This is an MMO, guys. Yes, it is. But landscape is in every way like a single-player game. It's single-player difficulty and having other players around all the time is annoying. Why am I saying this? Because it seems that the only way to play this game is barging in and demolishing everything before someone else can. All these self-serving, obnoxious sorcs pull whole rooms and they literally think they are good.
The point is "play how you like" went out the window a long time ago. You try to play the assassine type character? Good luck with that. You try to play like a personal sneaker game, avoiding detection, solving quests without contact with the enemy? Don't make me laugh... How? When there is always a bunch of players running ahead of you in the same space, playing how they like. Like I said, there is only one way to play this thing: kill everything fast and then complain how easy the game is.
The other thing is attention to detail. People always so proudly proclaim that this game pays great attention to detail like very few others. Well, I'm here to tell you it's not true. This game is exactly like every other, only caring about churning out and selling as much bland, dumbed-down content as they possibly can without looking overly greedy. Attention to detail has never been this game's strength. I'm about to finish the main quest chain of the 3rd alliance, all 15 zones done, and with very few exceptions, the buildings where the quests took me were almost all empty. Nothing to loot. Pointless to even look around for containers. How am I supposed to play a thief like this?
Why am I saying this? Because I'm extremely disappointed with Summerset. There are no new systems to develope your playstyle around. There is no expansion on existing systems, like the Justice System. There is no revamping old zones. It feels like a cash-grab. More quests of the same kind. More buildings of the same kind. No addressing the game's issues.
Also, before you try to come here to say this is an MMO and it's supposed to feel like one. I'm not questioning that. All I'm saying is that landscape is designed for single player with the added nuisance of a bunch of people trying to do the same quests in the same space at the same time, which makes it impossible to play how you like.