I'm dissappointed by two things on Elf Island:
1) The Avatar: it's kind of faded in appearance when in public places. The colors of the avatar are not as bright and vibrant as the surrounding backdrops. The character also looks and moves in a 2-dimensional fashion. The girl faces are all the same, and the boy faces are all the same (just like VFK) except for skin tone, hair style/color, and eye color.
2) Room Building: the items you can collect and store in rooms do not meet my needs. If I'm judging by the VMK standard, Elf Island is much like Pixie Hollow. If this doesn't change, I don't see our family staying long for this reason alone. But who knows, maybe EI will come up with a grid system.
And for someone who joined VMK in it's last year, and who sometimes felt like an outsider looking in, having former VMK hosts doesn't do much for me. Hopefully the inequality will not happen on Elf Island, but many former VMKers (especially kids) have expressed on other sites as feeling left out and inferior because of who they didn't know. I think VFK has fallen into this pattern in the last month, with host games that felt like Dreams Month on VMK, where the Dream Ears (insert purple pumpkin, horn of plenty) were given at random with luck being the ONLY way to attain the item. There are other less frustrating ways to get players on the game than this.