I am enjoying it so far! The combat is enjoyable, building is robust and the world does call to you for exploration.
Progress is server wide which is strange. My completing a quest completes it for all other players so you probably want to play on a private server.
It definitely has space to improve but I think the devs have a solid foundation here to build something quite enjoyable.
Totally agree! I remember being shuttled to the demo XBox by a GameStop employee who was fawning over the first Halo and I was not impressed having just finished Half Life 2