So this one is aimed at the developers. I am going to say this in the nicest most direct way possible. I don’t think this game will do as well as you want it to unless something changes.
On the technical side of things it is okay. There aren’t a great deal of bugs and there isn’t a huge amount of lag. The artistic side of things is decent. It is a nice to look at game. The problem is design choices.
That is something that is much harder to improve. If it were bugs you could simply fix them right. The issue with design choices being the problem is it is much harder to address. Because you are not actually lacking skill but instead you are lacking insight. You can write the best code in the world but it won’t matter if the software doesn’t meet the stakeholder’s needs.
Some examples of bad design choices.
The crafting. Always collecting the lowest resource (lacks progression). High competition and not enough distribution of nodes. Randomness of perks. (There is no respect for the player’s time when it comes to crafting)
Stagger and the lack of cc immunity. Sure there is freedom on gear. But it shouldn’t be needed in the first place. The new player should have an equal amount of control over their character as the veteran. I have never met a single person who likes being killed without being able to fight back or being stunned 10 times in a row. (In other games cc comes down to skill and not who spent more time grinding gear)
Intentionally leaving out a foliage setting in the graphics menu even though this game is insanely cluttered and dense with foliage. Most of the performance cost from this game would be foliage. (Why would there not be a setting for the thing with the largest cost?)
Having server populations set so small that you can’t support pvp below max level. This one actually blew my mind because so many people ask in global all the time about low level pvp.
Not having mounts and making people walk every where. (enough said on that one)
These were just a few of the things I noticed through out this game. But its pretty consistent that when I find an issue with this game it was intentionally designed that way.
I really want to like this game because it is rare I find games with Aussie servers. You guys do seem to have a pretty good history of listening to players and fixing things. So I really do hope you guys keep that up. I actually want this game to do great. The problem isn’t skill but how you are deciding things should work.