Perfect World First Impressions "Is It Worth Playing?"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Perfect World is an old MMORPG that initially released in China in 2005 and in EU/NA in 2008, This game is free to play and still seems to have between 500 and 1000 people playing daily, This game features 80 vs 80 territory wars, tab targeting combat with flying, dungeons, world bosses, raids, player housing and player shops.
This year I planned to go back and check out some of these old MMOs mostly for a bit of fun, to give you guys some nostalgia and see how they stack up today after years of updates.
What do you think about Perfect World International in current year? would you like to see a squeal on PC? do you think it's still worth playing? and do you have any memories you'd like to share about the game? let me know in the comments below!
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--Perfect World International PWI Website Description--
Game Info
PWI is a stunning free-to-play MMORPG where inhabitants of the pristine Perfect World must unite to battle against the Wraith - undead creatures who seek to destroy all of creation. Amidst a realm of stunningly rich environments, players can fly freely through the skies, explore dangerous dungeons, or join intense PvP battles for power and land.
Key Features
Cross Server PvP
Faction battles, featuring up to 80 vs 80 players, against rival factions to claim in-game territory and gain untold riches.
Free-form Flying
The original MMO featuring flight. Fight in the air as soon as you create your character and explore the world vertically.
Constantly Evolving World
Regularly updated with extensive content, including server-wide events to challenging end-game dungeons.
Create the Perfect Character
Customize to your heart’s desire with a deep character creation system. Choose among 6 Unique Races with 12 Distinct Classes to best fit your playstyle.
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Perfect World, PWI, International, MMORPG, 2020, MMO, Revisiting, High Fantasy, Player Housing, Tab Targeting, Wings, Flying Combat, Castle Sieges, Mass PVP, World Bosses, Raids, Dungeons, Story, Questing, Edgewalker, Engineer, TheLazyPeon, Perfect World Mobile
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Perfect World First Impressions "Is It Worth Playing?"
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Yo so I'll still be covering all the new MMOs and I have plans for Crowfall, BDO, Wolcen, Blue Protocol, New World etc but sometimes I'll be covering these old MMOs as a way for me to relax, have some fun with the editing and have a lot of potential content if I don't know what video I feel like making, don't take me covering old MMOs as a "state of the genre" kinda thing, this year is actually looking good and content wise there's an abundance of stuff to cover :) thanks for all the kind words on the recent videos
Peon, also please cover Return Of Reckoning 🙂
You should do Tera at some point would love to see ya revisit it
Of course there are a lot of us who still play Perfect World.
The majority of the player base though shifted to the Pirate server...
Where you start on level 1, kill a rabbit and become max level, then do whatever you want.
I forgot it's name though... oh, it's *Epic Perfect World*, it's almost full most of the time.
And the actual Perfect World International has a rially big player base.
You are just in the starting zones, and everyone else is either in the "New World" (grinding End-game) or doing Territory wars.
*Archosaur* is usually the place with the most players then *The Lost City*...(unlike what the name will lead you to believe...).
That boss was allways Solo-able, it just recomends 4-5 players since you can't beat it if you manage to run out of these charms.
Hey dude. About exit lag, I'm in Thailand, in Chiang Mai (Would love to buy you a beer btw!!!) and I'm on a 500mbps fiber optic very clean connection on ethernet. I get about 260~ms with exit lag and the game disconnects me after no more than 30 mins of playtime. "The gods have disconnected you".. That doesn't happen without exit lag and it's more stable without it.
How about your experience from Thailand? interested to hear.
You know Peon, there was always one particular thing that made me always come back to watch your videos specifically: you have no intro and get right into it. I just love that. Thumbs up :D
Appreciate it dude :)
Everytime i watch him play it feels like the character is in a monologue. So cute hahahahaha
Yeah he really gets immersed in the games and doesn’t put on a show. All his reactions are genuine and not for shock value or artificial, that’s why I always watch him.
The editing is really nice, like getting to experience it without trudging through hours and hours of footage
Yeah OK, that's what it is. I appreciate it as well. Plus he's very good at his videos
I remember when I was like 10 I used to play venomancer and I'd always look so slutty, so whenever my mom would walk into the room I'd have to shapeshift into the fox before she notices lmao
Hahahaha same , my dad was pissed tho ..... "aren't you F!!@# tired of playing this fox running game " good old days .. RIP DAD
😂😂😂😂
I played a female cleric and my aunt made fun of me, tbh between that and some people i met in game kind of helped me come out as gay later on in life
Fucking good old days
@@BokiyoSensei aww
10+ years later music still gets me chills
Always making my eyes a bit sweaty :(
I feel like crying when I hear the Archosaur theme
yes! the nostalgia.
The ost is amazing.
Especially the first song played here... I have most of the music on my phone and listen to it often.
The memories...
It was my first real mmo, I'll always remember this game.
Is this you addy? xD Breezy here 😁
Same here. Back in 2009
Same
Same, played as a Tideborn assassin. Turning into a mermaid was very immersive
@@obituaryollie9104 lol, i remember in my childhood when i meditated i turned into a mermeid and i was like: "whaaaaaaa?"
And the game was: "yeaaaah"
The starting zones used to be different for each race :(
Well the new area covers from level 1-20 and then you continue to your respective home of origin afterwards.
yea.. I really miss that, idk why they had to change it to a single starting zone, maybe to make the game look more populated ? idk xD
Mari Draws this apparently. Haha.
I know :(
@@FeyQMG ...You answered your own question.
XD
This game was one of the first to introduce fly and swim. Man, the graphic at the time was amazing. I miss it
I have honestly spent so much time in this game. It was so huge when it came out. Made a ton of friends too, it had open PVP, great character builds, awesome classes and a HUGE map. The crafting system was pretty nice also and the mounts.... man the mounts were so good. So many good things about this game that are still valid today and personally i am really sad it did not get a remake. Also there is that one feeling of logging back in and looking at the friends list and seeing: "Last logged on 10 years ago"... still gives me chills, just like the music. PS: One of my friends got married to a girl he actually met in this game, and yes they are happy and well after more than 15 years.
can I add you!?
