Thanks for your review. I also was VERY put off by Atlantica when I first started playing, and indeed almost quit entirely after my 2nd and 3rd logins. Thankfully, my brother convinced me to stick with it and I am glad I did.

I find this is one of Atlantica’s biggest faults – the turn-off to new players is huge. Not only all of the things you mentioned, but the sheer weirdness of everything seems to be a real turn off especially to a Western audience. This game really starts to shine once you get past all of the “newbie” stuff and start getting multiple quests and seeing the rest of what the game has to offer. I have since quit all the other pay-to-play MMOs I was involved in and now play Atlantica exclusively, and I love it.

Although your points were off base in a few instances as pointed out by other comments, it rings true that the new player/first impressions of Atlantica are shoddy at best, and I hope this is addressed so that the game can reach a wider audience.

As a lot of people has stated, everything in your “review” is in fact “assumptions”! And all of your assumptions are simply WRONG!

You played a game to lvl10 and you don’t like it? Then shut it! What’s the point of going around badmouthing about things that you don’t know?

Writing “first impression”!:)) Why don’t you just say what you think when you see the name of the game? That’s the first impression, all the others… none of them is first=))

You said auto move = the game says we’re dumb? Don’t you know what’s an option is? It’s there, you can use it if you are lazy to click, but if you want to run and find, no one asks you not to! You obviously just use the thing and then think to yourself that you’re dumb!

Also, the quests aren’t t just kill mob x and get thing y but also have a variety of demands. And if you think they’re not good enough, plz name some game that give you variety of quest that are not just hack and find!

Things you didn’t consider at all include:
+ Craft system
+ PvP
+ Events
+ Raids
+ Mercenary recruitment
+ Enchant/Enhance system
+ Skill sytem
+ and many more because you didn’t go beyond “first impression”

Fair enough that you feel that Atlantica Online didn’t hook you straight away from level 1-10. But I think even you would agree that it’s a rather stupid way to write a review without even trying to play the game more than .5% of what it has to offer.

And even for first impression, it was quite awful to make a very basic mistake of saying that wearing new gear didn’t change the look. If that’s the case, then every other player would also be wearing the same thing as your player. But in fact, they weren’t.

The game holds many things to do and attain as you level and grow, and also holds a strategic twist to is whether in PvE or PvP. However, going by this “reviewer”, it isn’t shown, but what do you expect when his “facts” are beyond overexaggerated and he doesn’t bother to delve further into what is offered.

Lets remake this review fast.

Malcom’s Review – 0/10 due to incompetence.

AO the game actual rating – 9/10. Not perfect obviously, but it has it’s good ups and actually gameplay if you actually play it that will keep you trying to beat everyone you can in competition and even dungeons.

People have different views at stuff, you dont like it its your opinion. But you dissed the whole game as if its a pure garbage game with zero positive comments as i have seen. Why dont you just give a 1 / 10, that fits your review

World of Warcraft was a huge MMO hit and it set the trend for the MMO market. This is just another one of those games which tend to follow in it’s footsteps by offering a much lower standard of game, and then has the cheek to claim it’s something more powerful and exciting than World of Warcraft.

There’s other ways to advertise, but Atlantica just went straight for the retarded choice.