I bought it the day of the release, I played it several hours and I was and remain unconvinced.
The gameplay is indeed terrible and their servers are pretty unstables.
It's still better than DayZ to be honest.
I thought that game could have a better posterity with more content coming soon but unfortunately the compagny who runs the game has been bought by a finance management company and they fired half of their developers.
Even David Georgeson director and producer of EverQuest Next got fired...