ditto that

the pvp in this game is definitely unrivaled by any other game.

what separates this from every other mmorpg is the fact that a level of skill is needed to be considered one of the best. via a bug in their system, "combo" was invented making this game so much more enjoyable. combo is basically incorporating normal hits between your skills making for more damage. combo speeds differ from player to player and from weapon to weapon so you gotta find your perfect set-up. on top of that, potions have a cooldown (both mana and hp) so pot-timing becomes an important factor in the game.

not to mention the capability of supporting unlimited player vs. player battles. teamplay is vital in this game and so are clans (actually incorporated into the game like WoW)

items are MUCH MUCH harder to get than in a game like diablo 2.
i definitely do not support buying items for usd (slang for this in ko is called "babashopping") but on average an iron neck (best necklace in the game) will sell for ~$300 USD. that's a single item.

my friend ended up selling his character naked for $1500 because he had such a known character.

exping characters takes months and even years for some people so overall this game is just a giant grind.

if only it had a company like Blizzard backing it, this game would be really one of the best games in production right now.

now onto the bad parts.

1. lag isn't as bad as people are mentioning up there. the lag isn't what kills you, its the fact that the game is really NOT free to play. only during the hours of ~1:00 PM - 10:00 PM PST (11:00 PM - 8:00 AM in turkey) are the main servers (i.e. ares 1, diez 1, xigenon 1, etc.) open for people to connect. once turkey wakes up, the servers hit maximum capacity (considered 80%+ capacity) and non-premium members are not allowed to access the servers.

2. turkey/greece DDOS the servers on a daily basis. this makes for flat-out retarded lag while trying to actually get into the servers. sometimes they push hard enough as to actually take the entire servers down requiring a server restart.

3. dupe. there was a period of time in KO when dupe became public (much like in d2) except in KO items are much harder to get, thus completely ruining economies. at the moment, there is no public dupe out so prices are slowly stabilizing but every year a new public dupe seems to hit the servers.

4. bugs. i would consider this the MAIN problem of KO (moreso than duping). there are so many small abusable bugs in the game that allow players to gain ridiculous advantages over the others who don't abuse bugs. an example of this bug would be the "quest bug" that was patched recently. basically, this bug allowed players to re-do quests over and over. these quests are meant to be a one-time action so the reward for such quests were actually quite considerable amounts of exp/items. but, quest bug combined with duping produced retarded results. for example, there is a quest where you turn in an "abyss blessing" for 10 million experience points. abyss blessings are normally a bit hard to farm to begin with so quest bug was pretty tough to do anyways, but then the turks started duping abyss blessings. so basically they turned in 10k abyss blessings for 10k x 10mil exp producing level 80 (normally the most dedicated 24 hour/day player would take at least 9 months to level from 1-80) out of nowhere.

5. and of course last but not least, the turks. like the guy findix up there, turks have really pretty much ruined this game. not considering the over-populated servers that now require premium, turkey is the lead group of people who abuse bugs, dupe, and use macro programs to illegaly gain levels. they insist on speaking turkish in the game, and now the majorities have flip-flopped so the main language used in game is actually turkish. a common conversation with the average 12 year old turkish kid who plays the game will go something like this.

turkish player: s.a
english player: hi english pls
turkish player: fCUK USA FCUK JSEUS Ý FCUK UR MATHER PROSTÝTUTE
turkish player: ZUHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

and of course the memory spans on these little kids seems to be close to nothing to the next day the same kid will pm you and say

turkish player: hý man ý lowe clan you
turkish player: pls abý wýll you take clan?
english player: no
turkish player: fCUK USA FCUK JSEUS Ý FCUK UR MATHER PROSTÝTUTE
turkish player: ZUHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

so. it used to be a great game (before turkey discovered it) but now that turkey runs rampant in the game

no. the game fucking blows. but because i have devoted so much retarded time to this crap game, i will just continue farming and selling items for USD until the english market disappears altogether (or until turkey finishes off the rest of the english players by hacking the english accounts. the best players of each server has almost always been a non-turkish player [even out of the 90%+ turkish majority], so turks insist on hacking good player's accounts in hopes that they will somehow obtain skill in this game as well. sadly, that is not the case, so they die miserably anyways.)


a funny little tidbit of info.

approximately ~ 2 years ago K2 actually had an official vote on whether or not they should ban the turkish ip range from accessing USKO servers (since K2 had already recognized turkey as a source of many of their problems at this point) and they turned it down because they would lose too much revenue from premium buyers.

This post was edited by scr1b on Jun 25 2007 12:13am

ill resume all this in a shorter sentence:



THIS GAME SUCK HAS HELL!!! CANT EVEN LOG AND PLAY W/O PROBLEMS!!!

i hope that direct enouff

Well the game is excellent. But if you're American you'll get annoyed by the Turkish playing this game. Probably like 90% or more of the players are Turkish and only speak Turkish.

Game has many bugs and last time I played it it would always shut down (like turn off servers) with errors and you couldn't get on. It can also get full with only like 3 channels per server so you gotta get on quick.

Gameplay is excellent I love the PvP Wars, items are a bit hard and it's quite easy to level in the early stages. Easy to get rich kind of too. Really fun though.

The company that runs it are pieces of crap. They don't care about shit and let all the hacks fly by. Overall I give it a 6/10.

Hope that helped.

Pros: Awsome PVP, nice graphics, You can merachant and fall asleep, tradeing items.

Cons: Barley Ever Get On if you dont have Peruime, Almost always laggy, lots of dupers,

I Suggest not tradeing for gold, just trade items with items, gold is highly duped, so is Gold bars.

i love the game. i actually have an all english speaking clan. i get no lag. the ppl who sya they lag have crappy comps most likely or use dial up. either way tis a good game. oo ya. fuck turkish players.add me. fufurifraf

Wait, gold can be duped? How is that? I would expect only items to be able to be duped.

I didn't know either...

look just stfu with ur fucking shit mouses want me to pm u my stat? my comp OWN all stfu man ... and dial up pfffffffffff

wow..
chill out.. dont have a seizure..