Is this game worth returning to?

[Ashton Clutcher]

I started playing it when it first launched years ago on Steam and I played it for a month but had been confused on what to do or where to go during that time because the game was being developed slowly.

I noticed a lot of toxicity and people talking smack on Reddit too and I was just feeling like taking a break from the game when I saw that. Is the game still toxic in terms of playerbase?

Also, is PvP a forced thing in this game? I want to just enjoy the game casually with my friends and not worry about being ganked or invaded while playing. I don’t mind pvp here and there as a side alternative for fun but I don’t want it to be the focal point of me getting killed and looted by enemy griefers and stuff since I’m more of a PvE player overall.

[JK]

give it a try. server is over populated, market prize is going down everyday.

[DaveDecay]

Game is rage inducing and the community is very toxic, there is a lot trash talk going on. random people PM me and try to insult me almost regularly.

The game is heavily pvp focused, but it is possible to just play in areas where there is no full-loot pvp.

Still the game can be fun at times if you can ignore people harassing you.

[opihi]

I think it is 100% worth a try. My experience has been very different than Dave’s. In the global chat I do see a lot of toxicity but chat can be turned off or ignored. My direct interactions with other players have been nontoxic, and more positive than negative. I read Reddit discussions often for information, but don’t actually participate, which keeps the toxicity there at a distance.

The PMs I’ve received in this game have been surprisingly supportive. One guy read my post that I’d been ganked and lost a Swiftclaw kitten, and actually gave me one of his! Another found my items that I’d dropped after a different ganking and offered to bring them back to me! A couple offering advice on survival in the black zone, and of course a few invites to join guilds.

PvP is only forced in certain parts of the game's world map. Blue zones are 100% unforced, ganking-free. Yellow zones are 99.9% safe; on the rare occasions when you get ganked there you don’t lose any items, just have to spend a little silver to repair them. Ganking is a big deal in the red and black zones, but the positives of going to those zones for PvE and gathering outweigh the gankings for most of us.

[Automatic-Kalashnikov 47]

You're asking this question in a albion steam forum, definitely no bias responses.

[Ashton Clutcher]

Originally posted by opihi:

I think it is 100% worth a try. My experience has been very different than Dave’s. In the global chat I do see a lot of toxicity but chat can be turned off or ignored. My direct interactions with other players have been nontoxic, and more positive than negative. I read Reddit discussions often for information, but don’t actually participate, which keeps the toxicity there at a distance.

The PMs I’ve received in this game have been surprisingly supportive. One guy read my post that I’d been ganked and lost a Swiftclaw kitten, and actually gave me one of his! Another found my items that I’d dropped after a different ganking and offered to bring them back to me! A couple offering advice on survival in the black zone, and of course a few invites to join guilds.

PvP is only forced in certain parts of the game's world map. Blue zones are 100% unforced, ganking-free. Yellow zones are 99.9% safe; on the rare occasions when you get ganked there you don’t lose any items, just have to spend a little silver to repair them. Ganking is a big deal in the red and black zones, but the positives of going to those zones for PvE and gathering outweigh the gankings for most of us.

so i can basically play the game through in just blue and yellow zones without issue? is it MANDATORY to be in the pvp zones at any point of the game?

[Druark]

Originally posted by Ashton Clutcher:

Originally posted by opihi:

I think it is 100% worth a try. My experience has been very different than Dave’s. In the global chat I do see a lot of toxicity but chat can be turned off or ignored. My direct interactions with other players have been nontoxic, and more positive than negative. I read Reddit discussions often for information, but don’t actually participate, which keeps the toxicity there at a distance.

The PMs I’ve received in this game have been surprisingly supportive. One guy read my post that I’d been ganked and lost a Swiftclaw kitten, and actually gave me one of his! Another found my items that I’d dropped after a different ganking and offered to bring them back to me! A couple offering advice on survival in the black zone, and of course a few invites to join guilds.

PvP is only forced in certain parts of the game's world map. Blue zones are 100% unforced, ganking-free. Yellow zones are 99.9% safe; on the rare occasions when you get ganked there you don’t lose any items, just have to spend a little silver to repair them. Ganking is a big deal in the red and black zones, but the positives of going to those zones for PvE and gathering outweigh the gankings for most of us.

so i can basically play the game through in just blue and yellow zones without issue? is it MANDATORY to be in the pvp zones at any point of the game?

Yes it is, you literally cannot obtain certain resource types without going in to the PvP enabled zones. Which means most of the higher level gear will be permanently unobtainable to you.

