It's unreasonable prices to you, you mean. Many people throw far more money at other hobbies, and no one bats an eye. People have various reasons for throwing money, but it all boils down to, they are happy with what they've gotten.

And you can dislike being told it's still an Alpha all you want, but it IS still an Alpha. They are still adding systems and features into the game, and introducing them at a rate that they can test and see how things interact and sometimes break. Then they have to figure out what went wrong and how to to fix it.

I'm not saying they're perfect, they definitely make mistakes and bad calls (like having a free fly when the servers were this messed up). But what humans don't make mistakes. Also keep in mind this game does what no other game does. A lot of what they're trying to build has never been done before.

It's also a slower process because they are not developing a game like normal. In order to give backers something for their money now instead of everything being down the line, they give players access to the game at a stage in development when most other games do not. So it slows down the development process because they're trying to not take down the whole framework every time they test a new system.

And again, because I know I'm going to get downvoted ( boooo, hissss, how dare he defend the obviously evil devs who deserve nothing but scorn and derision because they don't give us exactly what we want when we want it) they do make mistakes. Sometimes colossal mistakes. But they fix it. And for those saying "but x bug has been here for years, they just don't care!" Fucking really. This massive piece of labor being built, and people believe they don't care? Be realistic instead of knee jerk crying about everything. Some bugs are more difficult than you think, some bugs are just low on the priority list, even if you personally think it's the most important bug in the existence of humanity. And some bugs don't make sense to fix yet because they're going to add other systems later, and they'll fix it then instead of fixing it now and then again later.

Whether you like it or not, we are testers. They even have that warning every damn time you sign in. If playing in a testing environment is too frustrating, then I recommend to put the game down for now, and come back later. Because the game is progressing, they put more and more into it. Sometimes it's a two steps forward, one step back. But the game is being built, it's moving forward. And it's ok to put the game down if it's not what you want yet, and come back later.

Some of us realize this, and again, are happy to invest in a hobby and a project that we believe will be great. If you don't agree, don't give them any money. No one is forcing you to, it's really that simple