Still interested in the game, but I never gave them a cent, as I saw quite soon that excessive ambition was lengthening the time of the definitive version's release too much. Sad it went so bad, the work they have done up until now is impressive, but they surely organized it very badly, they should have instead settled on producing a smaller, but complete game universe earlier and expanding it after in a modular way. I hope they'll stop chasing ever moving goals for a while and be able to complete at least what they already took to a good level of development.
I wonder if Roberts suffers from excessive envy for the large, varied and iconic world his colleague and former associate Lord British was able to create (Roberts created a very successful franchise too in their golden age, but its universe never reached Britannia's depth and complexity, and its success and influence lasted shorter).

They have a fully realized city-planet. As in a full, spherical planet that is convincingly complex, covered coast to coast in cyberpunk city. I get that it's a meme that it's development is a scam when they are making real headway on ideas that actual released video games haven't even touched conceptually. I don't care literally at all about this game, but it's always weird to me when people are surprised that a game attempting to do what this game is is taking as long as this game is.

How long do people think it's supposed to take to develop procedural planetary-scale city-building software, on top of everything else this game is supposed to have at the level of detail it's supposed to have?

If the game comes out in a finished state that literally supports the 1% richest folk in the world, then yeah, I'd likely move on to something else by then. But until then, I'll wait and see if the promise is kept by the time of it's eventual release, that not everything is going to cost literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. 

When you've been given over 200m and have five different massive teams it's reasonable for people to expect something I don't buy this ambition defence as many games have ambition, they made a big fancy map so? What is there to do on the map exactly that no other game with a smaller is doing and is it really worth while to warrant all this time? It reminds me of Shenmue back in the day when it was the most detailed game but most of that detail hardly amounted to much in how the game played.

This "scam" has been known for a good while now.I honestly dont know how they still keep getting money, and how people spend thousands of dollars into a game that will probably take another ten years to officialy release.

Well some people like to be parted away from their money

It's supposed to take the amount of time they said it would take when they asked everyone for money.  That date passed five years ago.  A delay of a few months, maybe a year even, could be seen as a normal result of over-optimistic developers incorrectly estimating the time needed.  But, this is five years late.  So, no matter how ambitious the game is, the fact remains - the devs lied to people to get their money.

Did they ever release that single player campaign offshoot thing? That's what I was actually interested in.

So much this.  People used to get pissed when they gave others money and then got basically ripped off.  Now, so many just make excuses for the ones ripping them off.  I could understand this mindset if they had taken in, say, $50M and it had only been 4-5 years with a small staff.  But they have raised more money than many AAA studios are given for a game and apparently have plenty of staff.  There is no reason that after 8 years this game is nowhere near complete and is running out of money.  Hell, just a few years ago people were pissed off at Mighty No. 9 and that game didn't take as long to make, actually released, and didn't raise nearly as much money.  It was just underwhelming in both terms of gameplay and art direction.

No Man's Sky got basically zero leeway.  It was criticized and bashed to no end when it was released in its unfinished state.  What did they do when this happened.  They shut up about the game and got down to business and released update after update to make it the game they promised.  From the time they started development to the last update was 5 years.  And this is with a staff that went from just 4 people to a still small number of 25.  Star Citizen has almost 500 employees working on it.  They have the funding and staff of a large AAA dev.  They should have much more to show than this.