I didnt play darkfall, because i didnt play i didnt mention it.
Well, i too played plenty of sandbox games like Ultima Online, albion online and maybe more that not to worth mention.
I am not hostile by the way, im just bored to listen people who claims that they have played so much games, and spread false words.
Again, this is not sandbox game.
This game has quest driven levelling system.
In this game you cant do almost every content without 60 levels. I am 42 and never saw pvp in the game. Well i dont believe this is pvp oriented game. I have assigned to war board maybe 10 times and never choosen.
I have opened pvp flag and always higher level players killed me. So i never flagged again since level 22 or something.
These are not sandbox elements.
This game forces you to do gathering and crafting for the dungeon keys. This is not the way of sandbox.
Even people says you can level up without questing, and just crafting its a false information. Well maybe if you can grind gathering and crafting for 1 year you could. But every game allow that. If you spend enough time, in every game you can get full level with crafting. Even in wow.
So only way to get max level is questing or mob grinding.
So you cant do whatever you want. You have to follow main quests to get azoth staff for example. You canr finish this game without questing.
Well normally i dont have problem with it. But if you do that, you should do it well. If you implement quest system and force players to that, you have to design good questing system. So if i compare with eso, eso is the best with questing. Millions of quests, all voice acted, most of them have great background story, lot of memorable npcs etc etc.
If you force people to go back and forth in zones for questing you should do it well. If you just copy paste all zones and settlements it wont work. Well i dont even compare with eso, how its world so gigantic and variable.
Albion online also have maps copied and pasted but it never force you to progress levelling in these zones. They are just areas to do pvp. They are just dangerous places that you could killed by someone.
Now i am dreadly bored from levelling at 42, and doing just gathering and crafting. In 4-5 days i have just gain 2 levels and half of it from quests or dungeons. Well probably with this progress when i reach 200 with all trading skills, i will gain only 7 8 levels. After that game will probably end for me.
Well i really remember release of Albion Online and i can bet it has more variety with monsters, armors, weapons and everything else. Its only 2 gb isometric cartoon graphic mmorpg.
This game is 30 gb and i am sure 29.5 of it because of the graphics. All other contents could fit in 500 mb.
However this game is just theme park mmorpg trying to be sandbox game. And it will never happen. And i am sure this game has less variety and content compared to other mmorpgs in market. Its like mobile game.