Friday Livestream: Vindictus [Updated]

The game is initially entertaining, but once you realize that you need to grind the same instances over and over and over in order to progress to the next one (that is essentially the same), you realize how it is the perfect trap.

It was developed to perfectly balance how much you need to grind up and slowly you need more and more purchases in order to continue the endless grind up to the next instance.

I would equate this game to Farmville or any of the other browser / facebook games that allow a set amount of turns per day.

In Vindictus, you gain silver coins every Friday and Monday. These coins are needed to access instances, passed the low level intro stuff.

There is a cap on the coins you can carry, this instills the need to use them all ASAP (=play a lot) and then either pay to refill them or wait until they fill again. Rinse and repeat the process of earning / spending them in order to keep your efficiency up.

Anyways, there is more that I could go into... like how it is a huge stretch to call it an mmo.

Once the shiny wears off and you see passed the admittedly fun gameplay, everything becomes stale.

The worst thing is that it's painfully transparent that this game started out with a pay model committee rather than gaming.

Well, for what it's worth, here are 2 friend codes for beta that I forgot about. Please reply to this comment with the code you use so other readers know it has been picked up.


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I tried to download the client 5 times yesterday. Huge waste of time. At 99% I got error messages.

I have a beta key but any interest in the game I've had is pretty much gone now.

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Thanks a lot hopefully it still works

Every time I seem to want to play, either the servers are down or there are problems with the game, like it kicks me out when I try to go on a boat, or my inventory wont load. Still quite buggy but I think a lot of that has to do with the sheer number of people in the beta.

The game is fun, but its lack of classes at launch are going to be its downfall. 5 is fine, but 2 is not, particularly when they are so similar. The game is also very grindy, although a lot of the grinding is by choice and not required.

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I've been playing over the past 2 days, and have been having a blast. I've gotten a Fiona to 10 even with all the instabilities. As noted, the gameplay is great, and I'm intrigued with the mechanics, especially after a few boss battles ending with my armor in tatters.

They've done a great job with the Source engine, and the shiny on the characters, NPCs, and the destruction physics are impressive. On the other hand, I'm having Counterstrike flashbacks from the dungeon environments of the Perilous Ruins.

I'd also love to see what they could have done with a full world environment, and I wonder how long till I'm sick of the town/lobby and dungeon system.

I think this will keep me good for a long while on a desire for sword and fantasy action, as more scifi MMOs are released in the future, especially that it's ftp.

I'd suggest everyone to give it a try, if you can get a key. The tutorial itself is great, and a must do experience.

I started playing this last night, but unfortunately only had time to get through the prologue. That, however, was a crazy amount of fun. The action is slick and fast-paced. Generally, fun.

It's not every day you get to kick enemies off rafters to their certain doom while carrying an unconscious damsel (I didn't realize I could just put her down with the space bar until later).

Can't wait to have some more time with it over the weekend.

stupid misleading site

NA, Can and oceanic can play

except Australia is IP blocked

Finally got my account working 2 days later (Oh NoScript you scamp, quit it.) Here's a referral code, I'll see if my bf wants the other; if not, I'll post the other Sunday.

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I think I'll be leaving this download on all night. XP No idea why I thought I'd be playing any time soon.

Thanks for the info. :)

wait what game is that in the pre-recorded video linked too? It sure doesn't look like Vindictus OR LOTRO...looks cool though...please what is it!