER2000]

wowwww I never played Archage but used to play MMOs like crazy until I got older, I remember it being super popular. Hope Ultima Online doesn't come back as an NFT lmao

[@elada1089]

Players must avoid this milking developers that only look to finish us with these games.

[@wiglord]

did you put out a video on Legends of Aria's recent push for this new nft version? I was a lord backer for LoA and I played maybe 2 days of the game during testing phase and I think I lost my free month sub and house etc by now. Really disappointed that the whole thing was ditched in a shit state, but then they announced 2.0 which was going to be the same game just played in a free rotate camera style, and then suddenly it's now some crypto nft system and wtf is this i am 12

[@northeastriot-calvincline6243]

Last night my pal and I were looking at real estate owners in Earth 2. This random person we found purchased tiles from the most controversial places where terrible events had occurred. His digital real estate profile raises many many questions.

[@MohcineJabairi]

NFTs are basically the treat to lure all the greedy bastards out there to show up without having any mask on!

[@_Just_John]

1:47 - Damn. That's a lot of repackaged ArcheAge assets... The hairstyle, houses, character models...

[@kluafoz]

Archeage was ruined for me when they allowed people to put irl pictures on the walls of buildings in game...

[@Nostgoth]

The saddest shit is that we know the og Alpha/Beta Archeage was gonna overtake all the mmos, it was destined to be the actual WoW killer, *THE* mmorpg I say that as someone who played WoW for 13 years...

[@Lunethex]

If someone owns an NFT of a housing plot in a game with severe limitations - including limited space for housing - does that mean once they're bought then nobody else can ever have them?

[@OneCSeven]

They can be bought and sold

[@randomstuff-qu7sh]

My big question with NFT based games, especially since it mentioned a CHANCE at a rare fan card: Isn't this gambling, and subject to the laws/regulations of gambling? The lame excuse companies have used for years is you're gambling for pixels you don't own...paying for an experience, rather than goods you can readily convert to real money. However, NFTs are traded on the stock market and are recognized as worth money. This is directly spending money to gamble, in hopes of getting rich.

[@babstra55]

I've always said the real problem was XL much more than the publishers, and that the last iteration of joining KAKAO and Xl would show (because KAKAO as owner of XL has 100% control) if there really exists genuine good will on XL's side, which was then supposedly ruined by evil trion and gamigo. but now this ultimate betrayal with an NFT scam finally proves it was ALWAYS XL who was the driving force behind the predatory mechanics. regardless of publisher. which sadly means archeage NEVER had a chance since day one.

[@asgeirkvitvik6685]

Cant wait for the playerbase of archeworld to start exploiting the bad mechanics the game will have... just Like the "original" archeage 😎

[@brokenserenity01]

yeah betting folks will have it figured out and be causing havok that causes the devs to have to seriously rethink things....specially if they decide to tie how the in game currency thing linked to the nft side into something thats broken as heck....which is likely what will happen given how many things are a mess.

[@balloonymanwitch9076]

Dance walking! Every day I'm shuffling'

[@justinwhite2725]

0:57 that's a cool airship tho...

[@germanher7528]

while I dont like the NFTs games that have come so far, I cant think of NFT not being part of the future of MMORPGs, I know lots of folks hate it, but just remember when everyone in the US dissed the F2P business model and now almost every MMORPG is F2P or has some kind of "unlimited trial"

[@polvocorrupto]

Most likely it will be plagued by bots upon release, considering how awful is ArchAge's anti-cheat.

[@Bullzadore]

People always knew were you in stealth as well making it so hard to deliver the valuable packs you needed to transport.

[@nagistratos]

Take out regrading, bring back tradepack runs, bring back hasla type grinding which promotes partying, add dungeons to gear, no pay to win stuff just add cosmetic items. There... game fixed.

[@francisfranklin2731]

Ohhh, this game looks like good man So, The problem with NFT games is their metaverse, if their universe has no value, neither do NFT games. But what do you really think about blockchain games? Mononoke Inu is a project on the ETH network, but I still don't know whether to enter, do you think it's worth it? Nice info! Thanks!

[@kalle26725]

Nothing on Ethereum is worth playing, unless you are a milionare.

[@sweepingtime]

This should come as no surprise from one of the directors who used to work at Nexon.

[@gabrielmarques2622]

I always get a little sad when you make a archeage video and i see the cryy b-roll

[@northeastriot-calvincline6243]

Blankos Block Party is a legit AAA NFT release that’s fun and actually supported by ETH Bridge.

[@DesperateFish34]

Former Archeage player here, I had the opportunity to speak to a former Archeage GM a few months after Trion went under. Among other things he mentioned they had a Saudi prince who played regularly. What needs to be understood about their business model is that no amount of free or even paying players complaining could ever matter when the game made probably 95% of its money from 1% of its players. Thousands of dollars was the *low* end of whales. The rest of us were just krill brought in for the whales to eat.

[@RisingRevengeance]

I remember everyone hyping it up when it was new and it was great for sure... then everyone stopped playing a month later.

[@Msalehcit]

I'd argue WoW is already play to earn. You can slave away at farming gold, Blizzard sells a chunk of it for $20, you get $15 worth of subscription time or Disney bucks.

[@jhorvat8478]

problem with AA is: unbalance, 2 much farming, 2 much crafting, all the time updating just for getting p2w.. it was best game for sure of age of 1 year, after ayanad everything was just 2 much.. R.I.P. AA

[@ThatMocapGuy]

Yuji Naka created the original Sonic The Hedgehog game....wildly successful....decades of impact, etc.........you know what his last game was? BALAN (FKN) WONDERWORLD.......so....yeah....

[@zenwilds2911]

I would have paid to play co-op ArcheAge. Just so I could own all the land and build what I want on it. Then use it for RP purposes. I don't enjoy non-instanced housing and seeing my neighbor's immersion-breaking husbandry animals all lined up in perfect rows. Shame they went the route of NFTs. I'm surprised there are people alive who are wiling to pay for that.

[@anonymousmonkey9491]

this is a nice video and all...but let's talk about that esdeath body pillow.

[@Unguided]

Thought the thumbnail said Achewood at first and was disappointed on reread.

[@Littlebean-t2t]

Shame nobody did this with wild star, at least to bring back a actually dead game. Would love to play that one again.

[@seifeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

I will never forgive what they did to Archeage, that game was one of the best mmos out there for a short period of time.

[@txdmsk]

Yeah, for a week. Until you realized that the game loops are 95% noobtraps and P2W scams.

[@seifeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

@@txdmsk that was implemented later and dont remember fully when but i think it was like one of the first patches? Regardless there was a time where none of thar shit was there and the game was awesome

[@txdmsk]

@@seifeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I'm pretty sure that the cash shop offered you energy potions and all sorts of stuff that you could convert to player power since day 1.

[@Chasardous]

"Everybody knows it, everybody fucking hates it, it's the NFTs" that bit would be good for a trailer 🤣

[@elki7709]

Crypto and Archeage.... After the latest mess of Kakao taking away credits of Archeage players I am rly not sure if that is a good idea...

[@anro_gaming]

they dont need blockchain tied with in game items before (how many time archeage rerelaunch), why now? why they feel the need to infuse crypto now?

[@blackcrow3718]

coming full circle from p2w to no p2w back to NFT mmorpg. what happening to gaming.