looking for an MMORPG like WoW but free? try forsaken world.

[ianh05]

hey all, still on a break from RA2 but just started playing a game yesterday and i thought i would come on here and share some info about it :P

the game is called Forsaken World and it's a free to play MMORPG that looks like the popular pay to play MMORPG world of warcraft graphics-wise however it has it's differences, which include:

- Unique pets system that allows every class/race to have a pet.
- Rarely used classes such as Vampire, Bard and Protector.
- 5 races, 8 classes.
- A dungeon finder like WoW's.
- An Auto-walk system that makes questing a lot easier by simply clicking on a name in the quest log and the game will take you there.
- lot's of Jobs/professions including some unique ones like Tamer, Socialite and adventurer.
- 60 or 70 is the level cap.
- large, still growing player base.
- Guilds (with housing i believe)
- Mounts.
- And lot's more that you can find out :D

so if your looking for a game like WoW but with enough differences to make it a unique experience then i strongly recommend Forsaken World.

[GarvinTheGreat]

Hmm... Well one Q. Can you like walk around and find weapons and such?
Also, Do you have to download anything?

[ianh05]

yes you get loot and walk around just like WoW and yep you need to download the game to play it :P over 7 gig i believe but WoW with expansions is like three times that size.

[Kujii]

No, stop right now D :

That game is run by Perfect World Entertainment, it looks good now but thats because its less then a year old.
Perfect World has during the three years I've been there opened up at least 6 new games, and 4 of those have a community that is in major Neglect, with patch notes exclusively involving CS updates. For example, HoTK and JD have not had a single bug fix in over 4 months. The last bug that was fixed on either of those games was a bug where enemies had a 75% damage reduction buff permanently applied. it took them 3 months to fix this bug

I'm warning you that their games will leave you feeling rather frustrated and abandoned if you get into them.
This is their worst abandoned game, The community hasn't had their feedback listened to pretty much in ever. That Greenthorne person is a good CM, its the people above him that ruin their games: http://hotk-forum.perfectworld.com/forumdisplay.php?f=75

EDIT: Oh, I think it would help my point to note that...

1: Jade Dynasty has 109 confirmed bugs, including broken skypaths, broken teleportation area's, bugged skills, missing quests/NPC's, and missing features.
2: Jade Dynasty is created by the same Chinese company that makes Zhu-Xian, as such we can confirm that many items necessary to successfully PvP that are supposed to be capable of being purchased in the game, are only available in the micro-transaction system
3: HoTK is the US release of the battle of redcliff MMO, same issues have occured with it, items are missing from the game, that were later re-instated in the CS. Most insulting is they were not subtle about it, They removed items that were in the game already, and then a couple weeks later add'd them to the Cash Shop, deleting any unused ones players still had.

Give it time, they do it to all their games, if you explore their forums long enough you'll also notice they have 7 total GM's for 10 total games.