If you are considering downloading this free MMO, i have one word for you... dont. This game is so full of bugs, sloppy programming and game support is non-existant. Yes the game is free, but to become anything in this game requires a lot of cash spent in the item mall. I could live with this, there is no such thing as a free lunch, however there are problems.
You spend money, and its not cheap, for gems to strengthen your character. But here is the rub, your gems may then fail. You did not even get pixels on a screen for your money, you got the chance for pixels on a screen.
If you spend a large amount of money in the item mall you become a VIP member, but this has not led to any extra help at all when trying to sort out problems. There is a quest where your character can be reborn. My quest was bugged and there has been no help whatsoever. I have been waiting for over a month and nothing has been done.
You could contact live support, but more often than not, there is no-one in the room. If there is someone in the room, the best they can offer is "thank you for the patience, we will try our best to solve your problem". next day same message, next day same message... one month later, same message. It would also help if live support could understand english.
There are never any GM's online. Botters run riot. At one stage they produced an anti-bot system which consisted of a pop-up requiring input of letters - you can imagine how much fun that was during a pvp match or during any kind of pk situation.
The game is resourse heavy, chugging down most of your mem and not offering any fantastic graphics for the privilige. The servers are always laggy and not enough resources are provided to maintain stability. It is common for rainbow server to crash, especially during the weekends when more players are on.
If you are looking for any kind of "free" MMO, there are many other better games out there and you would be best served to try another before looking at Tales of Pirates. All games are there to make money, this is acceptable, but IGG takes this mantra to a whole nuther level.
