Alganon open beta announced for November 11

I'm really rather pissed about this, they said they weren't going to do this because they wanted feedback from only people who had vested interest in the game, meaning those that bought it. So I bought the game, tried the beta, found out it was crap. I want my 40 bucks back.

It's because the game is complete crap that they are having to do this. Heck even the beta retention rate is extremely bad. When you can't hold people with free what makes you think its going to do better when its released.

I tried to like the game for several months. But the game has issues and lots of them.

The best way I could describe it is.. If you take everything fun about World of Warcraft and tossed it in a trash can.. Because thats what Alganon is.. Everything that isnt fun about WoW.

I can't believe they are actually going to try and market / sell this game.

From looking at this game i still haven't figured out what it provides that other games don't. It looks like more of the same but with less polish. What is its draw?

Been playing it the past week.....its absolute crap, waste of download.

The devs for Algalowow found a "still in development" copy of WoW laying around and published it as their own. It might have been fine.... if it was released 9 years ago.

I haven't seen this game, but I don't need to. If I want to play a cheap immitation of WoW I'll play Runes of Magic, not trust my money to the chap behind Horizons!

Oh, man, I cannot WAIT for the floodgates to open and for this hilarious disaster to finally be completey exposed. Oh, sweet, sweet schadenfreude!

Hilarious. It's like Limbo of the Lost, except they're only shamelessly stealing from one game.

I have been a member of closed beta for a couple of months now, and after the first few days, I didnt make time to come back. I have tried it again last week after several items have been implemented, but I still feel the game is lacking so much. And nothing is smooth and streamlined about it.

Regardless, the community rep about 45 days ago mentioned it was a retail boxed game with a $15/mo subscription, and I just chuckled to myself at my desk. To think these guys HONESTLY believe they can release this game, which reminds me of Runes of Magic, and charge the standard big-release MMO rates...is just ludicrous. This game will hit the ground hard like Crimecraft has, and if they still intend on a P2P system, I bet you it will turn to F2P within a couple of months.

I'm a little confused by the harshness of some of these comments. Does anyone here remember how rough a good number of MMO releases were when they were released... and even some of the most recent ones? Don't get me wrong, as a beta member for a couple months I've seen the big problems with the disconnects and fps stuff, but as a game it's still a serious breath of fresh air. I'm a long time WoW player and keep finding myself getting so bored with playing. I stop playing for several months and then jump back on again. This game is the kind of game I would love to take up those "off months", as it's similar to WoW and many others, but keeps it fun w/ new features (I love the offline progression).

Anyway, yes, the game's graphics look dated in some areas and the animations still need a lot of work, but I keep in mind it's still beta and the game itself hooked me despite any closed beta problems I came across. The pros are still outweighing the cons for me. I'm holding my judgement for when the game comes out and until then will keep enjoying the beta.