I’ve been playing the game now for just over a month and still very much like it. Max level is 50 and I am now at level 48. I’m paying for Premium because I feel the game is worth supporting, and the reusable gathering tools that come with Premium make life so much easier.
I have been taking part in PvP in an instanced 70 vs 70 battleground. We seem to win in the afternoon and lose in the evening; so everyone gets a turn on the winning and losing side of things. Once you get a feel for the combat it sorta grows on you. I find combat to be similar to ESO with Blade and Soul mixed in.
One of the stranger things to get used to in the game is the lack of trading. This is intentional to combat gold spammers. At the moment the only way to get something from another player is to buy it on the market place. It is also possible to mail things to your own alts. All of this means that if you want good gear you are going to have to earn it. Personally I like it, it means that when you see a guy well geared out, you know he had to work his butt off from the start of Early Access to get to that point.
The mount and pet system in the game is another great feature. About 95% of all open world creatures are tameable and all of those you capture are upgradeable. There are numerous buffs that pets and skills that mounts can have. For mounts its things like being able to fly (for 60 seconds) or move 40% faster at night. For pets there are defence, experience, crafting, gathering, and attack buffs, so you find yourself changing pets to suit the situation. Consequently, at night you’ll find me riding on a mammoth with a fairy pet trying to keep up, whereas in the day time during a PvP battle I’ll be on the back of a demon being chased by a crow. And since the buffs are random and not specific to the creature, the guy next to me might be on a wolf being chased by a rabbit.
Again I recommend this game. If you check the reviews on Steam you’ll find that most of the ones that came out since the games release as F2P are now positive. Obviously, I think this game is worth giving a try. You may find that this is the game for you, especially if you get with a group of people that you enjoy playing with.
If you want to find me in game; I’m playing Brogg on Hilon server with the Union faction. (Note that when you create a character on a server, your faction is the same for all your characters on that server. If you want to try the opposing faction you’ll have to do it on the other NA server.)