I got a copy of Granado Espada client today. I was curious to see how it is since I've been hearing that it's good and to others it's not good.

I logged in, created my character and went through the tutorial. After a few minutes of playing, I got bored. Don't get me wrong. The BGM, sound effects and the graphics are fine. But it's soooo.... ghey! It's a victorian themed mmorpg so don't be surprised. On their loading screen I read something like "Le Blanc armors available for level 100 coming soon." WTH! Sounds like it was made by some gay french designer!

Maybe I'll still try to play the game and give it another shot. Thank gawd, I didn't downloaded a 3GB worth of files!

-_-;

I played the game earlier and here are other comments.

Battle and Looting System
There are two ways you can kill monsters - manually or semi-manual. Apparently, manually is you click the monster and they'll attack. The semi-manual is that you control-click a spot full of monsters and they'll attack all the monsters around that spot. Same thing when picking up loots. But this time, you ctrl+shift click a spot where the loots are and they're going to pick up loots around that spot.

In-game bots
Yes, they have a legal bot. You can leave your character/s to level on their own but they won't loot items and "accepts" duels (pvp).

Doesn't promote community
In the long run, I think so. With the presence of in game bots, most players are afk. It's like log-in-and-leave-it game. Seriously.

AFK = no communication = no community

They're actually starting on the "end phase" of RO - bots. Another factor I think is their multi-player control or something like that. Coz in that game, you can control a party of 3. Think of Final Fantasy. Since you have a party on your own, why the need to party to others? Join a faction (guild)? Either they only invite high players, people who they know and they just don't feel like it. And even if you joined one, they're afk. This game is better left as a console game rather than an online game.