07-22-2005, 10:45 PM
I was in the L2 beta, and I continued into retail for a couple of months until I gave up in disgust.
Unless they've drastically altered things, the game is just awful. It's very pretty, and it's loads of fun through around level 14. Then it becomes less fun into the 20s, as you run out of useful quests. By the time I reached level 24, there were no more new quests available at all until level 40. Your only choice at that point was to either run a repeatable quest which had extremely diminishing returns, or grind, grind, grind. For a game which had a level cap of 75, that was just intolerable. I managed to get to level 29 before I just never felt the urge to log in at all.
Unless they've drastically altered things, the game is just awful. It's very pretty, and it's loads of fun through around level 14. Then it becomes less fun into the 20s, as you run out of useful quests. By the time I reached level 24, there were no more new quests available at all until level 40. Your only choice at that point was to either run a repeatable quest which had extremely diminishing returns, or grind, grind, grind. For a game which had a level cap of 75, that was just intolerable. I managed to get to level 29 before I just never felt the urge to log in at all.
Darian Redwin - just some dude now