I tried Corepunk, that ASSFAGGOT-lite MMORPG made by some Ukrainian dudes. Here's the TL;DR: game will be dead within weeks.
>somehow manages to look decent even with the shitty western art
>doesn't take itself seriously
>not bogged down by a shitty story; no writing > bad writing
>character attacks feel decent
<the game world feels empty as fuck, at one point I spent nearly 10 minutes trying to find to a SINGLE enemy, on average it was closer to 3-5 minutes
<nothing really interesting in the open world except some pretty bad chests
<no regen out of combat until lvl 5 unless you use limited and annoying to craft campfires or plentiful and easy to craft food that needs to be spammed, at lvl 5 you can get a passive sub-class system that gives you slow OOC HP regen
<each class has ONLY 4 skills, a special class specific skill, and two minor PvP skills with long cooldowns, and the skills have no depth whatsoever, and no synergy between classes
<4 gathering profs, skinning mining herbs and wood, aside from skinning each prof has 3 types of nodes, each node has some basic material + advanced/rare/epic, problem is that advanced/rare/epic drops are in the same drop slot as the basic material
<in other words, you'll have more advanced mats than you'll do basic ones, so if you want to be a weaponsmith that uses iron, you're shit out of luck because you'll be mining iron in a third of the nodes you find, and each iron node you find has like a 25% drop actually give you iron, and you need 3 iron per bar, and 4 bars per item, this feels AWFUL
<it takes about 8-10 seconds to gather a crafting node
<there's tons of barrels and other clickables that you need to open for quest items and gold and consumable drops, but the chance of anything dropping is around 10-15%, so you constantly waste time opening empty containers
<the quests are absolute fucking garbage, somehow being worse than the worst of the worst in terms of mindless MMO fetch quests
<the quests usually don't give you any directions, and the few directions you DO get are usually so vague as to be nearly useless, this crosses the line from "not hand holding" and into "obtuse" territory, squats over the line and then takes a dump on the other side
>there's no quest markers or map indicators
<game uses placeholder AI voice acting, devs have said it's only temporary
I played for about 10 hours. I had no fun whatsoever. And I'm extremely tolerant of slow starts in MMORPGs. In those 10 hours, the only group I saw being formed was to grind wolves, which are way stronger than regular mobs. Hundreds of players, at the start of a fresh alpha test, and NOBODY IS GROUPING UP. Just horrible.