Dark Orbit

Used to be a great game but now these corrupt Chinese own Bigpoint they literally let every account bot. There must only be about half a dozen people who don't bot left within the community. You have one email and that is for support and they are ad useless as the developers. The new owners of this game are the most corrupt people ever and have no intention of fixing the bot issues that plague this game. Darkorbit has really gone down hill and is heavily neglected by a bone idle and useless dev team.

I used to love this game. But after giving this company enough money to buy a new car with cash. I am done. First there chat mods are bias prejudice and ban people just because the have power. Second the support team just plain $#*!ing sucks. You send them a ticket about a matter. And all they do is tell you what they want you to know. Sounds just like a government official. This game and a majority of the staff dont care about paying players much less the free. Its all about money. Well guess what its gonna cause alot of legal probs in the future. Good luck dark orbit of lies

There is no way a new player can enjoy in this game as soon as you go out of the base map you get shot down by enemy or by your own peoples and there is no penalty for doing so they keep shooting until you logout of the game xD what a bs game and then there is payment lol due to this the game have lost the new players who cant keep up with the upgrades without real cash quit. The only players who play this game is who have spent money on this, we the new players who gets in are just a food for the players who spent money and shoot us down. Well nothing much to say about this game its already dying if they dont fix these issues. Anyways darkorbit gonna face its end.

The game is fun but the game is buggy. At some point you will send in a support request. More often than not, you will get Kara Flor.

If that happens, all hope is lost. She is the soup nazi from Seinfeld. Any request, no matter how small, will be met with "it is not possible to do that". She's lying. If the support request goes on for more than a week, she'll turn it on you and say that you were trying to get away with something and she was trying to help you.

Unless it is Bigpoint's goal to drive players away from Dark Orbit, Kara Flor is the most abusive and useless online support person in the history of the world.

Came across from Battlestar Galactica because they gave me the equivalent in gear and a ship to the value of 150 euro all I can say is don't bother, I was destroyed 20 times in 30 mins its impossible to do the missions they give you without getting jumped on. The gameplay is terrible flat screen 2d Battlestar was much better at least you could see the enemy, nobody helps everyone seems to be in it for themselves. Big point made a huge mistake in getting rid of Battlestar and expecting players to come across to this rubbish.

I've played for over 10 years so my review of this game might be a bit long. But one of the main problems is the lack of new player support within the orbit, even when Battlestar closed and this because Bigpoints main source of income, you can really see it. Every event within the game is hosted towards players who spend a lot of money, basically just trying them to spend even more. Every feature upgrade and PvP update has this in mind as well, NOTHING is for the quality of the game.

I quit because I realised when I was playing that most the game is cheaters and the other half is PvP players who won't ever fight without their entire team with them. I'm not new to this game by any means, but most players now don't even build their accounts, they just buy them from websites. This game is massively pay to win, assuming you aren't one of the majority who just buy a strong account for 8 times less money.

The game went downhill, don't play this rubbish.

The Game has a very interesting yet simple Design which is makes it easy to enter and to learn. The Thematic is also captivating though the Story became non-existent over the last 8 Years.

That said there is nothing Positive about this Game in its current State anymore. Payment for real Money wherever you look, very weak and unstable Server and a pretty competitive community to the Point of being nothing but toxic. The worst is the Dev Team. There are so many Problems with Bugs and Glitches yet Event after Event with "exclusive" Payment Bundles get introduced to generate Money. This gets very apparent with its new upcoming "Ship" which looks like its designed by a 6 Year old 5 Minutes before due. This Ship will be again in a Payment Bundle as Code suggests. So instead of fixing the Game they gave up on it in its dying Phase milking the Community for what is still possible as it seems.

I enjoyed playing this game 10 Years ago (played it since February 2008) but the Thing it has become is nothing but a Scam.

This game was once enjoyable, now it is full of Bug's and Glitches, on top of that the Developers of the game are not fixing them and introducing new assemblies and functions for the game that is already full of problems as if this was not enough the prices for already overpriced items has increased. You are more than welcomed to try to play this game for free but you will be lucky to get out of the port. I would suggest to give it about a year and maybe by then there won't be any one on the maps so you will have them all to your self, DON'T PLAY THIS GAME!

This is an example of what you shouldn't do when you want to get income from one game. I will mention all what's wrong with this game and with no surprise I might be missing something.
- Impossible for newcomers, newcomers can't do anything. Servers are only played by veteran players with Full Elite Equipment, you will most likely be killed by them a lot of times and won't be safe anywhere.
- Pay 2 Win, Tragic to say this game has gone far from worse in this aspect. They say it is free 2 play but in reality it isn't. In order to at least be able to do something without investing money you would require unmatched amount of hours which no one would be able to invest.
-Full of bots and people wasting tons of money. As I mentioned earlier there's no way get something decent at best if you don't use bots or waste money.
-Non Existent support help. Sending a message to support would be utterly useless, they will reply you but in order to help you they will ask data that anyone couldn't have in his hands (receipts and other stuff) and you will most likely receive the answer "We can't do anything".
-Dead Servers.
-Repetitive and buggy.
-Laggy Servers

Owners of this game aren't doing anything to fix all of this despite seeing how their currency is decaying dramatically. This game will die soon, and for good.

