My quick review for any casual player considering to join this pserver;
I am a casual player so I joined this server (as all previous ones) from nostalgic reasons and to re-live some of my childhood memories from my first mmorpg.
Positive experience:
I was lucky to meet some nice people in the game and on discord channel that helped me out and guided me through some parts of the game. Knowing that AL community on private servers has been more or less toxic made me think that this could finally be a pserver where people like me could find their place to stay and enjoy the game.
Negative experience:
After I reached lvl80+ I got to see how the "end game" and "top player" community looks like and soon realised that it is basically a very small group of people who
(after having a "conversation" with them and/or observed their behaviour) are way more OP then anyone else, PK everyone in Poison land and are being racist and what not in the chat and to everyone who is trying to contradict their behaviour.
These same players, one of them is a consultant for the pserver
are either whales or even worse they are close friends with the owners.
Now me personally have nothing against cash shop and myself been supporting many online games and pservers by making donations. I might be way wrong about this and they are just hard core players with nothing else in their lifes than playing this skeleton of a mmorpg - good for them, ey!
If the owner/s of this pserver would actually care about the longevity and player base they would not allow such behaviour and unbalanced gameplay. There is plenty of other ways to monetise/make sure that you as an owner get necessary or wanted donations to run the server and even get profit out of it.
There is plenty of ways this could be fixed and I am not here to write or discuss those. I only want to warn anyone else who is a casual player/is nostalgic about AL and would want to try this pserver that at least for now this pserver is nothing else then a "private fight club" of very arrogant and ignorant players on the top and everyone else is their bully victim. So prepare to be bullied up to a point where you will either quit or be fine with this toxic environment and "stay in the corner".
And just to be clear I loved AL because of PvP and PK aspects and I am completely aware that with such systems there will always be bullies but there has to be a certain balance to let everyone have some fun.
How can you have equal chances in a fight if opponent has a gun and guns are only accessible in the store that your opponent controls it?
I hope that the owners actually care about the community and will do some positive changes. So good luck and maybe see you around.
In case something improves I will update my review and gladly promote this pserver to my friends.
Peace and love