Allods Online: Pay to Win?

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Is Allods Online a pay to win game? Does a free player stand a chance? Watch to learn it all!

Play or Pay to Win is a new show of MMOBomb.com about the Cash Shop of popular free to play online games including some concerns of the Free-to-Play model for MMOs and the pay-to-win stigma.

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Carmine Caban 5 years ago
I got what you mean ,saved to my bookmarks, very decent web site.

satanyca 9 years ago
the answer is simple....any f2p game is p2w...unfortunately..but companies need money to make the game live more so..well...it makes sense

Tony Tran 10 years ago
Active lv55 Summoner 3 years.
1. you can play allods without spending any money but you will struggle.
2. No one is forcing anyone to spend real money its just that there are a few op players with myth earring slot and lv12 runes + that will rape you ingame.
3. No point playing Allods if your not gonna spend cuz you won't be wanted in guilds/Astral.
4.There are a few item shop stuff you can get via grinding allot. But for me i just exchange gpots for gem shards then trade it in at currency guy for gold its quick and easy unless you wanna grind your dick off.
5.Runes is the main problem that is coursing players to become op or quit Allods.
6.New mount well you don't have to get it but your missing out allot, like i said if you can't afford it to dam bad no point playing Allods then.
7.Extra talent points/Rubies Real money otherwise grind you dick off.
8.Once you spend you cant stop trust me 3 years of spending and i'm still going.
9.For New players i recommend playing on the Subscription server Cuz no one is OP everything is Balance and there is No item shop, It's easier to Lv up and grind.

No longer allods player 10 years ago
The fact that you have to pay for a mount was reason enough for me to quit the game. No im not going to walk around trying to grind to 55 when there should be a quest or atleast be able to buy a mount with ingame gold. No you have to pay for a mount outright with real money or pay for a compass with real money for a CHANCE at a mount. Terrible.

some random allods player 10 years ago
they added a feature where you can buy cash shop money for in-game money...... so yeah bb pay to win

MentalBreak 10 years ago
Pay to win?Only if you really suck at this game.Seriously Get alchemy and start crafting until you can craft the high end potions.Sell those off and make a fortune to buy whatever cash shop items you want.It's working for me.Hell even selling off the items you obtain from herbalism is profitable.Most players now don't spend that amount of money at all they just go with it.Also if you want to PVP then yeah you need high level runes.But is that really the games fault?They have enough PvE content to keep you content and playing with level 6 runes to enjoy end game.That's easily obtainable if you master your craft.Too lazy to do that?Then sounds like you better use your credit card noobs! :)

PS.You can get through the entire game up to level 55 with just level 1 runes.People are doing that now.You just need to get rep gear for your level and you'll be good.Less [censored] and moaning more grinding and hoarding!

Greg 10 years ago
I have a level 55 account in Allods.
Its not p2w imo.
I hit 10k-11k in pvp and i havnt bought one thing.
The problem i see with the game is balance.

tony tran 11 years ago
Anyway since iv been playing for almost 3 years now and all that hard work i cant quit now and im kinda addicted to the game must play everyday or ill lose progress.
PAY to WIN ALL THE WAY FK YEAH.

tony tran 11 years ago
fken pay to win all the way.
Allods was rated top F2P they came 4th or something. And yes you don't have to spend money if you don't wanted too but player who spend allot on high LV runes will fke up any class thats why its P2W thats why the classes are not balance there op.
like me iv already spent $700 on the game and heres a good tip play something else like AION, RIFT, TERA , Blade & Soul or Lineage 2 i mostly recommend Guild wars 2 currently the top game.
Other F2P are Aika online and Forsaken world so on......

