ArcheAge Online - New MMO from XL Games

ArcheAge is a Fantasy MMORPG with medieval settings, by Korean game company XL Games. The game is still in development and the release date is somewhere in 2012 in South Korea.

The development of ArcheAge started 4 years ago in 2006. The first beta testing started in the summer of 2010. XL games promises us lots of amazing features that will make ArcheAge honorable competitor of famous MMO games like World of Warcraft, Lineage 2 and warhammer.

Features:

(I am not going to write all the features here since most of the MMO games have common elements. Here are some features that will make ArcheAge different from other online games:)

- Free-will - Players will not be limited in choices of what to do ingame.

- XL developers offer us huge world map that will be bigger (according to them) than the size of WoW's. Three continents will be available for players.

- Building houses and boats - Gather materials and build your own house or boat. Is not it awesome to have your own boat and sail wherever you want?

- Acquiring gear will be similar to other MMOs, however some of the pieces like rings, earrings, and necklaces are extremely rare to drop.

- Classes : Warrior, Priest, Mage, Ranger or ... you can create your own class !!!  There will be 10 schools available and you can choose 3 to create your own class. Each school has it's own skills and spells. So, you can combine 3 schools of DPS to do more damage in PVE, or balance those 3 into tank and DPS to be better in PvP.

- Races : only three races are available yet, but XL promises us that there will be more. Nuians, Ferres and Elves of course.

- High Quality Graphic.

PvP -  If you are MMO player, you know that class balance is very important in Player vs Players. And you also know that not many MMOs offer us well balanced PvP system. Even the most popular MMO World of Warcraft had a problem of balancing classes for a long time and Blizzard developers still work on keeping class abilities in harmony.

Even though the game is still beta, ArcheAge PvP system looked very balanced, which is huge plus for a game. 10vs10 Battlegrounds are available and was lots of fun.  You get points for playing PvP. If you stay alive whole match, you get 500 bonus points. If you are top on Killing Blows, you get another 500 points. So, good players will have advantage on Battlegrounds and will get more points for being awesome : )

ArcheAge is still in development and lots of other features will be added ingame.

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