Im planning to play again but Im not sure if I remember my account
I agree back around 2008 this game was amazing and for its time it was fucking amazing. Till it became complete pay2win.
Im thinking of playing it. Free itemz please XD
@Asian Pride all you need to do is separate the aspects so the pvp is optional, also Mobas are usually just toxic nightmare due to how competitive they get
Spent so many hours on this game, heavy on pay to win though.
This was my first MMORPG and I remember vividly the beautiful music, landscape, atmosphere, art style, flying around. I never got to end game but the feeling that this game invoked, I've been chasing it for years and years.
"I've been chasing it for years and years."
I *felt* that.
i can 100% agree there i was serching for the same feeling this game invoked for years. archage was the closest thing for me but that became pay to win too. really getting tired of games just going full p2w greed slobs.
though ashes of creation looks promising.. it's not released just yet because the devs want to perfect it and.. well... hopefully to give us the same feeling perfect world did.
@@nerdturd8718 lol same here, looking forward to Ashes of Creation.
I'm sorry that was your first
@@dororo4148 You can't choose your first mmorpg experience it just happens
This game truly brings back memories, it was the first F2P MMO i got into.
I still remember the addition of the Tideborn and the sudden forum frenzy when a random, extremely powerful mob, would suddenly appear in the coast of the Tideborn STARTING area. For whatever reason, this thing was sometimes violent [apparently it was a bug or something since he was supposed to always be calm] and would obliterate the new players who would venture out into the water. Suddenly, a ton of high level players got the idea to try and take it down and it failed for a while since he was too strong.
Good times man. Same with making a Winged Elf and having flight at lv 1 while everyone had to wait.
THIS!!! Omg I thought I was alone in this memory. I miss my 5 APS 104 lvl Sin :'(
@@THE.MCCCXII i miss the old days of PWI when i had to farm 1mil gold for a +5 lvl 70 weap for my barb :D and the world pvp at world quest location 39
@@Clownshock_ honestly! I don't think I'll ever achieve the same level of endorphins from a game as I did this one way back when.
Most likely a world boss that would be pulled to troll newer players and not a bug. You see world bosses before did not ever deaggro you once you attacked and you could pull them across the entire map if you wanted to then log out to drop the aggro and boss would remain killing the newbies.
When Tideborn came I totally fell in love with the looks and abandoned my previous characters even though I had spent some much time and money on them.
"You don't even have sliders with the older character creator"
Perfect World players: Yeah, sure...
for sure there were, I remeber making my second toon have some "relevant" chest size (first one was normal though)
Was waiting for someone to call him out. Yeah there 100% was I remember and it was awesome. Such good character creation for the time.
Oblivion players: hold my skooma
no one:
me in 2008/2009: FLY WITH MEEEEEEEE IN THE PERFECT WORLDDDDD GOO WITH MEEE JUST LIKE A BIIIIRD
i read this singing.... how do i still remember that
Omg i remember this song xD I still sing this song (actually only this line) at least once a week since my younger days
Me too
😅🌸🍀 lovely game 👍🇲🇨
i am not sure but i remember a friend OLD FRIEND with Vanille name and she was venomancer i and we used to chat in skype . Damm old memories somehow u look like her if i am not mistaken
God I have so many memories with this game. I made a friend in PWI who was my best friend at the time. Her name was Satella. I used to love playing with her and doing all sorts of random funny stuff. Sadly, when I logged in one day, I noticed my account got hacked and all of my items were gone. I was so pissed off I never played Perfect World again. I will always miss you, Satella :(
Yeah i had a friend too ... FUNKYZERO I'll miss you bro. Hope your doing fine in Israel
Im Sarella!! Good to see you bro
@@carlosdiego104 No way?!
@@carlosdiego104 Hold up, are you sure? The person I was talking about was called Satella with a T and I think she once told me she was a girl. I might be wrong tho idk exactly after so much time
@Draifu XD yeah
Keep doing the old school mmos I’m loving this content
Oh that music is so nostalgic i almost cried, this was my first mmo i played back in 2010 :')
This was the first mmorpg I played, and it was 10 years ago. It was so fun to play it back then. Many beautiful memories.
One of my favorite parts of PWI was when I was bored and out of dailies and other things to do, so I'd go double jumping everywhere in town or on mountains lol
I love this mmo's music so much. Especially the Genesis expanion one. It was so good. The game is still really cool, but all the attention goes to the veterans and beginners rather then average players. Everything is pay to win nowadays, though the currency can be earned with a LOT of grind. The game was a lot better in the past though, less controlled economy, dungeons actually had low levels grouping to beat them rather the nowadays just have someone 1 shot it for you. I miss the 2009-2011 days of this game. I had the most fun back then.
This was one of my fave mmo games from when I was teen in 2008, my most fond memories are from this game as a handsome max lvl assassin fish boy and flying with my huge wings. I also loved Forsken World! I spent on these two games probs more than 700 euros and mom just accepted the fact hahah. Such good memories and such nostalgic feeling!! This also brings to my mind other games that I used to love; Rusty Hears, Fiesta Online, Mabinogi, Mabinogi Heroes, Battle of the Immortals, Jade Dynasty, Allods, Requiem:Memento Mori, Guild Wars, Atlantica, oh no what a trip down the memory lane!
Aaw girl you said it alright i loved Rusty hearts back in the day because of DMC, atlantica due to FF, and Requiem the first "horror" mmo loved the way your character just raggdolled when you die and fly of the map xDD also got married to my first online gf in PWI where still friends to this day ☺
Fiesta!!! That was such a fun one
oh my gods forsaken world... thought it was so cool the hands had individual fingers instead of mitten hands lol. ... and Jade Dynasty... thanks for reminding me of these two, I'd forgotten about them.
