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I've spent over 100 hours playing PlaneShift, and now I'm ready to write a little something about it.

First of all, I like it - obviously. Spending 100 hours doing something one doesn't like is a fairly insane thing to do.

While the game is in alpha (or beta, depending on which spirits you channel), it is playable and fun and interesting. It's free to download. It's free to play. It can be annoying/frustrating at times because it is a work in progress - but the ingame advisors and game masters can help smooth over the rough spots if you actually find a rough spot. Having recently started being an advisor in game, I've gotten a feel for what a lot of people have problems with added to my own experiences.

What You Need To Know

It's a MMORPG. A massive multiplayer online roleplaying game - the stress, in PlaneShift, being placed on roleplaying. What does that mean? It means you're supposed to know your character and play it at all times - out of character (OOC) comments and conversations are supposed to be done in square brackets ([this is an example]).

Thus, after you download your PlaneShift client you should think about what your character will do and how it will interact with others. And to do that, you really need to get an idea of the world itself - a read of the setting, races, history, government and economy are worthwhile for this. { Read more }