As did my Wife and I. We often play together. When the game fell into such disrepair under EI we left to play Wow. I never enjoyed Wow as much as HZ. Nore did my loving wife.Crafting in Wow is a joke. Quests are cool to a point. When you have to do a major one for your gear it can be a real pain. Nastie people who never want to help anyone. No real sence of comunity. Loyalty is a rare thing. Well my Wow rant
Than we hear that A few of the old devs bought it and had made a few improvements. We were so over joyed we reinstalled and started playing again. We now look forward to our weekends in HZ again.
If your a new player : Its a new world now. Disregard all the bad publicity.
Its a new game again. You dont have to spend your days hunting all the time you can work one of the many and varried crafts. than go do a quest even for your crafting School(s). You like to level well how about leveling 3 or 4 or more adventure classes so you can qualify for a prestiege class or several. Like Knight of Creation. Healer and many others. Mobs are going to be added from what I read to areas that didnt have them before. More room to hunt if thats what you like. Want a home in HZ. Want to design and build it. You can in HZ. Can any one say House raising party. This can be done in HZ and only HZ that Im aware of. You can even be a dragon if you so choose and grow and build your dragon lair. If your new To HZ you in for a great time. Even we whom are not new are in for a great time, I'm sure of it. Dont listen to the doom sayers they are in every game. I dont care who you are how good a programer you are your not going to make every person happy. So those negitive comments you may read keep that in mind.