Well there was a topic about this game ages ago and I completely forgot about it except that I saw an ad for it on a random site so I went to investigate.

It is entirely browser based and is very much like WoW, although it is F2p. The only downside is it has a cash shop (though it doesn't seem necessary to actually buy anything) and that every single race is a furry (So you choose something like a demon instead ;).

The one thing about the cash shop however, is that to get cash shop items you do not need to pay IRL money as all items can be bought with ingame currency too, it's just far quicker if you pay cash.

As it is browser based it is of course direct competition to Runescape, and one thing I've noticed is that it is graphically superior. The character customisation is rather cool allowing you to edit most things about your character.

There are currently only 4 classes to choose from, but it is only the BETA.

I haven't played it long enough to make a decision but I'm up for anything free that isn't Runescape :)

EDIT: Took a Screenshot of my newbie character. I've done almost nothing seeing as I had a few issues getting it to work.

I'm excited about all these browser based games coming around.

I'm gonna try it out.


They all look like wolves.
I guess thats fine as long as its a good game.

Looks fun, I just may have to try it out!

Oh, wow. I signed up for this during closed beta and forgot, haha.
I must have done it during that last thread.

Installing now.

I was in the closed beta. Then when it went into open beta I got to like level 20 in one week, and after that I realized all there is to do is quest and grind on mobs. I'll try it again when they start updating it with content.

I find it funny I found this topic literally while the game is loading. It seems interesting graphic-wise; I'll have to wait awhile to decide whether it's really worth my time or not.

pros
browser based
good graphics for browser
beta so you can be all "yeah im such a veteran"
fudgebumps

cons
wow clone
looks like crap anyway
need i say wow clone?

So.....its medieval fantasy, yet set in the far far far future.....Humans either went extinct or fled the planet.....and certain animals developed and evolved enough to become relatively intelligent humanoids?

Eh.....the premise sounds kind've gay....and not really fun i dunno, the graphics, while they look good and fun looks kind of cartoonish =/.

I don't know, i'll check it out when the game is fully done and out

Are the quests like they are in RoM or WoW? If so, then it doesn't sound that appealing. If they have interactive quests like RuneScape I'd be willing to give it a go.

Haven't played it enough to know...

I have been playing it for a couple of days. It seems okay.

I've been in this game since day one of the closed beta. It's okay I guess... if you don't follow the quests and trying leveling just with PvE you can't get anywhere at least in the 20 or lower levels. There's 4 classes, it's a combat-only game.

I havn't been playing recently, got boring.

It's basically RuneScape, World of Warcraft and a few other games mixed together in the style of game design and interface. Nothing all that original, looks like many other MMOs out there.

It looks oddly cartoonish

This is what you get when you combine baby-kid game FreeRealms and teen-adult game World of Warcraft.

As this is a wolf/dog game i will name my character after my 2 dogs Troy and Potter. (Troy because he is cuter than potter and potter because his shit is big)

So my account would be a cute shitter.

I wouldn't say it is entirely browser based as you have to download a program to run it, just more browser based then downloading a 1gb assets pack with it.

Lets see what I think of it when I play it some.

Oh and don't forget f11 for a little bigger screen size.

Edit: Half the speed as it takes to start RuneScape so far... not impressed yet.

Loading screen after loading the game??? Doesn't make sense. So basically I waited way too long for the login screen to begin with.

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Just a warning that I'm comparing this to RuneScape a little bit because that is the closest game that matches this practically. It is a browser game along with this one.

Alright, after creating my character I'm not impressed. I liked the number of options for colors but I still felt very limited by it. Then when I entered into the game I never felt such "away" from the game before. It is practically the same exact as S.U.N which is 10x better graphics wise but is also aimed towards a teenage to adult audience. I had to quit after a while because unlike RuneScape quests that actually feel like they finish, this just seamed like go here then kill this create X times and then go back to that same person to only go back to the person that sent you to that person so they can send you to another person who will then send you to get an item. I also felt that the tutorial was a waste. You killed three "butterflies" then you moved to a bandit camp where you got a hammer then progressed to repair your boat. Then that was it for the tutorial island.

Things I liked were that the graphics had potential but the problems with the graphics are just the plain fact they couldn't get it to look right. Whenever I right clicked on something it would show like target path on the ground. Sorta was weird at first then realized it was a bug in the graphics as the ground was not showing up right.

The loading was way too long for the small amount of assets that it really needed. I also felt like I was waiting so long because it was loading all of the game that it needed for the start but it turns out that it took longer to load RuneScape and be in the game for me to just get to the login screen alone. Then I was met by another one and soon enough another one after that. I'm sorry but I donn't have a problem with loading screens but when I feel that the computer isn't even being teased at all to load the small worlds then I don't feel like this is spending my time right.

