Look at my hours played.

Game has fallen to pieces due to series of questionable decisions by the devs and corporate greed. Server splits has caused certain content to feel completely dead and those left playing are abusing weapons and builds due to egregious balance decisions.

Player-driven economy is in shambles and it's incredibly challenging for new accounts to sustain premium on in-game currency. As a positive, premium in Albion is less P2W than other games, however, it does speed up account progress especially for people new to the game who don't understand how to streamline grinding fame correctly.

Devs do not care about balance issues. If you don't believe me, check their forums. Skin and micro-transaction requests are responded to in hours while not a single post on the balance issue forums has a dev response. There is a "trusted" group of players that correspond with the devs to discuss balance, however, their feedback is blatantly ignored. Broken builds linger in the game for months maybe even a year before addressed, and often incorrectly. Game breaking changes are implemented despite the entire community telling them it's a mistake, that then take 5 months to revert with a mere "Sorry" and giggling in the dev fireside chats.

Large scale guild/group content will treat you like a sheep or force you to pay in-game currency to join. Mid scale content is dead, and solo content is both dead and plagued by toxic balance issues.

I'd rather go fight the mass amount of people botting and cheating in Old School Runescape pvp than play this game anymore. Let that sink in and don't waste your time if you want to play this game for any serious, competitive PVP experience.

it break on steam deck like did they test it DEVS FIX IT
i will still play

The only possible way the reviews have remained mostly positive is that they're botting or mass reviewing their own game with 100s of accounts.

The community? Trash.
The gameplay loop? A literal circle. Farm, die, buy new gear to repeat.

In a world where your community is the crux of the entire game existing, 60% stand next to a market stand botting or flipping to continue inflation. 20% never leave the safe zones. And the remaining 15-20% are roaming with the soul purpose of killing people for their resources and gear. The "player driven" economy is a joke full of scammers who never get punished, RMT garbage and psuedo mafias cornering resources.

Not worth your time, money, or sanity.