it is a fun game and according to some reports may have 7-10 times the players that wow has I've read anywheres up to 70 million,
because its free
shoot when I was doing it strong I had three accounts and used the learned in EQ1 risky "drop pass" to move gear from account to account
and its cute, and there in lies one of the problems, its TOO cute:)
so my friends think it is just a kids game the niche that free realms has now for example pre-teens and teens
and being a 2d game all up and down, side to side always time warps me back to the 80's and mario on my atari 2600
being 2d I never felt like I was really exploring, without that depth that other games have
I couldn't ever interest any of my friends to come over and the grind alone got boring:(