I was seriously considering buying and playing RF Online way back when it first released because of the incredibly pretty character designs and art.

However, I made the mistake of researching it online, and discovered that the gameplay was insanely repetitive, the quest lore was nonexistent, each experience level was a never-ending grind (literally consisting of endless quests to "Kill 10 of these, kill 20 of those" and that completing every single quest wouldn't even get you close to a level of experience - you had to grind out every single level you earned.

After I read up on it, I felt like you might feel when you realize you were about to put your hand into an anthill of stinging ants. You get the cold shivers realizing how close you came to entering a world of pain.