This game has nothing that the 'real' MMO's have, like the feeling of something worth spending your time on.

User Rating: 3 | RF Online PC
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This is a rant, if you really like this game, I'm sorry I just
want to spread the word so others do not make the same
mistake as I did when I got this game.
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I got RF online and I played it for 40-50 hours total, I didn't even finish my first free subscription to it because it was all flash and no substance whatsoever...

Where should I start, the classes, the races, the value or the meaningless PvP? Well let's take each of these elements and grind them down to gravel.

One thing that wowed me BEFORE i bought the game was the graphics, really nice looking graphics, it had a nice feel to it, it looked like the bloom effect was turned up on max and the anti-aliasing was tickling it really nicely, it ran smooth and everything was great. And to my surprise, it even looked good on my (at the time) low end system! CCR Inc gets my Kudos for that!

Let me tell you this first, if you are NOT into Asian cartoons like Manga, Anime etc, and if you hate it's guts and wish it nothing more than death, you will absolutely HATE this game.

This game has next to NOTHING when it comes to character customization, diversity what? There's always ALWAYS people that look like you in this game, even WoW has better character diversity! If you're looking for good character customization, I recommend checking out Everquest II or even Star Wars Galaxies!

Ok, so you start out as one of three races, you have the elf looking religious people, you have the small gnome midgets with the cute hair and you have the robots...

The movement controls are absolutely uncomfortable, you actually CLICK to walk, that's right! You click where you want your character to walk and it walks there. I don't know about you, but in my taste that is highly annoying!

The religious elf people's population consists of 98% females, because the people that play that race are prepubescent little boys that like to peak up their miniskirts, so don't be surprised if you can't find any diversity at all. All the small-mouthed big-eyed females have miniskirts and long elbow gloves and colorful hair.

The gnome midgets are small little engineers that don't look very different from the religious elf people, they would actually get along quite good by the looks of those two but due to some reason they are at war with each other. The gnome midgets are small and uhm, oh yeah, CUTE! They don't look like old men like the most gnomes in the MMO's (WoW or Eq2) but because of their body size, they have to make up for their small sizes and drive huge robots, or well, mechs... A mech costs a lot of cash (which really isn't a lot of trouble to achieve if you read on), and you have to be a certain level to ride one.

So what's next on queue to be bashed? Oh yeah the Robots!

The robots are the evil doers in the game, they run around and robot themselves all day long, don't ask what that mans, but at least the race that you ought to think has the LEAST diversity actually has the MOST diversity. Because when you loot new armor plates for your robot character, he actually gets cooler looking, very big plus!

The game has some cool looking clothes, if you're into Anime, some huge collars on your big leather jacket, some nice goggles to put on your head, yeah you'll look like something out of Final Fantasy with your gear... You'll be one of many Cloud and Sepheroth looking people!

So what does the game actually contain? They have a thing called Chip Wars every now and then where you fight for a big abandoned mine in the middle of the game, the race that wins the Chip Wars get the cave, and what do you do in the cave?

YOU STAND THERE WITH A MINING DRILL WHILE AFK AND GET RICHER AND RICHER! Go watch TV! Go hangout with your friends! Go to bed! Go kill yourself! YOU'RE GETTING RICH BABY! Way to go to DESTROY a game's ECONOMY! AFK MONEY MAKING!? WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, but that really pissed me off in this game...
So money is no problem, how is experience and the actual combat?

Well when you start out, there is a road from your HQ that leads up to a big portal or a door that leads into another zone, and everything is lined up on or by the road for you to kill, from level 1 to level 20... It's like, hi I'm a little monster and behind me is a bunch of other monsters that each and every one of them are slightly higher than me so just continue on the path if you don't get XP from me.

What!?

Yeah you literally walk a road and kill stuff by it, and believe me, don't worry if you pick something to big to chew, you have HEALING POTIONS WITH INSTA-HEAL WITH INSTA-CAST!

Say what!?

Yeah! Go buy 6000 healing potions, put them on your hotbar and get ready to bash your button like crazy! You just need to click your heal bottle or whatever whenever you're in a fight to survive, the one player with the most healing potions wins!

I really wish I could travel time and stop myself from paying for this crap!

And the Customer Service is WORSER than Sony Online Entertainment's! I had several bugs with my game and errors as well as problems, since the game is Asian the Game Masters need to forward the bugs to the HQ in Asia and the Western countries don't get patches until they are all translated and after huge delays... This game would be worth it's value if it was like Guild Wars, pay for the game but no monthly fee! I play a LOT of MMOs and I do not complain about monthly fees, because those games actually deserve the cash!

I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone, it'll only make you feel stupid for getting it. I should have listened and read the reviews of the other people here on GameSpot before I bought it, they all recommended against buying this and now I'm one of them. Be better than me, DO NOT BUY OR PAY FOR RF ONLINE!