After paying $12 for a month and resubbing to this game to get the "free" mammoth mount at level 40, I have to say this game kicks butt compared to what it was at launch. I would also recommend the free 20 space bag option. You get a 16 space mammoth bag automatically, but those extra 4 slots come in handy while questing. And you can only equip one bag. And the ring offered is not that great beyond level 15 or so. And you can get the teleporter later on in a quest. You also get the 2 week resub time after you pay to resub, BTW, so then you get a month and a half of game play for only $12. Also, at level 50 you can open up another level 50 toon of your choice, which is a cool bonus!
I have had zero crashes compared to constant crashes at launch, but I have had a few occasional freeze ups during quest dialogs, possibly since these have a cut scene for them, this is most likely the reason. The servers are certainly stabler than launch, but I do have occasional login delays, where I have to hit cancel and reload the login screen. The only other problems I have noticed is occasional graphics hitches as the scenery loads in areas with large amounts of distant rendering information, such as in very large cities. But this can be easily tweaked and fixed by reducing render quality at a distance. I'm not running a high end system or card, by any means, so others may have zero rendering problems at full quality and details.
I am now much more impressed with the game overall, and it is certainly more like what I expected it to be at launch. And I may resub for another month just for the interesting PvP aspect of it once I level out. There are also many mod sites out there now to customize the interface and even tweak the settings. Such as
AOC CURSE MODS
I would now recommend this to anyone who tried this before and give it another chance to impress you. And to anyone who likes this style of game and never tried it, I would now give it a good recommendation. Just remember it's only going to look and perform as good as your PC and video card can render it. And they did a great job with the graphic design overall, too.