- The Good (positives)
- Delicious graphics. Mmmm. Tasty! The animations in particular are amazingly well-done. I have seen few games, period, that can match it in this area, much less other MMOs.
- Sooo much character customization to be done. I don't just mean in the visual sense, but of course the mechanical sense as well. LOTS of ability combinations that can be done.
- Crafting and gathering are actually activities instead of pure busywork (as they are in so many other MMOs).
- The music, in combination with the graphics, really helps to sell the world. Love the atmosphere.
- The story is quite impressive. The cinematics are very well-done. It's actually a good hook to level, except...[/list:u]
- The Bad (negatives)
- The crafting. OHMYGOD, THE CRAFTING. Needing rank 20+ materials to complete rank 10 crafts, many of which are from completely different professions. The horrible RNG, too, which often makes it feel like you have little agency in the completion of a craft (which, well, is the opposite of what you'd expect a system like this to do).
- Inventory management. Who decided that EQUIPPED ITEMS should still take up space in the inventory?! Why do I only have 80 slots when I have to deal with FOOD INGREDIENTS dropped by pretty much any single mob in addition to tiny, TINY stack size caps (lol 12 ore per stack)? WHY DO I HAVE TO UNEQUIP ITEMS TO REPAIR!?
- REPAIR MUST DIE. MUST DIE NOW. OMFG, I HATE YOU ITEM DURABILITY WTF DO YOU DO THIS TO ME WHY WHY WHY?! (Re: I hate this "feature" and wish it would die in a fire. To ashes. And then burn the ashes into nothingness. It should NEVER HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT OF DAY! RRAAAAARRRRGH! ...Also, this is why I quit.)
- Wtf is with the anima regen? One teleport per day, really? So you guys WANT me to walk EVERYWHERE? I guess you decided repairing wasn't enough of a ridiculous timesink as it is!
- The UI. I don't even have to say anything more than this. The badness of the UI is self-evident.[/list:u]
- The Not-So-Ugly (thoughts, hopes, neutrality, etc.)
- The market system is passable with the renaming of the wards. Or rather, tolerable. It's still pretty far from ideal.
- Guildleves... meh. They add some variety, but they're no replacement for proper quests with proper story. Also, the cooldown and low daily limit...
- Physical character customization - no body modification other than height and, for only two races, breast size. I'm spoiled from Aion and Champions Online...
- Need more quests! The ones that are there (actual story ones, I mean) are very good, but there's simply not nearly enough of them. More! More! MORE![/list:u]
- The Not-So-Ugly (thoughts, hopes, neutrality, etc.)
- The Bad (negatives)
