Re: Microid's 2024 Empire of the Ants

On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 00:10:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 23:55 this Saturday (GMT):

Agreed! Oh, and it's free to play. ;)

Free to play as in microtransactions?

    [Note: I played this game back in 2017. My information may
     be out of date]

There are microtransactions, but I didn't find that the game pushed
very hard to get me to buy any of them. You could pay for things like
more characters, a bigger stash, and the usual cosmetics, as well as
expansion campaigns. But the free bit was extremely playable without
paying a cent; you got access to the original retail game which had
several full-length campaigns built in. Each campaign was equal in
length and breadth of content to the older "Knights of the Old
Republic" games, so you can keep busy for quite a while. Neither was
the game so grindy (although, like any MMORPG, there is a fair bit of
grind) that I ever felt that I was being pressured to buy some method
to bypass it.

I think some of the more multiplayer aspects (groups, clans, whatever)
of the game may have required additional payments. I didn't really
follow up on any of those.

But as a single-player experience, it was -given it was absolutely
free- a fairly satisifactory game. The stuff I disliked about it had
more to do with the MMORPG trappings: e.g., the idiot players
constantly shouting "LFG" in the background, or the generally shallow
quests, or the way everything has to be balanced because no one player
can be allowed to overwhelm others, unlike the power-fantasies of
single-player games. But all that would have been true regardless if
I'd paid money for the game or not.

But, again, I played the game seven years ago. Things may have
changed.