I still have Voyage Century Online installed on my PC so I decided to drop by and say Hi to my Guildmates in ~Poseidon~.

VCO’s launcher did a quick update and judging from how fast it finished I can say that not much was added to the game since I last logged in last April, 2007 which is sad because VCO is large game and I was expecting a huge client update.

I spawned at high seas near London and I had problems controlling the ship. I already forgot how to play the game, hahahaha! While I was trying to re-learn the controls my favorite NPC Pirate appeared and attacked me, Emanuel Wynne. I entered Sea Battle in a panic because I already forgot what to do.

Emanuel Wynne rammed my level 6 ship and caused some damage to it. While I was still feeling my way around the menus and controls, {en:Emanuel Wynne} was bombarding my ship with cannon fire. Finally, I was able to find the grapple icon and decided to grapple Emanuel Wynne’s ship because that’s the only way I will win this battle now.

Grappling Emanuel Wynne’s ship was successful and since my character was more stronger than Emanuel Wynne victory was guaranteed. Wynne tried desperately to shoot my character down but at the end my character’s falchion was much better and much stronger than his riffle.

Emanuel Wynne was defeated but unfortunately he did not drop anything. You suck Wynne!!!! LOL!

Back at High Seas, I navigated the ship to London and there I continued to play with the menus and icons until I finally opened up the Guild window. The guild, ~Poseidon~, has 150+ members but the sad part is none of them were online.

Since I can’t say Hi to my guildmates, I did the next best thing and that is to say Hi to everyone using the Public channel. The public channel is only available to those that has a Viscount title and above. It also cost 100MP to send a message using the public channel.

Sofie, whom I think was a former ~Poseidon~ member, told me through the public channel that most of ~Poseidon~’s leaders and active members had transferred to other guilds. This strategy of moving or even creating a new guild because your current guild isn’t active is what I don’t understand. They worked very hard to make ~Poseidon~ DaGama’s number 1 guild only to leave it? Why not just kick out inactive members and then invite active ones? If the current leader suck then why not just change leadership? All of these features are available in VCO.

I stopped playing VCO not because the game suck, VCO is a great game, but because of how IGG handles or handled issues within the game. I feel that they are more concern on selling their “mall items” than improving game experience which I can’t really blame them since VCO is a Free Access game and they need to earn some money out of it but not to the extent of almost ignoring your players concerns and issues.

After my visit, I’ve uninstalled VCO from my PC since it’s just eating a lot of space from my harddrive! Goodbye Voyage Century Online, until next time!