So I played Perfect World International in 2022 - MMOPIT 

Of every MMORPG I have played in history since 2005, Perfect World in its prime is the one experience I wish I could feel again.

The music bring this deep rooted nostalgia and love for the game which I spent my early to late teens playing. Funny how music can do that. Every kid is always so fond of their first MMO.

Man the biggest mmo rpg story i ever experienced was when i first started playing pw I didn't understand the game at all and was just wandering around, and as i started the game as a tiger dude i kinda got lost and left the starting location at lvl 2 or so, and i wondered into some village in the middle of a cursed forest, and that was it, i was stuck there, with no way to teleport back since i didn't have any item's and game knowledge, and every mob in the location was like 80+ and very agressive, i couldn't leave that village, until some random stranger found my corpse and promised me that he will get me out of there, and get me out he did, he was killing mobs around me as we moved back towards my starting location and after about 10 minutes i was back where i needed to be and kind stranger bid me good luck

Omg. That old log in screen. I remember my first time seeing this on my cousin's computer when i was about 7. Everything in PW felt real, I can't even express how beautiful and unique it felt. 😢

Man, this takes me back. I played this in 2008 when I was just in high school and I spent so many years playing this. It was so fun for so long. Thanks for the memories!

As a 12+ year veteran of this game I'm glad some people still get as nostalgic as I do when they remember the game in the early years. Players who can spend the time and money to reach end game, which is way too much, keep this game alive. If people didn't purchase gear, fashion, or items with real money this game would be dead in the water. The grind is unreal starting from scratch.

Oh my, just hearing the OST made me tear up a bit. This was my life early to late teens and met so many good people some I'm still friends with up to this point and some lost along the way. I miss everyone. it's amazing how this game brought so many people around the world together back in the day.

This brought back so many memories for me. I remember the grind, the territory wars. The real friendships I made through this game. It's sad that there's no going back to that and no other game I've played since even comes close to those feelings.

Thank you for visiting our server, I remember seeing you around. I think it's so fun that people still care about our little game, a game which I have been playing since the very start and still love. I know it's not very likely but it would be nice to see you continue playing it, I'm happy every time I see a new player. I want to add though, I believe the reason you found it hard to talk to anyone and finding help is because we have gotten used to new players, or players pretending to be new players, that just ask for help and never offer friendship in return. In my own experience most just talk to you when they need help and usually not to just chat and hang out. There are exceptions which is why I still help from time to time and even find new friends still. I would like to see a rebirth of this game with a lot more new players, and old players returning. This is the genre of games I love the most and newer ones just don't do it for me. BTW, did you find the HD models of some of the classes? They are slowly revamping the characters and some have gotten the option to have a new HD model instead of the original one, this is something I expect all classes will eventually get. For example Barbarian and Venomancer will be getting it in a few hours as I am writing this. Great video and I hope your channel grows, you did a good job on this one giving the game a chance to show what it is like, listing both good and bad things about it ^^

God I loved that game... I played for 6 years straight and I love listening to the soundtrack to this day. I spent most of my time editing my characters with the .ini files and being a pocket cleric. I remember most of my days were spent leveling people in FC and soloing their dungeons for them. BTW the mystic is a mix of cleric/veno. Psychic is a glass cannon magic damage class. Met lots of people that I became friends with irl

I really wish there was a way for a new publisher to completely re-release the game, with a fresh new start, without a horrible Item Mall, and possibly restoring the game as it was long time ago. Especially that beautiful old login screen

Played this around late 2007. It's way ahead of its time and since most of the online players on my country does not have their own comp or, if they have, has low specs ( even the comp shops has only descent comp specs so they don't download this game in favor of other games ), only a few players were able to play this. This is one of the games that is totally free to play. Wherein even if you don't pay a dime you can still catch up to strong players. You just need a lot of luck with drops and grinding patience. Miss this game so much!

Got fond memories of the game, the vibes of other MMOs are just incomparable. Also... FLY WITH MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! IN THE PERFECT WORLD!

