After reading parts of the first review, I'm not too sure why he was knocking the inventory/loot system. Games like this (such as Ultima Online) do not use a grid for displaying inventory like PlaneShift and most other games do; instead containers are represented as a rectangle containing a bunch of images for items, stacks of items, and nested containers. PlaneShift inventory has a 32 item/stack limit, which can be expanded by replacing inventory slots with containers, while something like Ultima Online has, say, a 125 item/stack limit for any container, where item count is recursive into containers. This matters in games that are FFA PvP with looting because MMOs that use the grid-style inventory make it too convenient to clear out another player's corpse, while MMOs that use the Ultima Online-style make you search for any goods that the player is carrying. That was the only thing I saw, so I can sort-of understand why the first reviewer was an idiot.
EDIT: Holy hell,
that video is hilarious. I suppose this guy represents the entire Darkfall community.