Closers

I wish this game studio would close

The raids are awesome and very hard, the gameplay is fluid, you really need to learn to dodge the mechanics or you will be killed even in higher gear. The character roaster is balanced in PvE and everybody has a spot, no need to wait for supports and even if you play the support character you do a lot of damage.

The game is grindy and time gated, to be the absolute best you will have to pay to get the best tunning, the best costume, the highest enhance,.. But it is very welcoming to casuals since your end game gear comes mostly from farming and crafting them an you can do everything in +13 gear, which you can get easily from events).

Right now it just need more people to do content and to buy and sell more costumes at a good price.

I originally enjoyed the game very much. It had a Elsword like feel to it with more modern flare to it. I played before and a little after the official release of the game and bought a founder's pack. I didn't get far but i remember reaching around level 70 on my Seha and around 20-50 in the other black lambs and Nata and Levia. I didn't get all my hours on steam as i did also utilize the En Masse launcher when they were still afloat.

The game play is decent and can be very engaging. The art style is quite nice for being a 2 year old game and a decent tiny story/ for each of the characters to boot.

They deleted my account :(

For new players

Gameplay
The gameplay was essentially the same from two years ago no major change from what I remember. If you liked Elsword, Closers will feel like home. A much nicer home. Thats only fun when visiting not living in. It gets tiresome and repetitive fairly quickly like other games its competing with. In short term it will do nicely for delivering that dopamine kick. Having relatively fluid skills, movement, and combos. I think the primary issue that some people found annoying is the fatigue mechanic. But if you don't no life it there really isn't much of an issue. Short play sessions are best with this game imo.

Art style
Anime. nice for 2 years. i would let the handsomeboyfucme.

Good time for new players
This is actually a nice time to try out the game. Partcularly due to the instant level 67 team rattus event. Also as you can see from some of the negative reviews. A sizable amount of older and veteran accounts got wipe. So you can have the feeling of playing on release.

Optimization
I personally haven't noticed something terribly off with optimization. But thats due to me playing on a work computer and laptop for like 7 years. Other people have apparently idk the deal with that.

Exiting the game
I had fun closing closers +1 point

Lifespan?
To be honest I am unsure of how long the game will last now that En Masse had gone under. I have some hope maybe they will go another 3 years if we don't kill ourselves. But this is Naddic's only game so far and they don't have a big publisher or another company to fall on if they can make ends meet. I'm not entirely sure the capability ~800 players keeping a game like this afloat. Elsword's got around the same number of players so it should be fine. I think***** (rant after)

I have also seen someone mention just downloading the Code Closers version if you just want something light and quick and don't plan on getting to far in the game story wise. But I haven't tried it out myself

For old players and my personal rant I'm mad and petty this is literally irrelevant

Personal bias/issue
Due to En Masse closing and going under. I have lost all my items, DLCS, and founders status. I did try to see if they were able maybe give at least the title back to my new account. But sadly they did not. I understand it was 100% my own fault for not seeing the short notice of 3 account migration emails over the span of 3 months. But I do not understand why the migration was manual and not automatic. If you want me to ramble on more about this i can try responding to comments.

Coming back to the game
Downloading was a hassle. Downloading the game on anything other than the main drive of computer would cause some error with one of the data packs. I restarted the patch download twice because it kept hiccuping on certain data packs. Then I tried to download the game on my main drive and no issue occurred.
The download itself took an egregiously long time. I had a friend try the game out with me and he complain about the download times as well. It took me nearly 3 hours to download the patch. I have fiber and gigabit speeds. But perhaps I might be the only one with this issue? I didn't have the right internet or SSD I am not sure.

Creating a new character
In current time of writing there is an event of new Team Rattus characters being instantly level 67 when created. Its open to everyone returning and new players. I personally find an issue with this. As a "new player" I find that pretty cool. I don't have to work harder to get to a relatively high level. But if I was a returning player who had multiple characters with a high level feel kinda cheated out. I would at least expect maybe you need at least one character who was already at that level to get the instant level 67 perk.

In all I'm just be a petty person trying to find bad reasons to hate the game.
Try it out and make your own opinions
If you didn't like closers try elsword if you haven't try it already

*****
I am guessing on the number of closer players, I used steam charts and a guess of players not accounted due to naddic's own launcher. Guess literally has no basis.
Next bit is literally another irrelevant rant i just like wasting time. Im not an analyst and i dont have advanced understanding of trends. just doing surface readings feel free to shut me down. i have no clue what im saying.
Comparing it to some other mmorpgs on steam Closers seem to be little below. Basing it all on steam charts.

