Gameplay-Ahh, gameplay in Priston Tale Gold is very addicting. I faced many issues connecting to the server, mainly because of system reasons. Beware 256 Ram computers and below! Gameplay in Priston Tale is very good, the party system is awesome, your party is shown as yellow dots on your map incase you lose them on your screen ;). Up to 6 party members, experience gets splits decently. Not INSANELY hard to level up, actually is pretty easy from levels 1-20. This game mainly lacks spells(can't learn first one until level 10), there is a decent selection of armors and weapons in the game. Game did get boring to me after about a week, well that's me, I just got bored of hacking and slashing, and real LACK of spells, I cast same 2 spells for 4 hours of gameplay. I give gameplay 8/10, for some people it gets insanely addictive then they lose interest after a while.

Lag-Lag is pretty unbearable at times, especially if you have a mid-range computer. I have 256 RAM pc 2100, 2.4 ghz P4, and it lags pretty hecticly at crowded areas. I died 3 times in same night from hunting in the same area with about 3 parties. When monsters spawn (spawn ALOT) mixed with about 20 people, lag starts easing in, for me about 3 second lags every 5 seconds. I didn't get Disconnections a lot, mainly because I have DSL. Loading times on my PC are unbearable (beware 256 RAM). There is moderate gameplay lag. I rate lag 6.5/10 (game is a little resource hoggy and moderate gameplay lag).

Community/support-Ahh the community, in-game people are very nice, I had a high level give me free steel armor and free kite shield the other day. But on the forum boards on the eng.pristontale.com site, people are very mean and idiotic. Support such as getting hacked and losing items, Administrators don't do anything or close to nothing. I give community/support 5/10, ingame people are decent, except for some KSers, bad support, bad forums.

Overall-Overall, Priston Tale Gold this year comes out to be in my Top 3 list (I'll have to see how guild wars and WoW comes out). I give it a 8/10 overall. I recommended, if you're bored then play it! (be warned download client is 528 MB)