Jerbart

I just downloaded this today, and couldn't get online, and now I know why - they want people to PAY to play something that sounds like it's still barely playable? NOPE, I've heard this music a hundred times before. No interest in paying a sub to something that doesn't offer real play value yet, only to have the developers reach some point where they are like "Ok, we've milked folks for about what we're going to be able to, starting to put too much actual work to get more sucke.. I mean, "customers" - thanks for the cheddar, PEACE". Gimme a ring when you have an actual product to sell, Novaquark, not one I have to PAY you to help develop.

I just read about the open beta, downloaded the game and was going to try it out for the first time, but I'm getting this same error. But I can't find any info about how to resolve it - are the game servers just currently down, or do I need to do something more than just create an account, download the game and start it up? I'm looking for a really good open world builder/MMO to spend my next 5,000 game hours in, hoping this may be the one, but it seems like all the promising ones are in perma-development hell (looking at you Star Citizen, Empyrion, 7 Days to Die, New World, Ashes of Creation!)