Wow, that's a great question and one which is bound to get some essay length replies.
For me personally it's the friendships, albeit online friendships, but friendships non-the-less.
The chatting and banter is what's most important to me, the gameplay side of things doesn't bother me so much. Now i have high enough 'skills' to get by and not die every 5 minutes, i find myself enjoying helping out other people more than anything else (i despise grinding with a passion).
It's a hard slog at first and making friends makes it far more enjoyable.
The gameplay things i do love though are the complexities of the game, i.e., the crafting system (though i don't craft much) - 1000's of possible combinations of materials. The way certain animals have certain statistics meaning this sword will be rubbish against this guy but that axe will be ace!
It's true what people say in that you make your own game.. once off the starter island you're not really guided in any way to do things. It's all your own personal choice. You can run missions if you want or you can build a fire and just sit watching the world pass by. You might want to gather a team and go rid the world of all its nasties, cool, do it!
My advice would be to stick with it, many people drop out when they leave the starter island for one reason or another, but the mainland is very rewarding in its own wierdly sadistic way. :)
For me personally it's the friendships, albeit online friendships, but friendships non-the-less.
The chatting and banter is what's most important to me, the gameplay side of things doesn't bother me so much. Now i have high enough 'skills' to get by and not die every 5 minutes, i find myself enjoying helping out other people more than anything else (i despise grinding with a passion).
It's a hard slog at first and making friends makes it far more enjoyable.
The gameplay things i do love though are the complexities of the game, i.e., the crafting system (though i don't craft much) - 1000's of possible combinations of materials. The way certain animals have certain statistics meaning this sword will be rubbish against this guy but that axe will be ace!
It's true what people say in that you make your own game.. once off the starter island you're not really guided in any way to do things. It's all your own personal choice. You can run missions if you want or you can build a fire and just sit watching the world pass by. You might want to gather a team and go rid the world of all its nasties, cool, do it!
My advice would be to stick with it, many people drop out when they leave the starter island for one reason or another, but the mainland is very rewarding in its own wierdly sadistic way. :)
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