Yes. That's pretty much it. NONE of the gameplay mentioned for this ship exists. And there is NO indication that they EVER will.
You know, there's a thing in selling a business to another business called "goodwill". It's an intangible, but it has value.
I wonder if that's what CIG is really selling to consumers. Some kind of intangible. Maybe not "goodwill", but "good times". And I'm not talking about JPEGs. I'm talking about the hours and hours and hours of absolutely fine theorycrafting and argumentation that backers enjoy on reddit and youtube.
I mean, we're here all focused on non-delivery of a
game but maybe we're the ones who are blind. Maybe we need a different frame. CIG's sold $175M of
talking in the last 6 years, while keeping 100s of talented people employed doing ... well, whatever they're doing ...
And don't get hung up on the fact that they claim to be selling a
game when they're actually just selling a nice bunch of topics for people to chew the fat over. After all, Mazda
says they're selling "Zoom Zoom" but everybody knows they're just selling cars to take you to the store or work and nobody minds that.
And that's why it doesn't matter that this "ship" is for "gameplay" that doesn't exist nor is there sign it will ever exist in the "game". The theorycrafting is running wild right now, and that's what they're
actually selling. Those backers over there are having great fun, and we're over here missing the point.