Memphis 11 years ago
You're surprised a WoW Knockoff (to a near illegal extent) is a ripoff? LOL

Who cares 11 years ago
I just wanna say thx to the guys for posting. I was gonna play Allods online then i read into the "pay2play" thing and saw alot of comments on various diffrent sites. Looks like the people that say it's not pay2win are people who already spend money and don't like it that Allods isn't that populair anymore. 2 servers and after less then 2 year already merging into 1 server.. ? I cancelled my download. Have a good day.

(ps: just so u know they could make ALOT more money when it was actually free2play, cous it would be mad populair)

hi all 11 years ago
Hi,

i play allods eu 8 month alredy...game is not P2W but its more like if you dont pay you actually cant be in top rank players coz making lvl 13 rune in game is more like imposible if you don't pay.
It is true you can get top geer with no spending money but that requires 24/7/365 playing. Most events they give are some items drops then later you need compass to opent maps...and you need at least 50 to get mount. Maby some will say "you dont need top ranking mount" ....well your wrong...to be good in battleground you need mount rank 3/4. From my opint of view you can be good player if you spend aprox 500$ and use it just for runes to get them to lvl 10/10. Sadly my paycheck on job is 300$ so i can only dream of that runes...but i still play and farm KoE every day to get 500g in few h.there is still Battleground to get leggendary items that i farm few month alredy and get draconic relics. still with al those items i got leggy and draconics, some can 1-hit me :D

tony tran 11 years ago
also in upgrade section in item shop has an item i always buy concentrated catalyst use to get 15 amalgam + 400% refine gear boost. cost 200gpots. up grade 5 gear thats 1k gpots gone so i spend another $10 hehe

tony tran 11 years ago
im not a lazy person i go to school and i work.
if i'm told to do something i get up and do.
or get told off yell at/ banned from playing.
but whne it comes to working in the kitchen as chef man im fcken lazy the crap pay and long hours 9.30am til 11.30pm fk that.
cant stay at home and play all day not like those losers out there

tony tran 11 years ago
Huutony summoner lv 51 yul server.

Allods definitely pay to win iv spent almost $1000 on crystal chip to make runes, on mounts , currency for gold , and sales/ event.
kinda addicted to this game i spend money a few times a week.

vioshark 11 years ago
allods is not pay to win it is pay to be lazy

spyke 11 years ago
level 13 runes were averaged at around 17k U.S.D to make a full set by a response video on youtube by a pair of veteran allods players

No one, I repeat NO ONE appreciates the obvious "you're gonna wanna buy" comments that permeate your review or blatant overlooking of the fact that as a Gpotato/gala.net game it has 2 common factors which have carried on from flyff and many others that quite frankly annoy the crap outta me to see you overlook

1: upgrading, costs, money. If someone has to buy those chips to make runes, they have to pay to win, NO ONE in their right mind will grind THAT much gold to buy them as they're usually insanely priced, and still someone has to buy them for the "winning" to begin just because YOU don't personally buy them with real currency doesn't mean it hasn't occured

2: their system of experience gain and loss usually is horribly mired down with heavy, HEAVY and I repeat HEAVY losses for death outside of garbage "ress scrolls" or "exp protection scrolls" which translates to "pay us to avoid a sh*tty design aspect of our game or suffer horribly to losses and frustration" and fail to offset that with a strong experience gain system, you're fighting the hardest of the hard in most gala games, barely scraping through if you don't UPGRADE *cough* and if you die due to cheese enemies or horribly imbalanced classes, bugged skills or enemies or latency spikes that are outside of your control etc etc well that's your own fault for not paying isn't it?

