I truly love playing this game. It has so many things going for it.
The one thing that may well make me quit playing, and which I can guarantee will turn off many new players, is the awful storage system.
Don't get me wrong. It is realistic and what you might expect in a medieval culture. However it makes for horrific gameplay problems. I applaud the devs for their creativity in putting it together. BUT IT DOESN"T WORK.
When I play a game I do NOT want to have to make it my second job. Managing inventory is work, just like when I'm AT work during the week.
I have no problem with storing armor and weapons for each character with Joeh. It makes sense, and there's enough room.
But, but, BUT, having to split up my crafting inventory among three NPCs across four characters, and then trying to track who has what is a MAJOR pain in the ass. I even created a database to track it all, but I still have to shift things back and forth several times a day depending on which toon is working on which skill that needs to be leveled to boost a given other skill.
It may well break immersion, but if you don't implement some sort of central crafting material storage system that all characters can access, I can't see this game having the chance of a snowball in hell of succeeding, and I WANT it to succeed!
I have three characters that regularly need access to mushrooms, cooking ingredients for crafting as well as cooking...well, you know better than I how extraordinarily interconnected skills are in this game.
Right now I'm going to take a break for a few days to let my brain cool down from trying to keep track of who has what and needs what today. I just started playing again a month ago, after a break of nearly a year. I've finally remembered why I stopped playing last time, yes, it was due to the inventory problem.
There are indeed a lot of storage spaces for each character, but there's too much duplication. So many meals, so many potions, so many alternate armor/weapons for different dungeons where different mobs deal out or are resistant to the kinds of damage I usually do.
Give me central storage for food, potions, repair kits and such so I can open it and pull out whatever specific food/potions/whatever I need for where I plan to play that day. Then I can put it back, and have it available to the next toon I want to use instead of having all four of them stock, say, Goblin Wheat Bread, and Mushroom smoothies, Poison resistance/fire resistance potions, or whatever.