Played Wurm for roughly a year. Was mayor or a relatively little known DF town on JK Home called Onoldeler (after about a month I was the last DFer left in the town, which was the only reason I became mayor) Had a reasonably high skill paid char with 75 mining skill, 40 two handed sword and fighting skill. Yea it was grindy, but it was more of a game you played while playing something like DF in the background.
It was pretty much just the folks I was in the village with that kept me around for the last few months. Once I had to leave the town for days at a time to mine ore on wild server and import it(you couldn't get ore of higher quality than 70 on home server) I lost interest quickly.
I tried to come back again about a year after that hoping to play for a bit at 20 capped free2play skills to see if I could rekindle my interest, to find that JKHome had ceased to exist or something to that effect and that my char was automatically transferred to wild server. On wild server if I wanted to log in I had to pay for a month of game time.
Also according to what I read on the subject it placed me in some location that I had heard of, but never been, so even if I did pay to log in, I would be completely lost, and have no idea how to reach my likely completely defunct and scavenged wildmine, which was the last thing I had to my name except for the few things I had logged out carrying, which I knew didn't include food, water, or any of my tools to easily get food or water, because I had last logged out at my house. So I said fuck this and never touched it again.
The game is unique, but it seemed very mismanaged when I played, and if you have nobody to talk to the game gets boring fast.