First impressions of the game after Lvl50

[Jinsabi_]

The very first impressions of the game, I felt excitement, not a lot. but It was there.
Then as I progressed into the game further. I realized, oh.

Cons:
-Boring early game leveling experience. It's poorly designed. if Players hav ea miserable experience whilst leveling. They will move on if they can't get through the early stages of the game. They will not care even if the end game is good.
-You need a guild to play with. You can play solo. but, Not a Solo friendly game.
-This game feels very outdated, it doesn't belong in today's standards of 2024 era.
-It feels generic, empty and the excitement began to fade.
-Combat isn't groundbreaking, it's been done before in many traditional tab targeting mmo.

I've only explored about 22 hours of the game as Longbow+Staff, which was fun.
Hp/Mp wasn't ever an issue. rarely used mana pots.
This is a mixed review. My feelings will change I'm sure as the open beta doesn't provide the full experience.

Pros:
-Generally fast to hit lvl 50 if you just zoom past main quest line
-Not Alt Dependent:
You don't have to worry about creating 10+ Alt characters like Lost Ark to get ahead.
-This game doesn't feel crazy grind heavy. Like having another Job. So that is good.
-You can switch weapons and skill sets at any time with the one character. This is a good thing in my opinion. The only thing you have to do is get Weapon Mastery if you do choose to main a certain weapon set.
-Parry system: I welcome the fact it has it. But some of the secret dungeon bosses abuse the fact it can make you spam parry and you run out of stamina then you can't keep up rotations because lack of stamina to parry, Then you lose, it's kind of bad and takes the fun away of parry.

Update news considered as a Pro:
-Combat skill revamp, new weapons, new PvE content.
-Skill 'Tripod-like' revamp system that will change the combat style to make skills buffed up to 5 different combinations towards Animation/AoE/Damage/Mobility/Projectile Range and more. Apparently its free to redo all skill power adjustments. So you can theory craft every skill for free if you want.

Conclusion:
I understand i'm not giving the game enough time to develop to end game. As, most of the player base agrees in some way with each other.
I can barely find players to do the harder lv50+ dungeons, and if you do end up finding a queue in open beta.
The cross server system will tend to make the game crash. It's kind of frustrating and it might still be an issue later. (If they don't fix this Major issue then game dies faster)
I haven't experienced full scale pvp events yet or world boss events. I just feel like the game still feels bad to invest time into. Could change later but will players stick around?
Probably not for long. . .

I won't be paying $40 for the 5 day early access. I'll just come back as free to play. The game won't survive long imo. People won't be sticking around. Esp if it's very p2w depending on how greedy amazon wants to be.

I'm still excited for LIneage:ER. Ashes of Creation. ArcheAge 2. Chrono Odyssey.
I'd drop this game so fast for those titles. Cheers hope this helps.

[stack-squid]

The game is already released in Korea, they basically just testing servers here and translation.

But I agree with you, game feels old

[m6ceb]

I'm really enjoying it. The combat is ok but I'm used to BDO. So far for me it's been amazing 😉

[Badwolfe]

you must have a very low expectation bar if Ashes of Creation is on there because it looks about the same as this