Well, so far the Kickstarter has not failed and the game is still in production so at this point they have no product yet to deliver, but the production, the company have not gone bust, folded or been destroyed in a fire so you have not yet lost what you put in - you just have not yet got a finished game.
I do however agree that it is a damn long time to wait for a computer game but at the same time...it will have a little longer development time (if they CAN stick to the schedule this time) than Cyberpunk 2077 which AFAIK started in 2012.
IMHO That Kickstarter failed, they went off and did something else. What they are doing now doesn't match the Kickstarter.
It's completely inappropriate to use Kickstarter as a funding platform on which you describe a product and then turn around and say "hey thanks, you gave us too much so we'll use your money to do something else". Because what they are doing now has nothing to do with the Kickstarter game being described here in anything but name. Roberts basically ended up using it as a marketing/pre-order platform for a AAA game/vanity project.
Sure we've heard all this nonsense about the community having "voted" for them to do something else, but the actual polls in question did not describe anything of the sort. It's an excuse for not having been able to meet those initial pledges with anything close to a product.
Can you name any other KS where they abandonded the original pitch and used the money to make a company to release a bigger product with no release date?
I backed Oculus, they provided me with a DK1 as pitched - they did not go away and "Build a company first"
I backed Pebble, they provided me with a Pebble time as pitched - they did not go away and "Build a company first"
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