Allods Online introduces developer diary

Interesting that you phrased it that way. This was exactly my opinion of the game as well.

It's tough to elaborate in a short comment. I'd say there were two early factors to my giving up on Allods.

1) It often felt that the answer to any game problem, whether design issue or bug, was a trip to the cash shop. Perfume quest broke? Bag quest drop rate infeasible? Attributes or talents turned out different than you expected? Buy from the shop! It felt like I was paying for developers' mistakes rather than supporting a game through positive means.

2) The game has appeared stuck in limbo because of the complaints about the RU version. I see that they've finally announced (but not implemented) a "major update" that fixes some trivial stuff. A command to reply to whispers, and splitting item stacks... these kinds of things should have been done in the first week or two, not two months. Did they ever implement a right-click ignore, or was the it assumed unnecessary with the new spam filter?

I am pretty sure that their financial contributors want to know how they're gonna make their money back. It is definitely unfortunate that they didn't have a clearer method from the beginning about how they'd pay back their development costs but I am confident that they don't want to ruin the game by making unreasonable demands on the players for payments.

This will all work out. In the meantime I will be playing. If things get too costly I have no problem quitting.

Hard to complain about the "time" I've invested in the game when I invested several years and hundreds of dollars into WoW and had no problem quitting that.

This is actually a reply to Jaam, but it seems you can't reply to a reply here. No, they haven't introduced a right click ignore...it sure would be nice though. The new spam filter seems to be pretty weak. They've changed the algorithm and still the spammers get through while, depending on the composition of a message, a real post may not go through.

That said, I've gotten a lot of fun out of Allods and so far haven't invested a penny. All of my higher level characters have bags (without doing the asinine bag/bank quests). I've resigned myself to buying a couple of respecs down the line, but don't resent it. They need to pay for the game somehow.

Fear of Death was never implemented and has been cancelled.

One thing about these developers: for all of the crazy ideas they have had they listened and changed things when the community made a stink.

Oh right ok, I might give it another go then. I havent really kept up to date with it since I left but if things are improving I might go back. I get the impression though from other comments that the community is still not happy about the later levels/end game.