I have mixed feelings on the game.
First off, as someone who was a kickstarter and played up to legacy through all the drama surrounding the game's development before taking a long break, I had been optimistic about it. And, in many ways, the promises that had been made back then have been kept.
After my break, I returned on a whim, curious to see how things have changed since their big update that split the game between legacy and the current branch. It managed to hook me and all of my friends in again, and we enjoyed playing on the PvE server, eldering our dragons and nesting people in. Many of us bought alternative accounts to 1) support the game and 2) preemptively, to play with the skins when the skincrafting update comes out, meant to expand on the way nesting for skins works.
Personally, I am an MMORPG enjoyer. Naturally, I was enjoying the online aspect of it on the PvE server. Communicating with other players who are, for the most part, very lovely. Engaging in the eldering mechanic with them was a charm, providing a sense of unity and cooperation that a PvE environment should provide. I also enjoy PvP, but the game is currently not in a state that can support it, given the frequent performance drops and bugs that riddle the game. Bug-fixing updates are frequent, at the very least, though PvP is still just clunky with the way the game plays at the moment (i.e. flight controls, slow animations and movement, etc.).
Unfortunately, a lot of our (me and my friends) enjoyment of the server was sapped when a loud minority of players began to intentionally grief a server of ~200 players with the eldering mechanic. They are apparently very well-known by the playerbase as people who simply do it to upset the players on the server. You would think, on a PvE gamemode (separate from the PvP gamemode), which is widely meant to encourage cooperation between players to benefit all as there is a clear distinction between both gamemodes already, that there'd be a mechanic that prevented the handful of "solo" (PvP) players/griefers from engaging with the mechanic by themselves at the loss of those around them. There is no such mechanic, and apparently, there never will be. To make matters worse, there are mechanics and rules in place that ENCOURAGE PvP gameplay on the PvE gamemode, bafflingly, So, the one thing you can currently do on the game after growing to adult that isn't sitting around and nesting is essentially gatekept by at MOST three whole players. Funnily enough, the reason for there being no mechanic to prevent this is because the developers don't want to make eldering a social ordeal, so instead of pertaining to the ~197 other players on the server who just want to play the game on what they assumed was a non-PvP gamemode by slightly changing how elder crystals work in whatever way that may be, they pertain to the three players who engage in PvP behavior to ragebait and grief.
Gameplay aside. There are certain chat rules for the game's official servers that are entirely unclear to... practically anyone. There is a rule that prevents players from saying religious slurs in the in-game chat. Good, that sounds entirely reasonable. Until you type "oh god" and get banned/warned/muted (depends on the admin, it seems. In my friend's case, it was a warning, though others have received worse) because apparently that's a religious slur. A common figure of speech is a religious slur. How is anyone supposed to know that if it isn't explicitly stated in the rule?
Anyway. Regardless of these two instances, I do believe the game is very enjoyable if you're someone who likes to socialize and play around with skins and stats at this point in time. I was frequently pleasantly surprised by the little mechanics that were already in the game, as well as how much progress has been made since I last played. Just beware of the odd bias the staff and developers seem to have towards the ragebaiters/griefers. The game would be in a very good place developmentally if changes were made to address the aforementioned issues.
