I don't know where to start. The poor graphics, the glitches, the retarded AI. In one game alone I lost two mages because they decided to run head first into a mounted spear man and got killed after a beheaded archer corpse shot me with an arrow.
Try harder.
I'll admit, sadly, that the game has many good features, expansive maps, complete forging and smelting system etc. etc.
But it would do so much better, and dare I say trounce the competition, if they would migrate over to a larger server and update the graphics more.
Java is not a good idea, it makes the game look like a huge pile of polygons.
People are hating because by this point in time you can download hundreds of MMO's with top notch graphics and combat for free, like Cabal or Perfect World, as opposed to this time wasting piece of crap that actually wants you to pay money to get anywhere interesting.