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My first experience with the game made me want to know more about this highly explosive and action-packed combat game. As I ended playing the game for the first time, I reflected on that experience and noted that I was missing out on a great gaming experience before. The game taught me that you should not judge all games alike. Some are poor, others average but others, like Archeage, are totally above the rest in everything. The game’s graphics, flexibility, unpredictability, limitless possibilities and unending action makes it a highly captivating and in the extreme, an addictive gaming option. I was particularly moved by the level of careful analysis that is required to maneuver through all the levels that are available in this game.

I had to have many skills to ensure I survive what is thrown at me. Unlike other games, it requires total concentration and expertise. It provided me with an insight as to why many youths were talking about it all over. They had experienced the same level of excitement after playing this game. Every time you play the game again from where you previously left, you are sure to get a new experience, new fight, new location, new enemy, new outcome and ultimately, a new enthusiasm. I also got an insight into what the developers would have been intending to deliver when they made this game.

They wanted to give their customers a new type of game, with real situation coupled with extreme possibilities. They succeeded in combining the art of play and that of a virtual reality. XL developers managed to attract such a huge audience due to their ability to provide something different in terms of gaming. They revolutionalised the gaming world in a way that has never been experienced before. The game is worth all the fuss about it and definitely worth your time. If you are a gaming fanatic and you haven’t tried it out yet, then you are missing out on another whole level of gaming experience and excitement. You should make sure you try it out, and I promise it won’t disappoint.

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The further the trading post from your lands, the greater the risks of attack but subsequently, the higher the rewards. The game provides a lot of options on how you can transport your trading materials. You can walk, swim, climb ladders and trees, use boats, glide, portals, taxi-like cars, tractors and even airships. There are pre-determined travel routes. Since every aspect of the game is in 3D, diving while swimming is entirely possible. There are various reasons for diving in the game including looking for additional resources hence your diving can be aided with the help of equipment. Due to the fact that the game is a multi-player, as already pointed out earlier in this blog, players can travel together.    

Despite my earlier ignorance towards this game, its success is clearly evident from the way it was received by the online gaming community. According to Dietz (2016), its reviews were favorable as it currently holds a Metacritic score of 80. On GameRankings, Archeage holds an impressive score of 84.33%. The game won the MPOGD award for game of the month in October 2014 (Multiplayer online Game Directory, 2014).

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The rocky mountains up ahead made it look like a scene out of a movie. The sea warfare part of the game is fun. Apart from involving swimming, it also included naval warfare. In the play, I was required to drive our boat into the sea and head for our enemies who were already waiting for us. There are a lot of other factors to make the experience more interesting even before you engage your enemy at a certain destination point directed by the game. You get to experience the sea and its surges, and you have to judge the wind direction by yourself to ensure you sail in the right direction. You are also required to escape the dangerous waves of the sea that could capsize your ship. All these factors play a hand in deciding you reach the right destination on time or not. In the sea, you also have to deal with the many mysterious monsters waiting for you below the surface. Here, the Leviathan mysteries of the sea BOSS are uncovered. The sea provides a lot of interesting challenges that I found to be fun.

The swimming and gliding aspects of Archeage game play are parts of the various hidden quests that are available in the game. You can submit a quest request, and you can gain additional experience through extra quest objectives. These hidden quests are unlocked through special achievements. Securing trade route is another fun experience of the game. As you build houses and own land, farm and keep animals, you will need to trade the products that you acquire. This involves taking your items to a trading merchant, who corresponds to your post.

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Everything about the game is interesting; however, there was one particularly interesting point in the game. During game play, which mainly involves combats on land and sea, there was the specific in-game scenery that involved the use of a glider. I couldn’t help admiring the landscape below as I flew the glider to a certain designated point in the game. The desert-like and isolated land below gave me the feeling of real adventure. There were rocky and sandy patches and hilly areas up ahead. The city sky scrapers could be seen in the foreground some distance away.  One can change the view from the glider to either the first person or the third person according to the player’s preference. I preferred the third person since it gave me a wider area of view of the surroundings.  The fact that you can fly to a mission while enjoying the view along the way was quite enjoyable. The glider can be customized (upgraded and equipped) to suit a player. Mounts that can function as gliders include the Griffin and the Pegasus.

Another interesting point was an in-game scene which required me to swim in the ocean, as part of a sea-warfare. This was particularly quite fun to me since it’s not every day you find a swimming aspect in any game. I had never experienced swimming in a game before so to me, this was quite new. The graphics and the scenery were interesting. The developers made sure the Water appeared real in color and context.

