Recent reviews by Cernd

Pros:
open pvp
instanced battles 50x50 (100x100 if you got a good pc)
slow paced building process and the fear of losing it!
If you get lucky, a great community with lasting friendships.
If you build a Castle or defeated an enemy... it feels like an accomplishment and not that has been spoon fed to you!
With that comes ofc Politics/Intrigues, well the Game of Thrones type of things! :)

Cons:
Lags, lags and more lags...... at least if we talk about pvp (pve no worries about lags).
It's way better than it used to be though.
Still if you want to do pvp (and I recommend that because I do enjoy it despite the lags) you'll have to get use to them.
Key features that are missing like: Ingame alliance mechanics and global politics maybe taxation options and of siege battles... (You can destroy claims now and quite easy but the performance in those battles in the open world is almost unbearable.) And tbh.. there are missing incentives to build outside of Town claims and the radial claim expansion is also crippling the build diversity on LiF: MMO)
Player counts are relatively low... I really hope Bitbox will be able to fix most of their critical issues and improve their review rating to encourage more players to join.

To end on a high note.... You can trash talk Bitbox all you like, but you have to applaud them for not giving up and improving the game on a regular basis.