Honest assessment, are you happy you bought the game, or wish you didn't

[Kris Munky]

PC, very happy with the game, having a blast, sure its got problems but I went into it expecting that as should anyone with MMO's in this day and age.

[FourEyes]

Went into it with the mindset I was buying a Saints Row/Borderlands style game rather than a "true" MMORPG and couldn't be happier. There are issues and teething troubles certainly, but I have no regrets about my purchase. Already gotten far more with my money than I thought I would have.

[liquidstate]

Im playing it on PS3 and the glitches i can live with for now as it should get all fixed in time.
I have not had many issues so far and as for connecting think i had to wait like half an hour at most to get on when it launched.
But as this is a MMO they are always going to improve it so that does not put me off playing it as a lot of people are ranting about.
Overall im loving it, its a fun shooter and what i expected it to be like. I am more of a First person shooter than an MMO player so cant really compare it to others. But should be good seeing how this game develops and hope they give us lots of free content before we have to start paying for DLC.

[Roeh]

You can't compare today's market with the time WoW launched!

WoW's launch was bad, due to overwhelming sales numbers and having not enough servers to keep up with demand!
So they litterly suddenly had to build New data centers, order huge amounts of New servers... something that cannot be done overnight.
So they had to work with what they had at that time and buy servers and bandwith from various datacenters to fullfill the demand, which also took time.... hence why they stopped sales of WoW for several weeks!

Completely different and much more understandable situation.

Today the MMO market is completely saturated and First day(s) impressions are KEY!
If they are bad! Which they are right now! The game will not recover and be doomed into niche! People will leave and not come back anymore. Again due to the fully saturated MMO market of today.

TRION botched it up big time with this game! A difference of night and day compared to how they handled launch of RIFT... which went smooth as hell!

yes WoW launched 7 years ago and the market is full of MMOs now, but even the all powerful Blizzard Entertainment has shown that launching an online game is still hard to do, just look at Diablo 3 and EAs Sincity launch they both had massive fails on launch.

[scrappersapper]

For me this is a diamond in the rough, its not polished very well but if you can wait past that you'll get a super fun game with enticing combat

[Mike JezZ]

Hmmm. Have to admit that I'm disappointed in the frame rate and screen tearing issues. It's not a very attractive game on the 360.

You should be used to that already when playing on a console.

[Trapline]

I knew what I was buying, a less deep mmo that exchanged a full feature set for more action and a third person shooter gimmick

I'm enjoying myself, I don't think the game will ever blow me away, but it's a fun diversion and something I can pop in and out of as I enjoy the TV show.

Maybe Trion wil prove me wrong and some beefy updates will flesh it out a bit more and make it a more permanent fixture in my gaming time. Overall it's a few patches from being what it should have been released as, but I get they had to drop it beofre the show started and that probably cut a few key features.

It is trion, they have a good track record of fast content release, so hopefully it all squares away in the long run.

Otherwise it's a fun little romp once you turn off the music and stop hearing that lame repetitive combat track.

[Elandriel]

Not really. Was actually expecting more, but am willing to wait for more to come.
The biggest gripe I have with it is lack of proper communication tools and childish, arcade style of moving and driving. And I don't think those two things will improve.

[TechGnome]

Happy I bought the game? Yep... what I regret is getting right into it the last couple of nights. What I regret is apply my ark hunter bonuses right away. What I regret is applying my pre-order code to my account right away. I should have just kept a basic character, poked around for a week... THEN applied everything to it... with these outages comming in late evening/early night/late night for me, that's the time I have where I can play... seems so does most of the rest of the universe ... and so I get dumped out and loose another day of the boosts.... that's the only regret I have.

-tg

[Saraya]

Personally I feel the game is good, just not great.

Its launch was good as far as I could tell on my end, just I feel it's really a sub par game. Nothing ground breaking,

I know some people say the game is utterly amazing, others say it is utterly junk, I don't feel either assessment is true.

I just feel the game could of been much better, I think it was over hyped, which hurts everything really. It just don't feel very polished to me.

I'm still playing, and I'm having fun, but I wouldn't of bought it if i had my time back. How about you?

I'm just glad this Beta didn't cost me anymore than £35.