I played PWI back in 2010/2011...as a tide born assassin🤗💖 Oldschool games like EverQuest II, Runes of M-Tr-agic, LOTRO, Aion, Villagers& Heroes, R.o.s.h.: Eternal vengance... will always have a place in my heart. Perfect *New* World looks way to hectic to me, so I will give this old comrade of mine (PWI) another try to become my side-game, when I am too tired or sick for my main game FF14 🤒

Awesome video!! i played this one back in 2010 i believe, it was the best MMORPG my laptop could handle, so many hours of fun those days, the music was EPIC 😍 so much nostalgia

I started playing PWI in 2009 then played off and on until 2015. I left for 2 reasons. The people were very nasty, vindictive, beyond rude and that included the GMs. It was also a money pit, real money. One person told me he had spent $15,000 in real dollars to max out his gear. Everything was very expensive. To be sure you paid the devs eliminated many ways to gain coin. An example of this were mirage stones. They were worth 10,000 coins each and then they went to 1 coin each without any warning. So that huge stack of mirage you had saved as your coin fund suddenly became worthless. They advertised the game as "free to play" and that was true but to get anywhere in game, it was definitely "pay to get anywhere".

The music of PW is honestly one of the most powerful nostalgic forces on this entire planet. It doesn't matter where I am, what I am doing or how I am feeling, I hear it and it instantly takes me back to a time full of mystery, wonder, exploration, Tideborn, and very neat people. A Simpler time. I remember back in the day when the game was still very much "new" and had that fresh-out-of-china feel to it, with half-done translations, orphaned game assets from the original version in china, and coding errors galore. It was such a fascinating adventure and I always feel the draw to go back just to see it all again, even though I know I can never truly go back. Nostalgia is a special kind of pain.

Man this game was the bomb as a kid. I started back in 08 when my uncle and dad showed me and eventually my uncle giving me his account(I think it had like a level 30 wizard lmao) since I grew so fond over the game and he simply didnt have time as my dad was the one who introduced it to him in the first place because they used to go hardcore in OG everquest together but I guess this game didn't have the same appeal as he quit shortly after my uncle. I probably played this game off and on for a good 10-11 years with the last few years being on private servers due to the game ramping up its Pay-to-win gacha system to appeal to the new investing team a few year prior to ARC becoming the priority owner and once that happened its all went down hill from there, if you didn't spend 1,000-2,000 dollars a month you were easily cast aside to the thousand or so "Cashshop Whales" that dominated every servers PK spots and dominated Territorial war creating a Power Vacuum that monopolized peoples addiction to FOMO when it came to the new best items and gambling from opening promotional crates or boxes from the cash shop(Think of CSGO crates and keys) that had such a slim chance to give you the top tier item out of them players would often shell out 500+ dollars every few weeks just to get a "Ultra Rare" Mount or "Token" For a neat looking reskinned Weapon that will count your PK kills but you can only get it for 48 Hours while supply lasts! It was a really brutal system, I knew guys over seas that had their girlfriends/moms send them laptops and headsets and have them ship over prepaid cards every month just to gamble in a F2P MMORPG.

PWI was my main mmo for a couple of years as well. I appreciate that you had your research done and gave it some time in your video. P.S. I still miss fly with me in the perfect world song...:(

What do you mean? That loop was introduced back in 2011 IIRC and it was soooooo calming. Perfect World, back in the first 4-5 years, was actually like another life. I loved it!

I lost almost 5 years of my life to this game back in the day, they were glorious years (level 100 Warrior) The game was FULL of people. Even in the most obscure areas of the map I was sure to find a curious new player looking to chat and hang out, while we grinded our youth away. The PVP oursite Archi gates was extreeeeme. A spectator sport that used to draw huge crowds, who would stand on the city gates for HOURS - watching the melee are rooting for their favorite elite level players. What a game, and what a time!! Damn... the nostalgia pangs are strong.