Vindictus a 9 year old game running on source developed by devCat, is doing better in avg players and in peak players. They also have Nexon as publisher to fall back on. They also have their own launcher which has unaccounted players
Vindictus Steam charts

Elsword 6 years old developed and published by KOG games is doing slightly better than closers. KOG also owns Kurtpel and grand chase (Mobile game) Elsword Steam charts

Maplestory 2 had a two year life span. Prior to its announced closure on march 2020 had a steady 500-600 avg players per month in the previous 6 months (solely on steam). MP2 Steam charts

Granted closers had a small player base from the beginning the fact still stands they don't really have something to fall back on if something bad happens.
Closers Steam charts

Some bs analysis
during first month of account migrations on October it had the lowest player avg it had. prior to that it had continued to decline. then next months it has increase possibly due to old players coming back to migrate accounts. After the month of January there is possibility that the player numbers will continue to decline. Also with the prospect that they lost some old veterans i would be surprised if the game lasts more than 2 more years if they dont revamp something. feel free to chat about this with me. I am posing as someone who knows something that really knows nothing

biggest wallet draining anime PC game out there, good luck getting anywhere or forming a party with anyone if you aren't prepared to sink 1000's of dollars into the game, it might as well be a mobile gotcha (gacha) game, devs are as generic as they come and pander towards getting you to spend more money into the game, avoid like the plague unless you're one of those fanatics who enjoys spending 1000's of dollars on a bunch of pixels and JPGs that hold absolutely NO real value to anyone.


Man, I miss when games were all about effort, not about who has the biggest disposable income.

I loved this game, but hope that this review will prevent even a single person from expeirencing what I went though.

To sum up my experience
https://i.imgur.com/sbnwx0z.png
That is EME's support team lead trying to delete my account after I screamed not to.(I didnt know it was the support team lead until he deleted my account)
https://i.imgur.com/ThPmwBi.png
Over a month later I stand with a deleted account after battling to have all of my personal information removed from their records.

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This is my full experience with CLOSERS.

I enjoyed the game even with all the bad translations and some characters talking to the wrong people. The only real problems I had were from the "support" staff. Buy items at your own risk, you will not recieve any help from the support team.

Several months in I purchased an Item they had advertized as having an effective rate of 13.8% chance to obtain one of the best of prized items. I purchased 17 of those $20 packs and accepted what RNG would do. I earned one of the top prizes. 2 days later I learn that the 13.8% chance I had been lead to believe was a lie. The rate was actually hidden and below 1% total. After being informed I immediately requested that Support refund all of the boxes as the rates I recieved were not what I had paid for. They completely refused.


Months pass, I purchase the $250 pack while an event is happening. Again one of the listen items in the event was not as I expected so I asked for a refund without opening anything. I ask support explaining everything, they refused to refund the $250 pack based on the related event item "has been opened." I tried again a week later claiming to be an imbicile that clicked the wrong pack and was refunded by a different support staff member(team lead man was angry at this person.) After checking that the event item was safely removed, and that my extremely similar item from the $20 boxes was not removed I concluded that I was safe.

Months pass and I learn that the Item I had won from the boxes was missing. I check everywhere before asking support where the item has gone. They inform me that they only keep purchase records for exactly 1 month and can not help me. I have played video games for 25 years and regularly reach endgame status. I am not incompetent enough to accidentally delete a valueable item AND be unaware of it. EME went out of their way to delete my item that I had paid good money for. A week later they then had the gaul to say "be careful next time" when presenting me with the item that should never have been deleted.

At this point I was pretty upset at their service and requested the BBB to intervine as I saw they had 12 other answered BBB complaints.

A week passes. I request that EME move my SOD 10/10 piece set to a different character as multiple other friends had already done this. I was not just refrused, I was refused the transfer of my SOD TITLE. I had asked nothing about this title, the guy straight up didnt read my request. This effectively became harassment as this support staff locked out the ability for any other staff to answer so I turned to the discord for assistance.

To answer my call was the support team lead who looked very heavily into all of the tickets involved. He then replied "We do not offer the service of transfering a title." No joke.
The guy that was supposed to have read the support tickets checking for harassment responded with the exact same error. I could not have been more clear in saying 10/10 piece SoD accessory costume yet somehow both support staff thought this meant a worthless thing like a title.
Even after being presented with evidence that this transfer was done for other players the guy still refused.

A week passes and I realise that it is possible the entire company is retaliating for the BBB complaint they still had not answered. This meant they would have no interest in recovering me as a customer so I wanted my personal info removed from their systems. The support lead offered deleting my account, but I realised that account deletion would do nothing about the players council application I had put in. I wanted this fraud company to have none of my info.

At this point I made a choice, I wanted to keep playing as I still enjoyed the game and had spent a good deal of money and time on it. I requested all information be deleted that was possible without removing the account. EME was not to make another penny, I had still had months of play time remaining.

68 hours pass and the support team lead responds to the statement "DO NOT DELETE MY ACCOUNT" with "as per request we will remove your account from our systems."
Needless to say, I freak out a bit. Not only does this company hold my personal info hostage, they are screwing with me. I spam every EME member I can on the discord for help in dealing with this support staff that is trying to delete my account without permission.

