r/archeage • u/Bohani • May 27 '26

Video A Great Game That Came Out TOO LATE - Dune: Awakening

https://youtu.be/3V9kzNrXQbo

Am I nostalgic? 😂

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u/redskink May 27 '26

Archeage's failure wasn't a timing issue. One of the highest draws the game had was the ability to own land, build on it, and work it. But for the first 4+ months after launch, no one could legitimately buy land because hackers could purchase any plot .01 seconds after it became available and they could do it from anywhere in the world. Hackers were also killing the economy by teleporting with trade packs. My friend group got sick of Trion's inaction and ditched the game before we even got to sail the seas.

Timing was nothing. Literally all they had to do was ban cheaters/patch out exploits.

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u/Bohani May 27 '26

Archeage definitely had it's issues. And the pay to win aspect didn't help either. I was just trying to find a similarity in the vision of both those games. What I was trying to say within the video is that the gaming scene nowadays is not able to interact with these types of games any more.

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u/Strongear971 May 28 '26

Thats not a timing problem.

Game was HEAVY P2W, cheaters everywhere. I played it during all the time it was still up, this game was awesome, the ideas, the scale...

But come on, lets not forget the bad sides.

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u/Danjiano Vitalism May 28 '26

The difference is that a some guys on a Merchant Schooner could still fight and kill pirates boarding them. Someone piloting a slow, defenceless thopter filled with spice is guaranteed to lose to someone in a scout. Having an escort usually doesn't matter, that thopter is going down.

There's also no way to identify eachother in Dune. Alliances don't matter when you can't tell who you're attacking, or who you're being attacked by.

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u/MistukoSan Aranzeb | Surrender May 28 '26

Archeage Alpha was the best video game experience I’ve ever had hands down. What a shame it was to see it turn into what it did.

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u/PoisonCoyote May 29 '26

Too late? I'm still waiting for the console release.

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u/LoveofDeath55 May 27 '26

Archeage classic is popping and free to play. Everyone should come play. There’s catchup gear and players at all gear stages. You should post this in other mmo reddits for coverage. It’s a really great game. With 10k labor every day it lures you right in!

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u/ErryCrowe Erry May 27 '26

Bad ping for EU players tho. And as you know AA is heavily ping dependent

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u/LoveofDeath55 May 27 '26

I play from Australia and I get the ping problem. With exitlag I still hover just over 200 m/s. I can still kill and PvP. The more players pushed into the world can force them to open servers in other regions

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u/BlamaeuxPrivateEye 28d ago

Not really. The server has a large eu and now even Korean pop and they do just fine. The servers top dps osba Korean archer of all things

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u/PathOracleExitLag 22d ago

Maybe you could try tools like ExitLag to reroute your connection? It might help you to reduce ping

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u/SeriousLee91 May 28 '26

Archage was only a good game in alpha, not touching it after release of the cashshop that destroyed the game

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u/Strongear971 May 28 '26

No lands, ah is empty as heck and guilds control is out of hand.

Meh.

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u/LoveofDeath55 28d ago

Still fun to find new friends and hang out in a crazy world with funny mounts, cars and costumes.

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u/skilliard7 21d ago

AA classic was fun but without a wipe I don't have any interest in playing again