As a 12+ years veteran of this game, I can tell anyone that your assessment of it is fairly accurate. A lot of the grind is taken out over the years, but it's still expanding, and more classes will get added. Too bad you didn't play it further, the extra continents are really a sight to behold. With the Western Continent having roaming NPC's, the Northern Realm being a cross-server map, and you didn't mention Nation Wars, of which there is a serverwide one, and a cross-server one. But still, of what you showed in this video, yep, fairly accurate.

Old pwi def slapped different

Best mmorpg i ever play the ost and music alway in my heart,from 2007 bring too much memories with my old friends and my old guild,i'm old now 😢

This game is huge in Brazil, but people plays mainly in old school private servers. There is one now that is called Perfect World History and it has more than 10k active players, they sponsor a lot of youtubers, which made people go crazy and a lot of old players gave it a try. it is really nice to see people in every location you go and join groups for every quest you need, just like when we were younger.

I played it from 2006 to 2018 and just by hearing the theme I get goosebumps, it's an amazing game and I still have friends from when I played. If you're a classic pwi fan I'd recommend playing on a private server which I believe is better for nostalgic reasons

i just watched this and found so entertaining went to the channel and it was last updated a year ago why did you abandon the channel bro PLEASE COME BACK

I miss this back in 2009 This was By far one the best games out there next to the likes of any thing you can think of. Things have changed and not for the better.

Brooo I remember playing this game in high school back in 2009 I met sooo many awesome people and the game was so full of life back then, it was amazing. Downloading it now to get back into it. I remember I used to be in the equinox faction and the territory wars were awesome.

This brought back memories Most good Some not so good Server I was on was mostly u need to be endgame to do these dungeons, how to endgame, spend a thousand rl money on specific things By the time I left I was 103 rebirthed to 103, and rebirth again to 103 Stormbringer, cus it's literally the fun class But that's about it, from getting to the second map, primal gives you arcane sky, and primal sky You then get astralsky which lets you go into the second map at astral 10 You then need to get shifting sky 10 to continue the cultivation and be 103, 100-101 can take a week or two 101-102, a month, 102-103 log in every day, play nothing but this, 5 months, 4 if you get lucky with exp items in heaven fall After shifting sky, you get twilight sky, here's the grind, a month to get twilight sky 1, to upgrade to twilight sky 2, a month And you need to max it out to get royal sky I stopped playing when some of the top no lifers had twilight sky 8

I'm going to get back into this and probably play it until perfect new world comes out. I got hit in the feels with nostalgia.

The city of plume is so nostalgic for a cleric main like me! Miss the game.

The way you presented the game we have some much nostalgia for, it is incredible, I love it , keep going this way

This era will never be repeated. Enjoy your memories because they are the best you will have ever experienced!

This was my childhood mmo back in 2009(this channel I'm commenting with has some older videos!). Dreamweaver and mained Archer. Played on and off, met some friends I miss dearly and wonder how they are since I quit for good in 2014. I have the heavier version of the main theme as my ringtone! good memories man

Man, this game set the bar for mmos. The musiccccc

The music at 1:57 actually gives me more chill than the original one, maybe because I used to discover the game at idk 10/11 yo back in 2010 and it was that one, this game was so good damn

Was a glorious couple years back in the day, chronicdose the cleric and always made sure I had max red name since I had all my gear bound. The world pvp, territory wars were great memories and one of the only mmos Ive mained where community and reputation mattered.

Game was insane back in the day just to get to lvl 50 was months. You had to pay people or ask to do zen to reach like 75 then frost until 100 with hyper crystals or whatever they were called. Then I switched to Epic PW and couldnt play PWI anymore because everything was way easier and different and more pvp and events and just fun

that music man, that goddamn music....

