I prefer Prophecies for all the visual niceties the game comes with. Factions, to me, seems they started off the right way (the beginnng island) but by the time you get to the mainland, it seems the programmers got tired of putting in different buidings/scenery and sort of just fudged the whole thing hoping no one would notice the background was horribly dull and boring, if they put a lot of little groups of baddies out there and make it rediculously easy to find max items. While I have played since beta (Prophecies), I do enjoy the easier to find items in Cantha (Factions), though I imagine as a stand alone game, this game would not be much fun (no exploration, no wondering what is around the corner way up ahead, no wide open areas to run around to explore). So as an add-on I recommend this game but as a first intro to the game, do yourself a favor and get the original instead.
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