I can't take anyone's review seriously if they don't at least have 50 hours played. Here's my take on it.

Yes, it's a melvor copy but melvor is a copy of runescape, cry about it.
This game's multiplayer is what's kept me playing for this long.
Yes, there is micro-transactions that people complain about but guess what? You can buy them in-game with gold that players sell in the player shop.
This game is extremely lengthy so don't expect to get everything maxed within a month.
The chat does suck but at least the game has a built-in feature to add a discord server invite so I just make my clan members join that since it's a better alternative to help each other out.
The dev is fairly active in the official server and from what i've seen, is the only dev so give the guy a break..