I swear i never played any other MMO afte PWI .. this game was the pinnacle of how MMO games can feel like home, the community was so nice and friendly all the time and the dungeons were just massive. the game visuals and music are forever embedded in my memory as my safe placee to go to Love you all PWI veterans

Oh my god menn, everytime i am hearing those soundtracks of every maps/cities just hit different especially the log in theme "Fly with me". This mmo is my all time favorite, it holds a especial place here in my heart. Really missing the good old days bro.

my good friends and i tried to play perfect world during covid, we are all VERY experienced whn it comes to videogames and min/maxing in MMO or RPG games. but we all stopped playing when when we did our first dungeon/raid (i dont remember honestly). we were around level 38 and we were making our way through the dungeon, killing the marked bosses, and pushing through the mobs, but when we finally beat the final boss and went to get our loot, we noticed something horrible. as we picked up the loot, it was ending up in each others inventories randomly (and all the gear was bind on pick up) we basically left the game immediately after playing for a good 28 hours.

gosh when that music started playing my heart dropped, i miss the game so much , ive played it since pwi released and "quit" 1-2 years ago. about the only game i actually get emotional over. really miss the old days of pvp in silverpool with like 3-4 guilds going at it

I have mmorpg games in my life since 99 starting with Tibia Online. Perfect World is the best game in the world to me since 2007 PWI. I really need to be honest.... Perfect World Mobile is the best experience to me about PvP and PvE.

The nostalgia is overwhelming.

I have so many good memories in this game...I miss going online just to wait for FC. Not a single game up till this point had me form friendships that extended to real life.

Man, the old theme music login, made me goosebump. Ah the good old days. Whoever made that music should go to heaven

The music took me back to my childhood Used to play as an Archer .Had so much fun

Games like this will grow ur channel for sure! There is a pretty niche community for these types of games and they dont get much coverage.

I've never played this and probably never will, but this is a solid video. You made it interesting to watch. Please, keep making these kinds of videos. As always, fun and cool. 🤙

as soon as the ost plays i get a hit of serotonin

As someone who suffered from the worst part of the game 4 or 5 years ago, I have to clarify something that you missed. PWI IS pay to win. When you entered the shop, you only saw the mounts and fashion, but didnt see the Rank gear supplies. Pretty much all end game gear requires real money (or years of farming, literally). And endgame events, or dungeons requires these kind of gear, because people that does buy it, are too overpowered for regular gear. Also, leveling up that endgame gear requires real money too, or as I said before, years of playing and farming ingame coins. Basically, to try the end game stuff, that usually is the only things that get updates, you have to pay, and is not just some bucks. Ive heard of people spending over 60000 dollars to lvl up one character to the max power the game has. Its so unbalanced, that free to play players like me, and my entire friend-base just left, because the game wouldnt allow us to play the new things. I spent farming 3 years for an end game ring. 1 update later, that endgame ring can be upgraded spending more money, or spending other 3 years of free farming. I loved this game back in 2010-2013, but its just unplayable now, and its sad to me.

That old log-in screen BGM and the world map gave me a powerful sense of nostalgia. I went into this game shortly after quitting MapleStory once they released the Big Bang update and I played it a lot with my father, who made a pure(?) barbarian while I had a pure(?) blademaster with a spear build. The nostalgia isn't nearly as powerful as old MapleStory but just seeing all of these areas again was so cool. I can still fondly remember getting my flying sword mount and just cruising around to see everything, finding myself in an area where mobs were level 80+ and looking forward to the day I'd get to fight those. You'd also have to be careful not to fly into a patch of flying mobs or flying too low to the water only for something to shoot magic at you. You just don't get that sense of adventure and motivation with MMORPGs these days, it seems.

The old login interface and music... damn, that is so nostalgic :(

Hey man your content is great, I hope you come back and make more videos like this one, you’re really talented. All the best ❤

Man, I recall being at dungeons entrance with dozens of players offering help to do the cultive quests for xp

I was looking for first impression videos about this game because I see it Everywhere when I try to download games and found very informational and boring vids but I like yours the most because I laughed a lot! you are so funny!! may I ask why you dont like auto path?

7:45 Ohh I remember Take Aim. I made a choice to never level that skill. Not because it was bad, but because it was actually more useful/spammable at base level, because of the low mana cost. The trick was that you can double tap that button to release the shot instantly, which would only deal auto-attack damage, but do so instantly, alongside you actual auto-attacks, and generate a lot of chi in the process. This was back when mana management was very improtant, since it was one of the many basic things the game tried to monetize through p2w consumables.

