Currently NOT worth playing at all, give it maybe 2 more years.

The buy in and then sub model is going to kill this game before it even gets going.

All that hard work for nothing =(.

If you buy this game enjoy it for it for the Early Access period and then let the subscription model die along with the money of the venture capitalists who support it. I don't mind a subscription model, but, charging more for more plots up front and then punishing the people who supported the game early by charging per plot in the subscription model is ignorant at best and egregious at worst. The subscription should be a base price and you get the number of plots you paid for up front.

Pax Dei right now is fun, especially if you have a friend(s). It can be a little rough to get going Solo, and worlds may have too many plots already taken making it so you cant place all of your plots, or any at all keeping you from being able to build and even play the game.
If you manage to get a plot(s) laid out, its not so bad, and so far for me its been pretty fun.
However, after getting 33 hours in, getting invested, and then suddenly learning, the game will go to a subscription base upon full release, and price per month will be based on how many plots you want, rendering your founders edition purchase, aside from a few cosmetics useless, especially if you buy the most expensive pack currently.

Directly from the Pax Dei Site:
"After Early Access, Pax Dei will require a one-off initial purchase, which will give access to the game and one or more plot(s) for a limited period of time. This will be followed by a recurring fee for ongoing game access, which will vary based on the number of plots a player wishes to maintain.

The Founder’s Pack you pick now doesn’t commit you to anything past Early Access. We will be transparent about our future pricing plans and provide more details as we approach the official release."

All in all, don't waste your money. Unfortunately I'm too far in for a refund now, my fault for not catching this sooner, but I'd still like to get a refund of this game. I bought it for me and friend all hyped up looking through the winter games sale for something new for me and my friend to try, since this is the kind of stuff we like.
Hopefully they do away with this pay to win, with plot subscription, and do away with the game subscription all together, or at the very least, make it low cost each month giving you access to the whole game after initial purchase, since I could understand a small subscription for keeping servers and development ongoing, but this current subscription plan is pay to win, and given the cost of the game, its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Crafting progression is a grind requiring 500 spears to go from level 23 to 24 in weaponsmithing, all of which have to be discarded on the ground. After six months, there's still no salvage bench. Visual glitches like trees clipping through castles persist. While it’s the best-looking MMORPG thanks to Unreal Engine 5, meaningful progress since launch feels minimal. Make a salvage bench its a completely realistic thing to have as a blacksmith and if thats a hard thing to implement that would just be telling of the experience level of the devs

Great visuals, interesting building options, huge map and great concept. Not sure about the balance for profession grinding, how the subscription model will play out or how the pve combat and enemy variety will be at launch. So far it has been worth the on sale cost i purchased it for on the Holiday sale. It has potential but will have to see how it goes as the develop.

They deleted our bases and when I went to play, I couldn't get a base in the same area- said it was full. After all the time it took me to build my base, not impressed at all.

difficulty is there but can be overcome and is satisfying to do so

You can remove the anti cheat, so we can run on Linux, being hostage to Windows is complicated.

NOT BAD GAME ALL PLOTS FULL HALF BUILT BUILDING SHOULD BE 6 WEEK PLAYER NO SHOW WIPE

Breathtaking!