Everyone ive talked to 15+ says they have already gotten their 40$ worth and will definitely be bearding the full game.
The sub 10 nuclear melters in ooc, well, there's plenty of extremely forgiving, hyper on rails games for them.
Id say Pantheon has even gotten bitten by the "on rails a bit" and should be careful with what kind of feedback is loud but disconnected from the vision. Keep that old darkness and fear venturing out into the world feeling. We have seen a dozen games rise and fall due to being hackneyed and uninspiring. OG EQ Nektulos forest is a hard feeling to capture again, but it's here in some capacity for sure. The Nek vs EC wars was something that made you want to stay instead of level up and make evil only RP guilds.
PS: get rid of paladin for Dark Myr, what were ye thinkin? Or prove me wrong with some lore I haven't seen yet? Do not listen to the guy with the anime fox avatar who thinks "it would be cool!". Some of those weird ass snowflake takes make me wonder if they've ever been immersed in their entire lives.