One thing that should also be mentioned is that the previous Q3 stillfront missed earnings from the botting problem. After they addressed the bots they then got ddosed to hell. They cite these 2 event as the sole reason they missed their projected profit on Albion and have since promised investors that future content updates will offset the losses
Ah interesting. I talked to Stillfront and looked at their Q3 report for researching this video but didn't want to make it too financial. I didn't catch the note on future updates making up for the lost revenue though.
The sad fact about it is that Albion lost a lot of long time players that started back in 2020 or earlier. Sure, they gained a fair share of new players with split server, all the large group content boost. But majority of those smaller groups moved on to different titles, unfortunately. I've been in couple small guilds and they either developed into large scale ones (forced by game), or simply quit. ggs
@@KristiaionHenrikssen hard to name one, but just examples: Guild Wars 2, New World, EVE Online, I chose ESO to play solo, Throne & Liberty, Lost Ark, Dark & Darker and many others depending what you are interested in. I used to like Albion for the full loot and challenging fights, but it gets to the point where opponents will always stack more numbers than you and bring higher tier gear to have every advantage they can & win.
Albion died the day they started prioritising group content and started majorly disadvantaging solo players. Solo playerd are the lifeblood of any MMORPG and when you constantly and consistently screw th over like albion does, you can't have much of a future.
Dude i ve been seeing this comment on various platforms, can you clarify this to me please? As a player who is interested in small group content, been playing since alpha release i cant understand how game is going for group content? They destroyed very popular 5v5 hellgates, removed crystals, roads are almost dead; meanwhile mists and corrupteds are the most popular thing for years bow which are for solo players. We turned back to game as 10irl friends after 2 years, we cant find any content for small group; its either large group zvz or solo now. Big chests are next to hideouts and 20 people run to you at black zones, factions are fucked now. Why people think game is goin for more group content? Because of tracking? Lol. We also cry cuz we think game is turning to a solo game.albion was first introduced as big zvz fights, one of a kind in its time which became quite succesful i guess. Now its turning solo to sell skins like a mobile game? No idea, so confused atm. ( didnt watch the video yet first saw your comment and wanted to learn why people think its turning to more group content game)
@@tashmoo It's very simple. Every change made in the game. From open world to mount health to resistances, etc favor group content. The entire game is about group content and all solo players have is mists (filled with p2w players) and corrupted (most boring content in albion). We literally can't step outside anywhere else without being mobbed by a bunch of unskilled chimps who's only skills are discord and keyboard mashing.
100% agree. Game industry is collapsing. I came here from WoW, i know how game downfall looks like. Also, Seeing my comment in the video feels like seeing myself on the TV :D
I was really enjoying the game, played it for the first time ever and was hooked for a month straight. My friends that had played previously finally got on to play with me, and now no longer want to play due to the shapeshifter update. All of them hated it
I think one of the biggest problems MMO's have in this day and age, is that in order to do the things you love (Usually pvp) you have to pve for an equal amount of time to affored it, making the game more pay to win increases the Pve side forcing you to spend more hours farming to gain the same amount of joy from the game which directly effects the quality of the game. The marketing team wins (at the cost of the playerbase) by this increase in Pve time as well, because now the ratio between RL Currency in game value becomes more appealing. By in-game value I mean time spent farming. The exact same thing happened to Eve Online where as soon as another company bought them out things started to go down hill.
Well I think the game is still f2p if you have decent skill on how to efficiently do roads like killing the bosses on grass chests and actually clearing them out for blue and purple chest, With tracking drop rates increased you can surely do it in the red zones while watching out for the no of ppl flagged for pvp its a good gig with possibility of making 200k to 1mil There is also t8.3 maps although it sucks sometimes it can give small profits Then the best way to earn money is wearing the best set you can and having a fast mount and ganking all those big guild t8 gatherer in sunfang dawn
i stopped playing years ago back and a few days ago i tried it again in pretty high hopes, but oh boy... im sad the game turned out like this, albion is probably one of my favorite games IF they decided to improve the casual player experience instead of focusing on milking wallets, and now that i can afford premium, they increased the price to make it not worth it unless albion is the only game i play.
YOu're right. That's exactly how Gameforge destroyed Metin 2. But the non-loot faction warfare for me personally was and still is the best opportunity to earn silver, I could recently buy and use my first 8.3, without having to worry that i lose it. ABout the awakened weapons... I tried to do them myself and calculated that: for the price of a regular 8.4 healing staff I can make a 5.4 awakened that heals the same amount, but deals much less damage, but gives me a nice amount of HP. In this case, surprisingly balanced, I expected much worse. Of course, in short term it would be much better to buy 8.3, but still...
Spot on. Thanks for making this, I feel the exact same way. I really enjoyed hellgates as it was the last content where skill was primary factor over gear. Awakened weapons ruined that. It was the last straw for me. Cancelled my premium sub and haven’t had the motivation to log in.
I have so many amazing hours in this game. I have been playing ever since the game went F2P until about a year ago, ever since the server split i haven't had the desire to return back to the game. I love Albion so much, it is such an amazing game with an amazing world and art style. It's sad to see the game like this, seeing things like this makes me realise that my final minutes playing Albion... might have already happend, and that i might never return to the game. I'll be watching from the sidelines, but damn seeing this makes me sad, i had no idea stuff had gotten this bad. Thanks for making the video McGee.
Me too i stoped playing after the premium cost increase but i still played here and there but the server split was the main cause of me just deleting it. My ping on the west sucks but i have my account there and i dont have my account on the east but ping is okay. Both have something to be annoyed about.
I get so sick of companies that feel the need to see CONSTANT growth, and if something isn't CONSTANTLY growing, then it's inherently bad from a business standpoint. If something is making them money, but the production costs aren't increasing, then why does there have to be an issue in making more money? I was pretty shocked when i came back and realized premium was so expensive, but for how big the game has gotten, it's not so unfair compared to the likes of WoW or other sub-based games.
“Big numbahs, only go up!” My friend and I quit the game after playing it consistently for 2 years, we found ourselves struggling to keep up with premium, while collecting fame and levelung important nodes and trying to budget some silver to buy builds and learn how to pvp properly. The way premium is right now, its just a treadmill to barely scrape by. Our time investment wasnt respected at all, in fact if anything we were expected to invest more of it!
Been playing Albion for nearly 7 years at this point and haven't has the desire to log on in a good few weeks. Whilst there has been updates, the game feels pretty stagnant to me. I actually think a good path forward for the game would be a significant shift of focus into PvE content. I know it is a PvP game and love it for that, but there are only so many different arenas and types of PvP to explore. Or so something new and radical like sailing/ship content.
The golden years in this game were amazing. I will remember this game when I'm an old man but ironically last week I canceled my subscription and said my goodbyes. I'm not a big whale bit have had premium since 2018 and spend about 60$ a year on gold. Still feels unplayable and unbalanced sometimes. Both combat and silver making.
Hey man, I work in FP&A and there are three phases to acquisitions: recover purchase cost (typically an amount equal to 5 annual revenues), add value, then sale the asset. Stillfront is probably still trying to make sure SBI isn't a loss. After they have recovered the investment, Stillfront needs SBI to pay for itself while it shops SBI around.
Fun video. Personally I think SBI made the right call by increasing the number of tracks, but not the rewards. Shapeshifting weapons aren't really any more inaccessible to the average player than artifact weapons are, and given their overall power balance, I'm glad they aren't a budget build. If SBI had actually just integrated a shapeshifting weapon in to the various existing lines, a la artifact weapons, I suspect most of us wouldn't be as upset as we are about their accessibility/scarcity/power.
