Kingdom Heroes MMORPG

Kingdom Heroes is a
new 3D MMORPG by Aeria
Games with a fantasy theme. It is set during the period of the
Three Kingdoms, which for some reason, is an extremely popular theme
amongst Chinese MMORPGs.
Games like Heroes of
Three Kingdoms, Three Kingdoms: The
Battle Begins and Warriors
of the Three Kingdoms for example are all set during the exact same
time period. The names can get confusing, I know. The game is
currently in closed beta, but for some reason I was able to log in to
the game without a beta key, so maybe you don’t even need one?

After a few days or playing, or maybe I should say not playing, I’m
level 50. I say ‘not playing’, because Kingdom Heroes is one of those
games you can leave on and the game will sort of play for you. No, it’s
not exactly like Godswar Online or Battle of the
Immortals, but the game has this soldier system, where soldiers
(your pets) can be set to attack nearby enemies automatically. The way
to gain experience easily is to set your soldiers to attack nearby
enemies (weak ones, so your soldiers never die) and then go do something
else while leaving the game running. I found leaving the game on over
night to be the most effective way to level up.

You could say this ruins the game, but I find it to be interesting
as no one really plays Kingdom Heroes for it’s PvE elements. Kingdom
Heroes is a PvP MMORPG,
meaning the PvP is really the game’s main attraction. So the whole
easy AFK leveling system sort of works well. Though it makes me
question the reason behind it. Why put up the charade? Why not let
players start at max level automatically so they can jump right into the
PvP rather than leaving their PCs on leveling their characters for a
week. I can tell though, even though I’m still playing Kingdom Heroes, I
expect to quit it within a week. The whole auto leveling will make the
game boring in the end. After all, I’m spending more time NOT playing
Kingdom Heroes than actually playing it.

I guess I should stick with the best fantasy
MMORPGs instead of playing random ones. The reason I’m even playing
Kingdom Heroes is that I recently quit Allods Online from gPotato
and got bored of playing Trickster Online
from Ntreev.
So I have a lot of free time.