Albion Online

To be honest, the game isn't actually that bad, at least if you only want to play up to the midgame in terms of equipment and so on. But as soon as you enter the early lategame (equipment level 6+ in my eyes) and then you think you have to collect the resources for your equipment yourself, the nausea sets in. There are simply far too many players (I would love to write a litany of insults and curses for these players here, but I don't want the review deleted, so I won't) who have made it their business to spoil the fun of simple PvE players and collectors. Why the hell can't the developers manage to make the game playable for both PvE and PvP players in the endgame? Either it's beyond their competence or they don't want it, but the second reason would be pretty ignorant, since reviews like mine here are not isolated cases. I have nothing against players who find their fun in PvP, let them have their fun BUT ONLY WITH EQUALS AND NOT WITH PLAYERS WHO WANT TO TURN OFF A LITTLE IN PVE AND NOT HARASS OTHER PLAYERS.
Hence my appeal to the developers, CHANGE THIS!!!

Ehrlich gesagt, ist das Spiel eigentlich gar nicht mal so schlecht, zumindest wenn man in Sachen Ausrüstung etc. nur bis zum Midgame spielen möchte. Sobald man aber das frühe Lategame (in meinen Augen Ausrüstungsstufe 6+) betritt und dann auch noch meint man müsse die Ressourcen für seine Ausrüstung selbst sammeln, setzt der Brechreiz ein. Es gibt einfach viel zu viel Spieler (ich würde hier liebend gern eine Litanei an Beleidigungen und Flüchen für diese Spieler verfassen, möchte die Rezession aber nicht gelöscht haben, daher spare ich mir das) die es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht haben, den einfachen PvE-Playern und Sammlern den Spielspaß zu verderben. Wieso zur Hölle bekommen es die Entwickler nicht hin, das Spiel auch im Endgame sowohl für PvE- als auch für PvP-Spieler spielbar zu machen. Entweder es übersteigt ihre Kompetenz oder sie wollen es nicht, letzteres wäre aber ziemlich ignorant, da solche Rezensionen wie meine hier, keine Einzelfälle sind. Ich habe grundsätzlich nichts gegen Spieler die im PvP ihren Spaß finden, sollen sie ihren Spaß bekommen ABER NUR MIT GLEICHGESINNTEN UND NICHT MIT SPIELERN DIE IM PvE EIN WENIG ABSCHALTEN WOLLEN UND ANDERE SPIELER NICHT BEHELLIGEN.
Daher auch mein Appell an die Entwickler, ÄNDERT DAS!!!

OMG UWU I WUVE DIS GAME SO MUCH UWU!!! IT'S SUCH A GOOD SANDBOX! 💖✨

Dis game is wike a big pwaygwound whewe you can do anything! UwU You can be a stwong wawrrior, a smol twader, or even a cwafwty cwaftwer! There's so many fings to do and see, and it's all so exciting! OwO 🌟

The community is supew fwiendwy and helpful too! I made so many new fwiends and we go on adventuwes togethew! We fight scawy monstews, go on epic qwesties, and even build our own wittle towns! 🏰🛡️

The gwaphics awe so pwetty and the music is so nice and calming. It makes me feel so happy and cozy when I pway. And the bestest pawt? You can pway wif youw fwiends and make new ones fwom all ovew the wowld! 🌍💕

If you wuve adventuwe and making fwiends, you will wuve Albion Online! It's the bestest sandbox game evew! 💫

UWU HIGHWY WECCOMEND! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Nuzzle, nuzzle! 💕🐾💖

Alright, Albion online..

Combat is pretty snappy and if you don't pay attention, even the weakest mob could kick your ass. Learn to dodge the telegraphs, the timing is tight and if you don't start moving a fraction of a second after it pops up your gonna get beat.

The community... Basically if you've ever played any survival game on a public server, or played another mmo where you saw a crazy racist asshole in the chat and thought "god, he's an idiot. Hope they get banned." that's basically who ALL the people in this game are. At least the ones who participate in chat anyway. Don't engage with the community, you'll save your braincells.

Help is... nonexistent or vague and misleading. People will give you general guidelines like "Go to the BZ to earn fame and silver" first of all... don't. At least don't go to the outlands solo. If you're gonna go Blackzone, do the mists. Slightly safer. Note, not safe, just safer. People will tell you to gather to make the big bucks, then they'll probably say "Start with hide. Don't do stone." Don't, because that's the thing EVERYONE does, yes hide sells for the most usually but you're gonna be competing with everyone else who took their advice. Pick one of the other resource to specialize in. Except stone, they actually are telling the truth on that one.

PvP... if you're just starting out i wish you luck. People have been playing this game for a long time now. They are specced out and geared up. You're gonna have trouble competing for a LONG LONG time. Look into a cheap 4.1 build. (That's tier 4 enchantment level 1) Don't get an enchantment on the bag or cape and use a tier 3 riding horse. Look online for a build that costs sub 60K. You can make 100k in an hour by farming a mix of tier3 and 4 resources in a yellow zone. Buy 4 sets of gear and don't get attached, you're gonna lose em. Gear is disposable, so is your sanity. Also, focus on a build that does good AoE to help farm mobs faster. Preferably with some mobility and sustain. Then once you got that you can switch to farming mobs and never touch gathering again is you so wish.

Escaping gankers is hard at first. Expect to die. Be ready to press the mount button and never move farther than inside your mount when in a blackzone. The moment you see and name on the side of the screen, even if you're still fighting, mount up and run towards and exit. If the ganker was invisible and suddenly appeared... yeah that happens, sorry about your gear, hope you made your money back on it.

Premium is required. Buy the premium and treat albion like a subscription mmo that costs 15 bucks a month. You'll have a better time.

I know this reads more like a guide instead of a review. Sorry bout that. I give Albion online a tentative thumbs up.
Know what you're getting into though. Don't trust anyone. Don't engage with the community and you'll probably have an okay time.