Everquest 2 and Vanguard

Hello, I know I've been gone for awhile, and that's because I've been having internet trouble, basically. I've been hanging out on MMO Hut, but I got a question.

Lately, I've been playing different games, and I've started playing Lord of the Rings Online. It's a good game, but I have no desire to stick with it as soon as something else more interesting to me comes along. It's a good game, but it doesn't have everything I'm looking for.

Anyways, I chose Lotro Over Everquest 2 because the idea of playing Lord of The Rings but Online was more appealing, and I was having problems with trying to get EQ2 to work. Would you consider it better than Lotro, and should I have a poll on it? I mean, Lotro is a great game, but in some ways, EQ2 looks more impressive.

Also, I've looked at Vanguard: Saga of Heroes before. I was impressed by it's looks, and from the sounds of it, atleast part of the reason it's unpopular is because of it's bad start.

I mean, from what I read and saw about the game, it's impressive. Good character creation options in appearance and a large variety of races and classes to choose, vast world, mounts and flying mounts, ships, cool dungeons, cool world, player housing, I may be missing something but it already interesting.

My only concern is how few of players there might be in the game. Plus, when I tried to play it, I couldn't play it very well either. I had lag issues and the text would mess up. Text from old menus would stay behind even after closing it leaving the screen cluttered with layers of old text.

Is V:SH worth playing?