Allods Online official launch "very soon"

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 31 March, 2011

Beta coming to an end.

Free Russian fantasy space massively multiplayer online game Allods Online will come out of beta and launch officially "very soon", Gala Networks said today.

The free-to-play MMO has been in beta for ages, and even seen the addition of three expansions.

The launch of the next expansion, Volume 4, goes live some time during the spring for all European servers. It adds two new zones and increases the level cap to 47.

Allods Online breaks with the Asian tradition of free-to-play MMOs with a Western flavour, and boasts striking artwork and flying ship battles as well as owing a clear debt to genre titan World of Warcraft.

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Comments (5) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • actionfitz #1 1 year ago

    ^
    Fucking Bots... :/


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    ""There are reasons to play Allods: the visuals, the lore, the grab-bag of clever features, the astral ships, and the dim satisfaction that automatically comes from levelling up - for free!" Quintin Smith wrote. "It's just that none of these are very good reasons, because this isn't a very good game."

    Totally agree with this quote.
    The game is gorgeous, but the gameplay didn't really seem to have much going on.
    Being 'Free' to play was an issue for me too - seeing as the Store for items, stat boosting potions, ingredients/materials for crafting etc featured so prominently that it seemed to be the entire point of the 'game', it was so bad, you would be forgiven thinking that Zynga had had a land in the development.
    Perhaps this is a pitfall of all F2P games.
    Perhaps that's

  • YenRug #2 1 year ago

    I think Guild Wars, and hopefully GW2, has the best way to handle "free to play" with regard to an MMO. Pay for the initial game and then only for extras which truly are extras, i.e. extra character slots, pets and extended inventory, things which you can get by perfectly well without and only need to be purchased should you really want to.

  • craziii #3 1 year ago

    dnd + lotr are both better choices if you want to play a f2p. they have p2p's quality but free if you are willing to put in the time to grind some.

  • Silvervein #4 1 year ago

    I played allods for quite a while, and would like to comment.

    The game offers exactly the same kind of grind as wow does, and throws some things into the mix that wow certainly doesn't (guild ships for astral travel/exploration/battles). Or a character that's basically a trio of ewoks.
    Downside for me was compulsory pvp in some areas, which could be very annoying.

    However, allods is NOT a free to play game. It's a FREE TO LOG IN game.
    The changes they introduced about a year ago made it so to play, you need to buy in game currency.
    After that change a lot of people left the game, since allods was great as a free to play game, but not so much as a game with hidden subscription.

  • Seoh #5 1 year ago

    Tried a few times to get into allods but just never "got it" shame as a free mmo sounds good, of course i can;t really complain at paying for rfit when they throw so much stuff at you.