Recent reviews by KillahByte

Poor development and management practices are killing this game. Month solid of apologies from company while the player base suffers. Economy and player trust were dealt a blow after a series of gold and item duplication exploits hit. They took trading posts offline several times. Failed to ban all the offenders and companies that performed these exploits took a very advantageous position in the game.

To double down, they greatly increased the time investment required to progress gearscore watermark and professions after a number of players reached these goals already. It has killed motivation on my part to continue. It has widened the rift between very dedicated 8hr or more a day players and exploiters from the midcore and casuals. Those who can “only” play a few hours a day see a weeks long goal where an attempt could be made to catch up with those exploiters turned into months long, greatly widening that divide. I feel like those who already had an advantage of longer gaming hours just pulled the ladder up behind them while us with other responsibilities just got ♥♥♥♥ on.

And really that is only if you keep playing at current rate and they don’t change anything else or find any other major dupe exploits. Based on history this a matter of when not if. If you’ve moved the goalpost once when the metrics didn’t fit your model then you’ll have no problem doing it again. I’d bet dollars to donuts that they’ll have a solution to this problem in the micro transaction store before the end of the year.

Balance in PvP, Ourpost Rush, and Wars has been rough. Strong metas form around every exploit, like the hatchet perk bug or the crouching musket. Trying to play fair as a company is a death sentence. Even without the exploits, a healthy advantage is given to great ax and hammer melee combos and we have seen a significant meta formed around that usage. Most large scale fights devolve into a slideshow of CC stun locks with a handful of mages, healers, and ranged dumping PvP on the Zerg. This is made worse by every PvP mechanic boiling down to king of the hill style point mechanics.

I could go on but I’ll digress there. Those are the major issues.

TL;DR - Game has had multiple game breaking bugs. Most new MMOs do, but the way Amazon has addressed them leads me to believe their dev team and management are incompetent and adversarial to the player base.

very fun

Fun survival game. Plays like a light MMO with survival and building.