The game has none of the charm that drew in the original players who truly were a cult following. Long time veterans that committed so many hours into their guilds and communities to create content for all to enjoy. Hardcore players that had been playing since the betas and even alphas that could not stop coming back. SBI shifted away from community driven content to cater to the more casual players with things like CDs and Mists which has pulled a large number of the remaining players out of the open world and into instances. Since Lands Awakened was released the quality of black zone content has dramatically decreased. I don't see the same staunch competition between guilds, alliances and coalitions that once drove majority of the content in the game without the need for incentives like chests, orbs and vortexes. The removal of hideout and territory exclusivity took away any reason to really fight hard for them, since any clown and his circus can put down a HQ and now every zone has a dedicated police force to ruin your day just for stopping by. Gatherers are rarely seen out there compared to the old days since the introduction of much safer gathering in the Roads and Mists. Ganking routes have died compared to the past since players can now just press R for a very negligible amount of silver, not to mention all the nerfs and changes made to curb ganking. Solo/duo players are essentially forced into the Mist to be cannon fodder for card swipers, the removal of the 2 charge green roads really putting the nail in that coffin which began with the decline in relevance of solo dungeons. The world used to be teeming with solo players and small groups since the guilds and alliances that controlled the territories/hideouts had a much harder time policing all of the zones and really didn't have an interest in doing so aside from their core territory. The world used to be alive and the content that was made by the players was so much more spontaneous, dynamic and exciting than this current world where SBI dictates to you what it is you should be doing and where you should be doing it. There is so much more I could say but I'd be here all day. I went from a playing an ungodly number of hours a week to playing a few hours once every few months only to find I am not having fun and hate the content. I really do miss the way the game used to be but I doubt it will ever be in a state that I would consider playing seriously ever again. Thanks to everybody I met on my adventures in Albion and all the awesome memories we made taking on the world together. Those were the best days I've ever had playing an MMO,.
I have 3k hours in game and didn't logged in for 6 months. Because of Albion, I've met so many people and made good friendships. Memories I've made with this game are immeasurable. But just like you said, I can't find any reason to come back to game now. Everything or every content now feels hollow and pointless.
5:05 silver is currently easier to get than it was like 2y ago(at least for me) And you're saying u can't get buy premium after buying 1st time? For new players sure, they can choose between playing longer to get premium or paying real money for it After 1st premium it's really easy to keep buying with silver
amazing video, kudos for the great work big lips. being part of the best times of albion was really a privilege, it really was a game we all loved and enjoyed so deeply. even though we knew what was coming years ago when we noticed the first changes, it still makes us deeply sad seeing everything painting this big picture overall, after all these years. as you said, no one is to blame here, it is just the natural cycle of life. watching this felt like a closure to me.
@@LoveyLand of course it is full constantly. there are people who enjoy the game as it is, and there will be people who are always cycling. that doesn't mean the game we know died and some players accepted it.
Very succinct analysis. I appreciate you calling yourself out as purely speculating. I agree with you that this is probably the case. We all saw the same thing happen to our other favorite games too :( Would be funny if SBI/Stillfront caught wind of this and had a panicked response to you being spot on at a shareholder meeting!
they did the same thing when they released roads of avalon, all the ava gear was stupidly overpowered, and the artifacts to make said gear, was therefor very hard to get. Alot of the ava gear is still very OP, and expensive.
I do feel you here I run a top 100 guild and I cannot begin to tell you how financially intensive it is. The efforts to make money in this game is so mind boggling difficult - its clear its been designed to drain your silver balance as much as possible. Unless something changes, eventually I will disband the guild and leave the game behind forever. Only reason I haven't yet, is I do not see any valid alternatives to open world pvp mmo to steer my players to.
'profane' is hitting alpha soon. It looks really promising. And about your guild, well, BZ crafting was a thing back in the days... Just craft in bulk in your HO, then use Ava-roads (when there is a nice connection) to Blackmarket
@@imnearyou8912 You need to have over a 95% delivery completion to make profit. Gankers have multiple t3 naked scouts watching all entrances to caerleon. I've moved several billion in assets to caerleon. I have a large guild I can call on at any time to escort me. I am telling you I know about this and I have access to create means to ensuring a higher success rate than almost anybody and it is still not very profitable.
deeply agree with your POV, it's really sad to miss a game that I played so much for so long, but I mean, SBI will prolly keep making money, so kudos for them. Too bad that they had to ruin the game for that.
One thing I've noticed lately is the fact that I just can't compete with gathering anymore. By raising the premium prices like they kind of destroyed the gathering because now people gather solely just so they can afford premium and I believe it kind of floods the market with too much resources
@@PlanetTocaisn't weird, it kind of exactly makes sense. New players are almost always only farming one node out of their city. They think t4 is better so there you go. Being in the game longer, with more knowledge and info, you know how to better farm. As a side note, a lot of higher tier farmers don't like to waste their time getting 3, in essence, there's just less people doing it, making the cost higher. Simple.
I started loving the game because of the non p2w aspect but I had to quit last year because of the lack of solo content. For a casual solo like me, i couldn't even afford a set of 8.1 gear for corrupted dungeons while people are running 8.3. Same story in the mists. I had to stick to stalker dungeons because of the hard ip cap but it later becomes boring. I really loved open world roaming but it's kinda hard to do for a solo. It's hard to go back to PVE after you've got a taste of pvp so I couldn't really go back to doing PVE either.
@@VolpeCEO I have been in guilds before, small and large. But I grew tired of handholding and being a nameless pawn in their zvzs. I still love the idea of a 5-6 man permanent squad either to roam open world/ ava or do ganking, taking mage, outposts ,etc. But all my friends quit one by one and I was left with no choice but to play solo. I am not very sociable in the first place so I don't make friends easily. I used to roam solo, do dungeon dives, mists, corrupted, everything a solo can do for pvp but more and more, i felt like game has turned p2w.
@@raftelbot7313 I played mostly solo/duo and small 5 - 7 man groups in the black zone since the alphas and betas doing all the content you mentioned. It's all gone. Newer players will never understand just how alive and exciting the open world used to be. All of my core friends slowly quit the game as well because there is just no way to replicate that magic the game used to have anymore.
I agree that Albion devs did a tactical mistake in selling out because : 1-Were they thinking a company that invests 100+ millions wont make pushes to make more cash? 2-I disagree that the last patch were to milk "whales" , If anything they were to milk views and free publicity from twitch streamers. 3-I dont consider myself a whale and I bough the pack when the game was being developed to help the company , I felt betrayed that they sold out. I always payed my sub with cash. 4- The content they have pushed was more towards one man , or 2 content (twitch) I dont give a shit about that content so good luck with that paired with atrocious balancing shenanigans with the weapons being nerfed left and rigth and changing skills from skill shots to dum auto aim skills because of said content . 5-I never tougth going for mobiles was a good thing for albion , it stupidifies the game to accommodate people with slower machines and small screen's in the detriment of the PC crowd, but those people are accustomed to swipe like dumbos. What Albion needs is more tools to play in the sandbox , better guild managment ,better wallets (guilds,alliances) contracts systems , siege weapons , man made castles ,boats etc etc. What did we have these past 2 years ? Mists and solo dungeons currupted , mega clap .
Great Video. The fact of the matter is, that until there is actual competition to Albion Online from a legitimate contender, SBI and Stillfront will continue to get away with the terrible trend of P2W updates. The awakening system by far has been the most egregious of all attempts, and this is only for the weapons. This will continue with the armor awakening and eventual legendary systems, and it honestly is sad to see how much the item power disparities are across the game in multiple game modes. For now, I am just going to enjoy the parts of the game that are fun for as long as I can until another game comes out with better gameplay in the full loot PvP niche.
Honestly i moved on, i had a lot of fun, hundreds of hours, but i'm going to play Tarisland, Throne and Liberty and Corepunk. Hoping that at least 1 is gonna be good, otherwhise, i've a list of 25 mmos. Albion itself is a great game, funny and brave enough to have pvp full loot, which is very rare nowadays, but it suffer a lot from a certain % of user that try to scam, rmt and take all they can get. If you give people too much freedome, some shitters will always try to take advantage of the situation. And, while in the real world we have tribunals and police, here we can just look at bot auto-gathering, bots transporting, huge ass group that win with no effort whatsoever. Sadlly, for some, profit is better than fun and it shows.
