Oh, I hardly ever buy a game, but I'll end up paying much more for a game through a monthly subscription if I'm enjoying it. I guess if there was a free trial that gave a good feel for the game and the price wasn't too high, I'd be happy to get it and not have to pay a subscription.

I do think that if people put some money in to play a game, they tend to respect it and other players more. Also the F2P all too often means Free to be stomped on by the people who DO pay for all the boosters that are offered as options.

I'd be very interested in how a karma system can be abused.

The overpowering guilds thing might be circumvented by having a huge map, which has its own difficulties, or maybe special zones, or missions or activities which can only be done solo.

Isn't Albion in isometric view? that always puts me off a lot. One of the main reasons I didn't get into Marvel Online after beta testing.

@vengu Nothing about what view it will be? I've seen a couple statements indicating that it will be Isometric view, in spite of all the wonderful immersive-looking art they have here. I'll be very disappointed if it's a game of playing with little figures from a bird's-eye view.

@frost OH! Isometric? Rats, wish they'd "lead with that." Really puts a cooler on my interest. And the art suggests it will be an actual immersive MMORPG where you can see the characters as a character, not play with little virtual animated dolls. 8(

I don't play Albion, but I was reading in another forum that it didn't have good PvE and after a certain level it was necessary go into PvP zones to get the material, and that was in order to craft stuff lost by people playing PvP...

I've been wandering the fields of MMOs since the one MMORPG that I kept up a subscription to was taken away from me by NCSoft. There are "spiritual successors" in the works, and I hope one day to enjoy playing at least one of them, but I've also been looking for a whole new style of game.

This one sounds very promising, if not overly ambitious in some ways, according to one or two responses I've gotten to my ideas. Three races sounds disappointing, but from the concept art it looks like there could be quite a bit of variety within those, especially for the Beastmen and Demons.

I hope they can make the crafting something to really learn, and even discover and explore and come up with new things based on the properties of the materials used, not pre-set recipes. The part about not finding a sword inside a dead rat is a big step in the right direction. I hope they do likewise with the finding of gems, minerals and metals -- based on terrain, depth, etc., not in pre-marked places.

Well, that's enough to give an idea of what I'm hoping for. Mainly I'm hoping to find that when I log in, there will be complete strangers who will ask me to team up, not just to go killing things but to be part of a trade caravan or to bring in the harvest or repair a wall...