They didn't push anything. This isn't a linear development model. It's parallel. FPS is being developed by an entirely independent studio that has no control over anything in the PU besides the fps aspect of it.
The FPS is being shown first simply because it's a much smaller slice of the pie and could be brought to a state where it could be shown off, faster.
Even on lowest settings, the game looks amazing.
There's always at least one of these stupid comments. Do you seriously think that money coming in somehow stops them from working.
Are you familiar with how a business operates?
Does your brain operate?
Are you seriously comparing an arcade side-scroller to a game that is attempting to simulate a scifi future?
Really?
Uhh...Chris Roberts sank a million dollars of his own money to get the game off the ground. You think the kickstarter demo came out of nowhere?
I can see incompetence in your ability to perceive the world around you.
Procedural Generated planets is a stretch goal for way after the game is released. Try reading.
You're an idiot. You don't need to spend $500. You only need to spend $45 to get the full game(the MMO and the singleplayer campaign) alpha/beta access, and a ship.
Ships are like player classes in an MMORPG. One isn't inherently better than the other, it's just different.
And it seems that you don't understand the definition of "pay to win". Pay to win means that there is higher level equipment/items/abilities that give an advantage an...