I used to tell my students that "self-interest" is the best first question to ask yourself about an odd situation requiring an explanation. When self-interest isn't the main explanation... you really have something interesting to talk. But it hardly comes up, as self-interest is almost always a powerful determinant.
I will agree I think some parts of the game do you have a Pay to Win aspect but the majority of the game I would say does not. As a free-to-play game they have to have ways to fund the game so I kind of understand wanting to keep shapeshifter weapons pretty rare so then they are expensive on the market and awaken weapons being a silver sink. That's just my personal opinion. Even games that are free to play though that have pay to win parts such as RuneScape can still last a very long time.
Problem I'm having ATM ...is no guilds ...yes there are guilds but they only want certain things .most I apply for is like a job application....I'm playing solo 90 percent of the time
I haven't played for like 1 year and comming back everything seems very expensive (I mean gold, premium, cosmetics) was there an increase of price for these things?
They bumped gold for 1 month sub from 3000 - 3750. They opened the Asia server, and now opening the EU server as well, which effectively screwed their VERY healthy economy/ player base. When I started in 2021, premium was 7-9mill silver for 1 month. Logged in today to check up on the market activity and stare at my main for a few sad minutes. Premium is 24 million silver now. Because of the other servers they opened, and the bad update choices. A market that was once thriving is now garbage. I checked the major trade hubs (Fort Sterling/Bridgewatch). Items that I used to trade in would have 200+ transactions an hour, now have a measly 5-8.
Ty for this. Hopefully community can interpret dev actions better thru some knowledge of these things. Tbf, global financials overall are a hot mess, so I imagine Stillfront is in a tight spot and not necessarily some mustache twirling villain. The thing that really bothers me is lack of openess from SBI. It really has led to the community scapegoating all kinds of players. Royal refiners, hideout craters, alt farmers, cc sweatlords....always some players fault for playing within rules. Ì stopped swipe prem 3 months ago and have zero intention of starting again.
if premium was 3$ per month... everyone would buy it, so they would end up gettin a lot of profit.. Cuz u can either have an expensive product that only a few people buy Or you can have a cheap product that everyone buys... Id say dropping the premium price and making the game DANGEROUS again.. full loot and no safe dungeons, would make albion a GAME again.
Not everyone is good at PvP. What I like about Albion is that I don't die 5 times a day. I wish they would make the tier 6 and 7 red zones for specific power levels and nerf players that are too powerful.
@@mikeg6633 The game originally was made to cater to hardcore players that did not care if they died five times a day. You are the new audience that they have changed the game to cater too. You are the new pockets they are reaching into.
I came to Albion to take a break from eve. Then started getting red flags I learned from rs3. I come back here for a month at a time a few times a year but the adds always turn me off. Grouping up to kill credit card warriors is fun in Albion and eve but the safe zones of Albion reduce the satisfaction.
Can't lie tho vrising was one of the most fun experiences I've had on a game in probably the past 2-3 years. Sad to see it so so bad after the update and such but I do think a lot enjoy it just not much replayability
I can agree with almost everything, and i am supprised that someone who is content creator had balls to tell how crap this game is right now after 3 years of greed for profit by stillfront, I feel exaclly the same, every update, every changes arent to make game better but to make any profit even if they sacrifice the game and cleary see that they dont care how many players play the game and enjoy but how much money they made in a year...
Used to enjoy this game, But now every update just keep benefiting gankers and those who spend 1000s on the game. To the point i gave up the game, after playing it since its launch....
They have nerfed ganking significantly over the years. It's because of the HQ hideouts and the rest of the Lands Awakened patch that there are too many large groups around and too many juiced swipers that even with all the ganking nerfs it is worse than ever to play as small groups or even solo.
It is easy to get mad at high tier gankers killing everyone in mists, but it is how it works in blackzones, avalonian roads and everywhere else but the corrupted dungeons and arena. If most of the game was ip locked there would be no reason to go farm high tier resources or do anything really. But if they continue shrinking ip locked content, there would be less possibilities for non-p2w (absolute majority of the players) to steamroll to good equipment. SBI has to balance this, and I think they mostly do it right.
For those who have left Albion, and fear that someday it will actually die, what is a good alternative? I really enjoyed this game, and would love to play something like it.
@@eliassaclolo9511 its prolly not dying FOR NOW so when that happens, whats a good alternative? And for people who DO think its dead, what game are they playing now? If they are playing any.
I started playing around start of 2019 this game had a potential, i would log in every day. They could of updated and worked on factions had a great potential instead for 2 years straight they gave garbage content, awakening is just the start. Anyone at this point who invest money on this game will regret later, ppl did the same thing on Black Desert. This genres community just doesn't learn i guess...
I see what you're saying. As a tier 5 or 6 player, it's impossible to enter red zones. The gankers are way too powerful. Even in the tier 6 red zones. Unless I grind for 3 years or spend a lot of $$$, I'm stuck in tier 5 and lower. Until this video, they had me buying tomes of insight just to survive. I feel like such a sucker. They manipulated me into spending $$$.
With eu server it will be be most alive than ever. Like a new life... new world, new economy, and Ping, oh god, finally i will be able to react in time and not get hit when i shouldnt. And i dont care about anything else, including west sever (rip) and other problems. finally i will be having fun!!
i start getting online, giving away my money slowly, doubling evryone trade... ive play this game for years but now i dont think it will become good ever again.. so i decide to completly stop
Bro makes a very good content for solo players, but very little talks about big part of Albion which is ZVZ. This video just shows how limited his gameplay is and he just talk about the content for solo players. Welp it is somehow true but Albion is always a group game and if you play together with people well it just doesn't matter. So judging from a perspective of solo players/solo content is not that much accurate to predict the game's future. If you guys want to continue this discussion, I can deep dive you more why ZVZ content is thrown out of his videos and not talked about, which creates negative and hopeless for the future of Albion for BigLips.
ZvZ is only a shadow of what it used to be and to be quite frank, it sucks. Especially now that controlling a zone means nothing since the release of HQ hideouts. ZvZ was always a chore for guild members that only did it to keep their guild in power and maintain their access to the black zone, which comes for free now.
I quit playing back when TKM fell apart. I see old guildies on from time to time on Discord and I’ve been considering coming back, but now I’m not so sure.
Looking back, Albion loses its soul. SBI tries to separate people playing in groups from those playing solo. Adding new clusters and returning to the city using a button separates players from each other. This makes the game feel empty. Incomprehensible patches (shapeshifter weapons) that all need artifacts make matters worse. They do everything to stop casual players from getting frustrated instead of motivating them to learn the game. As a six-year veteran of the game, I feel sad. I miss 2019 Albion the most.
@@sigma4693 Do whatever you want now. SBI made mistake giving solo players too many tools. Before 2020 game was more social. Guilds had real alliances and enemies. Open world was full of life. Now Invis from city > corrupted/mist/Ava Road >gather some items > recall to city. Albion lost his soul. You won't get it if you doesn't play before.
@@QuakezyPL there's no reason for any solo player to join a guild, besides zvz is the least interesting content in albion, just a blob of lights and neckbeards giving orders to their human npcs, and i was playing since 2018 .
@@sigma4693 Idc about ZvZs. Groups dungs and overall roaming in Groups supose to be more profitable compare to solo content but it's not and this is sad.
I mean its not a conspiracy its 100% true. What's fact now is they DO NOT have full control over the content they can release. They are releasing things with the approval of higher management (stillfront) on some board of directors whose sole purpose is to make as much money as possible out of their investment. I only play albion now for Large scale zvz, imo albion zvz is one of the most fun MMO pvp experiences. Except for that I'm done with the game.
