RaiderZ Shutting Down In August
Is it like "raiders" or like "raider z"? I've heard both, and I was never quite sure. After August 7, I won't really need to care any more.
That's the date that Perfect World Entertainment will shut down RaiderZ in North America -- it was shut down in Europe two years ago -- and it's for a rather odd reason. According to the shutdown notice letter:
"In the past, we have been working with MAIET, the developer of RaiderZ, in order to troubleshoot and solve issues to keep the game available for the players. Unfortunately, MAIET is no longer operating anymore.
Since there’s no more active developer, it’s very difficult to troubleshoot any issues that happen to RaiderZ. We’re unable to deliver a quality experience to you, our players, so we’ve made the difficult decision to shut down RaiderZ."
To be honest, I'm impressed that they can keep the game going for any length of time now that there's no actual developer.
Any RaiderZ purchases made from May 7 on will be refunded to players' Arc accounts, letting them use those funds to spend in any PWE games, and all players have been granted 1,000 in-game currency and all items have been discounted to one Zen. What a deal! Everything must go!
RaiderZ is one of those games that I've always been aware of but never knew anyone who played it. Did you play it? What did you think?
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PS: about the monsters: bring 3 sorcer and 1 priest to fight everything, physical classes were worthless and massive spell and health spam could bring down any enemy from afar, you didn't even had to care about dodging the attacks, which could be a very good system, if it is not about this utter disgusting unbalance.
I played RaiderZ and it was a nice game. Not the best for action MMORPGs but neither the worst ever. I played Tera too and Tera has something better than RaiderZ but nevertheless RaiderZ has (had) something better. Combat system in RaiderZ was fun and really dynamic, you can meet bosses starting since low levels and mobs was well calibrated, not too easy neither too hard to kill. Story was nice, graphic was nice, not the most modern nor the worst ever. Monster hunting was fun. It was a good open world too. So after all was a decent game. And surely it is lot less "anime" than other games like Tera in example (I love anime though). So why all that hate? I think we should just be sorry another game is gone narrowing or possibilities to chose in freedom.
games like tera , blade and soul and all the rest screwed it up big time as far as combat goes and for this reason tab target is the future despite what people say about it being old fashioned .
The combat system was unique and I'm sad to see it go, there is no alternative.
I always knew something was fishy when the first ever community manager of raiderz disappeared without saying good bye to everyone.
perfect world is a bad company anyway. and tera was always better.