well I am still playing, tho in short bursts. I bought a new card just for this game (nvidea 7600 GS) and whilst it was a huge improvement to the radeon 9600, I still get fustrated when I get locked into the 1fps - 50 fps cycle
for no apparent reason (not seeing that monolith, but suppose it could be there!)
I am still learning the systems which makes me forgive the errors, but still say they should provide some feedback on whats being fixed and when we are likely to see it. Every large organisations have deadlines, they must know when they intend to publish it, wouldnt hurt to tell the community.