Really, even if you're a hardcore fanatic of this game, and DS is the devil, and it's gonna be amazing and totallynotascam, you have to realize how EXTREME a marketing fuck up this whole situation is....
-You hold back release of your "pre-alpha" to polish it (ok, you're polishing an alpha build...... ). You're doing this to prevent the goons from tarnishing your product 's precious reputation . But this builds salt in your community , who finds it pointless. (but of course they don't matter, it's the larger gaming press calling your game a broken mess that's hurting you).
-You add YET ANOTHER LAYER of early access to your early access , AND you make those people sign an NDA (again to protect your product's reputation).This results in more salt, as the community is further segregated.
-After all of that, you go against said early-early-early access tester's feedback and release the buggy mess to the larger public anyway , under the term "stress testing", thus making the first two points completely useless.
-Now your product's reputation is destroyed anyway. AND it's tarnished even further since you were supposedly polishing it. AND the mountain of salt from the evocati-segregation phase remains. AAAAAND you didn't even succeed at your original goal of polishing the product.
At this point, you could ignore THE ENTIRE history of Star Citizen, and just on this one thing alone, you could have enough of a basis to abandon this project because it's one of three cases, and all look pretty bad:
-the high ups are hopelessly incompetent and the project is being managed into the ground by flip-flopping, undecided buffoons.
-they're trying to make a last ditch effort for your money , and their entire testing procedure can by bypassed by one greedy flick of a switch. (like those evil publishers)
-they're contemptuous of you, and the entire shtick was a marketing strategy to build hype around their product based on the old "limited availability " scheme. Like those ships that are "on sale" now, or those 850 pioneers, etc.
Even if these guys were genius developers, and were managed by , I dunno, Peter Molyneux with a non-promising, non-lying chip implanted in his brain, you could still handily justify calling this entire thing a dud based on the extreme level of incompetence demonstrated by their marketing. Forget the gamescom fiasco, this is the new shit.
