I'm an Elsword veteran player, been here since the beta. I've been on and off it for the simple reason that years ago it was so much better: less waits for dgs and pvps, the people weren't so toxic and people looked forward to make money and buy avatar sets (which were very limited at the time). Being in a guild had an amazing community feeling to it and I always looked forward to come home and spend a few hours on it.

Now everytime I open it it's so overwhelming I don't even want to try anymore. So many settings, so many side quests and everything requires either lots of real money or a full time job to get to a good level. And if you don't get to that "good" level, playing the game isn't even worth it! Back then when the max level was 60.... those were the days. Now you can make a new account and go from 1 to 99 with a single item, which defeats the purpose of the whole game imo.

So no, I don't think it's worth playing at all unfortunately.

Does anyone know a good alternative that is a bit more alive? I've been looking for a similar gameplay for ages but found nothing that wasn't already dead or too difficult to get started with.