This game will definatly take over your life.
This has truly been one of my all time favorite games ever. I played it for 3 years straight basically. First I thought it was cool that you had alot of different choices of what you could be when making your character. My personal choice the gnome necromancer. There is also always something to do. If your not in a grp gaining experience or AA points your working on quests, raiding for 15 bazillions hours, working on some skills, spending countless hours in the Bazaar, working on your epic, or fighting your friend in the arena. It truely is a game that never ends that you can get sucked into. You might end up being in denial about it but you would become an "evercracker".
I really love that you can meet tons of people on this game. It was always fun playing with friends going deep into places which only got you killed but you explored and had fun with it. The only thing I can say I don't like about this game is that expansions are coming out all the time it can get hard to keep up with others unless you are playing thoes 22 hours a day getting only 2 hours of sleep. To me with the new expansions all the time it takes away from thoes who played from the beginning. The feeling of the old world zones that not many visit anymore like ntov. When a mage would summon a pet that would look like a SG from Oasis and people would freak out thinking it was a real SG. Thoes were the good days. Don't get me wrong.. the new expansions are nice, but they don't need to come out with so many right away.
Another thing is the price.. if you don't buy game cards every 3 months the only way in my mind that you are gonna save money is if you pay for a year.. The graphics are amazing.. especially in places like Plane of Growth. The waterfalls are simply beautiful. I was literally in awe the 1st time I was there. Alot of screen shots were taken.
There really is so much more that could be said for this game, but I would recommend this game to anyone who does have much of a life that is outside of the house. You can play this game casually but then I would not recommend joining a guild or do raiding because you would miss alot.