Peach
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1,753 Hours played
No, I would not recommend this game anymore.

The "little bugs and glitches" may seem endearing in the first few weeks, but if you are a player looking to get into any sort of "endgame content", or if come from a different MMO where raiding is the solid core of the gameplay loop, you can't really be blamed for expecting higher quality.
The 12-man group content is bland, same-same, copy-paste with very few actual mechanics and only two difficulty modes (veteran and normal). And no, I will not accept a "speed run" as a DIFFICULTY mode.

Dungeons vary in difficulty from boring and too easy (normal) to veteran (still easy, still boring) with no further difficulty level except for a "hard mode" (usually one extra mechanic only on the last boss).

There is de facto no competitive PvP, as battlegrounds leaderboards are bugged and don't display actual ranks, and Cyrodiil is an unplayable laggy mess on EU servers during any hour of the day.

Patches, instead of (as the name would suggest) solving issues, introduce new bugs and problems, the latest being crashes and broken addon support (without which the game can very well be considered unplayable).

Earnable in-game rewards are bland and meaningless, as all the well-designed stuff (well, not even that, but we'll get to that in a bit) is only available in the Crown Store, through either currency purchase or loot crate gambling.

So speaking of the Crown Store, other than containing shameless new player-ripoffs such as Vamprisim / Lycanthropy (both of which can be obtained for FREE in the game) it contains items that are bugged or dysfunctional (weapon appearances, hairstyles that float, costumes that don't fit properly) and endless reskins of the same base mount models. Everything is ridiculously overpriced, while often being available for very short timespans only, to induce FOMO.

I am not even touching on combat mechanics and physics, item sets, balancing and several other points that make this visually beautiful MMO a very subpar game.

As sad as it is, I would not recommend spending any money on this game in its current state.