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Mankind, more hype than game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: October 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Do not purchase this game for the following reasons:

The game is run on several servers, and they are down more than 70% of the time.

Any bugs or account errors that occure during server outages are rarely ever solved or credited back to the user.

Tech support, unfortunatly is not kind with american users. Any problems that are sent to vibes, receive a form letter that never addresses the problem, nor take into account the seriousness of the problem

The game involves spending hours and hours of clicking a mouse buton to load/unload ships from bases, minerals from bases. I would estimate in a 4 hour play session, you will be clicking the mouse button 6000-10000 times.

And while the company touts 100,000 accounts, 80% are only demo accounts that players use as mules, non paid accounts.

Not Worth The $$ at All

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: November 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

MK is a waste of time and money. The concept is good but the implementation of that concept missed the mark so badly you might think Microsoft had something to do with it. The tech support is non-existant and the "universe" is un-reliable. You will spend hours clicking and building but you will not be assured that your work will be around when you log on again. Although the user comunity is quite strong the company ignores them regularly with regards to enhancements and bug fixes.

Go spend your money elsewhere. Maybe a good book?

Slow and Boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was excited to see Mankind first come out because I was into space simulation types of games at the time. I was greatly dissapointed to see that you had to mine materials forever just to be able to build basic buildings. Combat on this game is a joke because everytime you get a certain # of ships in the same system the lag is unbelievable. Thats not even mentioning the endless disconnects during battle. The many remaining bugs would cause me to classify this as a BETA rather than a finished product. Vibes idea of technical support is a joke also, if you have any problems with this game, tough luck !! In whole, you should buy this game if you enjoy bad gameplay,a bug ridden environment, constant server closures, a community that always figures out how to cheat, non-existent tech support,making millions of mouse clicks per hour, or banging you head over and over into a brick wall till your brains fall out.

The Game that could have been.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you want to play an online game that has unreliable service, no customer support, where the creators tell you they don't care what the players want in upcoming developements, where the servers can go down for a month at a time and the updates and pathches are months late with no projected resolution this is the game for you. Heck, I played it for two years and haven't seen new technologies yet with the exception of some new required technologies that make the game very unplayable. You can spend endless hours playing and still go nowhere. Vibes may simply loose your account info or you'll log on to find your installations and ships you need in the game to be gone. Vanished into thin air. If you play this game you will work harder trying to build your empire in a day than you would have to at your real life job in a week. All to have your efforts vanish, be made obsolete by the next upgrade, or worse. The game started out well, but lost its value when Vibes stopped caring about their customers and inventing new ingenius ways to debug the game with new bugs. The most important point is that vibes has not used their revenue to improve the game. They simply jury rig every problem and then have the nerve to ignore customer complaints

The Draw and the Drawback

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: December 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The Draw:

It is a mix of Sim City, Command and Conquer, and Civilization (sort of) all online and in 3D! It has it all, Resource managment, wars, alliances, trading, Research and Development, the works. In my opinion this game could have very well swept the market in the RTS Department.

The Drawback:

Enter Vibes...

Here is a company that almost goes out of it's way to show you how much they don't care. Well, I guess that might be an assumption on my part, but it's either that or they are the most ignorant bunch of developers to ever enter the online market!

When I have problems not getting into the game, (which is almost always) I send email to the tech support department giving a detailed account of the error messages I had recieved along with the steps it took to get to that point.

3 days later (on average) I get a "try not running any other program at the same time" email. I send in an email stating I wasn't... I get no response!

Now, the problem with this is... they know very well that EVERYONE ELSE has the same problem and they claim no responsability. It's all me or my connection. :/

I have paid for a years subscription... The year is almost up... and out of the near 12 months I paid for, I was able to play for about 5 of them. Mind you, I am a game junkie and if I were able to get on and play, I would!

Summary:

I have to say that I loved this game... When it worked... Which was almost never!

Don't get it. You will regret it. There is nothing more frustrating than haveing a game that you love, but aren't able to play. Trust me!

-Jeff (Braxt Moonshadow)

Looking for fun? look eslewhere then

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: October 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I dont think this game needs more than one word to describe...but which? useless? boring? disappointing? Anyway, it works not, requires far too many clicks and is constantly downgraded by the company (Vibes). Features listed on the box have never appeared ingame and never will... The company is notorious for its arrogance and inefficiency... I have strongly advised my friends to look and wait for other games or for Mankind 2 to be released ...if ever. ...

Wait a little while

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: November 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Mankind seems to have a pretty good game at it's core. The problem is that the good part of the game is having trouble escaping it's troubles. I've been playing for a while (> 1 year), and while I sort of enjoy it, it is a constant struggle. I'd say give it 3-4 months; It should be a little better by then

Where did Vibes go wrong?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Let's make it simple, this game would absolutely rock if it weren't for the fact that you get booted off every ten minutes and that your buildings and units don't get lost every time you sign back on. I've written Vibes tech support time and time again and the only response I ever get is that they're working on the problem. You'll hear this a lot from other people who signed up with Vibes.

Unlimited Universe? You got to be kidding...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: November 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The rating system here at Amazon doesn't give good choices. This game is 5-Star for addictive, 3-Star for enjoying all the boring time of click,click,click to do anything useful to play, and -1-Star (that's right, a MINUS 1) for company response to any problems with the game. After spending close to a year playing this game with all the server ups and downs, living and surviving through 2 major upgrades; not without their problems,(addictivness) and even now after the fiasco(sp) that was created with the recent upgrade to the 1.7 version I still miss not being able to log in and talk to the international group of friends I have met on line.

If I knew then what I know now about how the creators of this game worked and how much(laugh) they(Vibes) care about supporting their customers, I would never have thrown the money into it. But then I would have never met these interesting people who play it, nor the informative forums (i.e. Mankind Outpost on delphi.com for English players)where everyone now knows me.

Before spending any money or time on this game, I would suggest reading both the reviews and checking out the forum discussions unless you do not worry about wasted money and effort in a game.

Mankind

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: November 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Mankind, as a concept would make for a fantastic game, it is a game where you start out in a huge galaxy, build a base, mine minerals, build factories, build fleets of ships, make friends, allys and enemys worldwide.

I however cannot say that it lives up to it's concept due to areas of game being closed as servers go down, zero customer service, much effort to build since loading minerals, ships, and more takes many mouse clicks, this is NOT a game for anyone who has symptoms of Carpel tunnel syndrom in my view, from playing it.

Presently, they have patched the game again to 1.7 and the game became unstable, they have had to totally close the game until they fix the problem, this despite "beta-testing 1.7" before patching the Game servers.

They have a record of poorly implemented patchs.

The game itself would be a five star game if it worked fully as they advertise it to be, if servers were always working, if they had any type of real customer support.

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