My 8.2-8.3 gear just got destroyed by insane damage of an awakened T5 bow that one shot me even with hunter hood reflect on. Haven't log on much after that
idk about the rest of ya'll but I just started this game and this game is so fucking filled with players that I cant even see the bank chest, marketplace or just about any NPC because theres so many damn players in the way. Idk, to me that doesnt see anywhere close to dead. I'm sure this video is likely for players that have been playing for a long time and are seeing features removed or things they want not added or whatever so their jaded. But as a new player, this game is super fun and since I dont have any past experience with what the game was before; I can happily play the game as it is now and have fun.
@@gavhd2611 I think the point is that the game no longer caters to the audience that carried the company for all the years before and now exclusively caters to the new audience.
Right around the time I felt like i was gonna be all rounder, maxing out my weapon, armor trees for my mage so I can focus on building my healer or tank branches... they slap on 20 more levels for each weapon ... :/... it made my achievement and proudness of maxing out my trees feel less valuable knowing I have 20 more "elite" levels to grind out and will be stuck grinding the same branch for little while longer...
developer themself released this multiboxers code side earnings... GAME is dead long ago... hero to zero scam. of albion creators. pity for people buying premium and skins.
Hey BLMG... you were my favourite youtuber in albion back in the day. Sad you've seemed to quit... there is truly nothing like albion. If you do cover some other games maybe you could try out mortal online 2 (similar to albion but first person) or eve online (albion was inspired from eve) and show similarities, new player experience idk. I just thought you were a really good creator!
As someone who has played Overwatch since beta, and watched what Bobby Kodick did to it. Hopefully Microsoft comes in, and saves your game too. Unfortunately, I was about to give Albion another go, but I don't know if I can handle another company trying to milk my wallet dry while they destroy the game I play.
I wish albion change how the dugeon loot system works. I always grind alot in dungeons specially t7 dungeon but i always get little amount of return not even close to 100k in blck zones. Although it still worth it for fame but the grind for silver is really hard i wish they change it.
Same stuff happened to EvE. Pearl Abyss got their grubby paws on it, started selling advancement in a game that was based on time invested. It is now their worst IP for money making. I had fun in the few years I really got into Albion. It was the premium price jumps that ultimately pushed me away. I could still freemium, but just barely. Mists were touted as the solution to the 'Solo player experience' and just turned into rat/whale hell. Sorry to hear that the game you've spent so much time in isn't cutting it for you anymore. I feel your pain. Here's to hoping you find something to fill the void. For me its been learning to code.
I joined the game near the call to arms update and loved it and saw a lot of potential for it, so it made me sad how it became more and more pay 2 win and left the game and when I recently tried to retry the game on east as it was closer made me realize all of this and quit 2 weeks later. Really sad how this turned out and hope it changes of the better also in my opinion didn’t like separation of east and west cause I kinda saw the big server as something unique and see a proxy server or even multiple proxy servers as something better, though I’m not sure if it’s easier or not as I don’t know much about it
I keep wanting to get into the game but one thing that keep getting me stuck is money i don’t mind buying a monthly subscription but the fact that is so hard even if you have that monthly subscription the time you have to put in it becomes more pay to win
Hey lips !!! Damn i stopped playing just before stillfront takeover for personal reasons. Kinda sad on what Albion community passing through right now, plenty of memories were made playing this absolute blast of a game during COVID. Meeting hundreds of people, knocking hideouts (mostly defending lol) [they actually removed this nooo]. AND CHILLING I was about to take a look at Albion again (probably still), i wonder now what other alternatives that can actually replace Albion ?? There are barely any similar games on the market now sadly.
While I agree that Albion is in decline and this is a great explanation, I look at a couple of the changes differently. I have to say first that I have never and will never RTM to Albion. With this mentality, I struggle to understand those who spend a considerable amount of money on the game (although I appreciate that they float the boat). This also means that I view things like .4 release and Awakened weapons as SBI’s attempt to keep the mature player base, who has already done everything there is to do in the game, interested. Furthermore, I see in-game silver sinks like 120 and awakened as and attempt to provide an alternative for hoarding silver as gold, which contributes to the spike in in-game premium price. While 120 update was before I started, the correlation between awakened update and decrease in gold/premium price seems evident as, either players who bought gold as a hedge and left the game, come back to play new content; or, hoarded gold was sold to afford awakened costs. My evidence of the decline (West only) is the server split, which caused an increasing rift between bid and ask prices in the markets. This suggest to me that likely there are far less people in the markets (which are actually the pulse of the game) or that our Asian friends, departed to their only land, really liked to craft. Either way, the widening in bid/ask is an indication of a weak market/game. Finally, as someone who’s religiously watched Twitch streamers over the last year for drops, I note that many of my favorites are streaming less, not at all, or very infrequently. If there’s anyone who knows and cares about the health of the game more than the player base, it would be those who derive their income from the game. Regardless of the reasons, I am both glad of the validation of my mutual feelings that the game is worse today than it was almost 2 years ago when I started; and, sad to witness the last breaths of a time sink I very much enjoy. Thanks for the vid and for reading this far into my soapbox!
One thing that should also be mentioned is that the previous Q3 stillfront missed earnings from the botting problem. After they addressed the bots they then got ddosed to hell.
They cite these 2 event as the sole reason they missed their projected profit on Albion and have since promised investors that future content updates will offset the losses
no shot you play albion too
heyy i loved your latest video The Pemberton Incident - An Unsolved Mystery!
Ah interesting. I talked to Stillfront and looked at their Q3 report for researching this video but didn't want to make it too financial. I didn't catch the note on future updates making up for the lost revenue though.
@@BigLipsMcGeeOsea que nos van a sangrar para obtener esas ganancias
The sad fact about it is that Albion lost a lot of long time players that started back in 2020 or earlier.
Sure, they gained a fair share of new players with split server, all the large group content boost.
But majority of those smaller groups moved on to different titles, unfortunately. I've been in couple small guilds and they either developed into large scale ones (forced by game), or simply quit. ggs
Is there another mmo like this they moved onto?
@@KristiaionHenrikssen hard to name one, but just examples: Guild Wars 2, New World, EVE Online, I chose ESO to play solo, Throne & Liberty, Lost Ark, Dark & Darker and many others depending what you are interested in. I used to like Albion for the full loot and challenging fights, but it gets to the point where opponents will always stack more numbers than you and bring higher tier gear to have every advantage they can & win.
Albion died the day they started prioritising group content and started majorly disadvantaging solo players. Solo playerd are the lifeblood of any MMORPG and when you constantly and consistently screw th over like albion does, you can't have much of a future.
Dude i ve been seeing this comment on various platforms, can you clarify this to me please? As a player who is interested in small group content, been playing since alpha release i cant understand how game is going for group content? They destroyed very popular 5v5 hellgates, removed crystals, roads are almost dead; meanwhile mists and corrupteds are the most popular thing for years bow which are for solo players. We turned back to game as 10irl friends after 2 years, we cant find any content for small group; its either large group zvz or solo now. Big chests are next to hideouts and 20 people run to you at black zones, factions are fucked now. Why people think game is goin for more group content? Because of tracking? Lol. We also cry cuz we think game is turning to a solo game.albion was first introduced as big zvz fights, one of a kind in its time which became quite succesful i guess. Now its turning solo to sell skins like a mobile game? No idea, so confused atm. ( didnt watch the video yet first saw your comment and wanted to learn why people think its turning to more group content game)
@@tashmoo It's very simple. Every change made in the game. From open world to mount health to resistances, etc favor group content. The entire game is about group content and all solo players have is mists (filled with p2w players) and corrupted (most boring content in albion). We literally can't step outside anywhere else without being mobbed by a bunch of unskilled chimps who's only skills are discord and keyboard mashing.
@@acekaihave you checked the zones near bercillian city its empty af now with no one gathering the .3s which is right near the entrance
@@astra8538 I actually haven't and that's interesting. But it's kind of a misnomer since it's a nightmare to transport from brecilien to other cities.
