Faisal Mansur

This game has a lot of room for improvement. I started playing during the beta, got the founders edition and played through the launch. If there's any takeaway from this review its that this game is a good idea, but it either released too early or the devs who made the game don't know how to optimize an MMORPG. The game itself looks good, the characters are fun to play, and overall combat is pretty decent, although it's a lot more slow paced than what I'm used to. Surface level the game looks and feels pretty decent. However, when you get past the first few hours of play and need to start upgrading equipment and are just further playing the game, that's when issues start to become apparent. Equipment takes TOO long to upgrade with a terrible system that has you grinding for materials that give your weapons a CHANCE to upgrade. You also run out of inventory space really fast as well as inventory expansion tickets. I think they just increased everyone's inventory size but that was a big problem when I played. I've tried to upgrade a piece of gear 50 times and it hasn't worked, not because of a bug, but because of a "feature." Some controls like summoning and riding on mounts are not optimized for console whatsoever, which is odd considering this is an xbox exclusive. The game starts to get boring, not because of a lack of content but because of a lack of depth in the content. After about 20 hours you will have seen and done it all and are really just doing the same stuff over and over again to grind level and for items. Conclusion: It's a very PROMISING game. The devs seem to have been looking at the feedback and are starting to make changes for the better, which is good. But it's not there yet. However, it can still be fun for a lot of people so since it's free to play, give it a shot and see how it is for yourself. Maybe it's gotten way better since this review!