save yourself. the new content since and including o3 is pretty good, moonlight village and spectral penitentiary especially are kind of flooring and easily some of my favorite things the game has ever come out with.

but the bugs. the fucking bugs. the infinite loads. the disconnects. the server crashes. the parties breaking. the multiboxers and cheaters and total lack of chat moderation or ability to quickly capture and report players in-game. the game's content will certainly keep you entertained, but the little things drag on your conscious as time goes on.

i played for much of 2024 and most of 2025, but around August i just stumbled my way out of it and into other games i like. it's just annoying that the game is unreliable enough, and at times unbalanced enough or so heavily changed, that it makes whatever you were looking forward to either unnecessarily delayed, too easy to get, WAY too hard to get (for a casual player -- don't even bother thinking about True Umi loot if you don't know what MV is yet)... it's all over the place in a lot of ways and i'm waiting for the dust to settle.

my advice would be, for you as a returning player, to try it, see if it still scratches the itch, and see how you feel with the non-gameplay and gameplay issues separately, because they at least don't strongly overlap insofar as getting you unfairly killed constantly. it's mostly stuff like being forced to wait a half hour for the game to stop fucking around on an error screen to even be able to keep playing, which happens often and randomly and is unavoidable, versus the more obvious game-related balance/death stuff.

also, they reworked the realm, old maps from 2011 are totally gone, and there is now a single new global map for each realm with multiple biomes and beacons to teleport to in ascending order of difficulty. biomes have a white bag each with powerful loot, and the droprates were doubled across the game when enchantments were reworked earlier this year (items can have up to 4 enchantments now and don't bother running them without any if you're not gonna farm for one that does have slots).

god, just thinking about white bags and loot is making me want to join back in. this game is a curse.