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On June 30 2011 11:34 Battleaxe wrote:
Just fyi for anyone thinking about playing this again, the game is now semi-free to play. You get to play up to the end of act 2 for free (roughly level 20), and then you need to purchase a "ticket" which enables the rest of the acts and the extra content for around $20.
Originally the game was supposed to be completely f2p, but t3/hanbitsoft has since changed their minds. A lot of people on the forums are pissed off about this, especially considering there's very little communication between devs/mods and the community. I for one will not be playing this anymore due to this reason alone. I own the game, I could easily install it and play the single player for free..seems to be the consensus of many
what is the max level in open beta?
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On June 30 2011 11:34 Battleaxe wrote:
Just fyi for anyone thinking about playing this again, the game is now semi-free to play. You get to play up to the end of act 2 for free (roughly level 20), and then you need to purchase a "ticket" which enables the rest of the acts and the extra content for around $20.
Originally the game was supposed to be completely f2p, but t3/hanbitsoft has since changed their minds. A lot of people on the forums are pissed off about this, especially considering there's very little communication between devs/mods and the community. I for one will not be playing this anymore due to this reason alone. I own the game, I could easily install it and play the single player for free..seems to be the consensus of many
Yeah just read that, pretty lame.
+ Show Spoiler +The T3fun Team would like to reveal that Hellgate Global will be embracing the "Ticket System".
The Ticket system is one of the newest and promising additions to the game and there are two types of System that will be available:
1. Premium Item Sale (Cash Shop)
Cash shops are shops that let you access a wide variety of premium items that may boost your character's performance or enhance the quality of service you can get (buffs, modified exps, etc - depending on which premium service you did apply). Mostly the items in the cash shop
are not dropped by monsters nor sold at NPC Shops.
2. Ticket Subscription
One ticket subscription allows a player to enter a specific area and dungeon after Hellgate's Act 2 (Starting at Waterloo Bridge). It gives players the access to continue quests and experience a whole new game play. The Ticket subscription is your gateway to hell's eternity. The ticket is eternal and everlasting.
Areas that will be unlocked after ticket1 usage:
- Act 3
- Act 4
- Act 5
- 2nd Attack
- Abyss
- Stonehenge
*One ticket subscription allows for all characters from one account to enter one expansion.
Also if you live these countries you can't play through Hellgate Global:
+ Show Spoiler +Also, please be informed that due to an existing partnership between Hanbitsoft and local publishers, the IPs of the following countries will be blocked from accessing Hellgate Global:
Korea, Japan, China, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao.
So if I read it right, you have to pay AND there are premium paid items?
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Mhh, I'll still give it a try. Maybe the game is really good and well worth the 20$? Never played it before but it was originally developed by diablo developers or so I hear.
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On the youtube films, Its look so ugly and the gameplay looks so crapy. but I never played it. But i give it a try!
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On June 30 2011 11:34 Battleaxe wrote:
Just fyi for anyone thinking about playing this again, the game is now semi-free to play. You get to play up to the end of act 2 for free (roughly level 20), and then you need to purchase a "ticket" which enables the rest of the acts and the extra content for around $20.
Originally the game was supposed to be completely f2p, but t3/hanbitsoft has since changed their minds. A lot of people on the forums are pissed off about this, especially considering there's very little communication between devs/mods and the community. I for one will not be playing this anymore due to this reason alone. I own the game, I could easily install it and play the single player for free..seems to be the consensus of many
Not sure where you got the $20 number from, but the ticket to access all current content is going to be $4 only. Not sure how much future content will cost, however, if a game only costs $4-12 per year, I don't think you can complain too much about it.
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+ Show Spoiler +On June 30 2011 19:52 Cel.erity wrote:Show nested quote +On June 30 2011 11:34 Battleaxe wrote:
Just fyi for anyone thinking about playing this again, the game is now semi-free to play. You get to play up to the end of act 2 for free (roughly level 20), and then you need to purchase a "ticket" which enables the rest of the acts and the extra content for around $20.
Originally the game was supposed to be completely f2p, but t3/hanbitsoft has since changed their minds. A lot of people on the forums are pissed off about this, especially considering there's very little communication between devs/mods and the community. I for one will not be playing this anymore due to this reason alone. I own the game, I could easily install it and play the single player for free..seems to be the consensus of many Not sure where you got the $20 number from, but the ticket to access all current content is going to be $4 only. Not sure how much future content will cost, however, if a game only costs $4-12 per year, I don't think you can complain too much about it.
Just to update some people: The $20 was what everyone was originally saying on the forums before they released the price. Not sure where this came from but everyone was seemingly agreeing on this number, must have just been a mob mentality. I can confirm the ticket is only $4 and covers acts 2-5, plus stonehenge and abyss. Presumably when they release Tokyo in the US there will be another ticket, who knows what that will cost.