17:59 I also remember how exciting it was to join a party because my level was the lowest and when our tank died we all ran away from the density of elite monsters whose health bars were completely different haha, We all died within 2-5 hits 😂

I get emotional just listening to the Archosaur theme... damn i miss PWI so much =(

This game was so fucking good until like 2011 or so, when they started introducing those pixies and whatnot. Still, at the time I had no idea I'd never be able to find any other MMO in this style that would be equal or better in gameplay. To be clear there are several MMOs like that in China, but nothing in the West right now. This sort of relaxing and colorful aesthetic seems to be something the Chinese like to put in their games. Really wish I knew Chinese.

Just remembered about this game, great to see this still alive

great video, dude.. brought me to a nostaligic trip

Really good video bro. I felt like i took a time machine down into the memory lane.

I remember when I started playing pw Br server when I’ve just moved to Danmark, I truly liked that game until they changed so couldn’t play outside the country, I felt nostalgic and decided to find recent gameplays of it and I’m truly disappointed of what it became, I remember in br after 5 years of the server someone had finally got max lvl and was a big event to the hole server, the hole community celebrated, it really felt it was a cultivation world where you had to grind and socialize to reach the peak, now doesn’t sees like that anymore.

this game mold my childhood

I was playing this game in my high school. I still remember how quests could take hours to finish so good luck if your net disconnects on you mid quest. Lol! But man the experience and friends I met along the way was really memorable.

I keep getting these shorts of these out of this world beautiful Chinese girls. one was wearing cat ears, another was wearing a tideborn head dress and it made me super nostalgic for this game. I played for years and dumped thousands of dollars in my character, mounts, wings, clothes. The music and original opening screen made me miss the game even more. The game in its prime was beautiful, laggy, had great events and was an amazing way to make friends. I used to sometimes just ride my mount around the map or fly around listening to music just enjoying the game. The game is calling me back 😂

One of my best memories was from the Genesis expansion, when I started playing, being level 49 and having 8 other players clearing the mobs in the Volcanic Grotto instance. I fell in love with the Seeker class and his Glacial Strike ability visuals then. :D I love this game to bits, but I have much better time playing on private servers nowadays from time to time.

I am lucky to have played PWI in its prime with guildmates in one computer shop!!! Most nostalgic core memory/game for me!!!

The character customization was a whole other game by itself for me 😂

Nostalgia, rushing home to play with my guildmates, just standing around with our fashion, carrying the female characters. Being absolutely amazed by the mounts and the way they looked, how fast they were and how cool it was to look at people do pvp in front of the gates of archosaur. To get help from higher leveled players in your guild that could craft cool looking legendaries for you. I remember my guild working together, collecting resources and coins to upgrade the guild. Has perfect world always been pay to win? In a way.. yes, not sure how this is not mentioned but the currency used in shop can be exchanged for in game coin, vice versa. But back in the day i feel this wasn't a big problem.. or it wasn't made into a problem, simply because so many enjoyed every single lvl up to max lvl. Back in the day i never reached end game, i've probably played this game for multiple years and the highest i've gotten was maybe lvl 80. But this was one of the charms, lvling up, grinding, everything you do felt good cause of how "slow" (in comparison to now) the lvling was, so every upgrade you got, was an actual upgrade for quite some time. This is also why there was no rush to get to end game, so many people were just happy logging in, playing the game. It's i feel one of the things that games lack nowadays. What a shame to see the graphics are exactly the same, what a shame to see how fast the lvling is. Anyone imagine what this game could be if they with the time updated their graphics, combat system? I redownloaded this game 1-2 years ago, i got a hold of my old account info, logged back in and looked at all my mounts, my fashion, ran through the big cities, ofcourse to be dissapointed to see how empty they were, literally. Logged back out and deleted the game. This will forever and always be in my childhood memories! Thank you perfect world!

My first mmo, loved this game, even though the p2w was just insane.

