A friend and i bought this game thinking that we could explore together. Everything about multiplayer is designed to pander to long time players. There is literally nothing you can do online but die for the first 60 hours of gameplay. I wish i never got this game. I will not invest that much time into a game solely designed to troll other players.
I should also mention that the online process is staggering in its lack of intuity. You have to use a remedy to play with a friend... if you play final fantasy you realize how ridiculous that sounds... and it gets worse; that's only one of the several items you need to join your friend online. My friend and i spent 2 and a half hours trying to figure out how to join each other only to find that once we were together that we could no longer use any of our items or summon our horses in addition to our stats being nerfed. We tried to make the best of a bad situation; We walked on foot only to find... that high level players could join and kill us. And they join OFTEN to essentially troll and usurp any chance of multiplayer frivolity to be had (or lack there of) This game was a huge dissapointment.