Seeing as most people that are reviewing this game have under 500 hours. Ill put my 2 cents in.

- If you are a new player, or thinking about getting the game. Don't. Simple.

- Reasons for ^^ - This game has for new players. Even since "Fresh Start" was released, this game still somehow managed to bleed players. There is a reason that it had 1 million at launch and only 10k left standing. The last 10k standing are split into 2 groups.

-1st Group - PvP Players. Theres is a total of 10 "competent" PvP companies still standing. 5 are really good and 5 are mediocre. But in those top 5 - each one has at least 10 from the other playing with them. The bottom 5 are just the people that wish they could.

-2nd Group - PvE Players. These are the reason this game is not 100% dead. They are made up of the 9000/10000 players online at all times. They are the ones that farm, craft, and sell. So that the PvPers dont have too. Its a shame that people still enjoy doing that, when other games have a far better reason to grind.

-Surpisingly, the Devs have decided it was better to squeeze every drop of their efforts into monitary value, instead of actually trying to keep a player base. This game is not even half way done, even since launch. AGS will never change unfortunetly, they are a corporation entity made to make money. But as we all know, the best way for a game to generate income, is to keep/grow the player base. The reason that the top 1000 players still play, is because we have dumped ~2.5k hours plus $100's of dollars into this game.

Overall - New people dont come, PvE players please quit and let this game die, before I suffer more.

I started this game a while back. Just had fun playing with friends, but now in the competitive scene, it is bigger than I ever imagined. Just like my penis.