Yeah, reclassify it as pay4fun even if you wish, but if you can't stay alive unless you are forcibly upgrading through a broken player market which is tied into a cash shop inherently then YES you are paying to win, although oddly enough it even seems more like paying to not die horribly at each chance and get stuck at a level plateau and never progressing, to some reaching the last level would be considered "winning" and from my experience with this developers games, that is one thing you won't get to do without nigh insane levels of grind that would cost you more in medical bills from damaging yourself and being committed by your loved ones to an institution than anything

my experience was from flyff, which has just released it's mass reskin (ahahahaha x infinity) as flyff gold, more akin to a legal maneuver company name change than a real "update" and from the first glance they've still not correct the bugs that had plagued the game when I got sick of it and left, and yes, I paid to avoid the frustration of things and tried out their gambling erm... "upgrade" system, which btw folkarino's is just as sickening as the chips and runes of allods
the knight class which could with cheap items tank masses of enemies and allow for some bypassing of the garbage enemy cheese damage output with a little support was left bugged for some time missing it's passive damage x2 proc and it's no wonder why either, ridiculously overpowered billposter hybrid classes could stunlock the mini bosses and farm the heck outta them and were considered the alpha class of the game IF you of course spent a ridiculous amount of money on them, and again said class could with a specific build guarantee one shot people in pvp due to the abuse of certain items which again would be gained through scrolls of awakening (cash shop item kerchiiiing!!) and could offer negative stats entirely ruining a drop (which was probably garbage anyways)

if you see Gpotato on a game, or gala.net AVOID their tired BS tactics, their let down failure games that are just localised cutesy gambling scams dressed up as BAD MMO's
and don't let this company make another dime

for the sake of 60 Euro you can within the next week or so own guild wars 2, which won't gouge you for far more money via P2Win scams like these guys will and enjoy a much more polished and relevant game

Krusader 11 years ago
Just to be clear, the author of this video wasn't far enough into the game to make an educated decision. Allods is pay to win, the Rune System is the method, and the author rather skips over it.

In a one on one fight between a free player and a pay to win player, the fight will be no contest; the free player will be dead in 1,2 or 3 shots. If you don't care about pvp that's fine, but raiding guilds will expect your runes to be at certain levels to progress in content. Your damage wont be competitive otherwise.

It's true that many of the players have mentioned that you can buy these things on the AH with in game gold. And you can, the prices are just out of reach to free to play players.

Mitkosa333 11 years ago
I see everyone in the comments say allods if Pay2W exept magikman.In my opinion a Pay2W game is a game with no cash shop or atleast no stat buffs like the elixirs in allods.The only Play2W game at the moment that i know is League of Legends and no other.They still have a cashshop but they dont sell thinks that are changing the player performance.U cant buy even runes that give u stats with their money currency.At the moment im in the Path of Exile beta but as it seems it will become Pay2W as soon as it enters and i dont know any MMORPG that isnt Pay2W.If u could tell me atleast one i will be happy but at the moment i think all mmorpgs are Pay 2 win.League of Legends is not mmorpg its a moba game.

Ovidicus 11 years ago
Goodjob Magicman i really liked the video. Your opinion was stated in a well-formed and correct manner. Like Magic said "the video was based off of opinion" and even that if not to many people got offended he then announced a disclaimer of being fairly judge by regular players and pay to win advantages so lighten up. I for one have paid for games i mean i don't play to many RPG's but, i definitely play shooters and have shelled out a few to get some permanent weapons. Doesn't make you a bad person it's just the odds of finding a person without cash items have been trimmed if i must say. If you really enjoy a game that much and spend some real money then go for it, there is nothing wrong with it cause either way all it does is buy time because a rough percentage of the items you do buy in-game can be earned in the game or bought in most RPG' s from an auction house. NO HARM NO FOUL. Enjoy the game that's all i can say. I mean what is more harmful pay to win players or hackers. I think i would rather take my chances with pay to win because who knows you could always still come out ontop and if you ever felt the feeling of winning something against a person who has shelled out a fortune to "receive items" or in other people's brains "buy skill" and beat them without anything that you didn't earn yourself it feels great :) but, my opinion stands clear i believe the game is pay to win but, it is up to you to see if you have what it takes to live up to your expectations while playing the game money or no money.

Thankyou,

Ovidicus

A former allods player 11 years ago
Just wanting to say, that you are very wrong.

