I'm not too clear what were people doing? From my experience with the game.... I did the foundry stuff because it was fun and rewarding. While on the other hand the "content" was hardly interesting and not so rewarding by this I mean progression seems to drag. This game doesn't bring a lot of more common mmo elements to…
as to the cry for release and features not being there at release they could do like many games before them and have an open beta till "official release". This would allow everyone that wants in to get in and still give them the wiggle room of being a beta.
The direct down loader likes to start and stop at random. I'm going on around 8 hours now and I'm sitting in the 20s. I've even forwarded my ports and closed mt AV to no effect. When working I'm at 350mb/s~.