honestly the people who blindly bought this game because of the dev's politics are just as bad as the ones boycotting it. The horseshoe effect is real.
I absolutely agree. When someone buys a game merely for the politics of the programmer, that's "I went to Ghostbustettes 3 times to spite the patriarchy"-tier stupidity.
I can only speak for myself, but I was extremely hyped for this game and planned on getting it sooner or later, but with the more recent gameplay trailers, I decided to get it close to launch. Originally, I wanted to wait for some word-of-mouth to see whether this game deserves that, but eventually, I just preordered it and I have certainly not regretted that.
It just doesn't seem like a 60 dollar game to me yet.
That's the point where I wholeheartedly disagree. I've dumped 40+ hours into this game and I'm not nearly done with it. My original fear was that it turns out to be a really short campaign that I'd be done with in under 20 hours, but it seems I'm easily going to get a <1€/hour of gameplay, which is a decent rate as far as I'm concerned. I mean, I could also spend 15€ to go see a 90 movie, which would put me at 10€/hour.
Granted, I haven't bought a game outside of a Steam sale in like 4 years and the last game I preordered was DE:HR, which I pre-ordered only cause I had played the leaked E3 Demo. It's also the only game that I bought at full price in the past 8 or so years.
I've only once run into a bug that forced me to load an earlier savegame and that bug has not yet happened again. The game runs smoothly at 45 to 60 fps on my system, even though it's 2 years old. It only dropped down to like 25-30 during the part where you attack the Bandit camp with a shitton of soldiers.
I've only got a few minor complaints (for instance, it would be nice if you knew that some quests are on a timer...) and there should be an option to save the game without sleeping or drinking Schnapps... but overall, it already ranks as one of my favorite games of all time.