The BBB complaint goes through unanswered after 35 days and is officially posted on BBB as EME's first unanswered complaint dropping their rating from B+ to D+ (updated for 2018/10/30 they are now F after leaving somebody else's complaint unanswered.) to quote the support team lead "I do not believe the BBB to be a credible organization." Why did they answer 12 complaints before if it was not credible?

5 days of spamming EME staff about the attempt to delete my account the support team lead finally responds claiming that "you selected a category that automatically recieves this response" I had selected the category that best described my request, and nowhere on that was I informed that it was account deletion exclusive. Furthermore it took 68 hours for that "automatic" reply, so much for EME claiming to not be robots. At this point the support lead told me that I needed to contact Xsolla as they for some reason my my credit card info instead of EME. EME waited 23 days to pass the buck. For reference, in the 5 minutes I was on Xsolla's website I; found the live chat button, identified my cancelled credit card number that I no longer physically held, removed my name and address from their records. FIVE MINUTES! Seriously that experience was amazing. 5/5 stars for solving problems in minutes unlike EME who creates problems for months.

More weeks pass and I FINALLY manage to have them remove all of my personal info. I am now able to play until my time is up without paying another penny.

One day passes. EME implemented a new system. in order to log in, you must agree to allow EME to sell your personal information and provide a link to what it is they collect and share. The first thing they list is account name and password. After all the lies and slander EME put me through I was not able to say that they 100% would not sell my account name and password.

I was banned on discord for questioning this and had 5 open and locked support tickets. EME's support ticket system prevents you from opening any more than 5 tickets at a time. I was unable remove my remaining account info and delete the account.

2 weeks later I managed to contact a players council member to middleman my account's deletion.

EME claims to hire gamers for gamers. I can say even without bias, EME has had 2 of the worst "gamers" I have ever seen in any game after 20 years of multiplayer experience. These players represent EME on live twitch streams. Playing the game for months and still have issues with the most basic of controls such as jump or what will this skill do. Your staff didnt even know the difference between a title that does nothing and a 10 item combination that can double your combat stats.


Here I stand betrayed by a company that I thought had support staff who cared about its players. I never thought I would find a support team worse at their job than NCsoft but EME managed to pull it off. A support staff's job is supposed to make players want to pay the company. Nice job.

With close to 1,000 Hours on record for this MMO i would like to share my thoughts. As someone who has reached endgame on multiple characters. Having one of those said characters have the Best in Slot gear and near perfect Stats. This game is extremely fun. But it does cater to a niche audience. and with that i will list the major points for this game.

1. Fatigue
- This isn't really a problem once you have an established account FTG(Fatigue) and have access to multiple characters all doing something. At the start it can be rather annoying and a limiter to the amount of time you can put into any character. You start with 170 FTG at first and gradually over the course of 7 days accrue 1190. Your next options would be to start a new character or just play a different game. Id highly suggest starting a new character, not only does it make the game fresh from viewing the story from a different point of view, but also it allows you to experience different class play styles. IT IS NOT ABOUT BUTTON SMASHING. There is a lot more depth to character skills and rotations than one would think, but i'll get to that later. As i said each character is alloted 1190 FTG a week and the max amount of account fatigue one can have is around 5740. This means you can potentially play upwards of 4.8 characters a week. Let me tell you, with the amount of hours i have, you will not be using up all that account FTG. Unless you have a lot of time on your hands, maybe. But if you work or go to school you will not max it. That leads to my 2nd point

2. Endgame
- Endgame is rather straightforward, you reach close to the level cap (70) and you start Tiamat or EX Zone. It's a rather challenging zone to be in for those undergeared but with the recent patch as of 5/8/2018 it made gearing less painful. However true endgame depends on what you enjoy. Do you want to do more damage for faster runs, or look pretty. That's pretty much your only 2 options for True Endgame. Getting gear is pretty straight forward and just requires dedication to dailies. However getting near perfect stats or enhancement levels requires in game credit’s and a lot of time. IT IS NOT REQUIRED TO HAVE PERFECT STATS OR A +14/15. Do not let people fool you or make you feel bad because you have all +10's and low stats compared to them. Everyone is literally overgeared for the content and simply want to speedrun. As long as your gear stay's up to date, the tunings and enhancement levels are simply min maxing, and that is all there is to it.

3. Characters and Skills.
- Do not believe people when they tell you "All you do is faceroll on the keyboard and that's it. Big Damage" this isn't even close to being true. Some classes have a long wind-up to do BIG DAMAGE and others require only a small setup to execute their hard hitting skills. A quick example is my Tina. Tina requires a rather lengthy setup in order to do full Damage of her main skill "Hot Shot". It requires first maintaining several buffs and on top of that using her Fridge skill to get cryogen stacks. Once you have achieve 10 stacks of Overheat and 8 stacks of Cryogen then and only then should you use Hot Shot for maximum damage. Not only that but it has a shorter cooldown if used while maintaining a skill chain of at least 3. You see where i'm going with this. It's rather a lot to remember but with practice it becomes second nature. And all classes are somewhat similar. There is a lot of depth to each and every class that isn't hard to Master.