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As I played the game for the first time, I realized that my inexperience had made me build houses in hostile zones. I put up and decorated an Oak Treehouse in Exeloch. In Heedmar, another hostile area, I built a townhouse, and in Thunder Island, I set up a manor.  Claiming land also means that you can play farming and of keeping animals. Only the owner and those with permission can access the farm. In the open world, there is the risk of another player stealing your animals, and this attracts a crime point.  Taxes also come with owning a farm and just like house taxes; they must be paid. It is here that as a player, you can keep an animal which will later help you in your fights. The game allows players to keep small pets and give them time to mature and become fearsome monsters to be used in war.

These monsters are brought in as little pets, and you are then required to train them to be battle companions as they grow. They gain this through their experience in combat and the distance they cover. Your monster can be killed in war, but you have the option of resurrecting them, at a cost. As you train them, you make use of equipment slots that are available like in player characters.  Making your tools and weapons helps the player to improve and ensures you are better than your enemies. Fights can be between players or sea monsters. This game has many zones involving fights against other players in the open world. You are required to attack players from other factions (West, East of Pirates). The flexibility of the game ensures that you can face a player from your faction as a result of flagging the ‘bloodlust’ mode. Any crime evidence in your particular faction results to a jail term for the culprit, whether it is another player or yourself. 

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The game has a variety of fun missions and quests that one undertakes. Some scenes involve building houses and ships and customizing them with weaponry and manpower. This crafting system is extensive and allows for a player to be awarded a proficiency level which comes with additional crafting options. Building a house in the game also comes with a variety of options, from cottages to mansions depending on your level. Taxes must be paid to avoid your house being destroyed. Before you build a house, you first have to claim the land. If you build a castle, you are granted lordship over the lands and you priority becomes protecting the Archeum Crystal.

Any player who takes control of the crystal gains ownership of the castle and the surrounding lands. In short, if your crystal is stolen, you lose. However, before you can own land, you first have to attain a ‘patron status’ in the game, a feat am sure will take me quite some time to achieve, as a beginner. There are various methods through which as a player, you can attain this status. One method involves paying a subscription fee to Trion. For free players, with me being one of them, you can use the in-game gold coins to purchase ‘Apex’ which can be used by free players to purchase the patron status. This is a coin sold by Trion for $10 in game cash and freely tradable in the game. I got to experience most of this building aspects of the game the first time I played it since I was instantly captivated. However, my inexperience proved to be a liability since I ended up making the wrong decisions which cost me. But that the fun of the game. The more you play Archeage, the more you gain experience, and the tougher it gets as you move up levels. 

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According to Joshua Abbott (2015), Archeage was developed by Jake Song, a Korean developer with his development company, XL Games. It runs on the Microsoft platform and was first released in 2013 in Korea. After an initial success in Korea, the game then hit the markets.

North America and Europe in 2014.  The game mainly involves The Archeage Chronicles storyline. The main plot involves the struggle between good and evil forces as stated by Joshua (2015).

After logging in into the virtual world of gaming, I took me seconds to find the highly popular game. It required the creation of a user account before one could open it. After opening the game, I was instantly attracted to its graphics. The game employs the use of ambient occlusion and tessellation which are two of the most modern graphics effects. The picture effect is very appealing, and the limitless possibilities make it fun to play. Player movements can be compromised by other objects in the game due to the player collision effect. The game is multiplayer and entails a first or third person view of a zone less world which requires you to battle in the sea and on land. I can describe the game as a ‘sand pack’ MMORPG. The developers of the game called it a hybrid of open content play and a theme pack experience (Abbott, 2015). Archeage involves combat between six main types of characters in their strongholds: the secretive Elves, spiritual Nuians, and the crafty Dwarves all belong to the western continent. The eastern part of Archeage belongs to the nomadic Firran, the Harani, and the fearsome Warborn. These factions are constantly at war due to pirates, trade routes and pillaging escapades.

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In a considerable lot of the films performing artists are demonstrated wearing robotized glasses in which they can see a genuine, these motion pictures generally use virtual reality innovative condition to make it more appealing to their watchers. A portion of the propelled games utilizing virtual reality wonders are likewise being presented in the business sectors which can demonstrate the best cases of the virtual condition. The virtual community sphere too has not been left behind as it too has witnessed a rapid growth in the level of online technology. These advancements in technology have seen a boom in the gaming world that has proved to be both popular and has captivated a wide online market. The gaming world has seen improvements in how and where game fanatics play and get to interact in the online community.

As a conservative and laid back personality however, this new and emerging trend did not capture my interest at first. I was however not ignorant to the fact that the online gaming frenzy had attracted and maintained the attention of many enthusiasts. One game, in particular, seemed to lead the pack in making gamers glued to the virtual community. The game ‘Archeage’ seemed to be the true representation of this advancement in gaming technology. It was being mentioned almost everywhere, and that name lingered in my head almost every day. After sometime of trying to ignore the all the frenzy around Archeage, curiosity finally took the better of me. I decided to individually investigate what the game was all about just to satisfy my curiosity. This drove me to log in into the online community and search for that particular game. 