Omg that is pretty much a nostalgia list lol. Allods was such a waste of a game they went full p2w and pretty much most of the player base quit.
Damn bro, I used to play this game sooo much back in the day. It was the first "real" MMO I ever played, and thus holds a special place in my heart.
I still remember running around South City for the first time completely in awe at the size of the city and all the player shops littering the streets. Granted that was back in the games' glory days when it had a huge playerbase, but it was quite something. Your FPS would just tank like crazy the second you went into the city, and you would run past the most busy streets in like 7 FPS because there was just so many player shops. I also remember some of the mounts being quite crazy and the cash shop being ridiculously overpriced.
Man it's kinda sad to see the game reverted to this kind of state. Even the PvP scene is dead now. Oh well, at least I still have Final Fantasy XIV.
Twisted Films omg when you mention the South City.... the grand music just popped into my head. Ahhh the chills!
All of that pretty much still applies. While there isn't nearly as much PvP activity, there is many things.
fps drops are still there and so is the apparent lag for no reason when out in the open.
The only mmo that doesnt have crazy mounts is ESO. The craziest it gets is a deer. They do have an overpriced cash store though.
Wkwkw i rmber when i whant to drgn city and flaying to there and j see the boss monster wkwkw its suprsd me because i dead wkwkw
I was like 9 when I first played this game. I remember starting a Venomancer with dual axes. I was wondering why I can't cast spells :')
This game was my childhood tbh.
there is always time to come back to it mate ;) we are still here having fun, just like we used to 10 years back ;)
i actually knew a good heavy armored veno but he didn't run around with axes. i think if you equiped fists you could actually do neat phy damage in fox form. but mby that was a glitch. axes woudn't be too pretty,i am sure about that :P. with enough money you could make wierd things work tho.
lol we all had this kind of problem it seems. A friend of mine playing priest did not want to give up on her axes and was so upset that she could not play with them on, I had hard time convincing her. my first main character also had every point distributed equally as I though it would be wise but somehow I was wrong
This game was so amazing and hype when it was popular. My first MMO. How is it so hard to make an MMORPG nowadays? This game had flying, swimming, great classes, personal shops, different starting zones, incredible music, amazing graphics and character/class customization etc
I LOVE THE MUSIC. So nostalgic.
I think it's about 15 years ago if not more that I played this game.
Made some friends, loved flying around and trying to get a bunny pet.
Visuals were quite good for the time.
One of the many games I would love to travel back in time for.
This was my first mmorpg 😭 the only thing I remember about this game is flying
Me too the best mmropg ever
And.... Flying up to the maximum altitude in the sky..... and getting a title for it haha
yeah..that is the one i loved in this game..flying . i miss my yuling character there.. 😔😔😔
I came to PWI from runescape and even though the fog/mist effect in cities was probably because of my horrible laptop, I remember flying to a city at really low level my first time, and it gave it a very mysterious vibe, suddenly coming across shops and players. The cities felt massive. I was also in awe of the graphics. Made a lot of friends and some I still keep in contact with. ^-^
Fly with me in the perfect world
I started playing this game when it was just the 3 races. I loved it. When the tb came out, I felt that's what started the decline of the game. You should have played in the 5 attacks per second cleric age, it was hard to do anything. It sucks that the classes don't have their own starting zones anymore. It's nice to see fb 19 (that's what the cultivation dungeons were called) is a solo dungeon now. You barely scratched the surface of this game. It is massive.
Even bigger then on the beginning reawakening at lvl 100 x2 xD more instances etc
oh my God... i didnt know they ruined game that much...
And do not forget the dungeon mobs hanging around outside the dungeon
So many level 19 characters those bastards killed.
Especially Venos trying to tame one as their first pve pet.
I have played this game for literally 8 years and enjoy my time and the people i met on PW and the private servers of it as well. Made so many pvp videos of this game, would honestly continue playing if the pvp was high active again
I played for 10 years and miss it dearly, now that I've moved on. Sad that this game is slowly but surely dwindling and they recently made new classes. I blame the r9 p2w model of the game, EpicPW did fantastic
I played this game from 2009 - 2013, it was very engaging and good for the time. Still remember the hype and thrill when the tideborn were revealed, the servers lagged like hell when it launched. The music was also very good, but the best part was that the game was very very active, truly international with friends across the globe. I miss the experience, good times.
Hmmm. I played for those exact years. Good times!!
YEAH LINEAGE 2!
I remember i was in awe of the graphic and game play back in the day xD
LazyPeon doesn't have what it takes to understand the beauty of L2. He'll solo play first 3 hours and judge based on that.
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You do have sliders in the old character creation, it's just slightly harder to find them. You have sliders for every aspect of the character, eyes, lips, faceshape, ect. For the body sliders, you'll have to switch to the body tab and then press the button that your facecam conveniently covered up (I don't actually remember what this button says but it's always at the very bottom of the ui.) This button is also present in the eyes, face and oronasal tabs, at the very bottom of the ui, where again, your facecam covered the button in the video. x) I believe the button says something along the lines of ''Advanced options'' though. Overall great video, just wanted to point that out! PWI was revolutionary at release because of the wide range of customization they offered, more specifically, the sliders, so it's ofcourse still available in the old character creation.
Also! The graphics are different for edgerunners and gunners because they are the only characters who have the ''new graphics'' available, with better everything basically, and also, hair physics! I believe their aim in the future is to have the improved graphics applied to the entire game, though I am very out of touch with this game and it's developments so I may be completely off.
