
Ashen Empires is a classic MMORPG set in the fantasy world of Dransik. Dransik has been besieged by the sinister forces of Talazar, preying on mortals. Play with your friends, battle your foes, complete quests, defeat powerful bosses, pursue tradeskills in a player-driven market. Play YOUR way!
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Game is heavily P2W and is full of microtransactions. Player base is extremely small as well as toxic. Game should've died off long ago but the hardcore addicts keep it afloat.
After having played this game since 2009, I have developed a strong attachment to this amazing game. My dad introduced me to the game and taught me how to play it, at admittedly an age probably too young to know exactly what I was doing but that didn't stopped me, and since then I have loved the game and enjoyed the community within it that was always willing to teach and help me. Nowadays the dev team has shrunken to roughly 3-6 people and are trying to fight their way through the ancient code while trying to appease the player-base they currently have and prepare for the player-base and MMORPG is supposed to have. I see the strain and difficulty that balancing act is putting on the team and their development so if you try this wonderful game, please make sure to keep that in mind and give them some grace.
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There's an issue with movement and clicking through spells. Movement has a 250-500MS delay which makes it pretty hard to navigate through heavily mobbed areas and through doorways. I need to hold any WASD key for around 200ms for the key to register which means micro adjustments (Tapping a key really quickly to move 1 tile) can be very inconsistent. in a competent PVP setting this is unacceptable. a GM did briefly look into this issue for me but couldn't see a problem, which leads me to believe this is a ping related issue. In previous years when i played this game, it never felt this sluggish. Spells... If I select a new spell too fast after casting a spell it toggles my new spell off and I need to activate it again which infuriates me. Also, a lot of the spells in this game do not work and I can fizzle (miscast) a spell 5x in a row. which almost certainly leads to death if i'm fighting high end mobs. WHY??? If they ever address any of these issues I would be happy to change my review, I have whole other gaming communities I could introduce to this game but in its current state I couldn't even recommend it.
This game appealed to me because I had nostalgia for Ultima Online. This comes nowhere close to it. It's cool it in's own right - a legend of the past. And I'd love to see online games like this again - this is just dead and lingering.
Cool game ran by power tripping devs. Avoid.
Was having a bit of fun but every time you have to tab out to ask a question about the game in discord, or look at help page or anything like that you reset the whole dam UI. Speaking of UI, its kinda old skool janky AF. But I could have gotten used to it. Like managing your loot FFS just kill me now. Casting spells, have to change weapons.. does not explain that in game or I missed it with all the tiny fonts. WASD or click with mouse movement. Use F buttons to select your spell, weapon, or anything you want to assign, then click your target to attack/cast at. The magic is definitely a cumbersome system. Tried to speak to some actual other player on noob island but they just ran away. Would I recommend, well its a very old game and if thats what you're looking for then yeah, but looking for a new game and thats what your used playing, then you'll hate it. Last of all, the solfware so dam old that just runs like crap, and is very buggy, I lost connections, would lose quest updates, very laggy momement and you would running fast. UI is just so bad.
Not for me, but givew it a try if you like old school style games.
Overly strict rules and poor communication between players and game masters made for a frustrating experience
Incredibly fun game similar to Ultima Online. Was a direct competitor to Runescape back when they were both new. No idea how a terrible game like Runescape has more players than this absolute gem. Oh, and the music is beautiful!
I loved this game when I was younger and just started playing again recently.
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