4. Pay to Win and EME.
- For my last and final point i want to address the elephant in the room. Pay to Win and EME. let me be clear and say that THERE IS NO PAY TO WIN as with most MMOs now a days is all pay for convenience or reducing the grind. This remains true even in closers. There are packs that sell +12 boosters and later +13. But remember my 2nd point? Having all that is not required and simply used to speed run through dungeons. You just need the gear which will never ever be behind a paywall. Everything that comes after said gear is up to you. No one will not invite you because you do not have a +13. I will address Plat elite in regard to Tiamat as some have argued that Plat Elite is pay to win. Plat Elite is the 2nd level of Elite the premium membership. It only requires you pay 3 months worth of elite IN ONE SITTING. Thus unlocking Plat Elite for the remainder of your elite status. In regards to Tiamat, the raid boss will drop 1 malek crystal box which is equivalent to 300,000 credits. If you have elite you receive not only 1 additional run but 1 additional box (potentially). However plat elite also adds one more box on top of that. Therefore you could potentially receive 3 boxes per run or around 900,000 credits. I say potentially because only the box for receiving a SSS rank is guaranteed while the other 2 have a somewhat common chance to be earned. Now say you play multiple characters (lets go with 5) and do Tiamat on all those characters you could potentially receive upwards of 60 malek crystal boxes (4 runs per character) or around 18 Million credits a day. I for one play 6 characters (soon 8) and do this same tactic. It is the best money making method in the game, hands down. But it requires effort and a lengthy setup. You have to gear the characters to make the runs smoother, you also have to manage your account FTG so that way you do not reach FP cap and risk losing runs. All in all, it requires a lot of work and therefore i do not see this as Pay to Win, as it is the work that is the byproduct of the amount of money spent. Some people do not have the time nor even wish to put the effort into doing this.

Now for EME they are a company and are a publisher, they will not always make the right decisions nor have the best way of saying it. They make mistakes, they may even lie. If the company causes you to not play the game, then simply do not play it. But i highly suggest to reconsider. This game is fun and enjoyable. or else i would not have put so many hours into it. We receive updates every 2 weeks, thanks to EME and Naddic ( the developer). We constantly send feedback and hear from EME and Naddic, most of the time we are not in the dark about things going on. EME is also very transparent about what's going on and own up to their mistakes. Overall i give them a Thumbs up, but a Thumb's down because of the recent update caused current players to play eventless which is rather wasteful. However i will sweep this under the rug and hopefully they are honest when they say "We will learn from this and going forwards ensure this does not happen again" Only time will tell.

Closing Thoughts

Overall i love this game. The combat is smooth, the animations are beautiful, the character designs are eye catching. And the costumes, the costumes are just wonderful. Realistically there isn't much one can do to stay constantly busy, but you can find a way. Most of my hours are actual play time and i try my best to manage my time with work and life and the game, but it's pretty difficult and i never end up using all my FTG every week. Only about 40 hours or so are probably afk. Forgive me for such a lengthy essay but i wanted to be as thorough as possible in my review (which is also my first) and really explain to everyone what they are getting into. I am indeed a paying player (or whale as some call me), but i play the game and put lengthy amount of hours into it. I do not wish to be above or below anyone and simply want to enjoy the game as it is. Just because i may have better stats than you does not make me better than you. If you require teaching , i will teach you. If you want me to you help you in a run, i am more than willing to help anyone. I simply spend money because i enjoy the game that much and wish to see it flourish. Thank you reading.

I just wanted to let people know not to try out one character and think you know how the game plays (I'm seeing some other reviews doing just that). Different characters fight in different ways. As far as combos go, they are basically short unless you figure out how to chain multiple combo moves on your own, which totally works. You go from one short combo into the next and then into the next and some moves flow much better than others into another move.

Everybody can turn any costumes into the higher tiered costumes over time (and the store bought ones are only start a single star above the found ones). The tuning systems mean that there isn't a lot of bonus to store bought stuff other than the straight out premium systems, which are a basic amount of money each month, not some pay to win system where you spend many hundreds or thousands to be stronger than the next person, who then spends multiple hundreds that night to beat you, back and forth etc etc.

Free to Play games notoriously get bad ratings from people who just assume it's going to be pay to win, lots of people normally jump in to give negative ratings just on the principle that they dislike F2P, luckily this one isn't there yet and is still mostly positive at this time. Hopefully people see that the systems are *mostly* fair in this one.

