@Aesir The key difference between Fractured and Albion Online is that you need to PVP to get to Albion's endgame but not Fractured's.
Fractured is called that because the universe was once one big planet but got blown up into three planets + a bunch of asteroid-like chunks. Each of these three planets has its own PVP rules (one of them being "no PVP at all") and all three of them have their own set of materials & gear crafted therefrom, from early to endgame.
Fractured is absolutely not done, its end goal is very ambitious, and many players want different things from it. My last post on the forums before now was a frustrated vent about the contemporary state of the game but, considering that there are no refunds available, I'm sticking around to 1.0 to see how it turns out.