I remember this game and how much fun it was. Might jump back into it, looks so cosy
private server is better even thought thats dying now but all big guilds return for summer pvp
Seeing someone cover this game in 2020 brings me a lot of joy, but also some sadness. The truth is that despite the fact that it's been around for so long, PWI was essentially dead a long time ago. I have played it on and off since launch, dedicating many thousands of hours and having eight characters at max level. Originally from Heaven's Tear, I now reside on Etherblade server. I will go into excruciating detail about how the game used to be below, but first a few comments about the current state, in case anyone was curious:
Despite Archosaur seeming populated, most shops that you see aren't "players", but shop alts/mules. Some people have 3 or 4 running simultaneously, 24/7. And have done for years. The same can be said for a lot of real players that you encounter. As far as I'm aware, multi-logging is still allowed and due to the somewhat low fidelity of the game, this allows people to have all their alts logged in concurrently. The real community is a lot smaller than it appears and you tend to get to know most people quite quickly, due to there only being a handful of factions (guilds) that remain active. Despite this, they have avoided another (in my opinion) much-needed server merge in favour of cross-server interaction.
Updates are few and far between, though still a thing. We seem to get them a long time after they go live in China, and their implementation in the international version is questionable. There are still bugs that exist from launch, such as the de-sync Peon experienced, though they have fixed other issues.
Over the years, the "vision" of PWI has changed drastically in an attempt to modernise the game and keep (make?) it relevant. Leveling has been streamlined (to the degree of pointlessness), and as such, the focus now rests heavily on endgame, which is probably more convoluted than it needs to be.
The auto-cultivation isn't an original feature and, from my experience, isn't at all necessary in the leveling process. I've only ever heard of Venomancers using it to train their pets (which level independently of the character).
The newer areas of the world map consist almost entirely of questline areas, and are quite shallow compared to the mainland. There are daily quests and endgame dungeons there. It's a shame since there are already instances that are underutilised (OHT and its incarnations, Lothranis/Momagnon, etc.), some as old as the game itself, that could've received more attention and content, but they had to give the illusion of expansion which, judging by the comments, fooled some ex-players.
The endgame dungeons are all quite varied and unique, though most people don't attempt to farm them all as they can be a pain in the ass, especially those like DUP which not only require a certain mix of classes, but also quite a high gear benchmark.
Speaking of gear, endgame equipment is quite linear, there are 2-3 viable options available for endgame, and they tend to follow a set upgrade path. Grade 16, which is upgraded from farmed/crafted gear and isn't very impressive in terms of stats, but still gets the job done with proper rolls/shards/refines. Rank 9, which is scarcely achievable without dropping some serious money and buying materials off the cash shop, needs to be recast twice before it begins to outperform other options and is the most popular all-purpose endgame gear.
The newer classes come powerful out of the box, to encourage players to reroll and spend more. Duskblades are particularly egregious, but the balance between classes for the most part is quite good, even today.
Now, onto my nostalgic rambling. The first year of this game was honestly the best experience I've had with any MMO to date. GMs were present and would hold community events, and at the same time every day, used to send the server message "Mornings are vital."
Combat seems dated by today's standard, but it's honestly very chill and despite BnS being my second favourite MMO of all time, I can say with complete transparency that PWI's stationary, tab-target combat isn't all that bad. In PvP, it's actually quite intense, since you have to manage not only skills with their cooldowns, but pots/apoth, genie skills, charm ticks and ranges/distance. Having the ability to fly adds another strategic dimension to fights. Apart from that, there's the usual stealth/stunlock/debuff/weapon proc mechanics you see in most games.
The graphics were very reasonable for the time, but the open world was stunningly huge and beautiful, and traveling took time unless you were prepared to pay handsomely. There wasn't even an autopathing feature initially, you had to mark coordinates on your map and navigate there yourself. It sounds like bad design these days, but I loved the aspect of exploration which also allowed you to gain more knowledge about the game. There were three races to begin with, each with their own lands and capitals (starting areas were different also).
Unlike games today, we only had text guides written by those on the forums, and a database of items to work with. This led to a strong community aspect to PWI, as even the menus didn't offer much information. Everyone had to ask for help at some point, and imparting knowledge to people in addition to helping them with their quests really fostered some great relationships. As a Cleric, myself and others used to go out of our way to fly half way across the map to resurrect someone to save them some precious xp. It's a facet of MMOs that I miss in modern games.
Quests were abundant and ranged from personal story and spiritual cultivation, to your typical fetch and kill quests (they have since culled 90% of them) and completing them all still wouldn't be enough to guarantee a level up, so you had to supplement your questing with some grinding or events. Each quest had a tale behind it, the amount of text included was sometimes overwhelming, but it was impressive nonetheless. Every 10 or so levels, starting at level 19, every player got their FB or "Fu Ben" (instance) quest, which required a party to complete. Alongside your FB, you also received tabs that let you activate additional one-time quests for yourself and your party that yielded rewards for everyone, so helping out was always rewarded. Clearing your FB was usually a pretty big milestone as it ushered in the next stage of your spiritual cultivation, which allowed you to learn newer and stronger skills. It was a good marker of progression as well as a fun challenge with the chance of good drops like molds.
Gear was a mixed bag also, which made it all the more interesting. 1-3 star gear was either found from monster drops or crafted, they'd have random additional rolls and tended to be the weakest choices. Some more prominent quests also rewarded one-off equips that were sometimes very good and worth keeping. Then there were molds, like I mentioned a moment ago. They would essentially act as the "blueprint" for the gear, and would yield a high quality piece of gear when crafted at the forges with some materials, which tended to have set stats with a parameter, so each piece wasn't all the same. Then there was gear from dungeons such as Twilight Temple, Forgotten Frostlands or Lunar Glade, which offered the player gear progression through a crafting upgrade path. For example, you'd have to farm materials from different acts of Twilight Temple, and the gear (weapons especially) would fork at certain levels, offering you the chance to craft a weapon with stats that were complimentary to your class build. There were also event rewards that made participating worthwhile.