... *What the fuck*
It's so sad what's happening to Albion, It could be so much better, I'm sorry SBI couldn't make this better😢
They could, just sold out. Decision were made.
They sold out, so sad.
Hey man where'd you go? Even if you're not playing Albion, I'd love to watch more content from you!
100% agree. Game industry is collapsing. I came here from WoW, i know how game downfall looks like. Also, Seeing my comment in the video feels like seeing myself on the TV :D
If it's collapsing, why are the servers busting with populations? You're clueless.
I have more argument for your theory: trashrate, island update, rune/soul/relic increased number for enchanting, blackmarket changes on trashrate
I was really enjoying the game, played it for the first time ever and was hooked for a month straight. My friends that had played previously finally got on to play with me, and now no longer want to play due to the shapeshifter update. All of them hated it
I think one of the biggest problems MMO's have in this day and age, is that in order to do the things you love (Usually pvp) you have to pve for an equal amount of time to affored it, making the game more pay to win increases the Pve side forcing you to spend more hours farming to gain the same amount of joy from the game which directly effects the quality of the game. The marketing team wins (at the cost of the playerbase) by this increase in Pve time as well, because now the ratio between RL Currency in game value becomes more appealing. By in-game value I mean time spent farming.
The exact same thing happened to Eve Online where as soon as another company bought them out things started to go down hill.
Well I think the game is still f2p if you have decent skill on how to efficiently do roads like killing the bosses on grass chests and actually clearing them out for blue and purple chest,
With tracking drop rates increased you can surely do it in the red zones while watching out for the no of ppl flagged for pvp its a good gig with possibility of making 200k to 1mil
There is also t8.3 maps although it sucks sometimes it can give small profits
Then the best way to earn money is wearing the best set you can and having a fast mount and ganking all those big guild t8 gatherer in sunfang dawn
i stopped playing years ago back and a few days ago i tried it again in pretty high hopes, but oh boy... im sad the game turned out like this, albion is probably one of my favorite games IF they decided to improve the casual player experience instead of focusing on milking wallets, and now that i can afford premium, they increased the price to make it not worth it unless albion is the only game i play.
"Whale" is the common term for the "Cash Cow" metaphor you used to good effect, here.
YOu're right. That's exactly how Gameforge destroyed Metin 2. But the non-loot faction warfare for me personally was and still is the best opportunity to earn silver, I could recently buy and use my first 8.3, without having to worry that i lose it.
ABout the awakened weapons... I tried to do them myself and calculated that: for the price of a regular 8.4 healing staff I can make a 5.4 awakened that heals the same amount, but deals much less damage, but gives me a nice amount of HP. In this case, surprisingly balanced, I expected much worse. Of course, in short term it would be much better to buy 8.3, but still...
Spot on. Thanks for making this, I feel the exact same way. I really enjoyed hellgates as it was the last content where skill was primary factor over gear. Awakened weapons ruined that. It was the last straw for me. Cancelled my premium sub and haven’t had the motivation to log in.
I have so many amazing hours in this game. I have been playing ever since the game went F2P until about a year ago, ever since the server split i haven't had the desire to return back to the game. I love Albion so much, it is such an amazing game with an amazing world and art style. It's sad to see the game like this, seeing things like this makes me realise that my final minutes playing Albion... might have already happend, and that i might never return to the game. I'll be watching from the sidelines, but damn seeing this makes me sad, i had no idea stuff had gotten this bad. Thanks for making the video McGee.
same time i quit man sad to see the game die :(
its runescape classic worth it though? i dunno what to play anymore im still w8 for a good mmorpg
@@MaestreOne-zl1ub Give it a go! Tbh due to how the engine runs it is too clunky for me, but the content is definitely there
Me too i stoped playing after the premium cost increase but i still played here and there but the server split was the main cause of me just deleting it. My ping on the west sucks but i have my account there and i dont have my account on the east but ping is okay. Both have something to be annoyed about.
Brother the whole game industry is a big scam and corruption atm ; ( they jokin on players
I get so sick of companies that feel the need to see CONSTANT growth, and if something isn't CONSTANTLY growing, then it's inherently bad from a business standpoint. If something is making them money, but the production costs aren't increasing, then why does there have to be an issue in making more money? I was pretty shocked when i came back and realized premium was so expensive, but for how big the game has gotten, it's not so unfair compared to the likes of WoW or other sub-based games.
The world of hyper corporate capitalism.
min-maxxing.
EU launching and Foundations update soon. Hoping BigLipsMcgee will publish a new post upon launch.
“Big numbahs, only go up!”
My friend and I quit the game after playing it consistently for 2 years, we found ourselves struggling to keep up with premium, while collecting fame and levelung important nodes and trying to budget some silver to buy builds and learn how to pvp properly.
The way premium is right now, its just a treadmill to barely scrape by. Our time investment wasnt respected at all, in fact if anything we were expected to invest more of it!
Been playing Albion for nearly 7 years at this point and haven't has the desire to log on in a good few weeks. Whilst there has been updates, the game feels pretty stagnant to me. I actually think a good path forward for the game would be a significant shift of focus into PvE content. I know it is a PvP game and love it for that, but there are only so many different arenas and types of PvP to explore. Or so something new and radical like sailing/ship content.
The golden years in this game were amazing. I will remember this game when I'm an old man but ironically last week I canceled my subscription and said my goodbyes. I'm not a big whale bit have had premium since 2018 and spend about 60$ a year on gold. Still feels unplayable and unbalanced sometimes. Both combat and silver making.
Hey man, I work in FP&A and there are three phases to acquisitions: recover purchase cost (typically an amount equal to 5 annual revenues), add value, then sale the asset. Stillfront is probably still trying to make sure SBI isn't a loss. After they have recovered the investment, Stillfront needs SBI to pay for itself while it shops SBI around.
Just curious......do you have opinion whether Stillfront acquired SBI with debt or capital?
Fun video.
Personally I think SBI made the right call by increasing the number of tracks, but not the rewards. Shapeshifting weapons aren't really any more inaccessible to the average player than artifact weapons are, and given their overall power balance, I'm glad they aren't a budget build.
If SBI had actually just integrated a shapeshifting weapon in to the various existing lines, a la artifact weapons, I suspect most of us wouldn't be as upset as we are about their accessibility/scarcity/power.
The game has none of the charm that drew in the original players who truly were a cult following. Long time veterans that committed so many hours into their guilds and communities to create content for all to enjoy. Hardcore players that had been playing since the betas and even alphas that could not stop coming back. SBI shifted away from community driven content to cater to the more casual players with things like CDs and Mists which has pulled a large number of the remaining players out of the open world and into instances. Since Lands Awakened was released the quality of black zone content has dramatically decreased. I don't see the same staunch competition between guilds, alliances and coalitions that once drove majority of the content in the game without the need for incentives like chests, orbs and vortexes. The removal of hideout and territory exclusivity took away any reason to really fight hard for them, since any clown and his circus can put down a HQ and now every zone has a dedicated police force to ruin your day just for stopping by. Gatherers are rarely seen out there compared to the old days since the introduction of much safer gathering in the Roads and Mists. Ganking routes have died compared to the past since players can now just press R for a very negligible amount of silver, not to mention all the nerfs and changes made to curb ganking. Solo/duo players are essentially forced into the Mist to be cannon fodder for card swipers, the removal of the 2 charge green roads really putting the nail in that coffin which began with the decline in relevance of solo dungeons. The world used to be teeming with solo players and small groups since the guilds and alliances that controlled the territories/hideouts had a much harder time policing all of the zones and really didn't have an interest in doing so aside from their core territory. The world used to be alive and the content that was made by the players was so much more spontaneous, dynamic and exciting than this current world where SBI dictates to you what it is you should be doing and where you should be doing it. There is so much more I could say but I'd be here all day. I went from a playing an ungodly number of hours a week to playing a few hours once every few months only to find I am not having fun and hate the content. I really do miss the way the game used to be but I doubt it will ever be in a state that I would consider playing seriously ever again. Thanks to everybody I met on my adventures in Albion and all the awesome memories we made taking on the world together. Those were the best days I've ever had playing an MMO,.
