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Dark Eden

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Play a vampire or a slayer. Choose your race, gender, and appearance. This is a horror RPG - something like Runescape but much more violent.

Dark Eden is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing computer game in isometric projection or 3/4 perspective developed and published by SOFTON. It is the first MMORPG in the horror genre. The game revolves around the everlasting war between humans and vampires in a region called Helea located in a fictional country of Eastern Europe known as Eslania. The original version of the game, and the most advanced one, is the Korean one from which several other versions have been derived from such as the Japanese, Chinese, Thai and International versions. It should be noted however that the Thai version is currently closed at time of this article.

The game offers the possibility for players to either play for free or to buy some points and get special advantages. According to the different versions of the game, the restriction for free players varied. In the case of the International server there was none as it was completely free and served as a beta version. As far as the Thai version was concerned, free players could only play on the outdoor maps and were unable to enter dungeons as well as being unable to wear double options items. They couldn't spawn their bike where they wanted and gained less experience points than paying players called premium players. The Japanese version enables free players to access everything the game offers whereas paying players get twice the experience points free players receive as well as the possibility to buy with these points special items to make their characters better (items to combine different options into one item, luck sets, or rented items to name a few). The Korean version and Global version are perhaps the most restrictive ones for its free players. For once free players receive the lowest experience points of all versions, they can't enter dungeons and some maps like Vranco City and can't access the hot spot of the activity of the game where all players gather and sell and buy items (Perona). In short everything is done in the original and Global version to make the free players become paying ones after experiencing some aspects of the game.

Darkeden is oriented toward PvP and offers it in its most brutal form. Except for few safe zones (green areas on the mini map), mainly the main camps/castles, players can be attacked without any restriction at any moment by other players. As a consequence nothing prevents a player having reached the last level of the game from attacking a player that has just started playing the game. It is also frequent to witness sieges and enemy players "camping" every now and then outside the safe zones. Nevertheless, in order to protect low level players from that kind of abuse, the Korean and Japanese version offers a non-PK server for the player to level without any risk of being attacked by another player and this until around the level 80 of the character when s/he'll be forced to come back in the midst of the pvp field.

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