Seems you were off by a year!
Not that I know when exactly it reached fully playable state but I picked it up again a couple of weeks ago and have been loving it ever since.
So glad I can finally enjoy this awesome game again, though a little sad I'll never have the real life group to deep dive into it.
ps still catching up on this thread!
Honestly, it's been pretty playable for quite awhile. I put several hundred hours into Guild master mode while it was in EA and it was functional, for the most part. The biggest thing was them getting multiplayer ironed out, and after that, it's actually been pretty smooth.
There's a few bugs here and there, and odd ones that crop up from time to time. But there's a lot of items and a lot of cards, so a lot of interactions to work thru, so that's to be expected.
Overall though, good product.