My friends and I used to browse the free-to-play section on Steam for the weirdest multiplayer abandonware we could find. It's a lot of fun, actually, blazing through five or ten games a night that are partially translated, have invincible enemies, have no enemies at all, etc. We were particularly enamored with fishing in any form, and stumbling across "World of Fishing" did briefly feel like we'd hit the jackpot. It was about the same level of quality we were expecting.

This game is long dead now, which isn't much of a surprise - it was an MMO dedicated entirely to fishing whose fishing mechanics were less interesting or complex than most other MMOs I've played (where fishing is barely even a footnote). It didn't look appealing, and the controls when you actually got a chance to catch a fish were not particularly intuitive or engaging, often being frustrating and finicky. I genuinely have no idea who this game was for. Usually, when you ask this question, you can at least assume that the developer is making this for themselves, but if anyone on the dev team liked fishing at all, they weren't given enough time for that to shine through in the final product. It is neither relaxing nor engaging, lacking as both a social activity and a solitary one. There were plenty of opportunities to spend money if you were inclined to do so, but whatever "progression" you were paying for was unclear.

Having also taken a peek at some of this developer's other offerings, I truly feel bad for anyone who is still expecting them to do anything interesting with the GunZ IP after buying the rights several years ago. I don't like writing off creators as a whole, but I would not be optimistic about them doing justice to a beloved product based on their previous output.