Honestly the body sliders alone are enough for me to install this game just to play with them lol

Ive always had a thing for flying too. But back when I was younger, like 12-13 years old young, I got my first Laptop.. a really cheap one from my mother, and I tried to download some MMOs with flying such as Fly For Fun but no MMOs would download on my PC because with the knowledge I have now, it probably wasn't even a Intel 3 and probably much lower. She said she only spent around $100 for it. So I tried downloading FreeRealms since the pixies had wings but the game was extremely laggy on my PC and later got shut down. So finally I was forced on Wizard and Pirate 101 until I was like 16 and got my first Ps3 and ditched my crappy PC and started playing Gta5 like any other kid who wants a fun open world game with other player's. xD

PWI probably has my favourite soundtrack of all time alongside PSO.

I remember using my mom’s and dad’s accounts in PW when I was around 3-6 yrs old. I just click random stuff and luckily my mom told me that I didn’t erased anything and that I always fight high lvl enemies and such and spamming in public chat

This brings back so many memories of grinding warsong over and over again

We used to double window this shit back in the day. One is the main hero and the other is a healer.

Damn, this must be good.. and it was. P.S. That super mario jump bit was golden.

the music hit me so hard that suddenly i was 12 again

Looks like they added some more stuff since the last time I played, not surprising, PWI was always adding content and systems. But yes PWI is P2W and has been for a long time, namely it comes in the form of upgrades and a heavy reliance on lucky box like systems. First keep in mind you can buy and sell gold within game for coins and most things are tradable. And there are many, many ways to increase stats in PWI and cash shop items will sometimes give you a chance to upgrade faster (sometimes this is a random chance). There are items that increase xp gain, equipment has refinement levels that become harder and harder without cash shop items, a gem system, armor upgrade that require cash shop items, want the best pet for your Veno (it is a lucky box item), best tome (millions in coins), you already found the Meridian system, but there is also the Card system. The charms that act as auto pots are a buy able items and come in higher levels. There is also a built in bot system (Auto Cultivation) that will gladly help you use up those charms.

going to play perfect world void

89/99+ is where the game begins. That’s probably why they sped up leveling now.

Remember luring a boss into towns with no guards, and the boss kills all the players. That was fun.

I was there to begin with, the game is all about how big you cc is

I also remember playing this way back in the day when the Midlands was the only world map. I had both the Elf cleric and archer for characters, and I remember that cleric build could more or less fly forever since the build would recharge mp which the elf flying ability used gradually at the time.

I also played this in 2008 and started playing again a few days ago. The animations of the npc's are horrible but playing it again brings back memories.

That music in the intro omg you bring me back 15 years ago

Great video, this game was basicly my life in my late teens, its very sad that i dont know what all my friends are doing now, we didnt have much of any social media to follow eachother on, so they are just gone now

thank you for that video. I played the game 10-11 years ago and it was amazing experience .. nostalgia hit me hard here.

The biggest issue was and always has been that its an endless money pit if you want to pvp or pve even

Man the nostalgia. iirc, only elves could fly from level one, the rest needed a quest for their mount/FLYING SWORD😂 what a fever dream, used to run FB’s for guildies as a warrior, and barb. Also psychic was broken in PvP, no rhyme or reason to do that much damage lol I used to take my barb and Armageddon everyone I could find

I recently went back to playing perfect world after years of being away from it and I’m loving it again. Still have my old account but have made a new character as well with the Wildwalker class that didn’t exist last time I played and really fell in love with the game again. I’m already level 100 and have rebirthed twice.

RuneScape and Perfect world were my main mmos back in day ah good times.

OMG , The old music .... I crying ....

greatest game. tanx to this game i started programming and making my own private servers

From what I remember enemies won’t attack you if you are over their level. Also good to see no pay to win gear in the cash shop, that is why I quit a long time ago. I remember grinding for maybe 2 years to get maxed out and about the time I did they put rank 9 gear in the cash shop that made you a god and crazy xp scrolls that would max your level in hours when it took me years to do.

This game is soooo nostalgic for me, betrer days...