I don't blame you. You've been burned before. Games in "beta" for 2 years that "launch" with a whimper.

This is not that. This is 6 (ish) months of hardcore development with a small team of diehard fans with the goal of making the game as polished as possible come launch.

"What about the audience. It's going to die!!?"

It's not. No one in the industry knows about this game yet. It seems obvious to you because you're already a fan. This is a small niche game. You can't kill something that isn't alive yet. When it launches next year there will be fanfare, marketing, advertisements. They haven't even STARTED promoting the game yet.

Omeda has the funding to see this through to launch. Buying in now won't result in a "dead game" in a few months. This isn't Fault.

If you don't want to pay that is 100% okay, but to everyone getting mad about it not being f2p. Stop. You're fundamentally misunderstanding what the purpose of an EARLY ACCESS IS. It's not about building a player base. It's about building a GAME.