I'd say if someone tried ArcheAge and didn't make it past their pretty horrible linear quest progression portion, you really missed the meat of the game. The leveling process is like a 1 week tutorial that shows you combat, trades and all the other major systems. After that, the game it completely open.
The only drawback was that PvP was heavily gear dependent, and gear was heavily credit card dependent. I hear the new server they just launched a few days ago actually removes the majority of the P2W. Not entirely, but I guess the worker potions are out. Stuff like worker potions and regrade materials were the worst part, and I guess they're gone.
Wasn't enough to bring me back, but I believe if ArcheAge had a purely subscription server, I'd probably play it faithfully until Pantheon (which is looking amazing, despite what haters say).
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