You're better off finding this game for 5 dollars, which some sellers are selling for. As for the game itself, it's fun leveling up, but you need to buy the season pass to reach max level. You can buy the season pass key from various key seller websites for around $28. If you buy it in the Defiance store it's like 40 or so dollars I think.
I'd recommend this game over Destiny any day of the week (the only other competition), and there are a lot of fun, casual aspects to this game that make it appealing to anyone that only wants to play an hour or two a day. If you need a shooter MMO to waste a bunch of time raiding/grinding for gear that slightly increases your abilities, this game isn't for you. Not that there isn't grinding in this game, it's just not necessary to get good gear.
This game is based on RNG, knowledge of the rules, and skill - in that order. And that's where the game kind of sucks after a couple of months - the RNG is terrible. Unless you buy RNG loot chests from the store for real world money (which contains BIS weapons, shields, etc), you have to settle for repetitively grinding holiday events (which come around many times in a year) in order to get BIS weapons. (and the RNG loot chests are terrible, you could spend 50 dollars and get crap) There is no raiding outside of doing the boring and repetitive Expeditions (which only give you BIS Cyber Rigs and Cyber Chips, which you can only get BIS if you grind Expeditions constantly, which is way more boring than any WoW raid btw. But to get decent rigs and chips, simply doing Expeditions a couples of times a week is fine enough) You could, of course, buy BIS items from other players in this game. But there isn't an auction house and players charge 20+ million scrip (money) for them, so you would need to buy and sell a bunch of rare items you get in game, or just go for the RNG lottery from buying the loot chests in the store for real world money, then sell those to get enough scrip. Which all in all, is a pain in the ass - just to get a slightly better version of a weapon you already have 5 of.
And that's the issue, there's not enough to do in this game once you reach level cap, and grinding Expeditions for such paltry rewards is a boring waste of time, and grinding laggy events (when they're around) for the tiny chance at getting a weapon that is slightly better than your current one is also a waste of time. Unfortunately, other people feel the same way as I do so the player base is quite small. Trion does not allocate much money for the game so it becomes a vicious cycle: not enough players to bring in money to update/enhance the game and not enough updates/enhancements to bring in players and keep them playing.
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