Going to say the words people need to hear, please upvote so others hear it too... THIS. IS. NOT. NEW WORLD.
This is not a good substitute for waiting for New World.
This is a frustration machine, designed to piss you off more than League Of legends.

Old founder from when it was an alpha who has come back and forth to check it out over the years. Sorry but its just not a good game. Its a PvE, PvP full loot mmorpg... But its not as great as that sounds. You are what you wear... Sure... But if your not following a meta build, your not wearing anything for long. Add in the taxes on every single thing you do, and you will find that this game, and Entropia, have a little bit in common.

The game has one real winner: The House. Sure you could PvE, raise some really good silver and buy premium... That is if you have anything left over from getting killed and looted, even the Corrupted Dungeons, content built as a safe haven from PvE players to farm without getting team ganked... Still suffer, because the PvP players invade there as well, and a PvE build... just can't win against a dedicated 1v1 PvP build... And if you build for that, you don't have the speed clear you need to make the dungeons profitable anymore... "But those pvpers are making good money!" No... There not. They lose their gear even more frequently than we do to other pvpers... Its an endless cycle of kill, gain, die, lose.... Only its more akin to a slot machine than poker... Because for PvE your at the whims of the RNG system... A rare or legendary chest could be absolutely worthless... Seriously, I've gotten plenty of rare chests that had 0 silver value, being filled with crappy untradable fame books. "but thats worth experience!" ... Yea, like 5 mins worth. The lowest tier mobs in that dungeon give me 5 books worth of fame, and take 10 seconds to kill 3 of them at once... That rare chest of crap fame books is literally worth 20 seconds of my grind on fodder.

Oh and the pvpers? I have serveral ppl in my guild going from a couple million silver...to completely broke daily, just because of the constant need to regear... This game is even more frustrating than a losing streak in league of legends, and worse, it takes hours of grind just to MAYBE reach a point where you can have a little fun, and because they whined over and over about not being able to kill PvE players in a dungeon DESIGNED FOR PVE PLAYERS, they made it just hard enough to escape that any pvp build with some mobility can catch and destroy you... The only safeish grind in the game that was worth a damn, once again, pointless.

So why don't I just PvP only then you ask? Because I don't want to spend multiple hours a day, every day, for weeks/months to become viable... Many of the pvp builds, require high level skills to pull off... That would take ALOT of grind to reach... Which means not only are u not making good grind on npcs...u also cant kill anyone but the newest of noobs who aren't worth a damn in silver or fame. It also means even in corrupted, with the amount of time it takes to clear... You will 100% be dived by an invader, and end up dying to an already established meta pvp build, and quite frankly, i don't feel like buying gold and spending it on fame tomes just to be able to follow a meta that, even then, can be outplayed by other metas... (which btw, would cost you hundreds of dollars in cash to afford.)

Thats right, you don't even get to play rock, paper, scissors in this game until you have grinded out for weeks/months...and when I say weeks, I mean weeks of day labor hours...i'm talking 8+ hours A DAY grinding, if u dont have that kinda time or mentality to be abused for 8 hours a day... Its going to take you considerably longer.

And you know what I figured out? The only reason I tried my hardest to find a viable way to play this game without pvping... Is because I want to play new world that badly. That I would play ANYTHING even remotely similar for just a taste of new world... But its not worth it, these damn things will never be new world..and quite frankly, this game is going to die again once new world is open... Because you can easily get more fun out of that game than albion online...

So unless your a pvp god old vet player with 100 spec in everything... Stay clear from Albion Online...This is not a good game. It is not new player friendly... Hell its not even Vet friendly. Its just a slot machine... And majority of you... Will just be going broke hoping for 10 seconds of fun and fortune.

Going to say the words people need to hear, please upvote so others hear it too... THIS. IS. NOT. NEW WORLD. This is not a good substitute for waiting for New World. This is a frustration machine, designed to piss you off more than League Of legends. Old founder from when it was an alpha who has come back and forth to check it out over the years. Sorry but its just not a good game. Its a PvE, PvP full loot mmorpg... But its not as great as that sounds. You are what you wear... Sure... But if your not following a meta build, your not wearing anything for long. Add in the taxes on every single thing you do, and you will find that this game, and Entropia, have a little bit in common. The game has one real winner: The House. Sure you could PvE, raise some really good silver and buy premium... That is if you have anything left over from getting killed and looted, even the Corrupted Dungeons, content built as a safe haven from PvE players to farm without getting team ganked... Still suffer, because the PvP players invade there as well, and a PvE build... just can't win against a dedicated 1v1 PvP build... And if you build for that, you don't have the speed clear you need to make the dungeons profitable anymore... "But those pvpers are making good money!" No... There not. They lose their gear even more frequently than we do to other pvpers... Its an endless cycle of kill, gain, die, lose.... Only its more akin to a slot machine than poker... Because for PvE your at the whims of the RNG system... A rare or legendary chest could be absolutely worthless... Seriously, I've gotten plenty of rare chests that had 0 silver value, being filled with crappy untradable fame books. "but thats worth experience!" ... Yea, like 5 mins worth. The lowest tier mobs in that dungeon give me 5 books worth of fame, and take 10 seconds to kill 3 of them at once... That rare chest of crap fame books is literally worth 20 seconds of my grind on fodder. Oh and the pvpers? I have serveral ppl in my guild going from a couple million silver...to completely broke daily, just because of the constant need to regear... This game is even more frustrating than a losing streak in league of legends, and worse, it takes hours of grind just to MAYBE reach a point where you can have a little fun, and because they whined over and over about not being able to kill PvE players in a dungeon DESIGNED FOR PVE PLAYERS, they made it just hard enough to escape that any pvp build with some mobility can catch and destroy you... The only safeish grind in the game that was worth a damn, once again, pointless. So why don't I just PvP only then you ask? Because I don't want to spend multiple hours a day, every day, for weeks/months to become viable... Many of the pvp builds, require high level skills to pull off... That would take ALOT of grind to reach... Which means not only are u not making good grind on npcs...u also cant kill anyone but the newest of noobs who aren't worth a damn in silver or fame. It also means even in corrupted, with the amount of time it takes to clear... You will 100% be dived by an invader, and end up dying to an already established meta pvp build, and quite frankly, i don't feel like buying gold and spending it on fame tomes just to be able to follow a meta that, even then, can be outplayed by other metas... (which btw, would cost you hundreds of dollars in cash to afford.) Thats right, you don't even get to play rock, paper, scissors in this game until you have grinded out for weeks/months...and when I say weeks, I mean weeks of day labor hours...i'm talking 8+ hours A DAY grinding, if u dont have that kinda time or mentality to be abused for 8 hours a day... Its going to take you considerably longer. And you know what I figured out? The only reason I tried my hardest to find a viable way to play this game without pvping... Is because I want to play new world that badly. That I would play ANYTHING even remotely similar for just a taste of new world... But its not worth it, these damn things will never be new world..and quite frankly, this game is going to die again once new world is open... Because you can easily get more fun out of that game than albion online... So unless your a pvp god old vet player with 100 spec in everything... Stay clear from Albion Online...This is not a good game. It is not new player friendly... Hell its not even Vet friendly. Its just a slot machine... And majority of you... Will just be going broke hoping for 10 seconds of fun and fortune.