I have 3k hours in game and didn't logged in for 6 months. Because of Albion, I've met so many people and made good friendships. Memories I've made with this game are immeasurable. But just like you said, I can't find any reason to come back to game now. Everything or every content now feels hollow and pointless.
Too long didn't read, no one cares about old time players, mobile chads will take over, hold this L lil bro
The premium price here in east server is already 30 mil and now players are quitting
Well, i had to comeback to this video, since they announced the EU server launch, you proved everything right.
Man i hate to see this im a new player and i rlly like to grind away time in this game...
Hope it stays for a long while, tho.
This is truly sad
5:05 silver is currently easier to get than it was like 2y ago(at least for me)
And you're saying u can't get buy premium after buying 1st time?
For new players sure, they can choose between playing longer to get premium or paying real money for it
After 1st premium it's really easy to keep buying with silver
amazing video, kudos for the great work big lips. being part of the best times of albion was really a privilege, it really was a game we all loved and enjoyed so deeply. even though we knew what was coming years ago when we noticed the first changes, it still makes us deeply sad seeing everything painting this big picture overall, after all these years. as you said, no one is to blame here, it is just the natural cycle of life. watching this felt like a closure to me.
capitalism is not a natural life cycle. people can produce things for human want and need before profit, capitalism just works to eliminate this.
People still play and enjoy the game as is. Ur just burnt out hon. The game isn’t dead. Log in. Cities are still full constantly
@@LoveyLand of course it is full constantly. there are people who enjoy the game as it is, and there will be people who are always cycling. that doesn't mean the game we know died and some players accepted it.
Very succinct analysis. I appreciate you calling yourself out as purely speculating. I agree with you that this is probably the case. We all saw the same thing happen to our other favorite games too :( Would be funny if SBI/Stillfront caught wind of this and had a panicked response to you being spot on at a shareholder meeting!
they did the same thing when they released roads of avalon, all the ava gear was stupidly overpowered, and the artifacts to make said gear, was therefor very hard to get. Alot of the ava gear is still very OP, and expensive.
I do feel you here
I run a top 100 guild and I cannot begin to tell you how financially intensive it is. The efforts to make money in this game is so mind boggling difficult - its clear its been designed to drain your silver balance as much as possible. Unless something changes, eventually I will disband the guild and leave the game behind forever.
Only reason I haven't yet, is I do not see any valid alternatives to open world pvp mmo to steer my players to.
'profane' is hitting alpha soon. It looks really promising. And about your guild, well, BZ crafting was a thing back in the days... Just craft in bulk in your HO, then use Ava-roads (when there is a nice connection) to Blackmarket
@@imnearyou8912
You need to have over a 95% delivery completion to make profit.
Gankers have multiple t3 naked scouts watching all entrances to caerleon.
I've moved several billion in assets to caerleon. I have a large guild I can call on at any time to escort me.
I am telling you I know about this and I have access to create means to ensuring a higher success rate than almost anybody and it is still not very profitable.
deeply agree with your POV, it's really sad to miss a game that I played so much for so long, but I mean, SBI will prolly keep making money, so kudos for them. Too bad that they had to ruin the game for that.
i prefer dealing with cashcows as solo player than hords of gankers with radar hacks... since solo ganking is dead, this game sucks
Did Big Lips stop making vids?
This is the latest video, and it's 6 months old.
It seems like. Poor guy has such a love/hate relationship with Albion.
One thing I've noticed lately is the fact that I just can't compete with gathering anymore. By raising the premium prices like they kind of destroyed the gathering because now people gather solely just so they can afford premium and I believe it kind of floods the market with too much resources
It's called over saturation and it's definitely hitting hard
@@xSamillionx Isnt it weird that you can sell tier 3 resources for more than tier 4. Must be over saturated
@@PlanetTocaisn't weird, it kind of exactly makes sense. New players are almost always only farming one node out of their city. They think t4 is better so there you go.
Being in the game longer, with more knowledge and info, you know how to better farm.
As a side note, a lot of higher tier farmers don't like to waste their time getting 3, in essence, there's just less people doing it, making the cost higher.
Simple.
I started loving the game because of the non p2w aspect but I had to quit last year because of the lack of solo content. For a casual solo like me, i couldn't even afford a set of 8.1 gear for corrupted dungeons while people are running 8.3. Same story in the mists. I had to stick to stalker dungeons because of the hard ip cap but it later becomes boring. I really loved open world roaming but it's kinda hard to do for a solo. It's hard to go back to PVE after you've got a taste of pvp so I couldn't really go back to doing PVE either.
I understand ur point but man but im really having a blast since i joined aactive guild that host events and stuff. Open world is so good in groups
@@VolpeCEO guilds are one of the least interesting things on Albion and that says a lot.
@@VolpeCEO I have been in guilds before, small and large. But I grew tired of handholding and being a nameless pawn in their zvzs. I still love the idea of a 5-6 man permanent squad either to roam open world/ ava or do ganking, taking mage, outposts ,etc. But all my friends quit one by one and I was left with no choice but to play solo. I am not very sociable in the first place so I don't make friends easily. I used to roam solo, do dungeon dives, mists, corrupted, everything a solo can do for pvp but more and more, i felt like game has turned p2w.
@@raftelbot7313 I played mostly solo/duo and small 5 - 7 man groups in the black zone since the alphas and betas doing all the content you mentioned. It's all gone. Newer players will never understand just how alive and exciting the open world used to be. All of my core friends slowly quit the game as well because there is just no way to replicate that magic the game used to have anymore.
Cuz SBI makes every form of money making useless except for PvP and actively insentivizes being a rat or 1vX lowby ganking?
I agree that Albion devs did a tactical mistake in selling out because :
1-Were they thinking a company that invests 100+ millions wont make pushes to make more cash?
2-I disagree that the last patch were to milk "whales" , If anything they were to milk views and free publicity from twitch streamers.
3-I dont consider myself a whale and I bough the pack when the game was being developed to help the company , I felt betrayed that they sold out. I always payed my sub with cash.
4- The content they have pushed was more towards one man , or 2 content (twitch) I dont give a shit about that content so good luck with that paired with atrocious balancing shenanigans with the weapons being nerfed left and rigth and changing skills from skill shots to dum auto aim skills because of said content .
5-I never tougth going for mobiles was a good thing for albion , it stupidifies the game to accommodate people with slower machines and small screen's in the detriment of the PC crowd, but those people are accustomed to swipe like dumbos.
What Albion needs is more tools to play in the sandbox , better guild managment ,better wallets (guilds,alliances) contracts systems , siege weapons , man made castles ,boats etc etc.
What did we have these past 2 years ? Mists and solo dungeons currupted , mega clap .
Great Video. The fact of the matter is, that until there is actual competition to Albion Online from a legitimate contender, SBI and Stillfront will continue to get away with the terrible trend of P2W updates. The awakening system by far has been the most egregious of all attempts, and this is only for the weapons. This will continue with the armor awakening and eventual legendary systems, and it honestly is sad to see how much the item power disparities are across the game in multiple game modes. For now, I am just going to enjoy the parts of the game that are fun for as long as I can until another game comes out with better gameplay in the full loot PvP niche.
I thought I can't quit,now I just watch content sometimes,still this game is good once now they destroyed it
This is sad. I hope you are doing well, whatever you are up to now.
Kixeye / War Commander another Stillfront acquisition is pretty much in the same boat . Thanx for taking the time to do this video
Honestly i moved on, i had a lot of fun, hundreds of hours, but i'm going to play Tarisland, Throne and Liberty and Corepunk. Hoping that at least 1 is gonna be good, otherwhise, i've a list of 25 mmos.