[Kalgert]

Originally posted by Druark:

Originally posted by Ashton Clutcher:

so i can basically play the game through in just blue and yellow zones without issue? is it MANDATORY to be in the pvp zones at any point of the game?

Yes it is, you literally cannot obtain certain resource types without going in to the PvP enabled zones. Which means most of the higher level gear will be permanently unobtainable to you.

So basically play the relatively relaxed form of the game on a lower scale, while the more hardcore stuff has the bigger payday?

Hmm... Honestly that sounds like a fair tradeoff. Game seems really nice and chill, could be perfectly playable just in the blue and yellow zones, and if I feel daring one day, can always go to a red zone.

Your terms are acceptable. I shall play some more of the game.

[Cyseal]

No idea why people are so scared of full loot PvP. You rarely (never, really) lose anything that you're not ready to lose. You can make the money back SO fast in 100 % safe manner and the rewards for venturing into red/black zones FAR outweighs the tiny chance of getting killed.

It's like Dark Souls; people are so scared of losing their souls and "progress", when in reality it doesn't really matter, it's so easy and so fast to get back everything you lost.

So yea, you should definitely try the game out. It's one of my chill MMO's that I play from time to time. Nothing is mandatory to do.

[Kalgert]

Originally posted by Cyseal:

No idea why people are so scared of full loot PvP. You rarely (never, really) lose anything that you're not ready to lose. You can make the money back SO fast in 100 % safe manner and the rewards for venturing into red/black zones FAR outweighs the tiny chance of getting killed.

It's like Dark Souls; people are so scared of losing their souls and "progress", when in reality it doesn't really matter, it's so easy and so fast to get back everything you lost.

So yea, you should definitely try the game out. It's one of my chill MMO's that I play from time to time. Nothing is mandatory to do.

Or... You know. There exists the chance people just aren't the fondest of the idea of full-loot PvP, where you are left with nothing but your underwear after getting killed.

I mean I just started off and I don't see myself going anywhere near Red/Black zones. Might look at them once or twice but I am content eith the idea of being in the blue/yellow zones for now.

[Cyseal]

Originally posted by Kalgert:

Originally posted by Cyseal:

No idea why people are so scared of full loot PvP. You rarely (never, really) lose anything that you're not ready to lose. You can make the money back SO fast in 100 % safe manner and the rewards for venturing into red/black zones FAR outweighs the tiny chance of getting killed.

It's like Dark Souls; people are so scared of losing their souls and "progress", when in reality it doesn't really matter, it's so easy and so fast to get back everything you lost.

So yea, you should definitely try the game out. It's one of my chill MMO's that I play from time to time. Nothing is mandatory to do.

Or... You know. There exists the chance people just aren't the fondest of the idea of full-loot PvP, where you are left with nothing but your underwear after getting killed.

I mean I just started off and I don't see myself going anywhere near Red/Black zones. Might look at them once or twice but I am content eith the idea of being in the blue/yellow zones for now.

You just started off, you're not supposed to go there yet. Not in some time. But when you're "supposed to", you go there using tier 4 weapons/armor and a cheap horse. If you die, you lose so little of value that it doesn't make a difference.

Like I said; people are scared of full loot PvP because they think it matters when it doesn't. After you go through the experience once, you won't stress it out after that.

[NoShot]

No I'm an OG player this game has become just absolute p2w garbage, it is dying extremely fast and will be dead within a year.

[Cyseal]

Originally posted by NoShot:

No I'm an OG player this game has become just absolute p2w garbage, it is dying extremely fast and will be dead within a year.

...Albion has ALWAYS been pay 2 win.

[ProudConservative]

Originally posted by Ashton Clutcher:

I started playing it when it first launched years ago on Steam and I played it for a month but had been confused on what to do or where to go during that time because the game was being developed slowly.

I noticed a lot of toxicity and people talking smack on Reddit too and I was just feeling like taking a break from the game when I saw that. Is the game still toxic in terms of playerbase?

Also, is PvP a forced thing in this game? I want to just enjoy the game casually with my friends and not worry about being ganked or invaded while playing. I don’t mind pvp here and there as a side alternative for fun but I don’t want it to be the focal point of me getting killed and looted by enemy griefers and stuff since I’m more of a PvE player overall.

No

[Stumpy]

No, i returned after two years. still garbabe mid game and end game, Unviable for solo players, people with lives and responsibility and limited playing time. Too many 12 hour daily teenagers who sweat it out in the black zones looking for lonely fishermen who has a net worth of 200,000s. They will chase you for 20 minutes with 10 men only to earn themselves 10,000s once half the gear is broken when you're dead.

So, i returned. played one week and uninstalled again. Now im never coming back.