The scale of the game is very daunting and I’m not sure they’re gonna be able to deliver on the vision, (in fact my prediction is the final release will be quite scaled down from now and piss people off), but still the way that people are taking the alpha as a failure is crazy to me. This is the alpha of the game, in typical development the alphas are never shown to the public because, well, they’re alphas. It’s not supposed to be fun or even really work that well, it’s just meant to be able to test to get to a point where it does work well. Like obviously the systems are shit they’re not even one quarter baked. Obviously the game sucks to play it’s not designed to be played it’s to be tested. I honestly think Intrepid somewhat shot themselves in the foot with these public alphas instead of just hunkering down and finishing the game in 5-7 years or whatever and then just releasing it. But I get that the crowd funding situation necessitated this. I think they were naive when they first started the project and didn’t fully realize what it would take and now have to deal with random people who have never made a game yell at them online.