Approved! Same from me!

cgexile here (from PoE) and I have been really enjoying the game. I went on vacation the day after release and 2 weeks later came back to a working online server with a number of other things that were fixed on what I saw from early reviews.

That crucial "first impression" moment was certainly nerfed into the ground but if the team can patch their way out of the mess quickly there is still hope for long term success.

The game has a little bit of everything. PoE, Sim City/RTS-ish, RPG, all under some spectacular graphics. The story and the campaign was nothing original but the story and the presentation/cinematic cut scenes was a lot better than PoE; which basically just has one mid-way through the campaign. Items are still far from what you can do in PoE but the item progression that allows you to progress through the game is much better.

The game just has a more epic feel with the town banter you typically only saw in old-school AD&D games like Baldur's Gate and IWD. So the game borrows a lot from all these other genres and I find that to be most welcome!

There are definitely some bugs and some server issues, but I've really enjoyed the game in spite of any of that. I can see that there is a lot of potential for this game on the long term, and I hope the devs are serious about making this game as good as it can possibly be.