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In the contemporary world, there have been major developments and advancements in the level of technology in every field and sphere of life. Games are a leisure activity for masses of young people around the world. The phenomenal innovative headways to this engaging society have brought on numerous gamers, particularly young people, to recognize it as a definitive dream. As indicated by many reviews, computer games can increment forceful conduct, cause enthusiastic upheavals and decline restraints in many individuals. Accordingly of the expanded introduction to this current marvel, a mounting assemblage of research is connecting computer games to savage, forceful and hostile to social conduct. Hence the review concentrates on "exploring the effect of gaming on society to decide if it prompts forceful, rough, and hostile to social conduct".

The principal point of this examination is to archive the distinctive sorts of games and how they work through electronic gadgets, and along these lines looking at the relationship between game presentation and the diverse states of mind and practices showed by gamers. The second target is to clarify the key elements which prompt savage, forceful and hostile to social conduct and the extraordinary lengths to which the gaming business will go to with a specific end goal to harvest the benefits of games. The examination likewise shows a layout of the present rating and control frameworks in Australia, which has brought about some savage games being restricted for their vicious and unseemly substance. To end the examination an attainable arrangement is proposed to amplify the potential focal points of rating frameworks. Presently a-days it is additionally being utilized as a part of motion pictures.

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I like best in the game to gold plain, in the plains of gold road, free fight, the battle or hunted.

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In the ancient centuries, there are a variety of combat pets, and each pet has its unique characteristics, no matter from appearance or skills, always let the other people can remember their characteristics.They are our most loyal friends, as long as we are commanded, they'll go toward the enemy, not afraid of life and death, in their world, only two words: master.I today in the game activities, and a red dragon cub (lottery), fierce of a pet, the role of let me become more powerful.

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I will end my journey to this period of ancient centuries, finally felt the game with a my visual effect is very big, I like him very much quality effect, to end this dream trip at the same time I also opened new journey in life.

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Slowly I also less spent more time playing games, I came to this game has been 2 months, there are a lot of things worth I recall ~ "Sea warfare" very passion or very hot, whenever began naval warfare, the game will be a lot of people, when we drove the boat out to sea, experience the surge of the sea, there are a lot of factors, thus increasing the battle sail operation, need to judge the direction of the wind and the waves of the sea, let the boat on the sea, accurate away to the destination. In our ancient centuries, the vast sea world has been full of mysterious color.Many unknown monster living in this vast and mysterious in the ocean, the freedom of the game makes both in the surface and underwater allows players to explore in person, one can always find many exciting new things.Now, the ancient centuries new sea BOSS the mysteries of the leviathan was finally uncovered,

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When I raised with later, I started my trip to brush equipment, usually need a lot of time to get better equipment, so that can let me become very strong, in Archeage, have an official store, can buy very beautiful inside fashion dress up oneself, hit our visual effect. Took me in the game, only a small amount of money, also can let me very good feeling this game brings me endless experience. Is a hunter in the game, I can, after all kinds of people or animals, under any circumstances change their roles, I can also is a living player, not like life, killing reassuring kinds of vegetables in the home, chat with people, can let me enlarge the life circle, makes me happy to make friends.

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After a month of hard work, I also noticed a variety of fun, such as: first to build a house, build a house of their own, their decoration design, etc., the agriculture, I can in my yard all kinds of fruits and vegetables or raising small animals, the third I need to complete the task for income to build their own equipment, better improve themselves.

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Now i’m level 20, spent a few days time, let me feel blow feeling and game effects is very good!Role is to keep doing the task, for the same amount of tasks, kill different monsters, gain experience, still have a plenty of each person has a Labour, if Labour have no, can't normal upgrade, because take tasks need to consume the Labour, without labor will not be able to take the task, also cannot obtain the experience, so it takes time to recover, today I labor consumption finished by me, then I get offline.

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Today, I started to play the game, the picture effect is very good, have a great time, supernatural manipulation of the game, inspire limitless possibilities. ArcheAge is home to six major RACES: the spiritual Nuians, secretive Elves, and crafty Dwarves share the western continent, while the nomadic Firran, cunning Harani, and fearsome Warborn inhabit lands to the east. The Loose ties to connect the neighboring RACES, but allegiances are fluid, forever complicated by the whims of pirate factions sailing, trading, and pillaging the at will. I chose the east China (Harani), the role is a ranger, a remote profession. The game development direction is very big, very want to live games, good let a person experience the game, today I in the leveling of crazy, I'm slowly grope for the game, such as: Trada, Crafting, Housing & Farming etc.