A lot of people seem to be having issues with performance; I get very mild occasional lag but for the most part everything runs smoothly on my machine. Granted I did just buy one not that long ago that was a build optimized for this specific game... BUT enough of that. For me, personally, the game is all I ever expected it to be and all I ever wanted. I know a lot of people are complaining that it's almost entirely exploration with maybe limited space battles, but as far as I'm concerned it's pretty much as advertised. Don't think I ever remember the developers saying or pretending that it was going to be anything more, except for the potential promise of DLC. I understand why it could be a turn-off for a lot of people, but the combination of me wanting to be an astronaut for literally as long as I can remember and an insatiable amount of wanderlust (in addition to being a sometimes-obsessive completeionist) make this basically perfect. For example, while most people I've seen have kind of blasted through the starting planet really quickly, I spent probably 4 hours just there before I ever got back to my (by then functional) ship. And I still didn't discover everything!