1) When you die... (not in minigames or raid) you loose all you have on the groud. So... PVP (not in mini) is more nice and crafting has a sense
2) If is possible to build your personal home and with crafting you can create more and more than simple armour or weapons
3) to have lesser powerfull weapons and armours
4) possible to taming animals and sell them
5) was nice to have limited arrows (so you must craft them) and different arrows (piercing, poisoned... ecc...)
6) was nice that mage for to cast spell must use limited and usable ingredients...