The named of the characters are somewhat stolen from other fantasies and that killed it a lot for me. I know that this might be targeted towards younger folk but come one. You can think up a cool name for a character. The name doesn't have to be badass or anything but at least create a name that is different from a character in a book. RuneScape has this with Juliet and Romeo but for some reason that doesn't feel like the same and that is most likely because it pokes at Shakespeare and Romeo and Juliet.

Music was great but it was hard to hear. It also peaked at random points or started up for what seamed like now reason at all. Great music but they need to work on timing with the music for battles and the music to match a lot more. RuneScape has this problem as well.

The controls were crap. I have to say that I have more response from controls then games which my computer doesn't even have the computer requirements to match it. Not accounting for the lag the controls would suddenly act on their own and then 'lock up' for a while making it annoying after the twentieth time it does it. They could do a lot to improve that. I also checked my cpu when running this to see if it was to do with that but my cpu was around 18 to 24 cpu usage. I think my compute can handle it just fine.

The entire game I didn't see a single person. I don't know if that was because no one was online during my time but that is one reason why I would drop a game. If everyone else thinks that it is crap and I don't like some stuff. I tend to think more negatively about it. I didn't see a single human on the entire time that I was on. I spend over an hour playing the game which is reasonable. I don't know what they have for the number of people on right now but I haven't ever really seen an MMO with this problem.

Looking into the customization of the character I feel like they could do more. It is very basic and I don't see a variaty. I already see the end of my player and depending on the leveling system I feel like I would reach the end of the tree in a matter of a month or two which isn't very long at all for an MMO. I think they could add a lot more content.

Sorry but RuneScape would win hands down and I don't play that game much anymore either... :/

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I would also like to make an argument that this isn't a true browser based game when you have to install a program that is specific to the program. Pretty much because it is played in a browser window doesn't really mean that it is a browser game. At least it doesn't feel like it to me. I understand that Jagex uses Java which you have to install to get that to get RuneScape to run on you computer but that can be used for anything practically. I just don't think that it is a true browser game. I'm not saying that it isn't a browser game... just not a true one.

What the parrot said^

I was getting bored but then i found 2 other people and we went do quests togheter which was fun but the quests are the same as freereleams and world of warcraft.

Oh and congratulations on level 6 and i made it to level 6 too :D
I added you too so we can talk and stuff,

I was thinking of joining, but after what Max just said...

Just remember this is the BETA...

I was decieved by it's "Browser" based-ness and was like "Why do I have to download something..."
I still can't judge the game until I've given it some time.

About his opinion i decided to not join even though its his opinion and i might have a different one when i play the game.

After i download and installed the game, after logging and when it get on loading game screen, it shows:



help?

Yeah, I keep getting that too. I gave up.

I guess just try to reinstall.

this game looks so gay

I saw you in-game :P

I got to leave corsica! :D
AND never come back :P

so i got ahead of you in just 3-4 hours of game play :P

meh, i don't think i'm going to install it :/

I played it for a little, but I will wait until more content is uploaded to play more. I am really not a big fan of the cash shops, and imo, that will kill the game.

It's...alright...I guess. Quests are too repetitive (go to *point A* and kill 15 *thing* and bring me 5 *object*), map size is good, I'm happy with that, needs more of a variety with items, character customisation is decent and the other characters/monsters/NPC's are satisfactory by my standards. The community is also rather small but good (none of the "zomg u noob gimmeh phr33 st00ph").

I made it to a level 9 Daemon mage with 56 silver (that's rich to me!), starting to get a LITTLE bit bored with gameplay mainly due to the repetitive stuff. Quests are needed to unlock new areas, and the quests bore me. I just did one where I had to disable some Stargate-like portal to stop Anubians getting through. That was walk here, kill that, click that, wait, come back, finished.

I'd rate it a 7.5/10, but I'm sure it will improve after its BETA mode.

Yeah, I think at present it really isn't that great. Perhaps they'll fix things up after BETA.

I definitely will not be installing anything

It doesn't work on a mac, so I couldn't try it even if I wanted to. Kind of defeats the purpose of being a browser-based game if the goal is to be accessible. Not that I expect everything to be compatible with a mac, but when something claims to be browser based I assume it'll work... in my browser.

I did watch my brother play it for a bit though. The character choices kind of turned me off, but I'm sure some people will enjoy the change from the standard human, elf, and dwarf races. The interface looked very similar to WoW, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I do think they could've done a better job at making it match the style of the game.

I didn't get to see much more than that, because the game was too laggy and unresponsive to keep going. I suppose this could have been his computer, but it could handle World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online, Lord of the Rings Online, etc. with high graphic settings. There was probably just some driver issue or something causing that, but I dunno. Still, it looks like it could be an interesting alternative for those running Windows (90% of people), who don't want to have to download a gigabyte executable to play a game.