If you want to play all day long it may seem like you don't have a lot of fatigue to start, but that will change over time. One, as you make more characters you get a pool of fatigue to draw from and just creating side characters you don't use gives you more fatigue right off. Two, a housing and gardening system opens up after a bit of playing and when you do gardening and housing explorations those will level up. As your house levels up you get way more stamina. People may panic to know there's a stamina system but it really is fairly easily overcome. When you first start it seems like it might be more restrictive because you don't have a lot on your first character at low level, personally I never was able to play enough to use up my stamina even back then. I'm sure some people will be, but if you really want to play that much all day long you should probably consider the subscription service which gives you stamina potions to use up.

So far the game hasn't been doing any of the blunders that Kritika Online did. They did some really cheesy moves trying to make extra money that screwed Founders and early purchasers over on that game. I hope and think maybe they learned their lesson because they haven't done those same things here yet. Let's hope they don't :D

I've mentioned quite a lot of things other than the gameplay. It's a side scrolling beat em up with up and down movement as well. As you level up skills they get more combo moves and effects added to them, as well as getting many more skills overall, so it's sort of hard to tell how a character will play when you first are using them but just kow you'll get many more options and moves if you keep playing.

To me the gameplay is fairly decent but the game shines more with the stories it tells. There are different sides to the story that you will only see if you play different characters that are inside the various major factions in the game. Right now the 2nd faction only has a single character, though I find her story to be one of the best, there are 4 more characters coming to that faction in the future along with a 3rd faction that isn't in this version yet.

This game is a cel-shaded side-scrolling MMO with an anime style. You play as one of 13+ characters (6 currently on this version) and progress through their story. There are 3 teams of characters (2 currently on this version), and each has their own story. Every character has unique story dialogue, but the story remains mostly the same for each team. The quests are fully voiced, but in Korean, and requires an additional download on their website. This game does a much better job with story than other MMOs I've played. It actually motivated me to keep leveling the first time around. I suggest not skipping through it.

There is a fatigue system. You start with a limit of 170 fatigue, and every day that character gets 170 more points added to their fatigue cap until it reaches 1190. There is also an account-wide fatigue bar that limits you to 2380 fatigue spent per week. This cap is raised by leveling housing (free) or buying character slots (real money). The maximum account fatigue you can have is 5740, giving almost enough to spend all fatigue on 5 characters/week. How far do the points go? Dungeons cost 0, 5, or 10 fatigue, with the majority costing 10.

You are meant to level more than one character. You get significant buffs that scale with the level of each character. As examples, you get 300 physical and psi power for the rest of your characters if you level Seha to 70, and 5% attack speed if you level Yuri to 70. The character that grants the bonus doesn't benefit from the bonus.

There is 1 vs 1 and 3 vs 3 PvP. I haven't done this much, but it rewards you with costumes/furniture/titles/emotes/misc. items.

There is a housing and gardening system. You get a room that has pre-set slots that you can place furniture in. There are a limited variety of skins you can buy to change how the room looks. You can set up your other characters to use the furniture that you've placed, but until a future patch your house can't be visited by other people. There's an expedition system inside the house that lets you send characters on exploration missions. Exploration makes them unusable for set periods of time, but they come back with experience and items. Gardening has pre-set slots and skins like housing, but instead of exploration you can grow plants that can be harvested after a set period of time. Harvested plants give enhancement items or credits. Both exploration missions and gardening increase your housing level, increasing your account fatigue.

Endgame currently consists of running Planar Gate dungeons, which have a chance of dropping epic gear at a fairly decent rate. They can be soloed with great to little difficulty, depending on your level of gear. Planar Gate also unlocks the PNA experience bar. PNA is a system where you can insert genes into slots in a UI to increase stats like physical damage, movement speed, and experience bonus. Running Planar Gate or event dungeons gives you PNA experience, and each grade of gene has a PNA level requirement, After the patch on February 6th, Closers will get its first raid, Tiamat. I don't know the details of raiding yet unfortunately, but it's supposed to be much more difficult than the current endgame.

The auction house is referred to as the black market and is unlocked at level 36. Items have a fixed minimum and maximum price, with cash shop items tending to have the most leeway.

Since I mentioned the cash shop, let's talk about that now. The cash shop sells: furniture, pets, costumes, megaphones, name changes, and various consumables. Those consumables include items that let you combine costumes and enhance gear with less risk. All of the items in the cash shop can be either found as drops, crafted, or bought from other players on the black market.. except for 3 things: elite status, housing vip, and gardening vip. Housing and gardening VIP let you complete explorations and grow plants faster, shaving off 6-12 hours of exploration or growth time. Gardening VIP let's you grow more plants per day, and gives you 1 rainbow tree seed each day, which can yield cash consumables like synchro fiber(costume combine) or megaphones. Housing VIP gives you access to 1-2 extra exploration stages that give random cash consumables each day, including washing machines (more on them later). The VIP status has 2 tiers, the second tier is unlocked by having >30 days left on your VIP duration and is removed when you drop below it. Each month costs 990 EMP ($10 without a discount or bundle).

