If you are seriously asking this question, then you must pay absolutely zero attention to the state of games available on Steam Early Access, or how well they do. There is a reason developers go this route.
It was in alpha, lots of place holders, missing content not yet implemented and on and on and on. Exactly my point, I DO pay attention to that. But that's still in a near feature complete state, or at least in a place where it's withing touch(few months) of being feature complete. How would half of that alpha(not just size but features too) have left you? I seriously doubt you'd even be discussing anything other than a refund on these forums.
You can disagree all you want but that's the way things are, I've been gaming for over two decades and followed games in development closely for over a decade. Really successful games sell hundreds of thousands of copies or millions of copies....I do believe this game will be successful, but less than 20k took a leap for it long before they could play it.
