Very punishing when you die alot and is expensive in both time and gold to recoup a death. If you play solo you can't advance main story line or pvp. Filled with bugs and exploits that they fix ony to have new ones up. Broken economy and very expensive to maintain houseing. Trade skills are too easy and you can do them all with most folks being maxed out in all trade skills. Resources are too abundant for crafting. Boring and limited equiptment and gear. Global chat is the worst I've ever seen but they did get rid of most the gold spammers. There is no seige when you take forts and stuff, you just stand on a point while the timmer goes up to win or you get knocked off. To get in the fort you just click the door, eany faction can get in. Very boring pvp with very little participateing in open world pvp with endgame pvp being a battleground which is wierd there is no lower level battlegrounds For a game that was billed as a pvp centered game there should be pvp. Even the pvp gear, which is too easy to get, everyone gets from pvp and pve quests that don't even require you to pvp. Quests are borring as well with them being the "kill this and go there" with click through diolog. Still holding out hope but I don't see this game making it unless they address the crafging, seige, and pvp aspects of the game for sure. The servers went from having long q''s to even play the game to being empty and dead with long q's for the end game battleground. Friggin battleground for end game pvp lol.