The game is beautiful and well done however the fact that you need to connect to online to play the game is a massive let down. The servers were clearly not built properly to handle thousands of concurrent users and thus the game becomes unplayable. At first it was unplayable during what you would consider "peak hours" i.e. evenings, mornings, weekends, however now the game is never able to be played. The requirement to connect to the servers slows the game down so drastically that accessing the pause menu to get out of the game takes a considerable amount of time. I took a 3-week break from this game hoping that the server issue would be resolved, but upon revisiting it is clear that no significant work has gone towards this issue. My rating for the game is high, however my rating for the studio making this an online experience weighs down any positive thing I could say about the game. I'm sure there are more positive elements of the game to discover. I just do not know if I will ever be able to do so. There is an option to go offline however it seems to do nothing for the server strain/ lag issue.