Allods is in fact a Pay-to-win game. Truly, this is one of the more superior free games out there, but it is pay-to-win.

Whether it be PVE or PVP, runes matter all the time. Roaming the various astrals with only level one runes is a sure fire way to get you killed by a player from the opposing faction. Runes affect weapons, armor, and skills. You are going to have a freeking hard time if you reach the PVP maps with only lvl 1 runes.

So what do I do? I need lvl 2 and lvl 3, and yes... you can grab these upgrades via the auction house, but damn is it expensive. 80-100-120 gold pieces for ten crystal chips, that you use all at once to upgrade only ONE rune. Great...

To top it all off, you'll even have to buy even more crystal chips to upgrade a lvl 2 rune to lvl 3...

:P It'll take you months on end to grind the money to get at least lvl four runes. Even then, you're still no match for guys with lvl 12 runes.

:) I do appreciate your opinion though. I thought it was pretty play-to-win myself, and gPotato is doing a great job of trying to keep things in check and play-able.

I will however stand by my statement, that this game is indeed Pay-to-win.

Gmonst 11 years ago
At the start he says this game is very popular. Is that actually true? They're doing an american server merge, which suggests this game has a declining playerbase. I really love and want to play this game, but I worry about its future.

ArtKing 11 years ago
people saying that this game is pay to win are noobs. Of course, they need a source of income to keep the game up, it's natural. But the thing is, everything in the item shop can be bought through in game gold. You just have to work hard for it if you don't want to spend anything. Go play pay to play games if you don't want pay to win. There, they get their income from your monthly pay or whatever system they have. I haven't spent anything in the game but I can already top the dps meter without high lvled runes. Then again, farming for runes is quite easy. I'm gonna get full lvl 7 runes soon, I already have a lion mount, and a lot of cash ship stuffs. All that from just hard work.

common sense 11 years ago
Cmon guys dont believe in everything what ppl say or write without tryin...=/ Allods is F2P system with cash shop...OFC it have cash shop where ppl can buy stuff. Otherwise game wouldnt be alive and regularly updated. They need money too. Nothin (!) and not a single game in this world is totally free...dont be fool to believe in that. Now about cash shop...yes you can buy some stuff like crystal chips in cs for upgrading runes...but you guys dont know one important thing...to upgrade runes to high lvl cost a LOT. Many players choose to spend like 20-30 euros (im talking about eu version) and get runes around max lvl5. Thats completely enough for normal game. If you met ppl with high runes 7-8-9lvl it doesnt mean that every of them paid with real money...some of them acctually play game for very long time (2 years +)!! That way is very possible to get runes at least lvl8...it is trust me i have friends there who for 2 y didnt spend singe dime and they have runes 7-8-9 lvl...its play to win! Not pay to win...everythin you can have without payin real money. Everythin...im playin atm for less then a month and i already have 2 mounts...lot of cash (im using AH offten) and 444/444 runes...i spend 20e on runes and thats enough for start the game. Game is very good, nice production, offten updated, lot of fun...with floods of new players (again im talking about EU one ) and im having a lot of fun. You wont see much ppl with high runes...a lot of players have max lvl 3-4 and that makes them normal not OP oponents in pvp. Try the game first and then decide is it bad or not. Cheers and sry for bad english and walltext..=)

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Warking 11 years ago
So basically you need to pay to become pro? Cuz if it needs me to pay and become pro or play and get owned by cash players i will never play this game.

stolennn1 11 years ago
I was kinda addicted to the game until I got to the PVP area and got pwnd by lower level players with lvl 7-8 runes .. Nothing I could've done...

