Gale writes - "Upon its original release a while back, Aerena couldn’t have struck a chord with me. There’s only a handful of free-to-play games I like and I usually abhor the notion of kicking off another one such title. This has much to do with the fact that most F2P games require the player to grind some kind of resource a significant amount of time before being able to properly pose a threat to other players or the NPC mobs. While I can’t attest whether this was the case with Aerena, the notion of it being a F2P game made me ignore it. Now that the developer has embraced a “pay once, play forever” system instead of the old “keep paying forever” one, lots of new players have been drawn into the game with me being one of them."
Pocket Gamer: My experience with the original release of AERENA - Clash of Champions is fairly limited, but from what I'd played it seemed like a fun turn-based take on the MOBA.
TwoDashStash: "ӔRENA Master’s Edition is the move from the “free to play mode” to the “pay upfront model” of a game called ӔRENA- Clash of Champions. It is a multiplayer PvP strategy game that has what the devs refer to as a “Ӕtherpunk” setting. In ӔRENA, you play as the captain of a crew that is fighting for the element Ӕther. ӔRENA is an easy to run game with good mechanics that suffers from a small player base and a lack of back-story."
