I'm think this game was just away to make quick money off us. they stated the first part of the game will be playable in the first 3 months of 2017 its now 7 months in, 4 months passed the time frame they stated and still nothing, we're paying for beta access not pre order access that means we should be playing something after those 4 months over the time frame.

by them stating the time frame they made a commitment to us to have something to play within that time frame.

small team or big team does not matter if your trying to sell something have something there for the buyer