tl;dr: i got my fun out of it. outside of that fun, it ain't good and needs serious help across not just the game itself but also the development/community team too.

i won't bother covering the good. there's some here and there, and the promise is there. just like there was promise for Cyberpunk 2077.

the things that bug ya:

ui bugs: the ui has all sorts of issues scattered all over the place. the quest list on the main screen getting pushed down, the tracking for animals and nodes stops working after a few hours, bad design in needing to completely take your eyes off where you need to look for consumables, half-visible xp bar. the list goes on, but it gives you a point to start at. plus, AGS posted a job listing for a new UI/UX director after the game launched. it also came out that the ui's programmed in lua, so it became apparent on how to fix some of the bugs.... can't because of EAC but still.

server bugs: yes, they exist. either the server improperly reporting a node as active when it's not, lag causing enemies to not be hit while you get chewed up and spit out.

pvp "bugs": i guess now, after a forum post on new world forums confirming it, it really isn't a bug. but basically being able to turn in a small handful of quests to force a war just because someone held onto a territory for 5 days is a pretty bad way to implement pvp.

pve v pvp: yeah, there's a lot of back and forth and it sure does show that the game doesn't know what it wants to be. is it a pve game or pvp game? the game was originally going to be pvp, but after folk complained about it, we have what we have now. and a lot of the skill trees either are perfect for pvp but completely useless for pve content or vice versa. it sucks straight ass and isn't fun in that case.

yeah, honeymoon period aside, there's going to be more that will get found out about. it also doesn't help things when AGS employees were moderating the official subreddits for the game. such that reddit admins stepped in and kicked them clear out because of site rules. it also doesn't help when the company seems to be mismanaging what's going on/expected between here and many other places. they keep this up, it'll make CP2077 and even FFXIV's 1.0 launch look good.

tl;dr: i got my fun out of it. outside of that fun, it ain't good and needs serious help across not just the game itself but also the development/community team too. i won't bother covering the good. there's some here and there, and the promise is there. just like there was promise for Cyberpunk 2077. the things that bug ya: ui bugs: the ui has all sorts of issues scattered all over the place. the quest list on the main screen getting pushed down, the tracking for animals and nodes stops working after a few hours, bad design in needing to completely take your eyes off where you need to look for consumables, half-visible xp bar. the list goes on, but it gives you a point to start at. plus, AGS posted a job listing for a new UI/UX director after the game launched. it also came out that the ui's programmed in lua, so it became apparent on how to fix some of the bugs.... can't because of EAC but still. server bugs: yes, they exist. either the server improperly reporting a node as active when it's not, lag causing enemies to not be hit while you get chewed up and spit out. pvp "bugs": i guess now, after a forum post on new world forums confirming it, it really isn't a bug. but basically being able to turn in a small handful of quests to force a war just because someone held onto a territory for 5 days is a pretty bad way to implement pvp. pve v pvp: yeah, there's a lot of back and forth and it sure does show that the game doesn't know what it wants to be. is it a pve game or pvp game? the game was originally going to be pvp, but after folk complained about it, we have what we have now. and a lot of the skill trees either are perfect for pvp but completely useless for pve content or vice versa. it sucks straight ass and isn't fun in that case. yeah, honeymoon period aside, there's going to be more that will get found out about. it also doesn't help things when AGS employees were moderating the official subreddits for the game. such that reddit admins stepped in and kicked them clear out because of site rules. it also doesn't help when the company seems to be mismanaging what's going on/expected between here and many other places. they keep this up, it'll make CP2077 and even FFXIV's 1.0 launch look good.