Dungeons were unique and entertaining, "trash mobs" weren't really a thing, even with a proper party composition some groups were hard to tackle and required luring properly. Bosses all had different mechanics, and some were completely optional. Some dungeons would take multiple hours to clear completely, so players tended to make a bee-line for the bosses which dropped the mats they needed, then reset it.
Once a player got to level 89, their spiritual cultivation split between sage and demon (good and evil), which permitted the use of skillbooks that upgraded your skills and activated additional effects. The choice between sage and demon was always a hot topic on the forums, as both tended to be viable but catered to different play styles. As a general rule, Sage effects were lesser, but constant. Demon effects were greater, but with a chance to proc.
The music in this game, as many commenters here have pointed out, was phenomenal and still manages to cause the hairs on my arm to stand on end when I listen to it.
There was a cash shop, but it only had a handful of convenience items and cosmetics. Then, with the first anniversary, they introduced gambling packs which contained strong gear and items that were unobtainable by normal means. Thus ushered in the Age of P2W.
Normally, this is where the story would end, but PWI was dealt another blow to its integrity. The Archer forum in particular was full of theorycrafters and number crunchers, who took note of one stat -- Attacks Per Second (APS) -- and hypothesized that if you stacked enough gear with that stat, and equipped a weapon that had a naturally fast attack speed, your character would be able to auto attack multiple times per second. Thanks to some gear min-maxing, it was found that the game capped at 5 APS and that it was achievable rather easily, with a bit of help from the cash shop. Since arcane classes never used auto attacks, Strength-based classes skyrocketed in power and utility, especially those that could receive the "Bloodpaint" buff from Assassins, which returned a percentage of your melee damage as healing, allowing players to break off from the holy trinity and solo practically anything, assuming their gear was good enough.
Furthermore, there was a combat mechanic called "chi", which you gained passively through auto attack or skill use. Each time it reached 100, you'd receive a "spark". Some of the more powerful skills required sparks to cast, which made them harder to spam. One such skill was received at level 89 with the Sage/Demon cultivation that consumed 3 sparks, made you invulnerable for 3 seconds and increased your attack (and APS if Demon) for roughly 15 seconds. This skill was intended to be used as a burst opportunity, but thanks to the wonders of 5 APS, you could maintain it permanently, as long as you kept attacking to gain chi. As you can imagine, this advent trivialised PvE, making any content soloable (reference to the legendary cheezdude who soloed the world boss Harpy Wraith) and wrecked havoc on PvP. Balance was thrown completely out the window.. of a penthouse.. in a skyscraper.. on a cliff.. overlooking the Mariana Trench. Most magic classes rerolled a BM/Sin/Archer to keep up. Others quit entirely due to the cost of obtaining this gear, which was not insignificant.
Despite this being a huge oversight (conspiracy theorists amongst us would say that it was intentional), 5 APS remained in the game for many years, until it was finally nerfed. Normally, this would be cause for celebration, but by then it was too late, and Rank 9 gear filled the void. The full set cost upwards of 1500 dollars and that was before shards and refines.
On top of this, Perfect World Entertainment (the company that published PWI in the west) decided that it would be a great idea to fire their great community team and cut their management of the game down to a skeleton crew, likely only to rifle through cash shop promotions and perform maintenance. They also introduced Arc in later years, which is a Steam-esque client for all of the PWE games. In doing so, they got rid of the once vibrant forums that were a wealth of beneficial information. These choices, plus the unhealthy levels of greed present in the cash shop, resulted in a rapid decline in the player base. All in all, this game has been through a lot, and while some part of me is surprised that it's still around, it's not what it used to be. In fact, I'd go so far as to call it basically just the cold, reanimated corpse of a game I once loved. And while you may think that's quite a damning indictment of PWI, I still log in from time to time to check in on my faction and old friends, and to participate in Nation Wars when I get the urge. I've played every major (and many obscure) MMO released since and none have come at all close to emulating the feelings of unbridled joy that I had while playing PWI.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
This game introduced P2W like never seen before back in the day. God I remember the AOE grind groups back on the PW Malaysian servers, you'd need those dolls if you wanted to initiate PvP to avoid dropping parts of your gear.
The moment he tried the fall damage I just rolled on the floor laughing, waiting for the disappointment ahahah.
If it was 8years ago, yes it was worth playing, but now it's Fvcked up.
Ye cuz taking fall damage makes or breaks an MMO, lmao what? Basically every other MMO has flying mounts/gliding so fall damage isn't really a thing there either.
2:20 that Michael Jackson part killed me :‘)
I vaguely remember wings being a flex tool, lol. Man, I loved my time playing this game. Used to play with a really chill friend of mine. Good times, man.
Wings used to be cash shop only. Now there's quests and dungeons that require you to fly. There are still rare flyers however.
@@electricheartpony Honestly even back then you could easily get better wings. They were not that expensive in the auction house or during most events there was a way to get wings.
I remember getting those tripple wings on max speed upgraded for my cleric fairly cheap.
@@electricheartpony No man, you could get a wing in lvl 30 with a mission.
Flyyyy with meee. In a perfect wooorld~~
man this brings back memories
Just by listening to the intro music brought tears to my eyes.. Very nostalgic!
any plans on doing a first impressions for Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem?
Ifzal Naif he already did review it but I’d like to see him review it again considering it’s been officially launched.
Yeah, will do, seems like it's completely different from when I played it before
Well it would have to be playable online first. Also wait a little bit it's still full of bugs, some of them game breaking. Couldn't finish quest because of invisible wall and stuff like that.
@@TheLazyPeon Have you done a video on Angel Online?
@@TheLazyPeon its completely different game since early alfa.. :) hope they will fix login issues and servers
Been playing this game for 10 years now, and still love it!
