As an outsider looking in, this project has all the appearance of a speculative investment bubble. Especially with investment gimmicks like the early promotion for lifetime ship insurance and the limited ship quantities that try to convince buyers that this is their chance to get in on the ground floor. It's difficult to trust the opinions of investors to be objective, because they have a vested interest in the project succeeding. If you have spent $2500 on an in-game item, you will desperately want to believe that you are going to get some commensurate value out of it. So when people come along and express skepticism, they get defensive about it. That's a good gut-check for people putting money into this game. If you find yourself getting angry that other people are doubting its success, you are probably not thinking rationally.
You could see the same sort of dynamic here in threads about Bitcoin 16 months ago. Even though we had seen similar bubbles many times in the past, there were a lot of people who believed that this time it would be different. People who posted historical examples of the life cycle of speculative investments were decried as 'haters'. Similarly, people want to believe that this time a game - which vastly increased its ambitions from the original plan, which has gone all-in on feature creep, which sees its release day slipping into uncertainty, which is being developed in pieces by many different studios and is supposed to be patched together into one cohesive whole - will be different. But as someone who is not invested, that does not sound like a recipe for success if history is our guide.
