Alganon

[Draegan]

Well Alganon will probably be the best FTP DIKU out there.  It's certainly better than ROM or Allods.  (from what I've seen)

[raydeen]

Well Alganon will probably be the best FTP DIKU out there.  It's certainly better than ROM or Allods.  (from what I've seen)

I do hope that was meant to be in green.

[Signe]

It's terrible.  I couldn't get past, well, the terribleness. 

[jakonovski]

I took advantage of my sick day and read all this Alganon silliness. I'm more and more convinced that no diku-mmo will ever be successful again. The whole concept is tapped out. Finished.

[Aez]

The Old Republic could be huge DIKU success.

[Sir T]

Go gather 15 Sith helmets and 10 Wookie tusks.

[HaemishM]

They weren't using them anyway. 

[Mrbloodworth]

Yeah, buts thats just to make fuel for your speeder.

[Draegan]

Well Alganon will probably be the best FTP DIKU out there.  It's certainly better than ROM or Allods.  (from what I've seen)

I do hope that was meant to be in green.

I've played all three.  They're all pretty ugly.  I just think Alganon is the best of the three.

[Mrbloodworth]

I'm going to disagree, Allods is LIGHT YEARS ahead of this title. For many, many reasons, and most of it, is competence in execution.

[Draegan]

In what way though?  Allods had a shitty experience curve and the stats were wacky.  The combat system was spammy as fuck too since there was no auto attack.

Alganon's font and letter were shit.  I don't really care about the UI looking exactly like WOW.  It's funny and it makes the company look like hacks but it didn't detract from the actual game experience.

The online wiki/help resource they had in game, along with the social stuff and the "offline" skill training was actually a pretty interesting system.  I'll give the props on that.

[jakonovski]

Runes of Magic is pretty well polished, is Alganon really better? That'd mean I would have to at least try it.

[raydeen]

I guess we all have our different tastes. I found Allods to be fairly woohoo neat-o, RoM to be nice but not enough for me to care and Alganon to be the most lifeless, generic thing ever.

[Draegan]

ROM is pretty damn generic too.  Just as generic as Alganon.  Allods had lore and story to it that was interesting but the gameplay was terrible.

[Mrbloodworth]

QUEST ONLINE RELEASES ALGANON™ AS FREE-TO-PLAY

[Shatter]

QUEST ONLINE RELEASES ALGANON™ AS FREE-TO-PLAY

"After almost four years of development and a much publicized false start in December 2009, under new experienced leadership and guidance, Alganon was finally completed and officially launched at the end of April 2010."

I threw up in my mouth

[Paelos]

Hmm, if I'm at home this weekend, I'll download it for a laugh between Puzzle Quest 2 breaks.

[Stabs]

I just checked my email. The title of one of them was:

Alganon - Friday the 13th F2P

[Paelos]

It's gonna getcha! 

[raydeen]

I clicked the link the The Nameless One was right there waiting to stare into my soul. Can we use and mention his forum name instead of his real name (mangled or not) 'cause it's pretty damn funny IMO. I think I want to change it slightly and call him the BVDBandit.