Is Skyforge worthwhile?

Well, gents and ladies it's time to take a look at a very fresh new mmorpg on the market: "Skyforge"

Most of you heard talk about all the different new features it presents, like how you can become god, how every class is available and how well the combat is. After playing it for a while I ready to give a little insight on the game. I will make sure to point out the positive things and try to presuppose the things you are looking for. Let's begin

Let's begin by saying that this mmorpg is f2p and that alone is a good start for a big community of players. The game is very new, it currently is on 0.65 beta, so it is still very much at work. I'd say it's a good investment to start playing it before it comes out as 1.0

The biggest things you will notice at the start

No class selection

That is one of the most shocking new features of the game as it really breaks the typical mmorpg experience by not limiting you to classes. As you develop your character you are always free to choose your playstyle. You begin as warrior, mage and supporter and work yourself up to a monk, necromancer and other great classes.

The game looks good

It just really does. Even at middle settings the game captivates with beautiful combat animations, scenery, locations, quite a large fov (view distance). The animations and models seem to be up to the modern standards. 

Nice flowing combat

1. Let me get this out: The actionbar does not confuse you at all in this game. That is something nice to see

By upgrading your characters skill tree you gain new combat abilities which you get to use in battle. The good thing: you get quite powerful skills in the start of the game. That means- no dicking around with lesser skills until you are level 30. Oh btw...there are no levels in this game. 

A lot of innovation

Just like the last point of the previous list this game has a lot of new concepts of modern mmorpgs. The game progresses by you spending "particles of mastery"and other currencies upgrading your weapons  weapons boosters, which you just never replace. 
If you are going ???, let me make it clearer


You don't actively upgrade your armor or weapons in this game. The biggest boosts to your health, attack and other statuses goes through your passive skills and boosters (for equipment). These never get obsolete, so you focus on things that never get obsolete. Better weapons you just pick up as you go by and it's never the main target of your gameplay.

 The negative aspects

 If you are looking for a direct alternative to World of Warcraft, Tera, Rift, LOTR online or the other big mmorpgs that are out there...then you might get a little bit dissapointed.
Skyforge plays by a lot of new different rules. It said goodbye to concepts like an open world, armors (you get to change costumes instead). There are no mounts, no castles, no things like leveling, raid bosses (at least for now, this still might change), no collectibles or even crafting.
I personally was a little bit dissapointed to not find these many things that I loved. No housing or even titles gives me personally an empty feeling. And yet this game manages to discard or reintroduce concepts that have became stale for many players. 

To sum up: If you are a player who:
wants to see more innovation in your games
if your priority is:
 combat
 nice models, textures and locations
 if you don't mind
 not playing an open world
not being able to craft
not being able to build houses
looking past the oldest rpg mechanics

than it's safe to say you can give Skyforge a try.
If however
You have a completely different opinion on the things mentioned above and want a game that resembles classics like WoW, then Skyforge might not entertain you for a long while because you will feel it's empty.

P.S
One thing I cannot give an honest opinion of is the guild system. Though there are guilds in Skyforge, they seem to be limited and only amongs certain groups of people. I did not manage to find one to enter. As far as I can tell guilds are not as interactive as the guild in WoW and other mmorpgs.
Also:
I saw no real signs of pvp or pve yet. That comes later in-game. I am not sure how that compares to the other games.

No matter if you choose to install Skyforge or not, I hope this personal review was informative. Stay tuned for a Guild Wars 2- WoW-Rift comparison coming someday soon.

 

(Update) Oh man...what a day on steam market!

I tried my way in the steam market today and got my results.
Well...
I made a profit! But not the one I expected to be honest

 When you first enter the market you get to see the most traded items.
I chose to try a CS:GO since I saw big movements into the positive.

After hours of waiting I got myself a
AK-47 Redline.

4 Euros

Actually, a really decent price. The lowest price was about ~3.2, but that's a nightmare to get









So today, after I did my finals in university...

A barrage of AK's for sale at the same price

And let me tell you...

That's a bad sign the price isn't going up

And sadly the market got cluterred bad
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 Also, on the chroma 2 case situation!

It went up from 20 to 40 cents, so I was wrong in a way buttt crashed right afterwards.

The market is crazy.

I'll update after I make a new play. See you until then

For today...14 cent profit. Thanks 0.60 Euro sale tax steam!

(day) trade on steam?

Yep, it really exist. And we call it "Market"

The thing is: if you find the certain "secret" items, that might become more valuable as time goes by, so you get an incredible opportunity to buy items on the market and sell them for a profit like the real stock exchange. The main factor here is: the demand and the number of items available.





And the steam market has, by far, some of the most amazing flactuations.


Just today Wednesday, May 27, 2015


The chroma 2 case market for CS:GO (one of the biggest item market on steam) shows just how bad some items can crash

The case that previously cost 0.60 cents can be bought at 20 cents.

That difference is amazing and it really raises questions on whether it would be an interesting play. Let's say

We buy 10 cases and they just go up in price overnight. 2 euros/dollars could easily become 3 euros or 4, and that is just the lowest speculiation.

But, my suggestion is this: Avoid doing that. Those cases have lost worth (might be even permanently). And the reason? A lot of case drops? New players?
No.
A new set of cases.
I say study the market and look for information that might reveal what kind of items might rise in price. 

The main goal in trading in the steam market always is. Buy low sell high.



 

 And if you can afford it, try placing orders on items. You never know what kind of inexperienced person can accidentally sell an item far too low and give you room for big profit

 For the benefit of all blog readers I will update my blog with similar posts on items that can be bought for a wonderful price. This little post can act as the introductory post, the next ones will be real gems of the steam market.

Remember! Making money this way is passive income for your steam account. No reason to spend  10 hours idling and trading scrap when you can make money directly!