Vindictus

This game is the definition of wasted potential. It sounds great on paper, but in reality it's a complete mess. Even though the combat is great, it's buried under everything you hate about f2p games: mindless and easy combat until the endgame, where it's either grind 'til death or simply use credit card. The UI is completely bloated, and let's not forget the typical, disgusting "the more you pay, the more naked your waifu character is". I expected something more, considering so many people have fond memories of Vindi.

I had a blast playing this game back in its prime like 10 years ago... The only reason my review is positive is in memory of that.

Note: I mainly play through the Nexon Launcher so while I only have a few dozen hours on Steam, I have hundreds and hundreds total. Vindy in the 2-6: They functionally removed all non-raid content to streamline the process to get to the endgame raids, but are stingy with items to actually improve your gear, they power creep the raids based on what the absolute whalest of whales have gear-wise, so for the true endgame stuff you can be in the top 150 magic/attack characters in the server and still be hundreds of millions of gold short of having the stats to get in the door (let alone do *well*), and the entire game economy is propped up by microtransactions. Gachapon boxes on top of frequent battle pass-like systems on top of a store packed with more expensive bundles, and every few weeks they drop new 'All Curves' outfits to appeal to the all important coomer demographic keeping this game afloat one-handed. There is no 'free to play' anymore, there's ZERO chance you can climb in this game without putting in a multiple hours a day grind or breaking out the +15 scrolled Credit Card. As far as pros? The combat is interesting and unique for hack and slash games and for being a 15+ year old game, it looks pretty nice. Still not optimized very well unfortunately. You can have a decent PC and it'll still run at a sub-60 fps frame rate despite me being able to hit 165 in other games that are ten years newer. Also has a memory leak issue where having the game open for a while makes it start hitching and prone to crashing to the desktop. This is on top of numerous bugs and glitches, some of which have been in the game for several years and deemed 'not able to replicate' by the devs and quality-of-life issues that are worked on at a glacial pace (too busy coming up with a 200th cleavage-heavy outfitter?) These problems are reflected in the population getting smaller by the month, with it being harder to find players for raids and RARs. As I type, I'm alt-tabbed waiting for a Uscias raid to fill - the most current raid but still take several minutes to find players even on the weekend. Bottom line: don't get invested in this. I play because of my guildmate and the day if/when she quits the game I'm uninstalling this and never looking back. Decent combat doesn't carry a full game, look elsewhere.

Just bad. Especially raids as a part of story, that appears to be completly for solo.

Tried to like this game but it runs terrible no matter how much I degrade the graphics settings :(

Highly pay 2 win, wanna spend 500$ on some sets just for it to bind and not be able to re-sell it, this is the game for you. Combat is amazing, dead community and most are bot's other than the few handfuls that play. Game is almost impossible for new people to do new content get prepared to quit your job and work 16+hr shifts or make 15 accounts. God speed wait for defying fate, game was great but is now disgusting with the new stat requirements to get you to pay 2 play. Can't participate in anything without paying for stat enhancements and pray to the RNG gods it hits or wait another week and try again unless you pay out the ass. I'd wait for defying fate, definitely one of the best combat games of all time just wasted potential.

Tried on 4 separate occasions to Launch the game, Fails to launch past the Email Login, Each time, With Error Codes. I give up Trying.

if you forget your secend password ( the code one) and didnt link your steam account your f**ked the whole reset is dumb who the hell has this much security on a game like this wtf not even the big games titles today have this much BS todo if you forget your code, password they just email you like a normal person and they have more to lose and they dont make you do this much get rid of that S**t fix it Plz i would like to play this game again and dont bring this crap in the new game