Though real life gets in the way sometimes, and I need to take a break, lol 😋
This game is what got me into MMO's. SO nostalgic. I spent thousands of hours perfecting my 5 APS Sin(Assassin), people always hated on sins, but he was a fucking savage.
Yeah remember that Times :) sage 5aps sin
I played this game for 2+ years on Taiwan server and 4 years on NA server, this is the best game i've ever played in my life tbh... you might not have any idea how good it used to be back in the day, most of the players they dont sleep and play this game 24/7 leveling, farming for materials and running dungeons like all the FBs, Gamma, Delta, Nirvana, TT, etc... i remember how much nirvana or TT we run during double drops, or we just logon to the game and chat with friends and in factions.
and TW was so awesome!!!!
it brings back so damn much memories man i miss playing this game.
an R9 BM from Dreamweaver server back in 2012
Ah the nostalgia & those sleepless night's!
This brings me so much feels. Used to play this game as a teen even though I didn't have people to play it with.
If you’re an OG, on Malaysian Server, you remember how FUCKING DOPE this game was, the guild wars, PK wars outside ANCIENT DRAGON CITY, not “Archrosaur.” And if you got lucky, you’d get to be a Captain for a big guild Like LEGACY or Immortal. I was a commander at Immortal at some point, and captain (mostly for recruiting) at legacy. The first time someone completed HH99 there was a huge fight outside the dungeon and it lasted 2 days lmao. I could keep going, this game was simply amazing
Yes, Lineage 2! I still play for nostalgia once in a while. I prefer classic or straight-up pre-GoD chronicles, so I have no idea what's happenning on the official server. It's be interesting for sure.
Official servers are massive Pay2win and post God lineage 2 has very little in common with the game we loved back then.
I honestly doubt it's even possible to experience the game properly nowadays, sadly.
Don't play lineage 2 now, it's garbage, at least from what I heard.
@@asmodin88 I know, that's why I prefer private servers. There are bound to be some good ones out there. Regardless, I play very casually.
I loved god expansion, but the way it went p2w exponentially after few months, it killed the game
@@gregorkovacic9806 It was interesting lore-wise. But I was bummed that all the original classes weren't relevant anymore. I also didn't like the trivialization of the leveling experience of 1-85. I was already playing since C2, so I lost interest. Honestly, some time before GoD, I was imagining Lineage 3 to come out and be something like Tera. When Tera came out (supposedly many of the original L2 team joined bluehole studio), I happily played Tera instead :P
Edit: former NCsoft employees stole Lineage 3 assets from NCsoft and joined Bluehole, didn't remember that....
Please give Ragnarok Online a try! :D I loved this game when I was younger, and when I get nostalgic I still play it from time to time. The soundtracks of that game are absolutly stunning.
RO.still good, i still play it till this day. although playin on PS server that cover up to date patch to kRO
cant get tired playin RO
i remember playing this back in the day and you can do group dungeon by lvl 20 and holy fuck it was hard back then. you can't go without tank and a healer. you really need to tip toe inside dungeons to avoid pulling a whole bunch of enemies and if tank died, the healer must run away as far away as possible to lose aggro and resurrect party
I remember as a Cleric healer I could solo most those dungeons no prob if u kept up the HoT on yourself since it was stackable. Pop 4 of those on you and you got 15 sec or so to fight then pop 4 more and repeat... I remember taking on a lvl 40ish dungeon solo that I watched a whole group of lvl 60+ party wipe. Sure it took me almost half an hour to kill the last boss but it was a thrill. Been ages though. There was no boss or dungeon up until mid 50's that I couldn't solo back in the day.
I have an embarassingly high amount of time spent on this game autobotting and letting the computer run all night long :/ When this game came out so many years ago I thought it was the peak of MMORPG's to be honest. Nowadays Asian MMORPG's simply disgust me with their gameplay, grind & pay2win aspects.
you're disgusted with todays easterns from grind, yet you autobotted on this all night long? checks out, lmao
@@whiskizyo2067 He said he doesn't like eastern mmorpg's grind nowadays, but seems like he used to
@@whiskizyo2067 -- Bear in mind, I did this like more than 10 years ago. It wasn't hard to guess that I didn't do this last year seeing as the game is dead and completely outdated ... I used the past tense on every sentence and highlighted that I played this around the time it came out, I guess it wasn't clear enough to some.
Runescape was the peak
@@whiskizyo2067 No you see, you misunderstood because you obviously never played the game and never realized how long it actually takes you to do anything in this game because devs are actively trying to kill any way of being able to spam grind/farm ingame currency so you are forced to buy zen/ingame gold currency which is 1 dollar per 1 gold(was before at least). He played the game, wanted to progress and wanted to get better gear so he used auto bot to pickup ingame currency. Now he hates the mention of asian MMOS because you have to give it your literal life in order to catch up, lets not talk about keeping up. If you dont want to put money into the game and you have no prior knowledge of marketing and finance it will literally take you over a year or in my case 3 years to grind out a armor set. that includes 5 armor pieces out of like 16 slots of gear :). Yeah. Do not recommend the game.
This was my first MMO when I was young and couldn't pay for WoW. I remember loving flying around the world and being in awe of the sheer size of it. I miss playing territory wars and open world PvP to this day! So many great memories in this game, thanks for the nostalgia trip.
So evryone who played this game was young people whox couldnt afford wow and we just fly around ? 😂😂
8:40 Planking while falling. Next level meme.
Played this game a lot back in high school. Wish I had kept in touch with some of the friends I made back then. So much of this game's music is ingrained into my brain. I remember just hanging around in certain zones talking to my friends. I remember hitting the level 30 milestone. You had to find creative ways of sneaking into certain areas so high level players didn't nuke you out of existence.
