The addicting gameplay loop is there from the start. Fun with friends to be had. Too bad it's nigh impossible to feel something positive about the game for an extended period of time when the game is constantly kicking you while you're down. Exhausting and stingy equipment grind, absurd amounts of item grinding between the actual fun of hunts, and worst of all are the small monsters that won't ever stop pestering you. I can't imagine not item duping with a friend. It saved us unthinkable hours.