One of the main reasons why I support SC back then is that chance to participate in "open"development and to have an access to the ALL pre-alpha and alpha builds.....CIG didn´t promise me "normal" game development,closed doors and secrecy for all of us that are classified later as lower "citizen-class"....So pls. stop with this silly explanations how NORMAL game developments works as we all know it SC&CIG does not belong by any standards in that group in fact SC is still far away from anything we can call a game,and CIG is still far away to become responsible&respected company....
That's the thing originally it was sold as a space-sim with open development. Those guys were thrown under the bus for some kind of weird MMO/FPS thingy with expensive P2W digital crap and some spaceships that fly like an FPS avatar with duck hunt controls. Now we have the same old cycle, flashy trailers no delivery and lots of excuses. I'm sure the next ship sale will go well though.