After following it for far too long.  The Mac client release pushed me over.  I'm having fun so far, which is what I care about, though I'm figuring out quick that the game could use a good amount of polish and tweaking in some key areas (which Mythic assures users it is hard at work on).  I'm not sure what to make of the whole Bioware restructuring thing, but I'm hoping the game rebounds, at least to a certain degree.  The team make-up is still great, despite Mark Jacobs leaving, I just really hope things can start to gain momentum again.
 
What's everyone else thinking?  Wanting to try the game?  Jaded but willing to try it again if there are substantial improvements?  Other?

I tried it and it wasn't for me.

I got over it. It still is very dear to my heart though, I wasn't sad to let it go, but I don't want to see it die.
 
Even though I don't play anymore I'm still aware of the updates coming to it and check their Herald every once in a while.
 
I waited for this game I saw it go from Closed beta to release I felt like I had watched this game grow and I can't really let it go.

" I got over it. It still is very dear to my heart though, I wasn't sad to let it go, but I don't want to see it die.  Even though I don't play anymore I'm still aware of the updates coming to it and check their Herald every once in a while.  I waited for this game I saw it go from Closed beta to release I felt like I had watched this game grow and I can't really let it go. "

I played it for the first 2 months it came out.  In the first month it was a lot of fun, tons of ppl playing the game, never had a problem finding a group for PQs.  I had a hard time picking a class, so I was playing all of them.  By the time I got to the second month, I had a 10 characters all between 10 and 20.  Then I hit a brick wall called no players my lvl.   I couldn't do the PQs, there was no one to fight in open world PvP, it got real boring.  So I just stopped playing.  If I had friends to play with I would have stuck with it but non of my friends wanted to leave WoW.    
 
As far as the game quality, graphically it was nice, PvP was fun, spells were ok (not as cool as WoW spells)    

The only thing holding the game back is level progression.
 
everything else is simply amazing.

I couldn't get into it because the urge to compare it to WoW kept haunting me. As a result, the PvE felt sluggish, and while the PvP was mildly amusing it didn't capture my interest for that long. I think I left after the second or third week, yet in my fickleness I carried remorse because I knew that I had abandoned the little guy only to return to the monster known as WoW. But what can I say -- WoW was just a better game.

I played the BETA for a year, than about 2 more months after release...it just wasn't for me. I think after so many years of WoW, MMORPG's all feel the same now haha

" I tried it and it wasn't for me. "

While it isnt neccaserily what you originally asked perhaps it might be helpful to also say why I (or others) never played WAR, beyond of course simply not liming MMORPG's. For me a lot of the stuff leading up to it seemed interesting like Public Quests and the Tome of Knowledge (since im an explorer and have no real interesting in killing and leveling except to allow me to explore). But the reason I havent even picked up up or even tried a free trial (assuming there is one but I cant justifly the download time and amount on my terrible connection) is mainly that the lore and the story didnt seem interesting and no matter how much footage I looked at (and I looked at lots of it for a long time lol) it never seemed varied enough to really push me to explore and when I play MMORPG's (though it is almost against the point of an MMO) I generally like Solo play so a PvP focus wasent interesting to me.

The MMO that has grabbed my interest is LotRO (Lord of the Rings Online) because it has a focus on lore and story and instead of straight PvP it has "Monster Play" which lets you play as a monster in a specific area and do some killing, exploration and I think even some quest type things. To me the Story focus a second way to play is whats interesting me about LotRO online and whats not interesting me about WAR is its heavy PvP focus (which can be awsome just not for me) and I havent never really gotten interested in Warhammer's Lore (though 40k is more my style) whereas Tolkien's world appeals to me a lot more.

I think the Warhammer lore is some of the best out there and theres alot of it in WAR. But the world itself is really not made for exploring. The zones on the world map is more like dead waiting spaces between scenarios. Exploring brings alot of rewards tho. You unlock unique items and gear by finding really oscure creatures and places in the world along with lore unlocks for your findings. Its a shame then that the world itself feels very much dead while you are exploring.

"

 the world itself feels very much dead while you are exploring.

"

" Both. But I was referring to the actual design of the zones. The attention and care to every nook and cranny that can be found in other MMO´s just dosent exist in WAR. It rewards you for exploring its world but the world itself is made with a PvP focus in mind.     "