Wait, it'll be free2play in half a year or so.
Even more interesting is the massive overvaluation of the stock in relation to that report. Sorry to say, but you are the classic sucker. First you let yourself get ripped off by accepting their partial refund, and then you buy their overvalued stock which will tank on the inevitable always-on release day desaster.

Don't forget the inevitable DLC's and microtransactions.

There's never any good reason to support liars. Liars should be punished by the community with boycotts,public shame/disgrace, and/or even excommunication as a public example and a deterrent against future scammers.

The free market is a form of democracy. When you buy a product, you aren't just getting the product, you are supporting the product, its manufacture/developer, along with all of their development, marketing, and sometimes political practices. If the vast majority of consumers are willing to support a company that lies to its customers and investors, it sends the entire industry the message that they can lie all they like and no one's going to punish them.

Knowing that: would you want to economically "vote" for a known liar? Probably not.

You do raise a good point there. At any rate, I'm certainly not giving Frontier any of my money, and I'm glad I didn't back their project.

Understood. will not buy until more honesty comes into the picture.

Plenty of people do! Got another thread first deleted by one mod, then moved from deletion to offtopic by another mod, then locked by the third mod, and everyone was arguing for Frontier:

"Kickstarter fraud"
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=70826

Man... Braben sure has a lot of supporters on that forum. By reading the posts in the thread you linked it seemed that most of the "Brabenites" were loons who didn't understand a thing of what you meant (or were even interested in understanding).

David Braben could sell his supporters to IS. He'd make a fortune.

Well, a lot of people came to believe that always online DRM in SP games is acceptable. Ubisoft and Blizzard have paved the way for people thinking it's nothing but a minor inconvenience.

It's easy to sum up what the brabenites are about. "I have no problem therefore it doesn't exist."

I almost bought into this game as an old Elite+ fanboy but after I noticed in the EULA that the developer plans to add advertisements all over the gameplay in the future and sell your personal data for advertising purposes and target you with targetted advertising based on data mining I was instantly enraged to the point of Elite Dangerous' Mortal Enemy For Life.

What utter ****ing rubbish.

As a DRM-free apologist for many years now I have stopped counting how many time I have heard that phrase...

Well predictably my refund got approved within 12 hours of me saying I didn't want it. As for the share price, I've already acknowledged that it could go either way. Pure punt. Stop loss and sell order in place. :P

I've done okay off the banks this past six months so I can swallow it if it goes bad.

I suppose that's a topic for another thread - trading game players who're into real investing.

And just been informed by Paypal that I've gotten my refund for the full amount, so not the partial refund some people were reporting. Maybe they wised up about that.

Braben sure likes to show off.

Oooh! I didn't know this one. I'll be sure to remember it, it should (unfortunately) be quite useful in years to come.
Thanks :)