Elite status also has two tiers: elite and platinum. Platinum is active when you apply 90 days of elite, but unlike housing and gardening VIP, platinum is permanent once you activate it. I am unsure if using elite after platinum expires will give platinum or elite status though (from 0->30 days). Elite costs 1490 ($15 without discount or bundle) per month. Elite removes the credit cost of decreasing skill levels, lets you wear gear 5 levels higher than you, gives 20% extra credits, 10% item find, and 10% dungeon clear experience, gives 1 extra entry for dungeons that have an entry limit, increases the resurrection capsule refill per day from 5 to 10, gives 1 extra end-of-dungeon card reward, and gives a 60 fatigue potion, random consumable box, and random ingredient box every day in the mail. Platinum gives everything elite does, except 100 fatigue potion instead of 60, a washing machine daily, 1 more extra end-of-dungeon card reward, 5 more resurrection capsules refilled daily (10->15), 10% more credit bonus, 5% more item find, and 5% more experience.

So what are washing machines? Washing machines are a gachapon system. You use one and get a random item back. Washing machines have a reasonable chance of being obtained from clearing 10 special ops missions every day. Some events reward them, but otherwise, as far as I know, they're a cash shop item. They cost 58 emp (58 cents roughly) each if you grow them in housing, or 90-100 each if you buy them directly from Bitna. They contain random consumables (mostly junk), random costumes, and rarely they give phase wings, a pet, or a signature costume accessory.

Signature costumes are rare costume sets that give extra stats, change your voice, change some of your animations, give you an emote, and change your character skin (picture displayed in UI to represent you). They have 10 pieces, 4 of them are accessories and obtained through washing machines, and 6 of them must be obtained by combining two costumes together using synchro fibers. Combining two 2-star costumes together has a 10% chance to give a signature costume for that slot, while 3 star costumes have a 75% chance. They can all be listed on the black market, so you can just buy them if you want. The signature set currently available is called Dark Command.

Finally, I'd like to talk about how the game realistically plays out. If you want a signature set, each piece will cost you 35-65 million to buy off the black market. 2-star costumes run between 4.5 and 10 mil, 3 star costumes are about 22 mil each, with synchro fibers costing 3-4.5 mil. So combining them is cheaper if you succeed, and you can use free event costumes that we'll get in the future to save some money. Effect costumes that give stats are all super expensive and rare, except for the ones you can craft through housing and gardening. Those take 90 days to craft and cost about 100 mil. A reasonable expectation of credits to earn from farming is 4-7 mil per day per character, at max level. A large portion of your credits earned come from items that drop and are sold for a fixed price, so elite status doesn't give a major advantage.

Upgrading gear to +10 is easy and beyond +11 difficult. Everything is trivial right now with +10 super gear (planar gate), but raid isn't out yet and I'm not sure what that demands. Stamina is not an issue and I tend to run out just before reset. Hitting level cap is pretty fast and easy. Hope I laid out enough for you to decide.

It's a bit of hit and miss with this one. I want to love it but the game pretty much stops me from having too much fun. All the other reviews are about spot on. Game looks great, lots of cosmetics. Combat is fluid and feels great chaining skills together. I just wish I could play more but after one night of playing im already capped on stamina (fatigue) and i can't play my character anymore. What a shame. It's the oddest thing to do for a PC game. So now I have two choices. Either A) create a new character to play on (until i stam cap that character too) or B) play a different game. Welp. That's a buzz kill.

It does look like the game is kinda P2W but if you just play with another friend or 2 I think this is a solid game to co-op F2P. If you ever played Castle Crashers and enjoyed going through all the missions then you'll find a place here. (That fatigue system though)

I had the twitch code so i didn't even have to pay to get into early access but 3 hours into the game I knew it was legit a lot of fun so i dumped the 15 bucks on it to show a bit of support. I'm sure im okay with spending the 15 bucks for a night of entertainment but I think most gamers are probably looking for a little more bang for their buck. If you read up on their DLCs most of you guys will barf.

it was fun. it s enjoyable to play and story is great. i wish people give this game another chance. no p2w but buy badass customes. im hardcore elsword and this game fans none of games has that styles of these games

So after playing for a while, here is what I've learnt from the time I've played. I recommend this ONLY IF YOU'RE OKAY WITH A LOT OF GRINDING AND REPETITION.

Let me ask you this question. In Battlefield 4, there are servers usually called "Operation Metro/Operation Locker 24/7". These servers run those maps only. These maps are 100% Close Quarters, explosive spamming, meat grinders that usually lack rules and are great for two things only and that is getting stupid amounts of kills to master weapons and easy exp with little effort while foregoing the true BF experience of driving vehicles and blowing shit up, for a more CoD-like experience of pure basic bitch infantry CQC madness. You don't need a brain to play on these servers, all you need is guns, explosives, ammo, and willingness to endure long rounds. How long do you think you can play on these servers for? Doesn't matter if you're losing or winning. How many hours do you honestly think you can spend on one of these servers? Doing the exact same thing over and over again, potentially experience the same result of losing (or winning) over and over again.

