As much as that side of the game is what initially brought Aura to my attention, I confess that at this point I mostly only care about the gameplay, RPG elements, and pure side of things. I'm probably many times further behind the real world storylines than where I had mentioned I had last played.
Things like balancing and resource management are of greater import to me, but I wasn't about to read through dozens of updates, pre-releases, public releases, hotfixes, etc. I'll probably hold off until tomorrow's (?) release regardless.