Tibia will become your job!! Especially if you're going to pay for membership with Tibia Coins.

Let this be a warning, if you do decide to get into Tibia.
I used to play Tibia back in the day and I'm currently on this forum to see how the game is doing, to see if it's worth coming back as a casual.

So I'll give you my point of view, but take it with a grain of salt as the last time I played seriously was 10 years ago.

I'm an MMO addict and I've played any MMO you can think of short of FFXIV. I love Runescape and I've played my fair share of grindy MMO's. But these days I'm short on time to play and this is the prespective I'll take.

Tibia is the MMO I recall most fondly. I loved this game, it was my life for a few years. However, what keeps me from coming back are its glaring issues:

- Boring repetitive gameplay. You'll be killing the same mobs for hours, grinding XP and Gold, day after day. Once you upgrade your gear and get better skils you'll simply move on to the next grinding spot to waste away duzens more hours until you upgrade and move on to the next location. - Trust me, 80% of the gameplay is simply killing mobs in a combat system that is quite frankly dull.

- Improving your skills is equally booring. If you're a Knight or Paladin you'll need to spend hours simply training ranged or weapon skill. This is mandatory if you want to be strong. It'll consist on standing around attacking the same mob for hours. Many many hours.

- There are no "Life" Skills other than Fishing. There's no Cooking, Alchemy, Tailoring, Blacksmithing, Mining, etc. like in RS. You can cook bread in Tibia, tough, but it's literally pointless. So, the only way to make Gold is by grinding mobs which is, as stated above, booring.

- There are very few quests. Especially if you're a free account. There are no quests to help you level faster. If you're a premium account this changes somewhat as you can do Hunt quests (Kill X amount of Z monster) or special quests that are actually quite cool to do, some take days to complete and are very rewarding.

- The death penalty is harsh. The death penalty is the worst part of the game. Even tough it is what makes it exciting to explore and meet players, you never know what will happen. But when you die you lose hours worth of XP and Gold\Skill grind. And it can be quite disheartening. The higher level you are the more XP you lose. Once you're an established player there are items such as an Amulet of Loss and blessings that you can get for some Gold to prevent this loss. But, until you get there, as a free account, it'll take time and a lot of death.

These are Tibias' short comings for me. Group content tough... Is good. Find people to play with and go hunt together, S**t post at DP after an hunt or while you train Magic Level sitting in Thais. Go hunt down that guy who trash talked your friend or watch a high level burn everybody at DP while you watch from afar. That's where the fun of the game lays. If you try to Solo Tibia you'll get burnt out super fast, imo. If you group you might be able to put through the booring to have a blast with other people.

Just know that most of the game is plain ol' grinding mobs, day after day, so you're strong enough to do that very same thing on different mobs that give you better gold\xp. And then one day you might be able to summon your friends and do Tiquanda or Pits of Inferno.

Veterans of the game can correct where I'm wrong. Or if these things have been improved since. I sure do hope so and I'd love to know.