If you asked me, I can literally spend an entire day on these servers and I have. All my battle reports consist of Operation Locker. I have 6661 Bow kills in BF4, at least 5000 of those kills, are on Operation Locker or Metro servers. I have spent a large majority of my BF4 career playing exclusively Operation Locker and Metro and that says A LOT considering I have 1000hrs clocked in. I am MORE THAN WILLING to spend 12hrs a day, on the exact same Operation Locker server, repeating the same thing over and over again. If you can't deal with that, this game might not be for you. That said, lets list some things about this game that I think is worth noting.

- From Level 1-50 the game is incredibly easy and straight forward.

- From Level 51-max the game varies from easy to holy shit depending on how good your setup is and gear is. This also depends on wether you're a lonewolf or not.

- Missions can get incredibly repetitive especially in the much later stages of the game.

- Lots of grinding to level up ESPECIALLY pass Level 50. Once you hit Level 70, the grind is real.

- Lots of waifus (and husbandos) :)

- Dressing up your waifus (or husbandos)

- Playerbase wise, well I'm a lonewolf so none of this matters. That said, this game isn't exactly popping either, even if there are people playing outside of Steam.

- Everyone is going to ask about the Stamina system so here is what I have to say. Yes, I hate the fatigue system BUT its really not THAT bad. This is coming from the guy who has 1000+hrs since Early Access which I purchased 4 months ago. When you start, you get 170 fatigue cap, every day you log in it increases by 170, it maxes out at 1190 (do the math, it means logging in for 7 days = fatigue cap is 1190). 1190 is quite a fair bit of Stamina, depending on what you're doing and how much time you're dumping into this game per day, it shouldn't be an issue. I'm not saying its impossible to max out (believe me, I've done it before) but for the most part, it shouldn't be an issue. Server resets stamina every Tuesday at 6am SERVER TIME (for me its Monday 12am). If you're maxing out your 1190 fatigue a few days after reset....you should really get some sleep, but I'm not your mother, if you want to game for 72hrs straight, you do you. Doesn't apply anymore, Stamina/Fatigue system removed.

Don't be fooled by the play time. I have played that game multiple hours daily ever since the Closed Beta started (EU).

Simply said, the game is awesome. The combat system is fun to play, there is a lot of unique combos you can create. The characters all are unique and each feels very special to play; also there are more characters coming in the future, so there will be even more unique mechanics to check on.

The game ofc has some bugs, but neither of them are gamebreaking. Content keeps coming every ~ 2 weeks (even during CBT we had Content updates). The only REALLY annoying restrictions you get are the fatigue-system (limited dungeon entries/day or week per character and account) and market- and trading restrictions (can not trade most important items directly, some items are not tradable at all).

This game feels like a newer Elsword, it reanimates the fun of the old days on that game. Other than Elsword, this game does not have much to compare to, so if you never played a 2,5D beat-em-up , you should definetly try this game out.

Also it's a question if you want to pay for the early access or not : if you want to play it and want some awesome items, you should definetly check out the founders packs ; I myself got the Ace Pack twice, since the Dark Command set will be very hard to obtain and expensive as well, lateron. Also you receive some EMP with that to get anything you need (Skill Slot B, Inventory expansions...).

It might definetly not be what everyone is looking for, but in my opinion, the founders packs are worth it just as much as this game is worth it.

-Pro
Fast runs with each dungeon taking 3-5 min to clear.

Mechanics are fairly easy to understand and get used to.

Good sound and visual effects. Together with skill combos make combat enjoyable.

Good character design with different npc conversations for each.

Fairly engaging storyline


-Con
No Utility missions. Side quests could have more variety.

All I was able to do until lvl25 was to clear dungeons. Does get repeatitve after a while.

Some item descriptions could use more detail on how to use and what it does.

I can see the developers are trying to add different types of terrain in this game, but sometimes enemies on a different plane are hard to hit and use skills on.

Dungeon background could use more variation.


Overall fun and definately worth a play especially when it becomes free to play for everyone.

Very addicting gameplay with lots of cool Skill and Character-Based Stories.
Highly Recommended if you like 2.5D RPGs like Elsword.

For now I can recommend this game but, I'm not so sure if I can recommend later on when it will be free to play on december. Because most of the free online games usually goes to pay to win so I hope this one won't
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The Good
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+ Lots of customization
+ Cute characters
+ Combat
+ Interesting story
+ Team buffs (Makes you want to use other characters too)
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The Bad
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- Can feel like pay to win system on pvp
+- Fatique limiting how much you can play per day
(around 4-10 hours per character, depends if you use energy drinks that you can get free usually from quests).

