Started off loving this game when it was first around. It was fun, and a really fun world where there was such a good amount of potential for what there was. More updates came, more fun was had. Both me and my fiancé LOVED playing it, and we were always keeping our fingers crossed for more great content, such as deeper customisation, making our own characters, dragons, etc. Everything that could of made this game great was there, but unfortunately, it's pretty much gone up in smoke.
The first issue was the games store, it was really weird to see things rotate, but never really in a good pattern. Sometimes you'd see an item you want, but then it would disappear to never be seen again, which is a bizarre way of handling it considering that the game's sole source of income was the selling of items. At the time this was the way it worked, and I don't know if it's been remedied since, and if it has, fantastic, but this was my experience for the time I'm talking about in this review. Me and my girl even bought a few things to enjoy our sessions more! We had fun making our riders and dragons look cool and epic.
Then the next problem came, which was packs started being released at crazy prices, which yes, in some way, you could justify it by explaining that it's a FTP game and they have to make some money some way. I agree, they absolutely do. But my advice would be to look to other games that have the FTP format, and they sell individual items, weapons, customisation options, outfits, skins, colour palettes, etc, whatever you will, all individually for the most part for reasonable prices. To push entire packs out at high prices where you'd maybe only want one or two of the items from it was a bit of an oddball move to us.
Then things started getting worse in the games itself. Now, I'm not sure if it was a case of hackers, code injectors, cheaters of other methods, or if the games matchmaking was just going down the drain, but again, at the time of when this was last played by me and my girl, we were constantly being matched against players who were somehow slaughtering everyone on in the map. Only very occasionally we'd have a win, and we noticed some strange things happening, such as attacks landing through walls, from across the entire arena, from locations where it would of been IMPOSSIBLE to get a lock on, and yet, the attacks would land, and even be one hit kills when we were at full health. Again, I don't know if this was an issue with hacking, cheating, etc, but at the time, it killed the fun, and if this HAS been resolved since, fantastic, but what me and my fiancé remember the most was we looked online, and a LOT of people were complaining at the time about games like this happening.
They sadly, seemed to be falling on deaf ears where the developers weren't responding, and seemingly not fixing anything. Maybe we'll come back to it to try it again sometime in the future, but the fun was sadly sapped out of the experience in this game with how the monetisation was handled and the matches were going. Yes, skill issues can certainly be attributed to some of our losses. We weren't expert players by any means, and we still had fun, but as I said, getting taken down from across the map, from behind cover, through walls. Whatever was happening, I hope it is fixed.
But my advice for this game is that while the review is stated as not recommended, at least give it a try just once or twice to see if you like it. Make that decision yourself. My point of view is that I can't recommend this game for people who are looking for a fair and fun FTP game about dragons. The foundation of it is here, but it just wasn't built upon well. However, if you do like it, fantastic, and I hope you have a far better time with it than we did.
Hope this review is helpful to some. Happy gaming all!
