The game is free-to-play with an item mall to offer a lot of goodies. Fashions, wedding items, flights, mounts, crafting materials, fireworks and restorative amulets are a few of the available items in the mall. On the good side, these are actually tradeable, and players who can’t purchase from the item mall can opt to buy it from respective sellers instead.

Perfection Guaranteed?
Despite being a “Perfect World Gold,” the game has its own irks and troubles. Players might experience in-game delays responding to issuing commands for skills. Other troubles like floating land monsters or sea creatures giving chase on land are trivial annoyances. Lag issues might not fully load up data like player names or inventory contents. Untranslated or mistranslated quests and NPC dialogues are still aplenty, but will be corrected in due time. Bugs like non-responding monsters when assaulted are present, but that’s to the player’s advantage (or abuse). Problems may also arise in dungeons in the form of collision bugs, like players going beyond walls or monsters attacking through walls. The lack of an in-depth tutorial for beginners might turn off players, but the detailed help section can get you going.

Aside from the troubles, the game seems to urge you to be quite rich, seeing that most of the skills and items are tagged expensively. The rich can also dominate in the clan wars during bids, and earn more money through taxes, giving less chance for the small and medium clans to participate fully. Earning in-game can be a chore and might take up more time than leveling your character. A hasty inflation is most likely to happen, and this does not bode well for new players. However, if you can find your way to gain more profits than losses, then this might not be a problem.

To sum it up, Perfect World Gold might not be a perfect game (actually, no game is perfect IMHO), but it can be one of the top contenders in the MMO world. It’s free to play, having hours of gameplay involved, with lots to explore, plus new areas and features (like a proposed housing system) to be added in future expansions. If you’re thinking of an MMO to devote your time with, Perfect World is one recommendation. This game should be on your must-play list.