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Potential, but well worth waiting a year or so.....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

mmmm ok let's start by saying the game is on version 7.something now and it's still slow on a high end system. You can walk around for a while and not find anything to kill in the world that is if you survive the updates and the loading wait. When you finally get into the world your greated with your character on a grey background as it finnishes loading, then you see the same sometimes in the background as distant objects load. Secondly the billing is through ibill, which meaans Horizons does not have it's own billing system. This could be the reason why everywhere you look about the game you never see the freaking price of a monthly subscription which is currently $12.95. Not an unreasonable price given the recent MMORPG prices but we would like some prior warning as to how much each month before we buy. Secondly since the billing is through ibill you have to call ibill to cancel the account which I have decided to do, I'll have access till January 11 and then I'll wait a year or so for the beta version to be updated enough to play without wanting to chew your arm off.

very confusing and complicated account creation

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After you shell out a couple of dozen bucks on CD, you need to pay additional dozen bucks a month to keep online account. Horizons account creation is absolutely the worst I have ever experienced (and I played quite a few games online).
It requires patches that themselves require administrator privileges. After installation, launching the account gave me a puzzling message that the game is not installed. If you ever felt the worst features that Microsoft has - big, complex, buggy - that is the feeling that Horizons leaves.
Extremely disappointed..

game with potential but vastly unfinished

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After playing this game for 6+months I cant recommend it to anyone. The graphics are nice for a little bit but have issues with ATI cards, sounds is average and the gameplay while promising is missing a terrible amount of content. The weekly events are now monthly and uninspired, very few monsters and a lot on incomplete classes/features with no ETA on introduction.

The company has downsized due to financial issues and thus bug fixes and feature introduction that was tauted as in game on release are still not in with no time frame.

The economy is player based totally, but is out of whack, where crafters prefer to sell to npc's than players and being an adventurer serves the only purpose to fork money over to the crafters for items you cannot get anyway/anywhere else.

So much is broken in there currently it's not funny. Even dragons the major selling point are far from completed.

An interesting way to waste your time

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Out of all the games out in 2003, I think I enjoyed this one the best. The graphics were pleasing, there was plenty of content, and a great community feeling. While the xp grind was there (get used to killing wolves...lots of wolves) it was masked by quests, community, and a good crafting set up. On top of that was the slightly unusual role play for dragon toons, who aged and developed over time until they gained the power of flight.

Getting better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've played this game on and off for a while now, and I can say that it is getting better. Most of the issues past reviewers have complained about have been fixed, and content is being added each month. This game is now almost where it should have been at release:P. 1 more year in development would have been better than an early (very bugged) release, but it has been getting better.

Not for the discriminating gamer

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: December 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Horizons has potential. I'm saying that mainly because of all the things that are supposed to be slated to come in post-release.

I beta'd Horizons from late August until they shut down the servers on Dec 4. The game evolved a bit over that time, but nothing that would make it ground-breaking or mind-blowing.

Graphics - For a next-gen MMORPG they are mediocre at best and even if you crank them up the visuals don't make up for the 5-6 FPS and horrendous rubberbanding lag. (This on a 2.8GHZ with 1.5 Gig RAM, GeForce FX 5600)

Crafting - Good move up the ladder, but still not enough to make you jump up and down. You HAVE to literally craft everything in this game. There are no loot drops such as weapons, armor, etc. The loot drops are formulae, cash and various crafting components (like crystals for socketed items). Crafting is fun for awhile, but then it just gets to be a level treadmill just like every other game. You can build houses, your own shops in which to sell things, storage silos, etc. If all you're looking for is crafting, this game does it pretty well.

Adventuring - No dungeons. It is a seamless world with portals to help you move faster, but other than that you can run pretty much anywhere (provided there are bridges to connect over water...which you may have to get a group together to repair...hence crafting again). Creatures and their Advanced AI are lackluster for the most part. Things you've seen before (skeletons, zombies, golems) and some you haven't (ruxus, strawblights). Point and click combat. Very little strategy involved even in a group.

Characters - Pretty much all 1 race with different skins. Not enough variation to make picking one over the other give you any noticable advantage (save for Dragons which, in the final weeks, were tweaked to make them more unique). Definitely not enough character cosmetic customization at this point. You've seen one, you've seen 'em all basically.

Skills and Advancement - Unimaginative. Leveling treadmill just like most of the other MMORPGs out there. Kill so many of creature x to get lvl y. Craft so many of item x to get lvl y.

Even if they add in all the things they are claiming will come in at some point post-release this game might go the way of EA/Westwood's Earth and Beyond and be in the bargain bin for $5.00 in 3-6 months.

There should be a law against incomplete MMORPGs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 15
Date: January 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Why did I let myself spend $50 on this game?! ARGH! I've been playing for 2 weeks now, and there is downtime aplenty, bugs, no maps, and item disappearance galore. They even have an item replacement policy on the homepage it happens so much. I am so completely disgusted with this game. Star Wars Galaxies had problems, but there was something to *DO*. There are ACRES of non-content, and server lag will have your characters and MOBS rubber-banding all over.. And I have a fast cable modem. Further, when trying to engage MOBs, you have to chase the thing for 15 feet before you finally attack, usually in the middle of a camp. You never have any idea where you are, there are no maps, no locate "/loc" coordinate system, no "/where" to find NPC's.. I HATE THIS GAME! GIMME MY MONEY BACK!!

Must Buy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: December 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks -- played 2 months of beta and haven't had this much fun in an MMOG in a Looooooooong time. Beautiful world and lots of innovative concepts. blah blah I could go on forever but I gotta buy a few more copies for the wife and kids.

5 stars all the way

Billing issues

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: December 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have tried for days to create an account and all I get is this rather generic message:
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An error occurred processing your billing information. For detailed information on this error, please send an email to horizons@ibill.com. Your email will be answered within 24 hours or less.

It is important that you contact customer service before you attempt to make a payment again. Repeated attempts to submit this credit card may result in a temporary freeze of funds on your account.
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Doesn't really explain anything, does it? I tried contacting their billing support but only got an automated response. So far nothing has worked. Even tried different credit cards but got the same message.

I really can't rate it higher than one if I can't even manage to get in.

They obviously have organization issues. I suggest all looking into buying this game hold out for at least a few months while they resolve their problems.

Great game but don't buy used!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

While still working out some gltiches, the overall experiance is great with a fabulous user-based commerce and a lot of fun in the adventuring areas as well.
The glitches are not all worked out but one would assume subsequent released would fix this.

A note: DO NOT BUY THIS GAME USED. The Cd-Keys and accounts are NOT transferrable and establishing your own account will not be possible with Artifact Entertainment if the game has already been registered. Artifact will NOT transfer the code or account. I've already had to purchase a second copy of the game after a used version was untransferrable. Customer support was very helpful and polite but unable due to user agreements to assist on that one.

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