This game is, quite simply, one of the best failures in MMORPGs to date.
With such a variety of classes, skills, ways to spend time, excellent graphics, etc, all of it is overshadowed by the glaring technical problems and mismanagement that caused the downfall of the creating company, Sigil.
Basically last week or the week before, Sigil fired all its employees and Sony Online Entertainment rehired back some of them, and is going to try to fix the game.
So, if you want to start Vanguard, keep in mind that -
1) It's future is shady
2) You are paying money for a flawed product, and are hoping that sometime these flaws get fixed (in which time frame? 6 months? one year?)
3) Servers have low population and are (as of yet) unconsolidated.
So if you don't mind giving money to a company in the hopes that it all gets fixed, then by all means play Vanguard. However, this is akin to paying for a closed beta test; yes some of it may be fun but there are still ground-shattering bugs to be dealt with.
I do have to say, the dev team at Sigil was doing their best to fix stuff, I played closed beta, and also bought the game (though I canceled when I found out about Sigil closing). There is a lot of cool stuff going on, just not a lot of understanding or thought is put into pvp (which coincidentally had most of the players).
Anyways, I recommend not trying Vanguard, you are just going to be disappointed in the end. There is no high level content, and the content that does exist for parties is very difficult because any time you have more than three players fighting a mob, at least one of your party is going to lag out due to graphical problems.
Good luck to you <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
