• Leveling was slooooooooooooooow. You needed to limit yourself to stuff on your level or get destroyed, which meant dozens of mooks for one level up. Oh, and you lost experience and could even de-level after death.
  
• The game was hard! There were no fancy UI tricks or mods to help - you had to pay attention, know your stuff and the boss' or even regular story battles (which were often level-locked) would kick your rear end.
  
• You required Alliances of 40-ish people to do anything significant in endgame.
  
• Bosses with the better drops were world spawns which had 2-3 hour spawn windows at hidden corners of the world, surrounded by strong mobs, and they could spawn at any second in the given window. Also, bots were EVERYWHERE.
  
• BIG bosses could take hours to down.
  
• Crafting was a herculean effort to level, often costing a shitton of money to get to the point where it'd be profitable, and the recipes always carried a chance of outright failing and losing all your expensive materials. Mind you, you COULD also make an exceptional craft with better stats.
  
• The economy suffered from inflation due to gold-farmers and, outside of crafting and hunting rare monsters (which had bots camping them), there wasn't really a reliable way of making money.

Brunom1 fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Jul 25, 2015