Playing this game for 10 years now and I still like it :) it's not what it used to be but oh well, I still have fun :D
Well, I'm glad I put "perfect world City of Lost gameplay" into the YT search engine :D I played this from 2009 to 2013. I started just after Barbs and Venos were added via expansion, picked a Blademaster for my first (his name was Merovingian) and found the game confusing, hard, and endearing all at once. The music was lovely, though. I made a tonne of friends and promptly lost most when they merged the three West servers into Archosaur. Then, made a tonne more. It was a really life-changing experience. Too bad things got too expensive and droves of people started to quit.
I literally checked TH-cam to see if Peon uploaded a Perfect World video.. which he did.
This game will be release in Japan soon with better character customization, graphic, battles and everything. I’m gonna try it if it releases. They are advertising it almost everywhere here.
I love and hate revisiting old MMOs. the feels come rushing back as soon as I hear the music, but the sadness soon kicks in as I realise its just not the same. Having said that, please do more revisits!!
Well said!
Exactly
I played this for a few years when it came out in 2008. Feels great to hear the music & sound effects again, lol. I miss those days!
Oh the nostalgia of Archosaur city music. Gawd damn!
this was my first and only MMORPG. good times.
I miss this game so much. I remember playing this when it first came out in my country (Philippines). There were so many players, the community was great and just everything about it was amazing. It wasn't my first mmorpg but I literally spent more than a thousand hours playing this. I made really good friends in this game. I want to play it again but seeing that it is now pay to win is kinda disappointing.
This was actually one of my favorite mmorpg of all time. I got to level 150 with maxed out items at one point. Nostalgia indeed :D
I love the background music tho
It makes me remember when i played it in 2012
I miss this game so much i miss the old pwi 😢♥️
Thank you for 6 years for playing this game 2012-2018
This is so memorable game for me
I don't know why i can't forget and makes me always remember all the good memories especially when me and my brother cousin playing together ya ya and my friendz in the game out there! Hopefully you all guys are in a good player and good stats in your own character
I don't know if this is a dead game for the others coz a lot of ppl quitting and the others is just playing and enjoy not really because the old journey in the game is not like the old so yah.
Feels like forever I saw your Archeage Unchained videos, I'm over 2k hours deep now lmao Thanks for the recommendation.
I remember playing this in 2009 and the character creator blowing me away i had never seen so many options
Hey Peon =) I have played Perfect World International through my early teens through to 25 haha, still enjoy it to this day, unfortunately i cannot convince any of my friends to play it. I enjoyed this video though! +1 to the fantastic music in this game.
Would love to see Lineage 2, that game was literally my childhood
I remember playing this game in elementary school back with my friend when I was like 7 in 2009. This game is super nostalgic for me, especially because that friend moved out of state and we are no longer in contact with each other. I didn't understand how to play pretty much and we would just fly around the super high-level areas and generally fuck around.
This is the game that got me into multiplayer video games, and I am sad it's no longer what it was, but I am happy for the memories I have of it.
I played this game from 2008-2011, after it started getting really heavy p2w I moved to private servers. From my experience in the private servers its a really close knit community and used to be extremely competitive before I quit in late 2018. I used to dump thousands of hours into it. Was definitely clunky but I love it so much.
Man, I used to play this game back in early midschool.
I recently revisited the game and got a storm of nostalgia.
When I discovered this channel, immediately went to see if you did any video about this game.
Wasn't disappointed
I still remember, at peak, the 'grade 16' equips in Perfect World MY will cost you USD30,000
Perfect new world comes out this year and it looks really good!
damn the music....
sooo much nostalgia on this game. miss my old online friends, and guildmates
Ether Saga Online has in built bot called Possessor. It uses whatever skills you give it to, and also uses pots and collect specific items that you want it to
I remember my friends, guildmates, while pking missed this game 😥
As someone who has played this game from 2008 when it came out in the international version to 2016, I can tell you that there have been a lot of changes made in all this time. The game WAS very good at some point. Sure, you are right. The animations are not that impressive, but most the fun back then came from playing in groups. It had an amazing community back then. Then Perfect World entertainment had to ruin it and make the game pay to win. Literally. Getting the BASE set of the best gear in the game is stuff you can only get if you dish out around 1.7k of ingame currency, or farm for months on end. I did that and it took me 6 month... just to get a bloody ring and daggers. In their BASE form. If I had wanted the 3rd reforge version... it would have taken me years more if I didn't wanna dish out the money. And even though I didn't have the best possible gear, I still kicked the asses of so many credit card warriors.
I basically only left when my Audiobook TH-cam channel took off a little and because the devs ACTUALLY had the AUDACITY to put content in the game that basically either requires you to have the overpriced cash shop gear, OR to play with a group of max refined free gear people, killing one mob at a time because every single mob (Not bosses, NORMAL MOBS!) will hit you as hard as some of the bosses in the dungeons you need to run to farm materials for your free gear. And then you have to kill like 100 of these mobs, taking into account that your group will have to heal up after every single fight cause your healer will be either oom or simply dead cause the areas these mobs are in are swarming with them. Like literally. They sometimes don't even stand 3 feet apart and so pulling only ONE out of that group to kill it for a quest is a skill in and off itself. (Can be done with certain genie or Venomancer skills, but damn it's cumbersome)
So yeah... As someone who has played the game to the point where I was in the top 10 PvP ratings ACROSS all servers, (Even though I never sought out PvP. PPL only ever tried to kill me and were surprised that they got their but kicked if they didn't 1 shot me) I can tell you that what you see today is sadly only a shell of the game that it used to be. Every race used to have their own unique starting are for starters. Every race, to a certain point, had a unique questline where you would learn about the race and why they are fighting the wraith and so on and so forth. Now? Usually you don't even DO quests anymore. You just create a new charakter, kill mobs until you are around level 60, join a noob guild, participate in a few power level runs, then farm standart gear with your guild and then look for a better one once you are max level and have all your cultivation quests done. There is not much more to it.
