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Comment by uejfiweun | Hacker News Reader

Is this game actually legit or just a scam as is popularly understood? I saw there is an alpha, but it's tough to separate fact from fiction on this game, would love to hear the perspective of some HNers.

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Legit, mostly. I’ve recently purchased the game and it is stunning and rather awe-inspiring, with some solid gameplay loops. But, the bugs are heartbreaking. I’m not prepared to invest 100s of hours learning/playing the game with immersion breaking bugs. So I’ve shelved it for now.

The scam IMO is continuing to work on anything other than fixing the bugs.

As someone who hasn't played this, 5 years ago when I looked at videos, the UI seemed comically bad. Interacting with something brings up some flying UI text that gives in front of you until you disengage or select something. Recent videos show that same UI. Is that UI actually usable? Sometimes the text seems to blend into the background and I'm not sure of the purpose behind the weird flying animations they have

The UI works fine. I'd say it's the least of the problems.

It has embezzled hundreds of millions, yet does not even have a fully playable product after a decade, and seemingly exists only to exploit whales with more money than sense who'll buy new ships. You be the judge.

I dont think its a scam but I think its planned to never finish. It's a well funded job for a bunch of people. I think it is finished and will just receive updates as-is for years.

You have a generous definition of scam/not scam.

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