Activision Blizzard is a hellhole of a workplace owned by Bobby "Satan" Kotick. They have been sued and settled multiple times for toxic work culture and serious sexual harassment allegations. Blizzard want to charge me $20 to be able to play the game one week early. The game is $70, and can go as expensive as $100 with battlepass. There will be ingame monetization. The game is MMO-lite and basically a grindy slot machine.
All I want is to go for an adventure, go dungeon crawling with my pet wolf frens, and you'd be surprised there is literally not that many games that allow us to do so.
The initial leveling experience is fun and core gameplay is super solid, unfortunately after that it becomes ultra-grind P2W hell. The devs literally expect you to grind 5 alts daily and send the mats/money you get from them to your main to progress "optimally". Such a huge disappointment
I think I got to like level 30-40 in Lost Ark and started seeing the writing on the wall.