I wanted to enjoy the game, but there were plenty of problems.
1. Gathering skills. You must get these impossibly rare drops from your gathering skills to continue to the next level of gathering. I gathered over 300 cotton looking for that rare drop. It never happened. I might have been able to justify it if I could have reasonably sold the cotton. The auction house system was too flawed to justify selling the cotton in this fashion.
2. Lack of choice. Once you hit level 50, you have one and only one zone to kill in on your own. Otherwise, you must group up and those groups just were not happening due to the lack of players. A person "should" be able to solo if they so choose.
3. PVP was not happening at lower levels. I do not know whether this was due to lack of player involvement or some game restriction.
I am glad I got out. The graphics were pretty good, but there were enough annoyances to make me run away and never look back.
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I wanted to enjoy the game, but there were plenty of problems.
1. Gathering skills. You must get these impossibly rare drops from your gathering skills to continue to the next level of gathering. I gathered over 300 cotton looking for that rare drop. It never happened. I might have been able to justify it if I could have reasonably sold the cotton. The auction house system was too flawed to justify selling the cotton in this fashion.
2. Lack of choice. Once you hit level 50, you have one and only one zone to kill in on your own. Otherwise, you must group up and those groups just were not happening due to the lack of players. A person "should" be able to solo if they so choose.
3. PVP was not happening at lower levels. I do not know whether this was due to lack of player involvement or some game restriction.
I am glad I got out. The graphics were pretty good, but there were enough annoyances to make me run away and never look back.