Is Trove the kind of MMOG that I'd like to spend a part of every day in? No. But it is an MMOG that I'd enjoy visiting every now and then, possibly several times a week. That's enough to make Trove a success, and its speedy updates and randomly generated worlds help make every visit feel different from the last. Now, if they'd just get those queues in line, I'm thinking about making the Alamo 40 stories high, and I don't have time to wait.
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Trove is the latest free-to-play MMORPG to make its way onto PlayStation 4 and Xbox One's digital marketplaces for console gamers to experience and “enjoy”. Developed and published by Trion Worlds back in 2015 on PC, Trove borrows many of its core...
There's a lot of creativity in Trove, but there wasn't enough challenge or substance to for me to find it satisfying. While I enjoyed touring its stylish world, the novelty wore off quickly and left me with little reason to stick around, especially without a good way of finding people to group with or the means to create my own dungeons without using a separate program.
Thanks to my efforts, there's now a basement in the Alamo. Not the real Alamo in San Antonio, of course, but the one I built in a cleft between two green hills while mosquitoes the size of Paul Reubens pestered me. You'll find the entrance just inside...
Is Trove the kind of MMOG that I'd like to spend a part of every day in? No. But it is an MMOG that I'd enjoy visiting every now and then, possibly several times a week. That's enough to make Trove a success, and its speedy updates and randomly generated worlds help make every visit feel different from the last. Now, if they'd just get those queues in line, I'm thinking about making the Alamo 40 stories high, and I don't have time to wait.