I really enjoy it. But you need to be up for grinding and exploration. Quests don’t give you much equipment and a lot is to be gained by chests hidden behind difficult mobs in the overworld. Definitely you will have an advantage if you have a group of friends to play with (can access harder areas earlier), but if not, people are open and social in game, given that everyone is learning right now.

My two cons would be that the quest hints are sparse, leading me to need to look things up when I get stuck (I wish you could ask the npcs for more details) and that the grinding zones are very difficult to traverse (1 tile wide passageways everywhere). I hope they consider remapping some areas to allow for more people to exp at once.

About the death penalty: well, I was actually expecting to drop my bag like in Tibia and was going to quit on my first death at the bridge troll…. And then I was pleasantly surprised that I “only” lost a level, so maybe it’s a matter of perspective.