MMORPG recomendation

[psicomaniaco]

Hi guys. I'm posting this to let all know about a nice MMORPG that I'm playing at the moment.

Its Tales of Pirates (I'm sure you guys saw some banners about it here and there).

At first, it looks just like another MMOG. Meh, the only reason I played it its because its free. But after the first few boring moments (the game can be a bit complicated for newbies), I was having soo much fun that I even forgot that I have a life. The fact that you can build your boat and use to sell materials (like woods, that you chopped off yourself), go fishing and visit all the islands (the map of the game seems HUGE, BTW).

Now, whenever they start selling premium items (if ever), I'm SURE gonna buy them JUST to keep the game going.

Don't mind the kiddish look. This game is for everyone. Hell, I'm 24 and enjoying this game more than any other MMORPG (well, not more than WoW, but it became too expensive to play WoW being a brazilian). Just remember to turn off the world and trade chats (too much spam), and you'll have a ball with the game.


BTW, I have a Hunter named "NancyDrewBR" there. Remember to say "hi" when you guys find me there. I'm already at level 15 (this pic was taken two days ago).





Look how cute this kid is. Its one of the 'races' on the game. This little girl can't get old (like Peter Pan).

[Deleted]

Sounds interesting for sure. I'll probably atleast try it out for a bit.


Any lag? My experience with free mmorpgs is that they are usually very very laggy.

Also, at this very moment I can't seem to access their homepage at all, so I guess I'll get it later.

[psicomaniaco]

Well, I've been playing this for a while, and I haven't noticed lags.

[kinghanco]

Cool it looks much better than Ragnarok Online and Cronous.

There seem to be a problem with the website loading. I will keep trying.

[psicomaniaco]

Now that I've been playing this game for a while, I can honestly say that its now one of my favorite games ever! The only MMORPG that I find better than this now is WoW.

But I should also say that its NOT a perfect game. Recently, I've been bored trying to do a quest that wasn't very well thought. I have to kill a boss, but there's only ONE of it in the entire game. And the respawn time is 5 minutes. We have to kill it and get one item that SOMETIMES get dropped by it.

Whats worse is that the story quests are mandatory (to get Life Skills), and they are linear. Meaning that if you can't do this quest, you won't be able to get more life skills. This means that LOOOOOOOOOOOTS of people will try to do this quest at the same time. I've been trying to complete it for about 4 days now, and only the best and luckiest ones are able to complete it. This is boring!

[kinghanco]

Ok this is the link right? www.talesofpirates.com/

I want to make sure.

[psicomaniaco]

Yes. You can download using Torrent, if you want.

[psicomaniaco]

herra said:

Any lag? My experience with free mmorpgs is that they are usually very very laggy.

When I started, the game was running silk smooth. But now, for some reason, its lagging like hell! I tried to talk with the live support, but they seemed a bit... uh... useless. Here's the ENTIRE chat I had with them:

I hated the Live support for this game too. Its funny, its seems people there can't even speak propper english.

The guy was very polite and all, but it was clear to me that he doesn't have a clue on what to do. Here's my chat with him:


"Marcelo:
I'm getting really bad lags in the game. Sometimes when I'm walking, I get thrown back to where I was 5 or so seconds ago. Sometimes this happens near agressive enemies, making me loose lots of HP.

Eric:
Hello! What could I do for you ?

Eric:
what server i will go to check it

Marcelo:
The penguin one.

Marcelo:
This is actually happening quite frequently.

Eric:
what is your char name?

Marcelo:
NancyDrewBR

Eric:
i do not lags in the game

Marcelo:
Well, what may be causing this lag for me then?

Eric:
it maybe your connection problems

Marcelo:
Any idea on how to fix it?

Marcelo:
It doesn't lag in other MMORPGs, so why only here, in ToP?

Eric:
sorry i donot know it either

Marcelo:
Ok, thanks for your help Eric...

Eric:
enjoy the game bye-bye"


Not only he was useless, but his english sucked!

[Deleted]

Hahaha.

I haven't actually found the time to even install the game yet. The installer is just sitting on my HD, waiting for somekind of a miracle. Damn that Tiberium Wars taking all my time.

Are you still getting the lag, or was it just a temporary thing?

[psicomaniaco]

Still... Maybe because I'm brazilian, and the server is a bit far, but it shouldn't be like this.

WoW doesn't lag for me, so why ToP does?


I'm still playing the game anyway though.

[jackofisabela]

Haha. Tales of Pirates...reminds me of Monkey D. Luffy ( One Piece )

Maybe I'll give the game a try...

[psicomaniaco]

You have NO idea how many Luffy's (MonkeyDLuffy, Luffy13, luffyBR, and so on) I've found on this game (there are five on my friends list alone. )

There's even some guilds dedicated to One Piece.

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psicomaniaco said:

WoW doesn't lag for me, so why ToP does?

It's because Blizzard has the dough to run more servers, ToP is free and as such probably don't have nearly enough servers for their (growing?) userbase.


Or you could be just unlucky.

[kinghanco]

I'm Dullaron on Tales of Pirates. ;D

Yea I get lags and kick back. It seem too many people causes the game to have some issues.


Edit: Darn... I can't find the Lady Boss now. I found her once. I got the Bloodies High Heels and sold it. I need another one.

[kinghanco]

Here is Cronous (free online game) website if you want to try it out. global.cronous.com/

Anyway I'm on a WOW trial at this time. So I won't be playing Tales of Pirates until the WOW trial ran out.