[AmagicalFishy]

I think both parties first have to understand one thing: The idea of paying $10 - $30 to purchase a "pre-alpha" game is a new one. Players, since video-games have been a thing, have bought their game and been able to play it (as a full game). It's only recently that players have been able to spend money to play a completely, entirely unfinished game.

It is understandable that players who are used to paying money to have a full game have inflated expectations of how a game should be developed after they pay for it.

It's understandable. It's not a correct expectation (in fact, it's very far from the truth), but it's an understandable one. I think people who have more realistic views of the game's development should take this into consideration when responding.

Consider the following list:

Final Fantasy VII - 1994 - 1997 - 3 Y
Demon Souls - 2007 - 2009 - 2 Y
Shadow of the Colossus - 2002 - 2005 - 3 Y
World of Warcraft - 2001 - 2004 - 3 Y
Super Meat Boy - 2009 - 2010 - 1 Y
Minecraft - 2009 - 20011 - 2 Y
Resident Evil 4 - 2001 - 2005 - 4 Y
Titan Fall - 2011 - 2014 - 3 Y
Crash Bandicoot - 1994 - 1996 - 2 Y
Starcraft - 1995 - 1998 - 3 Y

(I tried to choose a wide array of games over a wide time period; note, too, that most of these games have a much larger team devoted to them.)

Games take a long time to make. Years; I don't even know if I'll be playing computer games in 4 years (hahaha, who am I kidding, of course I will! :D) We're lucky that we've access to a game that's really good in alpha. It's still being developed, and it will take a long time to develop. Because we're able to play the game in its rudimentary stages does not mean it is a full game, or even close to being a full game.

The conceptual idea of what the game is isn't even finished yet, much less the development. A lot of people bought Rust. This is good for the developers. This does not mean that Rust will move faster (much like development of a game with millions of dollars of funding and a large AAA team devoted to it). It takes a long time to make a game, and at this point, we shouldn't be expecting content updates. The game itself is hardly even programmed yet.

[utilitron]

I think you are missing it completely. The plan is to work on bug fixes and replace placeholders with their own assets. That is exactly what is happening.

They are working on the core of the game. Monsters/ai are superficial.

Making sleepers lootable
Adding weight to objects and adding weight limits
Making research consume item researched
Making research take several stages
Adding advanced workbench
Breaking up construction into several stages
Adding bow mods
Farming
Bear traps
New Player models
New UI
New map generation
Dynamic resources
And more...

[ceasetobe]

Ezenelix posted:

The game has been released a LONG time to be called an alpha. Last summer there were updates every week / 2 weeks and now no major content update in 2 months...

do you have any idea how much work goes into a game? just because the alpha was released awhile ago means nothing. Its still in development. You should know that you are buying an incomplete game with its listed as alpha.