My friend who I play Counter Strike 2 with said if I post a review on this game and it gets 5000 likes and 5000 Awards that he will buy me a RTX 3080 and 2 Kilos of The lamb ham. So I'm just gonna leave this here Help a brotha ~
　
　
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I have played this game on and off since maybe 2010 or so. All I can say is that it isn't worth it.

Back then, around act 5 (and when global was a thing) there weren't a lot of systems, there were the upgrade systems but that was it really. Then when Gameforge took over and global was shut down and servers were migrated, the monetization started en masse.

At the time I played it because it was free and my parents rarely let me play paid/sub games on the computer except for maybe Toontown and eventually WoW. Nostale was one of my go-tos because I thought it was simple but I was just bad at it. The systems were hardly explained to me back then, I kept getting my ass kicked with bad gear, and it's still very easy to wind up like that with no prior knowledge of the game. Other than getting frustrated at that stuff, I had a good time running event raids and whatnot. LoD was fun with guildies, even though I did barely any damage.

However, when act 6 dropped, the monetization was really bad. Champion levels were added which had the primitive system of experience loss on death. If you didn't have +8 or so gear with highly upgraded SPs, you would die a lot, unless you paid someone to carry you. And how do you get that kind of gear and sps? You pay.

The gambling system for upgrades has really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ rng, and your gear has a good chance of deleting itself when you fail an upgrade, so you need the protection scrolls on the cash shop to guarantee that you keep your gear if you fail. Same goes with betting and SP upgrades. It is incredibly grindy, especially in the end game, where you would spend several hours to get one level.

Then there's the NosWheel. It needs its own rant because good god. Most of the money sink is in here because all of the best items can be found in here for $10 A SPIN. Partner SPs, OP costumes (yes, cosmetics boost damage), OP pets, all the good stuff, and if you want to buy it off of the Bazaar, you better pay up a big chunk of gold because a lot of the cash shop stuff does not come cheap and you need to grind gold for several hours to buy one thing. The only thing is the OP stuff is in the JACKPOT. 9 times out of 10 you'll get upgrade materials or extra gold for $10.

I'm surprised the game is more active now than when I played it as a kid, is it just the whale bait? Are there really this many whales out there?

And I saw a review a while ago saying someone "only" spent 5 grand on this game, and all I can say if you're crazy enough to do that, you seriously need help.

TL;DR was okay but now it's p2w gambling garbage.