Bryan, I'm afraid that I disagree with that.

At first, I too had your opinion and I also thought that $20 was more than reasonable for a years access to premium content but at a point, after you have completed most of the quests, you cannot really advance without grinding, battling monsters to get experience to advance and to buy adventurer tocans which are necessary to get any weapons more powerful than the mr+22 sword (can't remember what it is called now, shiny something). I just wished that adventurer tocans weren't so important to complete the later quests. Though you get adventurer tocans as rewards, its not enough to get the sword that I want lol.

I might be entirely mistaken of course, as the GM does do updates and it has been years since I've last played. Bryan, do you know of other fantasy games like sryth?

Agreed Jade. I also hate the fact that the game starts asking you to "donate" right after you bought the paid status. I thought that once I got the paid subscription, I wouldn't have to channel anymore money into Sryth but I was sadly mistaken.

The focus on multiplayer competition is about to get worse in my opinion, since on their news page, they are "testing a new multiplayer combat system.". I would rather the GM write more adventures that mortals without adventurer tocan weapons can handle, rather than coming up with more and more multiplayer combat scenarios. Ultimately, the people who are most rewarded are those with the best weapons.

dan_c, I suppose it is a matter of opinion. If you don't mind buying hundreds of adventurer tocans to advance after you have complete all the AG missions you can, and if multiplayer combat is your kind of thing, then by all means, get the paid subscription.

I'll admit that the amount of multiplayer content is rather riddiculous since we're looking at a sixth scenario, andd to date only three of the current scenarios offer any real reward. From Tarramyre you get the FInger, from Ildraria we get the shards that let you eventually acquire the Wand of Dragonfire and from Ulgror you get the Tar Blobs that let you access the three gems. From Wurmwrit Farm  and Taldorus Redborn you get nothing beyond EXP and Battle Markers. So I hope this supposed Oakenking isn't going to be another one like that. And yes I do agree that the difficulty of new content has gotten out of hand and it's because of donating players. But it's thanks to players who've donated far more than I ever have. The game has flaws, I'm not denying that. But I disagree on it not being worth twenty bucks for a year's unlimited access. Maybe I'm biased, but I've seen no other fantasy game, and I mean NO other, that was either accessible or as engrossing as Sryth. And no, you don't HAVE to donate to the game, although maybe it does seem like that what with the Donate link being right at the top of every page. I'e thought about writing to the GM about that since while he has recently added a few adventures that do seem geared towards new players they have admittedly been outnumbered by the tougher ones. In fact my major complaint with Sryth, and others' as well, is the GM's tendency to create and begin interesting and compelling story arcs only to leave them hanging less than halfway done, often for years at a stretch. But I still feel the good points of Sryth far outweigh the bad. Every part of the game is more or less accessible and the writing of the stories is excellent. I've tried many other similar RPG's over the years and none of them is nearly as excellently written.

I'm gonna be brutal for a moment here. Sryth's storyline is -decently well-written, but brilliant? Hardly. If you play everything fast, you'll notice the same-ness of the writing...or rather, I certainly did. There are certain phrases and turns of events that simply crop up too much for my taste. This wouldn't make me decide not to shell out the money, one way or another, but I think that people claiming Sryth is brilliantly written are going just a touch overboard. I will, however, admit that we don't have any games of its caliber to compare it to, and that it does have many good points. My only point, really, is just this: you can pay the money, however small it is to you, and be only somewhat satisfied, or you can wait, hope things change and go that route.

Hmm I remember there was a sword that you needed 3 gems to unlock its full power. Has he completed those quests to get them yet?

Also, I've noticed that some players from the hall of fame have perfect stats. How do they achieve that? Do they get that from AT tocans? I once tried for several hours to roll till I got perfect stats but I ain't that lucky

What did you spend it on? It has been so long since I've since played. I think I used it for quickstone and a residence and I think the grey circle or was it something else that required adventurer tocans to access.