Anyways , could you do a p2w video of DC Universe Online?:)

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kaotics 11 years ago
I would never spend so many bucks (over $100) to play a f2p game, people who do that r just ridicilous imao. And if you can't farm the cash shop currency, so people who don't want to spend hundreds of bucks on it, I won't even play it. Don't get me wrong, if a game is fun and has a good balance and chance for people wether or not spending money on it (if you like the game, you gladly spending SOME imao) to go (not rush) to endgame, I'm playing it with no doubt. I play both, sub games and F2P if the F2P is fair.

cacalips 11 years ago
p2W since closed beta. nuff said

Saex_Conroy 11 years ago
That's why there are World of Warcraft Private Servers, so that you can experience the most polished and balanced MMORPG for free. When you have WoW PServers, why would you ever want to play a different game that unsurprisingly much mimics WoW?

Curst 11 years ago
Well, maybe it's not pay to win, since you can get everything by in-game means (endless grind + auction house). But it's definetly pay to win ALOT faster and with much less effort. However what's important for me is that this game is not "pay to have fun", although it looks like not many players appreciate it nowadays.

P.S. Hey, Magicman. Any chance that you'll cover World of Tanks in one of the next "Pay to Win?" shows? Here in Russia it is considered one of the most fair (to non-paying members) games. So I'm curious what people think about it on the other side of Earth.

Zverrr 11 years ago
You need a new book of rules Magicman...
example- on first PvP map guy with lvl 10 and 11 runes come and WIPE entire camp,players and NPC,and he was lvl 28. We tried to kill him but he kill about 7 players (plus all npc) For runes lvl 11 you need to grind about year or more playing. Then you must made new char,lvl-up to lvl 25 for first PvP map. That guy got his runes from cash shop (cc craft). He pay,he win in only 3 weeks of playing,rest of us need year to do so if we don't pay...Not to mention things you get from mobs and only can be used with cash items...So,this is P2Win...Period! (sry about my bad english)

Lera 11 years ago
You know one point you didn't mention are the new what I would call "Battle Mount" those are mounts which you can fight with and which are extremely powerful, the Overlord's Aegis for example a sort of Tank and the "Titan" which is one which was seen on Russian Vids and which is yet to be coming, those are P2W, because if you look at them a non paying player is going to be mashed in a second by those, they say the "Titan" will be able to handle bosses which normally require teams to fight on its own and it will be useable in PvP which mean if you don't have it, you are dead meat.
So at that point the game will indeed be seriously advantaged to the payers, since you can expect they aren't something you get with in-game, sure maybe they will be for sell for points which can be bought in-game, but let us be realistic, those mounts will be out of pretty much all players hands which are not payers because even if in theory you can buy in a way points for the store with gold, it is very very costy and those kind of mounts are going to go for a ungodly price which would be virtually impossible for non payers to get, sure you can say its not a true P2W because in theory all the players can get them, but you should take the practical in consideration, if something cost 3k store points, its like 6-12k gold ingame at least I think... I heard that at best you get a conversion of 500 points for 1k gold... but it tend to go for more unless you have the right connections. The very fact that at first only payers will be able to get them 99% of the time and than maybe after a year out it will be more like 95% of the people which have it are payers, it still will break the game badly in the payers advantage for a very long time.
You should consider adapting your definition about P2W on a on the spot basis, if within the first month its out less than 5% of the non-payers players can get it, it mean its game breaking toward the payers, you should seek to make a more balance definition which take in consideration both the theoretical and the practical, that something is "available" to non-payers doesn't mean its really available to non-payers practically, if you have to grind at the highest level for over a month, 20+ hours a week to afford something it shouldn't be considered truly available.

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Balt 11 years ago
2 games that I hate for being p2w are BattleForge and PoxNora. Both strategy games.

asdasds 11 years ago
i don''t think a saw a single f2p mmo that it's not pay to win, that is if you want to compete

Balt 11 years ago
Where did G1Teanji go?

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ThcMonkee 11 years ago
The Allods mounts is a great example of developers making the content purposely boring for the nonpaying customer and it's just downright sleazy.