I've been playing since I heard the ticket was only $4, and as it turns out, you can buy the ticket and other premium items on the AH using in-game currency. Got my ticket this way, so I've essentially bypassed any concerns I've had about paying to play. And yeah it will cover all of your characters. First couple days the ticket was around 250-300k palladium (game currency), and is now up to 400-500k. Most people were just playing multiple chars to the end of act 2, saving all their money and combining it to purchase the ticket since it covers the entire account.
In regards to the other premium items, most of them are convenience items, though they do have an exp boost item, however you get a exp bonus similar to WoW's rested I think, it does seem to fade after a certain point though. The one thing to be aware of is there is no respec in the game unless you buy a premium item which allows you to do so, and this costs roughly $10, most of the people I've seen on the forums are laughing over this, but I'm sure a few will purchase it. There have been rumors of a possible rare item drop that will allow to do the same thing (this was in the original I believe), but since only a few people are nearing the areas this would drop it hasn't been confirmed.
If anyone is playing I've got a few chars going at various levels: Edgaar, Tahkira, Tahkblock, feel free to add me and shoot me a whisper if you need anything
Edit: As far as max level in open beta, I was able to reach level 18 before getting to the end of act 2, and while doing some farming got a little ways through 18, so it doesn't seem like you're exp capped, although I'm not sure. If there was an exp cap, I'd say it probably occurs around level 20, but you could reach the end of act 2 well before then. Plus, your exp gain would be extremely slow after this point anyway (even in Nightmare).
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hm i might download it... while it was kind of glitchy and buggy at times it still was fun when i got it on release
how hard is it to get ~500k palladium for that ticket thingy?
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Well if you level a main to the end of act 2, you could probably mass about 200k or so fairly easily, after that you create alts and play for maybe 30-60 min and about 50k each time, so if you rinse repeat it doesn't take that long.
You can have a max of 6 characters, I personally was able to get the money and bought my ticket for 420k with 3 different characters, but I got an extra 40k via a bug in the mailing system when I tried to send myself money. Farming money is slightly more irritating then most games, so the main way money seems to accumulate is through questing.
Many of the players seem to have played the original, or claim they have, so the player base is actually pretty knowledgeable and helpful to players getting reacquainted to the game or starting a new journey.
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Are there some decent forums with guides on builds and stats and stuff like that?
The official ones don't seem to be that helpful when it comes to that :/
Also 2hand swords?! were there in the original game? can't remember
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Getting palladium to ghetto buy the ticket is easy sauce, you should very easily have at minimum 200k by level 20 (I had near to 350k cause I'm a completionist) so just do that twice and you're golden.
I had well over 1 million by the time I finished the main questline at level 27.
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Well I had around 200k at lvl 15 already and I didn't even sell anything but scrapped it to accumulate nanos and spare parts for high levels. But I like to explore whole maps and clear out all extra levels and destroy every box :D
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Is this game worth it? Has some pretty crappy reviews on Gamefaqs, but on GameRankings, it's not too bad at around a 70%. Of course, I'm assuming most people in this topic are fans of the game but I trust people to give me their honest evaluations of the game 
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+1 to the above - Also does this game have GameGuard or any shady antihacking program?
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The game is worse then 70%. The games ratings at launch were absolutely inflated by people buying into the hype of flagship studios and bill roper.
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On August 10 2011 14:00 Bosu wrote:
The game is worse then 70%. The games ratings at launch were absolutely inflated by people buying into the hype of flagship studios and bill roper.
But what are your specific thoughts on it? Is it enjoyable at all? Were there patches that fixed some of the issues?
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I think currently it still has fps drop issues and lag issues, but once those are fixed this is a unique game on the market so for people that want to play a diablo like First Person RPG I recommend it.
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I remember getting super excited for HG: London. I bought it the first day and everything, and I even bought a couple of the fan fiction novels.
To say I was underwhelmed is an overstatement. The entire game felt "clunky," making it near impossible to enjoy doing anything in it. Not to mention, it was EXTREMELY bland and dull. Every station had the same texture, and in general the art was just dreary in a bad way. General gameplay was also more boring than Diablo 2 hack n-slash.
They would have had to do a MAJOR re-work of this game to get me to consider even coming back. Like, they would have had to redo the fundamentals of everything so that it actually felt like a new game. Did they do this at all? Or does it still feel "clunky"?
And that whole "subscription" stuff was sickening. The game was so empty compared to what was promised and yet they expected people to pay 15$ a month. Feel bad for the suckers that bought the collectors edition for 150-200$ and then the game shut down.
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