Albion itself is a great game, funny and brave enough to have pvp full loot, which is very rare nowadays, but it suffer a lot from a certain % of user that try to scam, rmt and take all they can get. If you give people too much freedome, some shitters will always try to take advantage of the situation. And, while in the real world we have tribunals and police, here we can just look at bot auto-gathering, bots transporting, huge ass group that win with no effort whatsoever.
Sadlly, for some, profit is better than fun and it shows.
I believe that money is the answer in situations you are not sure of
I used to tell my students that "self-interest" is the best first question to ask yourself about an odd situation requiring an explanation. When self-interest isn't the main explanation... you really have something interesting to talk. But it hardly comes up, as self-interest is almost always a powerful determinant.
I will agree I think some parts of the game do you have a Pay to Win aspect but the majority of the game I would say does not. As a free-to-play game they have to have ways to fund the game so I kind of understand wanting to keep shapeshifter weapons pretty rare so then they are expensive on the market and awaken weapons being a silver sink. That's just my personal opinion. Even games that are free to play though that have pay to win parts such as RuneScape can still last a very long time.
I 100% agree. The game isnt pay 2 win. U can get everything while playing if ur good or play long enough. And whats the point to pay to play less ?
Problem I'm having ATM ...is no guilds ...yes there are guilds but they only want certain things .most I apply for is like a job application....I'm playing solo 90 percent of the time
wait a min he said "let albion online go for good" in 15:35 to 15:41 does this means he is quiting?
I haven't played for like 1 year and comming back everything seems very expensive (I mean gold, premium, cosmetics) was there an increase of price for these things?
They bumped gold for 1 month sub from 3000 - 3750. They opened the Asia server, and now opening the EU server as well, which effectively screwed their VERY healthy economy/ player base.
When I started in 2021, premium was 7-9mill silver for 1 month. Logged in today to check up on the market activity and stare at my main for a few sad minutes. Premium is 24 million silver now.
Because of the other servers they opened, and the bad update choices. A market that was once thriving is now garbage. I checked the major trade hubs (Fort Sterling/Bridgewatch). Items that I used to trade in would have 200+ transactions an hour, now have a measly 5-8.
What I like about Albion is not the game but artstyle
Can someone do a wellness check? 2 months no upload.
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Ty for this. Hopefully community can interpret dev actions better thru some knowledge of these things.
Tbf, global financials overall are a hot mess, so I imagine Stillfront is in a tight spot and not necessarily some mustache twirling villain.
The thing that really bothers me is lack of openess from SBI. It really has led to the community scapegoating all kinds of players. Royal refiners, hideout craters, alt farmers, cc sweatlords....always some players fault for playing within rules.
Ì stopped swipe prem 3 months ago and have zero intention of starting again.
BigLips making a guide video intended to SBI instead of players. BIG
if premium was 3$ per month... everyone would buy it, so they would end up gettin a lot of profit..
Cuz u can either have an expensive product that only a few people buy
Or you can have a cheap product that everyone buys...
Id say dropping the premium price and making the game DANGEROUS again.. full loot and no safe dungeons, would make albion a GAME again.
Not everyone is good at PvP. What I like about Albion is that I don't die 5 times a day. I wish they would make the tier 6 and 7 red zones for specific power levels and nerf players that are too powerful.
@@mikeg6633 back in the day the whole royal continent had IP caps btw XD
@@mikeg6633 The game originally was made to cater to hardcore players that did not care if they died five times a day. You are the new audience that they have changed the game to cater too. You are the new pockets they are reaching into.
I came to Albion to take a break from eve. Then started getting red flags I learned from rs3. I come back here for a month at a time a few times a year but the adds always turn me off. Grouping up to kill credit card warriors is fun in Albion and eve but the safe zones of Albion reduce the satisfaction.
big guilds on east is just feeding each other with objectives lmao but on casual basis they dont even touch each other when they come across the map
yes pushing more to P2W. this legendary weapon crap just proves it. games on the clock now. its too bad tbh
its so sad for me this game was the most enjoyable pvp project i ever played but it happens when kapitalist try to do smf
hopefully we will see a return of the v rising content on this channel
lol I wish. Game's deader than Albion will ever be xD. We'll see how official launch goes tho
Can't lie tho vrising was one of the most fun experiences I've had on a game in probably the past 2-3 years. Sad to see it so so bad after the update and such but I do think a lot enjoy it just not much replayability
I can agree with almost everything, and i am supprised that someone who is content creator had balls to tell how crap this game is right now after 3 years of greed for profit by stillfront,
I feel exaclly the same, every update, every changes arent to make game better but to make any profit even if they sacrifice the game and cleary see that they dont care how many players play the game and enjoy but how much money they made in a year...
One thing to consider is that these high-silver-cost activities /are also/ good silver sinks.
Used to enjoy this game, But now every update just keep benefiting gankers and those who spend 1000s on the game. To the point i gave up the game, after playing it since its launch....
They have nerfed ganking significantly over the years. It's because of the HQ hideouts and the rest of the Lands Awakened patch that there are too many large groups around and too many juiced swipers that even with all the ganking nerfs it is worse than ever to play as small groups or even solo.
It is easy to get mad at high tier gankers killing everyone in mists, but it is how it works in blackzones, avalonian roads and everywhere else but the corrupted dungeons and arena. If most of the game was ip locked there would be no reason to go farm high tier resources or do anything really. But if they continue shrinking ip locked content, there would be less possibilities for non-p2w (absolute majority of the players) to steamroll to good equipment. SBI has to balance this, and I think they mostly do it right.
Dw guys, I just joined so it can’t be dying.
Let's see how long you play and how many hours you rack up before you quit compared to the veterans.
For those who have left Albion, and fear that someday it will actually die, what is a good alternative? I really enjoyed this game, and would love to play something like it.
eve online, its kinda like albion but in space:)
Runescape
@@triksguardhd7978 other than that hehe
it isn't actually dying, this youtuber just don't have anything to content, so he's just msking baseless assumptions
@@eliassaclolo9511 its prolly not dying FOR NOW so when that happens, whats a good alternative? And for people who DO think its dead, what game are they playing now? If they are playing any.
I started playing around start of 2019 this game had a potential, i would log in every day. They could of updated and worked on factions had a great potential instead for 2 years straight they gave garbage content, awakening is just the start. Anyone at this point who invest money on this game will regret later, ppl did the same thing on Black Desert. This genres community just doesn't learn i guess...
I see what you're saying. As a tier 5 or 6 player, it's impossible to enter red zones. The gankers are way too powerful. Even in the tier 6 red zones. Unless I grind for 3 years or spend a lot of $$$, I'm stuck in tier 5 and lower. Until this video, they had me buying tomes of insight just to survive. I feel like such a sucker. They manipulated me into spending $$$.
With eu server it will be be most alive than ever. Like a new life... new world, new economy, and Ping, oh god, finally i will be able to react in time and not get hit when i shouldnt. And i dont care about anything else, including west sever (rip) and other problems. finally i will be having fun!!
i start getting online, giving away my money slowly, doubling evryone trade... ive play this game for years but now i dont think it will become good ever again.. so i decide to completly stop
Big lips McGee is the best video crafter in the history of the universe
Miss you gvb.
Too many bots in Asian server and it's spreading mildly as it went to the Western server real quick ended up destroying the game entirely.
Played it , enjoyed it until it felt like a job then stopped playing
i just got back into albion and I'm having a p good time, a break was all I needed
Bro makes a very good content for solo players, but very little talks about big part of Albion which is ZVZ. This video just shows how limited his gameplay is and he just talk about the content for solo players. Welp it is somehow true but Albion is always a group game and if you play together with people well it just doesn't matter. So judging from a perspective of solo players/solo content is not that much accurate to predict the game's future. If you guys want to continue this discussion, I can deep dive you more why ZVZ content is thrown out of his videos and not talked about, which creates negative and hopeless for the future of Albion for BigLips.