- Can take a time to get used to mechanics (if you haven't played this type of MMORPG before)
- can get repetitive (mosly on later quests when they make you do same stage like 3-5 times before you can progress to next stage)

A Cute anime sidescrolling beat them up game.

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The Good
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- Lots of customization
- Cute characters
- A funny conversations with NPC
- Very decent translation
- You dont need to spend anything on microtransaction

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The Bad
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- Feels like one of those free games
- Fatique limiting how much you can play per day (around 4 hours per character).
- You will be bombarded with mechanics (if you havnt played this type of MMORPG before)

You would want to try this game if you like games like Rusty Hearts, Soul Worker, Dungeon Fighter Online....
This games has a lot of cute costumes (based on KR knowledge). Kyuuun~~<33

Should you play Closers?

Closers is one of those 2.5D Fighting/Arcade games that gives you a fulfilling feeling when you pull off solid combos. If you enjoy games that have you fluidly string together skill chains to wipe out hordes of enemies, you should probably stop reading and just buy the game right now. Of course it is by no means a perfect game, there are some problems that many other reviewers have already glossed over, such as the stamina system and that pvp can feel sort of P2W.

The former is still changeable, since it is in CBT/ EA at the moment, if Enmasse sees enough players discontent with the weekly system it may change upon the official release or further down the line. However, the stamina system is fine as it is in my eyes, you get 1190 stamina after your first week of playing, with dungeons costing about 5-10 stamina each run you're in for a lot of play time; couple that with the potential of playing multiple characters and I don't see you being able to max out on stamina unless you're playing nonstop.

Now the latter issue with the idea of P2W pvp and such, is just an aspect of all MMO's and online games with cash shops, there will be slight boosts here and there but it's never the case that you can directly buy maxed out gear and destroy opponents in PVP. As it is, the game isn't very P2W, perhaps more pay to progress farther than other players but even then you don't even get that much stamina being an elite or platinum status player. Free players still have a very good chance until lv50 to pvp with other players spending or not and have a fair matchup. (After lv50 your stats stop being rounded up so you'll be entering with your current gear, so I'd advise you try to max out gear before you start pvping after lv49)

So, should you play Closers?

Yeah, it's pretty fun.

I really love Sylvi. Like, a lot. Like, a whole lot. You have no idea. I love her so much that it is inexplicable, and I'm ninety-nine percent sure that I have an unhealthy obsession. I will never get tired of listening that sweet, angelic voice of hers. It is my life goal to meet up her with her in real life and just say hello to her. I fall asleep at night dreaming of her holding a personal concert for me, and then she would be sorry tired that she comes and cuddles up to me while we sleep together. If I could just hold her hand for a brief moment, I could die happy. If given the opportunity, I would lightly nibble on her ear just to hear what kind of sweet moans she would let out. Then, I would hug her while she clings to my body hoping that I would stop, but I only continue as she moans louder and louder. I would give up almost anything just for her to look in my general direction. No matter what I do, I am constantly thinking of her. When I wake up, she is the first thing on my mind. When I go to school, I can only focus on her. When I go come home, I go on the computer so that I can listen to her beautiful voice. When I go to sleep, I dream of her and I living a happy life together. She is my pride, passion, and joy. If she were to call me "Onii-chan," I would probably get diabetes from her sweetness and die. I wish for nothing but her happiness. If it were for her, I would give my life without any second thoughts. Without her, my life would serve no purpose. I really love Sylvi.

Closers is what you'd get if Platinum Games made a dungeon crawler. If you're looking for a fast paced multiplayer game with intuitive movement and excellent gameplay then you've found your niche.

And it's damn impressive really, the action genre is kinda my bag and Closers lands firmly on the 'very good' side of things. (top 85% easy) The gameplay gives the player a feeling of speed, skill is rewarded with flashy attacks and spectacle, and the game is fun. Try it out!

A fun hacky-slashy korean mmo, its definitely best for people who don't intend to play all day. It's great for me who is an adult, both working and attending college, the fatigue system doesn't affect me yet. It's the only downside to the game for me. Otherwise, I love the characters and the graphics as well as the fighting system. I think the fatigue system is a great way to earn money from players who want to play more. It's upsetting considering I paid $15 for it.

Still, the game itself is fun and enjoyable. I like the benefit of playing a bunch of characters since you get buffs across your account depending on their level which is great considering every character has their own fatigue bar.

An mmo definitely for people who have busy days and maybe have enough time for 1-3 hours of game time a day.

From my experience, everything seems fairly decent so far. There is no IP/Country block when I play NA/EU servers from Asia (Singapore). Also, the character moves really slow when not running, maybe it's just me... (personal preference)
There is even a fatique/stamina system so that players do not spend an astounding amount of hours in the game. The stamina resets daily for one character and weekly for the Account, as you can create multiple characters and store them as well. There is some movement delay when I'm running around, maybe it's just my ping. I also would like a Fullscreen Windowed option.