It is a game that you can normall yplay from start to finish. So it’s a finished product. If you buy a chair you can sit on but that has a rough surface. It is finished. but it lacks polish.
Then again, software is diffrent from many physical things, and nowaday with increasing diversity in hardware combinations, catching bugs beforehand sadly is becoming increasingly difficult.
Telling people that the own product is flawed, is, however, marketing suicide. And I’d bet the deadline for release was set by the publisher. Telling folks the game is not quite baked through yet, would not only be bad marketing, but possibly also considered harming the publishers business, getting the devs a nice invitation to court.
I wish the game was (more or less) bug free, but it isn’t. the devs seem to be honestly at work trying to fix everything.
Sadly enough, buggy games are a staple of modern day gaming…
In my books, there is still a huge difference between someone getting in over his head, and putting in the efforts to correct his mistakes. and someone willingly and intentionally trying to cashgrab off people with no intent to eliver.