If I was able to give 0 Stars, this game will undoubtedly be on the list.

Like many other mmo games, this one became too cluttered with overly powerful payed items and boosts. I started playing over 10 years ago. Back then there were players of all levels and skill everywhere you went. New players with weak ships and maybe a drone or two on the lower maps, killing all the npcs they could to level up and gain credits. Then there were medium level players talking to these low levels in the chat and helping them with quests or sharing profit from killing stronger aliens ships. High level players roamed lowers and uppers, protecting the low levels from enemies from the other companies. Maybe getting a few buddies together and killing cubikons or hitting Uber map. Or sometimes hitting the enemy companies back with a hunting squad all cloaked up. Now there are zero players that aren't full elite. Company chats are dead. The only goal in the game is PvP. No noobs to help out. No Big Boys or Nostromos on x-3 trying to pop their first devolarium. No circling big kris' without getting creamed by an enemy raid. Sad, the game brought me much joy when I'd play instead of sleeping on a school night. I spent more on this game back in the day than I have on any other game across all platforms because the fun and community was worth it to me back then. Now my account I had at full elite when I stopped playing is worthless and will sit unused like the million others. Good job BigPoint, you got your cash. Farewell Darkorbit, thanks for the good times and cyber friendships.

Started DarkOrbit in its second year way back when dinosaurs flew in space... it was a great game. Strong players helped weak players and protected noobs. Raids were massive and exciting. Loved the game. Fast forward to 2022. The game is great if you play while watching your TV, eating nachos and letting your bot grind away because you are some greedy, lazy nothing. Or if you pay bucks to have your ship fitted with everything from the spoils of your bot. Then you drive new players out of the game by grinding them constantly for your kills. Brave space hobo you are. I started the game and loved it from the start. Great community. Then botting started and DO (BigPoint) turned a blind eye blaming out complaints on 'lag.' The only lag was their reticence to address the issue. Back to 2022. Bots are everywhere and most player pay and/or bot. Mostly both. Honest players have zero chance in the pvp side. BP added a no-pvp option which on paper sounds great... doesn't it? But it is even more bot-ridden and ridiculous than the full-pvp maps with its roaming bullies grinding noobs into quitting. Maps are empty of real-life players. New players quickly learn how absolutely fruitless it is to advance due to all the limits... game lag, griefers, cheaters, hacks and the ever-present bots, bots and more bots. And may I add... bots. Then the bots, who then have everything -- every weapon, gun, cheat, hack and automation -- grind on all the legit players. Almost none of my long-time game friends, including clan members still play. My son and I play but after seeing the 95% bot population of the maps and getting dinged twice by a guy last night who I knew was a botter, more powerful who had played 6 months over my 12 yrs... I am quitting. Do yourself a favor... if you value fair games... avoid this mess. If you are a cheating lowlife, sign up for DO, you'll fit right in.

This website game is a SCAM.

Although it's advertised as a free-to-play game, everything about it is designed to either induce you to spend real money to protect yourself from in-game bullying from other players, or simply leave to create room for people who will.

I played this game for 2 months. The graphics are lousy. The content is lame. The plot is thin. The character development is cookie cutter or just plain non-existent. The in-game music is awful, nerve-wracking, and played on an endless loop (unless you figure out how to disable it).

The gameplay supposedly is centered around Player Versus Player interaction, but set up in such a way that new players are ALWAYS at a decided disadvantage. As a novice player you are limited to which maps you may play on, but any high level player can enter these map and destroy you at will, and they do so frequently while laughing about it. They are in fact, encouraged and rewarded for bullying you by higher level quests. The only way to level the playing field is to spend real money to buy a better ship, better equipment for it, and premium account status as indemnity against being destroyed. So much for free-to-play.

If you can get past this, and actually form friendships and rivalries in-game you're subjected to the next layer of the game's coercive environment: chat bans. Moderators just waiting to silence you or permanently disable your account for whatever flimsy reason they can. Free player or Paid account, it makes no difference to them. During my time playing I was chat banned several times for using every-day language or expressions. Their chat rules are hopelessly and intentionally vague. I suggested that if they were truely that concerned that they use mature language filters and parental controls, and was given a brush-off response. The simple truth: They want to ban people to force them to spend more money or to make way for people who will.

After you are permanently banned you have no way to remove your credit card information to prevent misuse by this company. Your only recourse is to contact your credit card company or bank.

So, cowardly company creates game revolving around cowardly play and uses cowardly moderators to enforce unrealistic rules, all in an attempt to grab your money. Words of advice: This game is just a cheap knockoff of EVE online. Go play it instead and leave this thing alone.