I've played it for like 30minutes, but i'm not really interested in it =/

Judging by the screenshot, that looks to be on the same graphics level as Runescape in Standard Detail. The only thing it has over RS is a skybox and a wider view, however skyboxes are being developed for runescape and with that I could only assume a wider view.

Also it's still not up to what Jagex is giving out. Runescape can be played without downloading a single thing except Java. This game makes you download their client, which is an accesability handicap for many people who don't want to download stuff.

Can't believe some of you even tried that game... looks like ...crap.

I tried it today. I spent about an hour on it, and died about 5 times.

The death system is horrible. You lose some sort of honor points, and your HP gets reset to some low number.
If you do die you're basically screwed, because with such low HP it's hard to kill things. Not only that, but for some reason, where you start out in the main game, they decided to put 100's of aggressive monsters that don't seem to fuck off and run just as fast as you. If you're a mage you have low defense so basically if you get attacked by something you are forced to kill it, and if you get attacked by 2 things you are fucked in the ass. There seems to be no healing, except for the automatic healing every other second, so you've got to wait a few seconds between kills and running from a monster when at low health is impossible because you can't heal.

And people say Runescape's combat is bad because it is point and click. Well this game is the same, except you're forced to click the different attacks when they are done recharging. It's basically a lot of unneeded motion, that could have been avoided if you could set the spells/attacks to auto. Which you can set a standard attack to auto, but it's so horrible that you are forced to use the other attacks. While all the while, wishing the fucker would die because you are getting bored of clicked the attack each turn.

Oh and the quests are horrible. Doing quests in that game was somehow worse than Runescape's quests, which I hate with a passion.

Runescape HD is more overrated than an episode of Star Trek.

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I got sick of EE as most people have but, honestly, because you have to actually download something, the graphics are far superior to Runescape. I know it's not about the graphics as gameplay is what makes a game actually good, but I'm sick of people being like "Yeah! RS HD! Now it's equal with WoW!" No it isn't, not only is RS HD worse than SD because they have poor textures on most items which just make you cringe. (The armour looks like I'm wearing highly polished sea shells and the shirts look like an attempt to be graphically superior while just displaying the "woven" pattern.) but it also makes most ingame characters look even wierder than before. Initially the pride of Runescape was in it's low graphics, but great content. Now it seems they've tried to "beef" up their graphics to the "wannabe" level while sacrificing great content.

Runescape was fun and it has so many more enjoyable things to do than most games, plus it is updated often; but one thing you cannot attribute to Runescape is good grpahics, but that's another rant entirely.

I want to try it, but there's no mac version yet ...

So this is WoW Jr, kind of like how RS is MMORPG Jr? Interesting. Might try it when I'm home next week. I've actually been to the site before, but was very offput by the kiddy-ness of it all. I grew up in RuneScape, now I want a real game...for free

RuneScape has better graphics by far. And I'm quite put off by downloading a heap of stuff.

Looks a bit too kid-orientated for my liking.

Downloading the Sparkplayer for this now. It looks like an alright game, though I'll tell you my thoughts when I actually play it. One thing I have noticed is that it takes a rather long time to install.

I say that RuneScape is more superior for these reasons.

1. RS uses textures far better then EE. While EE's textures appear to be more superior you under estimate RuneScape's ability to compress RS assets down to the point that the loading screen really isn't there or is less then a second.
2. EE has a horrible loading time while RS is able to load and play the game for a decent amount of time before EE is even started.
3. EE requires that you download a plugin for your browser which is only available for Window's users. Jagex created RuneScape to play on virtually anything. I've played RS myself on Macs, Windows, several Linux OSs, and have seen it played on consoles.
4. RS has much more content is far superior in amount of gameplay and in quality. EE is just a poor quest oriented game which doesn't involve the user. RS is easier to be involved with and you need to pay attention to what the character says for hints. (unless you use a guide of course)
5. EE has poor player to player interaction. When you log into RS you are met with hundreds of players, and even though you don't like them all, it makes you want to play more then if no one appeared to be online.

I say that EE is more superior for these reasons.

1. Animation is far better. Even if your frame rate is 40+ fps on RuneScape you still appear to have 'some lag'.
2. Bringing WASD and mouse movement very nicely to a browser game
3. Music is way better but of course I haven't listened to it for hours on end like RuneScape when I first started playing

As much as it looks interesting, all I can say is "Browser based shitty downloadable WoW clone". Reminds me of what would happen if you put a WoW interface on Mario 64.

RSHD wasn't meant to go and directly compete with WoW, but it still looks halfway decent for a browser based game.