Furthermore, the "be grateful that you are playing it for free" argument is invalid and close minded. F2P model wasn't given birth by the kindness of developers. F2P is a payment model tailored by the current consumer mentality. Nothing really changed in the fairness department, the scale of fairness wasn't tipped in any one direction. Good games still make money. Good marketing calls still make even more money.

And slap me around with a banana and call me orange if i'm going to play a game just because i can. Not to mention give money into a game to make it less boring.

... I went of the main subject... What i am trying to say is that i can neither disagree nor agree with MagicMans categorization because i don't think it is that black and white

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allods 11 years ago
also i agree with magicman this game is not pay to win but it dam sure is hard as hell for a play to win it has gotten better over the course of time the game use to be really bad pay to win back during teps curse and what not it has gotten a ton more f2p ever since then.

some examples ill give u mounts u dont need them theres so much running around that u do its not worth the money u would poor into them best thing to do is wait till an event and get a mount then or not get one at all. sec the biggest concern is runes the best thing to do is spend money on one toon and get him like lvl 4-5 offense to 4-5 defence runes then from there just grind gold for the money exchanger and slowly over time upgrade ur runes to lvl 7s or 8 no higher than lvl 7 anything higher is just not worth the time or even the money.

also another thing most ppl in this game have done the spend money on runes get them to lvl 4 and after that just upgraded them to lvl 5 6 8 10s 11s it has took them a long time and alot of gold but that is what most ppl have done. and to be frank if u really want a f2p game dont play any game that says f2p on it either A) go for games that have a one time buying fee or B) go for games like league of legends that game is totally free and alot cheaper than allods. or C) play pay to play games simple as that.

TheGamer 11 years ago
Allods is pay to win, some people already said that, but just because the game have cash shop items on auctions houses dont make then "free-to-play", you need to see how much it costs and how much you can farm without losing you life.Cash shop in Allods, in my opnion even crash the game economy, since paying members get a huge advantage since they can buy something and sell for a astronomical price, while non-paying needs to grind a lot to buy that thing, and many players leave the game because of that, since the last time i played all the servers are deserted!!And end-game guilds that require cash shop items?Damm, this game is lost...

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ZED_pt 11 years ago
Your knowledge of the game itself is totally wrong.
Game is not a grindfest,u can get to end-game wiith almost no grinding at all(proof of that,you where in a lvl 16/18 at lvl 20)
And the game is definetly pay to win.Besides runes that someone already pointed out(i managed to make mid runes with game gold 7 off 6 def) you have strongboxes.
Strongboxes are boxes that have a small chance to give you something really good and game changing and to get that you might be very lucky and get in your 1st 10/20 boxes but most of the time you end up buying 100+ to get it.And you get permanent items that make a huge diference in game experience to both people that have them and does who dont.I would have to grind for a year to get them when thers ppl spending 100$ in a day buying those.And they are avayable for a short period of time,its not like you can slowly buy them over time with game gold.
Also a lot of items descriptions you gave when you opened cash shop are wrong and misleading

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bigguy 11 years ago
just a couple of things. all free games are either pay to win or grind to buy. but these free games means if u get bored u dont have anything to worry about u can stop playing them and go the cheap way ptp it cost me nearly 90 british punds for 6k diamonds when it was double deal on them on RUNES OF MAGIC and they didnt even help so i stoped playing free games.

me 11 years ago
why all = mad? i want know! :(

TwoDigitScout 11 years ago
Although, Pay 2 Win sucks peen in the way that it is used is uncool, you do have to understand the developer's point of view that they need to make money to keep the servers up and people employed in the very least. I'm not looking for a full body argument, just be appreciative that you are playing a game for absolutely free (download client and playing it without as subscription) is pretty fantastic. I'll buy into games i really dig, but its usually only cosmetic items like skins (League of Legends). That's my worthless two cents.

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ThcMonkee 11 years ago
I hate grind.

