I played this game about a year ago and I was just recently thinking about it again. When I played originally the game was pretty bare. there were little to no battle animations and the game played pretty horribly. But the game interested me incredibly because I recall devs speaking of a huge focus on grouping and EQ-esque type game.

So how far has this game progressed? Is it like an actual game now? Is grouping and exploring a pretty big part of it?

Thanks for all the answers