This game cannot be recommended in good conscious for a variety of reasons, which I will cover below. Starting with a look at the relaunch and a look original, then a look at the company in terms of questionable business and moral decisions, and finally a look at the community and what to expect out of it. Both the good and the bad without exaggeration; based largely on facts with some opinions interjected. The review will also have to reference other games to give context about the above in terms of gauging, and will cover other Funcom releases as well as non-Funcom releases.

(This review also mentions dating periods for verification; it was also written and revised/rewritten from the headstart of SWL to the imminient Steam release. All information is double checked and verified before posting of this review. Some segments may be left to showcase how things were, and there should be a reference of changes mentioned.)

Also don't judge my Steam play time. I've been playing the non-Steam versions of this game and will continue doing so. The play time for this game is for Steam Cards and to actually post a review.

Due to the limit of how large a review can be I have made a Steam Guide to cover the review in actual depth.

http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1095812999

July 21, 2017 Update: SWL just released on Steam and I was going to give the upcoming event (The Whispering Tide) a go since I was unable to try it the first time; but I get an error saying that I must convert my Funcom account to a Steam account, despite having never logged onto either game through Steam. It is a personal pet peeve of mine to have something as simple and basic as the freedom to choose to play SWL through Steam or not. It gets harder and harder to stick with this game. And I was still actively playing and was planning to do so, but in case you didn't hear there's also this bug where converting your account may also drop your Patron (subscription status). If you're curious as to what my luck was it can be answered with a simple, "F@ck you too Funcom. F@ck you too."

November 22, 1017 Update: There were a few things to clarify that I should probably put in the guide review, but Steam wants me to update a review for their 2nd Games Nomination Badge thing. Addressing the community section in the review and where I was less than favorable about the playerbase I should clarify that there are no real classes per se, the type of gear you slot and the glyphs you use determine your "class" so the person who did that unlinked YouTube review as well as the occasional person you might see saying "I chose a mage so I'm naturally squishy" is as I said before; a ♥♥♥♥♥♥. And since the orignal review to now I have seen what I expected and warned you all. this game is a shadow of itself and only the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ actually like it. Even the slowest and thickest of the fans have come around and managed to undo change the recent reviews on Steam to negative and get this game a mixed reception.
Another side note is that TSW has removed certain items from the store such as the Initiate pack and some other things that I can't recall, as well as jacked up the price of other things in the cash shop, namely the rainbow unicorm mount from what was once 20 USD or something to now over 100 or something retarded. Guess Funcom realized they ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up once again and once they saw people going back to TSW they decided to bone them in the rectum once more time. I can't recommend even TSW because of the promise of no future updates and how they have moved it to even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and laggier servers than before.

This game cannot be recommended in good conscious for a variety of reasons, which I will cover below. Starting with a look at the relaunch and a look original, then a look at the company in terms of questionable business and moral decisions, and finally a look at the community and what to expect out of it. Both the good and the bad without exaggeration; based largely on facts with some opinions interjected. The review will also have to reference other games to give context about the above in terms of gauging, and will cover other Funcom releases as well as non-Funcom releases. (This review also mentions dating periods for verification; it was also written and revised/rewritten from the headstart of SWL to the imminient Steam release. All information is double checked and verified before posting of this review. Some segments may be left to showcase how things were, and there should be a reference of changes mentioned.) Also don't judge my Steam play time. I've been playing the non-Steam versions of this game and will continue doing so. The play time for this game is for Steam Cards and to actually post a review. Due to the limit of how large a review can be I have made a Steam Guide to cover the review in actual depth. http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1095812999 July 21, 2017 Update: SWL just released on Steam and I was going to give the upcoming event (The Whispering Tide) a go since I was unable to try it the first time; but I get an error saying that I must convert my Funcom account to a Steam account, despite having never logged onto either game through Steam. It is a personal pet peeve of mine to have something as simple and basic as the freedom to choose to play SWL through Steam or not. It gets harder and harder to stick with this game. And I was still actively playing and was planning to do so, but in case you didn't hear there's also this bug where converting your account may also drop your Patron (subscription status). If you're curious as to what my luck was it can be answered with a simple, "F@ck you too Funcom. F@ck you too." November 22, 1017 Update: There were a few things to clarify that I should probably put in the guide review, but Steam wants me to update a review for their 2nd Games Nomination Badge thing. Addressing the community section in the review and where I was less than favorable about the playerbase I should clarify that there are no real classes per se, the type of gear you slot and the glyphs you use determine your "class" so the person who did that unlinked YouTube review as well as the occasional person you might see saying "I chose a mage so I'm naturally squishy" is as I said before; a retard. And since the orignal review to now I have seen what I expected and warned you all. this game is a shadow of itself and only the retards actually like it. Even the slowest and thickest of the fans have come around and managed to undo change the recent reviews on Steam to negative and get this game a mixed reception. Another side note is that TSW has removed certain items from the store such as the Initiate pack and some other things that I can't recall, as well as jacked up the price of other things in the cash shop, namely the rainbow unicorm mount from what was once 20 USD or something to now over 100 or something retarded. Guess Funcom realized they fucked up once again and once they saw people going back to TSW they decided to bone them in the rectum once more time. I can't recommend even TSW because of the promise of no future updates and how they have moved it to even shittier and laggier servers than before.