Claims vs delivery is the core issue.

Yes, you can play the game. Frankly, the game world itself is fucking rad as shit, and I have enjoyed it in brief bursts. However, the game world is also infuriatingly empty and incomplete. It is difficult to have fun for an extended amount of time because while the world is rad the game systems are like half done at best.

After like 15 years of development it feels obvious that they're more interested in getting market sales for ship designs than actually finishing the game systems... and that's where you see people get angry. It doesn't feel like they even want to do a full release as long as they can sell $10k ship pictures.

Spiders can potentially run 8mph? This is a fact I could have lived without knowing.

If you want to add 1 and 1 together, you must first invent the universe.