It does sound bad. Can you form a party so you can walk around and kill monsters with other people?
Yea of course. The instancing prevents a shitload of lag as well. The enviroment is lush and HUGE. the spells are interesting. The GFX are breathtaking. And im only level 4 so far. And trust me, like the name implies PVP is the most important part of the game. Also instanced, two opposing teams will enter an instance and will have to do things like, capture the flag, defend a castle, etc etc. Trust me, this game is definetly worth picking up.
Twenty-eight days... six hours... forty-two minutes... twelve seconds. That, is when the world will end.
The game is like 2 parts, quests and pvp. The quests you can do in parties of 4 and I think in some quests more. You are being encouraged to form parties, altough this is not necessary since you can also "hire" npc character to take along with you while doing a quest. They're not bad and it allows you to just do a quick quest if you dont feel like playing with others or just dont want to spend time forming a good party.
Then there's also the pvp part which is awesome. You play in teams of 8 and get to play different types of pvp combat. For instance in one game you get a prince and priest npc that you must protect, and kill from the opposing teams. In other games its like capture the flag. Teamplay is a big factor in this game.
I've played in all the world events and have read alot of things about the game. I havent bought it yet because right now I dont really feel like playing any games at all. So I'm just going to buy it once I feel like playing it.