EPTAnd it's asking me for a billing address even though the game is free? What the hell.
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Andreas
Norway214 Posts
And it's asking me for a billing address even though the game is free? What the hell. | ||
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DannyJ
United States5110 Posts
On August 16 2011 20:47 MyThRiLL wrote: ...it makes you play single player until you are level 5...aprox 1 hour into the game... you probably SHOULD play single player for atleast an hour either way to understand what you are doing...Game is great all haters need to actually try it before judging.. ...to play some lame 1v1 where you can only get to like tier 2 and use a couple units, all messed up by "gear" you get in single player. | ||
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Noximous
United States29 Posts
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Zhou
United States832 Posts
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DrZz
Romania70 Posts
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DyEnasTy
United States3721 Posts
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paralleluniverse
4065 Posts
Free to pay means that there will be a shitload of microtransactions, the most unethical payment model in existence. And in this case pay for power. Just read this post: http://ageofempiresonline.com/Articles/Blogs-2-11-2011.aspx#fold Free: You will be able to use common and uncommon gear. (You’ll be able to pick up rare and epic gear, but you're unable to equip it—you will be able to sell or trade it, though.) The key thing here is that people who buy our Premium Civilization Pack don’t get a free get-out-of-jail card. All players still have to level up, earn the gear, and so on. You don’t just automatically buy your way to the top. In fact, I am seeing better players, who are playing with only free stuff, kick my rear, even though I am loaded with gear. So, it’s pretty balanced and we’ll continue to refine that balance up to launch. Nice contradiction there. They're justifying paying for access to the most powerful gear, by saying, it's possible to play without it, while conveniently omitting the fact that to get that power, you must as a first-step, pay for it. Absurd. Free to play implies major rip-off. Horrible graphics too. | ||
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KT s0ng
Korea (South)88 Posts
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Charger
United States2405 Posts
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FieryBalrog
United States1381 Posts
It does suck that each civ requires a separate purchase though. The rest of the DLC is cosmetic nonsense and some alternate game modes. What pisses me off more than the F2P though is the numerous really simple tutorial type missions you have to do along the way to building up your home city. | ||
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AndyJay
Australia833 Posts
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heishe
Germany2284 Posts
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Golgotha
Korea (South)8418 Posts
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AndyJay
Australia833 Posts
On August 17 2011 08:14 heishe wrote: Do the campaign missions get harder later on? (as in: challenging for a starcraft player). I played the game during beta and the mix of the old aoe feeling combined with diablo style loot hunt was decently fun, but eventually i stopped playing because the missions were way too easy(i played the game maybe 4 or 5 hours) I thought some of the challenge missions were harder than any of the SC2 challenge maps. That being said, the majority of it is very easy, especially if you're exploiting your civilisations tech tree/items properly. | ||
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Golgotha
Korea (South)8418 Posts
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Kezzer
United States1268 Posts
On August 16 2011 16:46 OoFuzer wrote: what the hell are you talking about. Voobly is full of experts and are extremly active, currently World Clan League is running with 7.5k in prizes, More than 65 clans signed up to this tournament , 3 other clan leagues are active (RTS-League, AoC Liga, LMA-League), More than 2k people online in Voobly at the same time, AND LOTS OF FUN. Really? Is this for unmodded AoE2? | ||
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Zhou
United States832 Posts
The graphics aren't bad it just had a light-hearted cartoon style that's refreshing. It plays somewhat like age of empires 2 and no you don't have to pay to pvp. No you won't be at a big disadvantage in gear. Probably in levels since the game has barely been up for a day but the game really seems to be bashed just because it's a freemium and does not look like the original age of empires games. The game makes you work towards things if you are playing for free. The only big complaint I have is the amount of rage people are puttin towards the game in and outside of it. Its ridiculous... By alleans it's not the greatest game but its certainly far from being terrible. Fermium games never really had the greatest crowd. | ||
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AndyJay
Australia833 Posts
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chenchen
United States1136 Posts
At least it still has the big steak . .. mmm big steak | ||
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rza
Canada384 Posts
I was expecting something else for a MMO-RTS didnt bother alot to play it, couple mission and i was done | ||
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