Look, you had a dream, the story behind it is good. It just wasn't fleshed out enough. I get the deadline of August vs February and the book release date. This is your baby! You thought it was solid, but you were not correct. You blinded yourself and, well us.
The beta testers bought into you could pull something out of the nether regions. You missed. Sorry, I was really pulling for you, but you missed. I still have faith you will pull out a good game, but, man, really? For all your "Stardock doesn't need games to be viable", peoples jobs were apparently at stake. Sounds like a lie by omission.
So I will give you faith for patches and from here, hopefully updates/expansions. Right now, I feel like you played your customers and perhaps worse, you co-workers. You risked their jobs on this and they paid the price.
I sincerely hope it all rebounds and we can all be a big happy family again. I hope you learned your lesson as well.
Regards,
Blaze