I played open beta as well and same as you I was impressed. And watching videos about the end game on youtube only made me more excited about the game and bought a founder pack to get into the headstart haha.
The fact that it is different from wow seduced me and I can't wait to hunt pirates down on my galleon, or get into a huge battle to take a castle or even kill the kraken
. I really hope that it won't be a disappointment because there's so much potential for it to be a great game.
Oh and I'll be on the server Kyrios, I joined vvv gaming to experience the game to it's fullest if some of you wants to find me
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And from what I saw on the forums of archeage, kyrios is gonna be the better server, guilds from each faction had a huge meeting to talk about the future of their faction and no other servers did the same, so I would advice you to play on that server as well if you want to get into massive battles etc