I hate the fact that it's normal for mmos to not be fun until you reach endgame. Presumption that only single player games can be fun through the entire playthrough and that repetitive quests is the only way to populate an mmo with "content"

I hate Allods online. I hate everything that it represents and i would never spend money in it or any other mmo that literally did EVERYTHING by the mold.

With that said, MagickMan, i think that you should either expand a little on your definitions of Play2Win and Pay2Win or at least add another category- Pay2HaveFun

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Dantiko 11 years ago
First of all, we must stabilish what is Pay to Win and what is Play to Win:
Pay to win, for Magicman, is as he said, that the free player does not have access to, but in my view, and many other people too, it's that and something more, some games have premium items and things no free player can ever get, other games, like Allods, have those items and allow free players to have them, but only if he buys for another player (or buys with real money, which is not in question here), which is in fact not cheap, and can take endless grinding and hours of gameplay to obtain what a payer player buys with some dollars, that's why I also think Allods is Pay to Win, or in a middle term, which has no name yet, but that payers get in a day what free players spent an year to acquire.
Play to Win games are games that, in a straight line between Free to Play and Pay to win, it's like 25% or less close to Free to Play than to Pay to win, Allods for example I would say it's 75% close to Pay to Win, also Play to Win games may have a cash shop, every game has, but only with like 10% plus exp for example, nothing beyond, and that in-game currency could buy too, not that it wouldn't be wise to pay in those games, but that it would need at least a month to get what payers get in a week, not like Allods.
Also Magicman, I thought you would say Allods is Pay to Win, or at least in a middle term, I was very sad when I heard your opinion, just make sure you don't sell yourself to those companies, Magicman, there aren't so much game commentators that tell the truth, but we all gotta impose ourselves, we don't live to play on a trial version of games disguised with signs as "Free to Play forever", come on, hope you understand.

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Emil 11 years ago
This stinks :D I leveled up enough to get to the pvp zones and guess what? The 1st guy i meet (the same lvl as me) 2 shots me ( 2 hits for 5k dmg) Psy-sucker....

theyaN 11 years ago
Do NOT be fooled! The biggest problem Allods had, still has and will have are those crystal chips! Those are the only material available in game that allows you to upgrade and create runes which are permanent buffs reflecting the percentage of your outgoing damage and the incoming damage by A LOT. And the worst part is, the system is exponential which means that you need for example, 2 level 3 runes and a handful of crystal chips to make a level 4 rune. Simple mathematics show us that you need more than 5k crystal chips to make any high level runes and as you saw for yourself, that's more than 1000$. There is no place that those drop in game, so you can only buy them for yourself from the cash shop or buy from other players who overcharge for them severly. This game is an absolute PAY TO WIN, do NOT doubt that for a second. I've played it for a few months and tried to find a way around it, but there is no such way. Don't get me wrong, I'd come back instantly if they removed that rune system, but knowning the companys policy and history, that is very unlikely to happen.

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Name (Required) 11 years ago
Everybody knows that allods is pay to win ;)

failtastic 11 years ago
I think as it stands, Pay to win is more than just game breaking Items you can purchase. The simple fact that you bought anything in this game removes all you ability to be a fair judge.

You are in fact Bias.
If you want to continue to rate games as Play to win you need to play them as someone who purchases nothing.. try and reach the end game.. see how easy it is without spending a dime.
Try and PVP see if you get killed in 2 hits, Even Attempt to raid and run dungeons.

Its annoying to see someone saying the game is not play to win as they talk up there upgrading mount and justify their purchase, to be honest it seems like you where hired by Allods to do a biased review and thats just outright immoral.

My definition of Play 2 win is that you cant thoroughly enjoy the game without spending money..

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scheme 11 years ago
A NEW SHOW! , one word....HELL YEAH! opps that was two 8D

Dantiko 11 years ago
It is absolutely pay to win, you must spend around 5000 dollars in my country to get the lv 13 runes.


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