That's sad to hear actually, seems like the game got even more grindy. Man I have such great childhood memories of this game. I used to play I think in Korean version of the game as a cleric before even the PWI came out. Then moved on to PWI as a tank.
I remember power leveling to highest levels with some dudes was really fun when the game came out and when the new servers came out. But the griding was pretty damn bad in this and even back then the game was really p2w. I think you could upgrade your gear with some gems what were incredibly p2w and low chance for high level gear. Also I think mp and hp charms what were a must have, costed money, so you needed to grind for it or buy it for real money.
The territory wars were really the most fun things in the game but they made some really bad changes for them what made me and a lot of people actually Quit. I remember guilds used to get a huge amount of money for a territory, what was used to buy gear for people and it made the game way less grindy and way more fun. The territory wars used to be so high stakes, even owning 1 territory with your guild made you have decent money and it was pretty impossible for the largest guilds to defend all their territories. Then I think they changed it so you pretty much didn't get anything from the territory wars and they became totally useless things in the game unfortunately.
I would like to see you do first impressions of "Forsaken World" MMORPG , it's one of the older games
Its 3am and no idea why i remembered this game suddenly haha. I miss the old times in Etherblade server. Running FCs, TTs, Deltas etc. with your faction haha. Still gives me chills
Just finished the AION vid where you mentioned the making of this one xd
Damm it almost pains me to watch this video, this game was my entire early teenage years. Even dated ppl in real life that lived near me who I met in the game. My entire early social life and relations with ppl came from this game, abit sad but I still love it. I played on Sanctuary, best server
I still remember good old times waiting in Archosaur for BH quests day and nigh lol
The game back in the day was so different, I remember being in high school and each character race had a starting town and leveling was much harder, I stopped playing a few months after the introduced a stone that leveled you instantly to level 95
10:49 Thumbs up for "JUMP UGH" Been missing that. :)
Jump + jump + X. Run + X. Basic pwi athletics
This brings back childhood memories
"And this guy right here donates to her" 😂
I remember this game! I was about 11 or 12 when I got to play it in the UK. Played it for hours on end with a close friend of mine (who I sadly no longer see). Very fond memories of this game, it was absolutely amazing for a good few years. Most distinct and fondest memory is when an alert came to everyone on the server saying an NPC Village was being attacked. Got there and there was a metric tonne of people fighting the enemy NPCs and protecting the village. Whole group of us just kinda came together to defend the village during that timed event. All different levels and classes. It was awesome! Sad to see it isn't the same as it once was.
Im still playing this MMO after 12 years, on and off: they game is free of course, but the endgame gear its insanely expensive, i means, i heard of people that spent more that 5000 US dollars trying to get the R9rr full armor. Also, fashion, mounts, unique items are insanely expensive as well and you have to relies on packs, and to buy thousands of packs for to get the chance to get a rare item
SO there was this guy on Santuary (Before the merge) who was, from what I was told, CEO of Singapore waterworld or seaworld or something. He'd spend absolutely insane amounts of money, having one of each class at 103+, all sitting in either base r9 (working towards r9r3) with some already at full +12 r9r3, with either +10 vit stones, or the +2 def stones. They all had either the top tier Tome, or the one just below it, and at least a few had the full set of the best cards. On one sale I heard he spent $30k USD. The dude never PvP'd, and would just multibox half his characters through dailies EVERY SINGLE DAY, and farm whatever exp grinds there were to keep levelling.
@@jamesj1405 That was Bele_Wiz! Really nice guy and could one-shot most players by looking at them.
@@kevinmalone4341 That's his name! Thanks, it has been a long time. And yeah, I believe he was a nice dude, just one of those anomaly players. You stand there in awe As you see him.
Lmao 5k. I know players who spent like 20k a month
thats why i leave this game lmao. So much player with OP builds (donation), i mean it's too hard/never and take a long time to just make equipment. Not the stone or other decorations yet. When your level 90 and died because of r9 30k HP Archer with only 5 hits :v
Man, this music is so nostalgic.. I really loved this game.
You have to try Shaiya, back in 2008 that was the best mmorpg, today they have low players on original but only private servers there are 300 players on each server
Id still play the game if they go back to old version of the game :D
PW was one of the first mmos that I played (not THE first, but one of the first). It had some of the best spell casting animations at the time, which is one of the things that I still remember from when I played, despite having left the game a while back. I doubt it's as good as I remember, but I remember being really impressed at the time and spent like 20 minutes casting spells on early mobs for no real reason other than to watch the casting animation
Lost my shit at 1:50
Jokes aside I used to love this game! I still listen to the soundtrack from time to time.
You made me want to dig up my old pc and download this game! I would come home from school and this was the first thing I would play! I loved it
Oh yeah, Perfect World, I was looking for this game when I was a child and I thought that Metin2 was the same game, so I ended playing Metin2 by mistake :,P
Hahahaha.. there are must be a reason for that mistake. Who know what u end up if u play pwi right.
The amount of nostalgia....I can still remember the places in this game so vividly and their music and the quests....Mmhm! Yass! I’m a seeker hehe
Anyone remember when nefarious owned the map
Calamity and dynasty in my days
Aaaaah shit... The music at the beggining gave chills all the way down my body... Such a nostalgic thing to experience. Spent 3 years playing it every day back in junior high school.
damn when I heard that PW song I got hit with that nostalgia
I keep coming back to this game, literally my whole childhood history. Still choose Venomancer as a class tho. Used to be called Yao Jing. Its dope.
“And this guy right here donates to her” I lost it 😂😂
I wish I had the dedication to play that high lvl back in the day. I LOVED THE HELL out of this game as a kid, and still occasionally think of the intro song from time to time (FLY WITH MEEEEEEE~) This whole video was an incredible throwback and nostalgia trip.
Still remember when i was kid then i unequipped wing like that and my heart started to beat so fkin fast 😂😂😂