7k+ hour vet (over numerous accounts) here.

Do NOT play this game. Scroll down for juicy drama.

This game's subscription is charged per character slot, instead of per player. I say this because the game intentionally launched with only 1 character per account, and the devs adamantly REFUSED to allow us to merge our accounts or at the very least, link them together so we can pay for a single, unified subscription. In this game it can take months and months to get a specialized, niche character online, like, for example, any class that uses etherworld portals. It can also cost insane amounts of gold. Every character "archetype" plays VERY differently than than the last, and so if you want to use one account, you're limited from trying new archetypes unless you decided to throw away everything you've built and reroll, or buy a new account.

I'm personally a huge fan of many different styles of play in this game, and because of the devs choices, I was forced to buy more than 5 accounts to play them all, and as far as I'm concerned I paid $40 per character slot. Now the devs want to charge me monthly PER CHARACTER, instead of providing means to unify your characters.

I knew this was coming. I posted on the forums, I posted on the discord, I reached out to the CM and the devs directly, numerous times and expressed my concerns, which were flatly ignored. I'm not paying $100+ per month to play this game, and I'm not playing it if I'm going to be limited in the characters I play. I'm punished by the developers for being such a fan of this game that I own multiple characters.

Subscription drama aside, lets get into some juicy stuff.

Community: This game has the highest concentration of mentally ill players per capita out of any game I've ever played. It is pure, distilled insanity. These players are not sane. At absolute best, they're tribalistic narcissists, at worst, they're literal neo-nazis. There is currently a guild in the game called Beastmasters, that guild name isn't in reference to the taming mechanics, it's a reference to what they think of people of color and their "place" in society. This guild also runs a discord where they maintain a list of women, minorities and "sympathizers" within the community, and they call this list a "Night of the Long Knives list". The leader of the largest alliance in the game currently (and since MO1) can be found on a UK s*x offender registry. There's a guild that holds weekly meetings where they talk about how women deserve to be assaulted. This community is so far from mentally healthy it should honestly be quarantined from the rest of the planet.

We're still waiting for features we were promised 3 years ago. Permanent ritual tables, an absolutely crucial furniture item, has been MIA since the release of the necromancy school, in July of 2022. Pet armor is still missing from countless animals in the game, speaking of, we don't even have all the animals the game was supposed to have, we're missing River Prowers, Lykiators, and a ton of crucial animals. It's taken them over a year to push out the elementalism magic school, which is STILL missing the "entities" sub-skill. Territory Control siege weapons placed on roofs of defensive structures cannot be loaded from inside the structure, meaning you have to leave the structure (you will die), loot ammo from a siege tent (that will be destroyed), make it back inside (you won't, and if the door opens everyone inside will die) and carry it to the roof to load a Ballista or Catapult, both of which are great "equalizer" weapons in siege defenses, but aren't actually functional as defensive weapons because of this, so if a giant zerg wants to take out your structure, they just do, and you can't stop them.

Cheaters. The CEO of this game, Henrik, told us in beta that "exploit early, exploit often" would not be a thing. Well, it is. There is an absolutely massive amount of duped/cheated gold and valuable materials in this game, and the only people that get punished are the accounts (not players) that do the duping, cheating, or injecting, which means everyone who cheats just does it on a $4 south american alt account (yes steam, a ton of MO2 players commit fraud on your platform). If a player is caught cheating on their main account, like for example Wicked of the guild Nightfall, they have plenty of warning and are able to offload all their properties/banks to friends and alts before the ban kicks in. If I were to list every guild that harbors cheaters, I would hit the character limit in this review. One of the main dungeons in the game, the Necromancy dungeon, is completely, 100% run by a guild called Tianming that RMT's everything they farm. This guild cheats to ensure nobody but them is able to access the dungeon, and there's a reason why every RMT site on the internet is packed with necromancy dungeon exclusive stock. Guilds like OdinSeed and Content do the same thing but with the Minotaur dungeon and it's exclusive loot. Irrefutable proof of every type of cheating you can imagine gets published by the community every week, and nobody ever gets punished for it.

I could go on and on and on about this game, but I'm done typing. Do not play this game.