ZvZ is only a shadow of what it used to be and to be quite frank, it sucks. Especially now that controlling a zone means nothing since the release of HQ hideouts. ZvZ was always a chore for guild members that only did it to keep their guild in power and maintain their access to the black zone, which comes for free now.
I quit playing back when TKM fell apart. I see old guildies on from time to time on Discord and I’ve been considering coming back, but now I’m not so sure.
Looking back, Albion loses its soul. SBI tries to separate people playing in groups from those playing solo. Adding new clusters and returning to the city using a button separates players from each other. This makes the game feel empty. Incomprehensible patches (shapeshifter weapons) that all need artifacts make matters worse. They do everything to stop casual players from getting frustrated instead of motivating them to learn the game. As a six-year veteran of the game, I feel sad. I miss 2019 Albion the most.
Do we have to join a guild and stop being solo players to enjoy your game ?
@@sigma4693 Do whatever you want now. SBI made mistake giving solo players too many tools. Before 2020 game was more social. Guilds had real alliances and enemies. Open world was full of life. Now Invis from city > corrupted/mist/Ava Road >gather some items > recall to city. Albion lost his soul. You won't get it if you doesn't play before.
@@QuakezyPL there's no reason for any solo player to join a guild, besides zvz is the least interesting content in albion, just a blob of lights and neckbeards giving orders to their human npcs, and i was playing since 2018 .
@@sigma4693 Idc about ZvZs. Groups dungs and overall roaming in Groups supose to be more profitable compare to solo content but it's not and this is sad.
Quit this game cuz of mist, too many 8.3 they say risk more= win more, but dont have risk if u have 1-2 billions to spend
When the game dies they should make a final update where the bosses are the stillfront people and you always die and never win
MOM GET THE CAMERA!! Its me
I mean its not a conspiracy its 100% true. What's fact now is they DO NOT have full control over the content they can release. They are releasing things with the approval of higher management (stillfront) on some board of directors whose sole purpose is to make as much money as possible out of their investment. I only play albion now for Large scale zvz, imo albion zvz is one of the most fun MMO pvp experiences. Except for that I'm done with the game.
My 8.2-8.3 gear just got destroyed by insane damage of an awakened T5 bow that one shot me even with hunter hood reflect on. Haven't log on much after that
i mean. 5.4 awakened weapon counts as better 8.1 or 6.3 or 7.2
sooo......... get rekt boi
idk about the rest of ya'll but I just started this game and this game is so fucking filled with players that I cant even see the bank chest, marketplace
or just about any NPC because theres so many damn players in the way.
Idk, to me that doesnt see anywhere close to dead.
I'm sure this video is likely for players that have been playing for a long time and are seeing features removed
or things they want not added or whatever so their jaded.
But as a new player, this game is super fun and since I dont have any past experience with what the game was before;
I can happily play the game as it is now and have fun.
Yeah as said by others there are still plenty of new players that come to the game to fill the spots missed by quitting veterans so....
@@gavhd2611 I think the point is that the game no longer caters to the audience that carried the company for all the years before and now exclusively caters to the new audience.
Big lips mcgee come back we need you
Right around the time I felt like i was gonna be all rounder, maxing out my weapon, armor trees for my mage so I can focus on building my healer or tank branches... they slap on 20 more levels for each weapon ... :/... it made my achievement and proudness of maxing out my trees feel less valuable knowing I have 20 more "elite" levels to grind out and will be stuck grinding the same branch for little while longer...
I knew I wasn't bugging...😢
developer themself released this multiboxers code side earnings... GAME is dead long ago... hero to zero scam. of albion creators. pity for people buying premium and skins.
Hey BLMG... you were my favourite youtuber in albion back in the day. Sad you've seemed to quit... there is truly nothing like albion. If you do cover some other games maybe you could try out mortal online 2 (similar to albion but first person) or eve online (albion was inspired from eve) and show similarities, new player experience idk. I just thought you were a really good creator!
Great video I agree with you. Excited to see what game becomes worthy next.
Doubled premium prices + doubled .2 and .3 prices
good luck SBI. 2b total fame here, quit because of this shit
As someone who has played Overwatch since beta, and watched what Bobby Kodick did to it. Hopefully Microsoft comes in, and saves your game too.
Unfortunately, I was about to give Albion another go, but I don't know if I can handle another company trying to milk my wallet dry while they destroy the game I play.
I wish albion change how the dugeon loot system works. I always grind alot in dungeons specially t7 dungeon but i always get little amount of return not even close to 100k in blck zones. Although it still worth it for fame but the grind for silver is really hard i wish they change it.
Same stuff happened to EvE. Pearl Abyss got their grubby paws on it, started selling advancement in a game that was based on time invested. It is now their worst IP for money making.
I had fun in the few years I really got into Albion. It was the premium price jumps that ultimately pushed me away. I could still freemium, but just barely. Mists were touted as the solution to the 'Solo player experience' and just turned into rat/whale hell.
Sorry to hear that the game you've spent so much time in isn't cutting it for you anymore. I feel your pain. Here's to hoping you find something to fill the void. For me its been learning to code.
I joined the game near the call to arms update and loved it and saw a lot of potential for it, so it made me sad how it became more and more pay 2 win and left the game and when I recently tried to retry the game on east as it was closer made me realize all of this and quit 2 weeks later. Really sad how this turned out and hope it changes of the better also in my opinion didn’t like separation of east and west cause I kinda saw the big server as something unique and see a proxy server or even multiple proxy servers as something better, though I’m not sure if it’s easier or not as I don’t know much about it
I quit the game 6 months now planning to come back this January to check my char
0:33, Midgard licking SBI's balls as usual, literally every time he writes
I keep wanting to get into the game but one thing that keep getting me stuck is money i don’t mind buying a monthly subscription but the fact that is so hard even if you have that monthly subscription the time you have to put in it becomes more pay to win
Hey lips !!! Damn i stopped playing just before stillfront takeover for personal reasons. Kinda sad on what Albion community passing through right now, plenty of memories were made playing this absolute blast of a game during COVID. Meeting hundreds of people, knocking hideouts (mostly defending lol) [they actually removed this nooo]. AND CHILLING
I was about to take a look at Albion again (probably still), i wonder now what other alternatives that can actually replace Albion ?? There are barely any similar games on the market now sadly.
we will miss the caller saying "on top of us in 3,,2,,1,,," nice content guys GG's
While I agree that Albion is in decline and this is a great explanation, I look at a couple of the changes differently.
I have to say first that I have never and will never RTM to Albion. With this mentality, I struggle to understand those who spend a considerable amount of money on the game (although I appreciate that they float the boat). This also means that I view things like .4 release and Awakened weapons as SBI’s attempt to keep the mature player base, who has already done everything there is to do in the game, interested.
Furthermore, I see in-game silver sinks like 120 and awakened as and attempt to provide an alternative for hoarding silver as gold, which contributes to the spike in in-game premium price. While 120 update was before I started, the correlation between awakened update and decrease in gold/premium price seems evident as, either players who bought gold as a hedge and left the game, come back to play new content; or, hoarded gold was sold to afford awakened costs.
My evidence of the decline (West only) is the server split, which caused an increasing rift between bid and ask prices in the markets. This suggest to me that likely there are far less people in the markets (which are actually the pulse of the game) or that our Asian friends, departed to their only land, really liked to craft. Either way, the widening in bid/ask is an indication of a weak market/game.
Finally, as someone who’s religiously watched Twitch streamers over the last year for drops, I note that many of my favorites are streaming less, not at all, or very infrequently. If there’s anyone who knows and cares about the health of the game more than the player base, it would be those who derive their income from the game.
Regardless of the reasons, I am both glad of the validation of my mutual feelings that the game is worse today than it was almost 2 years ago when I started; and, sad to witness the last breaths of a time sink I very much enjoy.
Thanks for the vid and for reading this far into my soapbox!
I haven't paid for anything since they raised the premium price. It was a pretty reasonable price point before, but not so much now.