Allods Online team defends patch 1.1 changes

if people don't like it they should vote with their feet, plenty of other f2p titles out there.

No developer will admit that their game has become "Pay to win", so I skip that part entirely and go to the "..but they can be purchased from other players and the auction house."" part. This is probably one of the worst responses they could come up with, it's like saying "deal with it, we aren't changing it". Everyone who plays f2p games knows how overpriced the cash shop items are when bought with ingame currency, handing out a reply like that is admitting that you are either forced to buy the stuff with real money or grind to death to buy the needed items. I am predicting that many people will simply choose not to play the game until the penalty expires, and if they can't use a certain item because of the penalty, they will buy a new one.

A death penalty is added to a game for several reasons, none of which include making the players shell out money. All that "critical building block" stuff has nothing to do with the issue, I doubt that the game will collapse upon itself if they get the death penalty right for once. And for the "Change is a part of every MMO"..I don't know what to say. When defending an opinion, you should provide arguments as to why it is a good choice, not say "You guys fear change", and "deal with it, death penalty is a critical building block in our mmo".

I am not familiar with most of the changes in this patch. I haven't played allods since the closed beta, and even then I only got a character to level 15. It appearad to me that the game is steadily going back on the right track, but reading that response changed my opinion.

You'd best listen to your shrinking player base AV.

'Yes, Holy Charms, Incense, and Scrolls of Purification are only offered through the Item Shop, but they can be purchased from other players and the auction house."

Yes, but those players had to buy those items from the item shop... this dev team is so stupid, it is beyond comprehension. However, clearly they are lucking out and profiting, because they aren't changing their stance any. Can't believe people will give these money grubbing people any of their cash when there are plenty of other F2P or subscription games to hand over cash too that won't break the bank.

I'm soo glad i left (vote w/ my feet) waay earlier when i saw the trend that this company is doing with this very Promising MMO. Too bad Greed is the driven force, if they were to look at DDO, they can see that good money can be make with the right kind Management on the Cashshop side.

or better yet. Offer Subscription model on top of their cashshop like DDO.

Too late now. I wouldn't touch anything else from this company.

The Death Penalty does NOT expire. If your items are cursed from dying, a random curse on opening a treasure chest, or randomly when dropped your boned. Your blue, purple and legendary items become worthless negative stat items forever unless you fork out LOTS of gold or some cash everytime. (thats right the curse is not limited to happen on just death but you can actually LOOT items that are cursed and not covered by the holy charms only the purification scrolls)

The game is Grind or Pay unless you want to be punished. A total shit way to run a F2P game.

i ve just tried today again and i see that even full damage skills and incesne + (potions +45) hard to kill regeular same lvl mob its insane , better wait for ff14 or TERA
or rift or any p2p game is cheaper

Allods Online team claim:

"We want to assure you that the game has not become Pay-to-Play or Pay-to-Win. At the core of Allods you can still enjoy the game without ever having to worry about spending money. Yes, Holy Charms, Incense, and Scrolls of Purification are only offered through the Item Shop, but they can be purchased from other players and the auction house."

...doublespeak crits me for well over 20,000. :(

All I can say: great game killed by greed.

If they have to 'defend' it, it means it's crap... how full of shit you gotta be not to admin that? Meh...

Seriously...what did you expect? That it would be "Free to play"? That's only a misleading term that they (and all these type of games) use to get you to play. Once you are there, of course they have to make money! So either fill up on gPotatoes or stop complaining.

Pity, it is a good game that has a good system up till 20, but now they will have no end game.

When LOTRO goes F2P it will put a nail in this one's coffin since Allods online was the best F2P game otherwise.

Actually, it's not the Russians that are controlling the pricing, etc. It is gPotato that are controlling all the pricing, etc.

Play the game on a Russian server and see the difference. All the items are available on the AH for very cheap, because the cash shop sells them for pennies anyway. Seven of my guild members switched to the Russian game and love it, but I refuse to play through a proxy and in a language I don't understand.

But who cares about this game anyway? I am in the LOTRO F2P beta and LOVE LOVE LOVE it. The cash shop is a convenience, and there are already people that are unlocking higher level content and even expansion packs just by building up their toons. Looks like Turbine will have DDO 2.0 on their hands when they finally make Lord of the Rings Online free to play. I was one of the people that did not drop a penny on DDO, and just bought things on sale with earned points. I will be doing the same thing in LOTRO.... And from the looks of it, it is much easier to do it in LOTRO than in DDO.