7k+ hour vet (over numerous accounts) here. Do NOT play this game. Scroll down for juicy drama. This game's subscription is charged per character slot, instead of per player. I say this because the game intentionally launched with only 1 character per account, and the devs adamantly REFUSED to allow us to merge our accounts or at the very least, link them together so we can pay for a single, unified subscription. In this game it can take months and months to get a specialized, niche character online, like, for example, any class that uses etherworld portals. It can also cost insane amounts of gold. Every character "archetype" plays VERY differently than than the last, and so if you want to use one account, you're limited from trying new archetypes unless you decided to throw away everything you've built and reroll, or buy a new account. I'm personally a huge fan of many different styles of play in this game, and because of the devs choices, I was forced to buy more than 5 accounts to play them all, and as far as I'm concerned I paid $40 per character slot. Now the devs want to charge me monthly PER CHARACTER, instead of providing means to unify your characters. I knew this was coming. I posted on the forums, I posted on the discord, I reached out to the CM and the devs directly, numerous times and expressed my concerns, which were flatly ignored. I'm not paying $100+ per month to play this game, and I'm not playing it if I'm going to be limited in the characters I play. I'm punished by the developers for being such a fan of this game that I own multiple characters. Subscription drama aside, lets get into some juicy stuff. Community: This game has the highest concentration of mentally ill players per capita out of any game I've ever played. It is pure, distilled insanity. These players are not sane. At absolute best, they're tribalistic narcissists, at worst, they're literal neo-nazis. There is currently a guild in the game called Beastmasters, that guild name isn't in reference to the taming mechanics, it's a reference to what they think of people of color and their "place" in society. This guild also runs a discord where they maintain a list of women, minorities and "sympathizers" within the community, and they call this list a "Night of the Long Knives list". The leader of the largest alliance in the game currently (and since MO1) can be found on a UK s*x offender registry. There's a guild that holds weekly meetings where they talk about how women deserve to be assaulted. This community is so far from mentally healthy it should honestly be quarantined from the rest of the planet. We're still waiting for features we were promised 3 years ago. Permanent ritual tables, an absolutely crucial furniture item, has been MIA since the release of the necromancy school, in July of 2022. Pet armor is still missing from countless animals in the game, speaking of, we don't even have all the animals the game was supposed to have, we're missing River Prowers, Lykiators, and a ton of crucial animals. It's taken them over a year to push out the elementalism magic school, which is STILL missing the "entities" sub-skill. Territory Control siege weapons placed on roofs of defensive structures cannot be loaded from inside the structure, meaning you have to leave the structure (you will die), loot ammo from a siege tent (that will be destroyed), make it back inside (you won't, and if the door opens everyone inside will die) and carry it to the roof to load a Ballista or Catapult, both of which are great "equalizer" weapons in siege defenses, but aren't actually functional as defensive weapons because of this, so if a giant zerg wants to take out your structure, they just do, and you can't stop them. Cheaters. The CEO of this game, Henrik, told us in beta that "exploit early, exploit often" would not be a thing. Well, it is. There is an absolutely massive amount of duped/cheated gold and valuable materials in this game, and the only people that get punished are the accounts (not players) that do the duping, cheating, or injecting, which means everyone who cheats just does it on a $4 south american alt account (yes steam, a ton of MO2 players commit fraud on your platform). If a player is caught cheating on their main account, like for example Wicked of the guild Nightfall, they have plenty of warning and are able to offload all their properties/banks to friends and alts before the ban kicks in. If I were to list every guild that harbors cheaters, I would hit the character limit in this review. One of the main dungeons in the game, the Necromancy dungeon, is completely, 100% run by a guild called Tianming that RMT's everything they farm. This guild cheats to ensure nobody but them is able to access the dungeon, and there's a reason why every RMT site on the internet is packed with necromancy dungeon exclusive stock. Guilds like OdinSeed and Content do the same thing but with the Minotaur dungeon and it's exclusive loot. Irrefutable proof of every type of cheating you can imagine gets published by the community every week, and nobody ever gets punished for it. I could go on and on and on about this game, but I'm done typing. Do not play this game.