lol, What type of shitpost is this. If nothing else I applaud the passion shown in this post but by the gods man.. XD
Been helping test out the pre-alpha demo and it runs well with rates around 80-100 FPS for me uncapped most the time and a solid unflinching 60fps in capped mode even with tons going on in the screen with a Sapphire Vega 56 GPU, 1950x CPU and 64GB of 3200mhz RAM.
The demo does in fact exist. It's in closed pre-alpha testing internally with the team and peripheral contractors to try and get a nice polish on things so it can be brought to founders and whatnot to further help with pre-alpha testing. Last I heard JBOSS was putting the finishing touches on multiplayer so we can frag eachother online. :P
I'd do a stream at a decent framerate for you all but I'm busy trying to get Psyber Decks done for the royal reptile firm as they brought me in as a 3rd party contractor to help them with back end API stuff and then I ended up pivoting to a battle card game.. (Think splinterlands but with lazers and nukes or something like that)
The first paragraph of your post is untrue as hell and just spreading FUD, some of that market movement was me taking payment for the contractor work I've been doing for Royal Reptile / Psyber.
Fuck me for getting paid for the services rendered though I guess right? XD
All in all I don't think Witty's, Bawb's or Troy's have PCs that do well running the game + streaming at the same time. You need some serious PC power and good internet upload bandwidth to stream. Game runs fine on my system.
Finally, while UE5 does "make it easy" to add multiplayer (hint: if it was "easy" everyone would be doing it) in comparison to having to completely build out multiplayer from scratch, there is still a metric piss ton of code and development work that goes into this stuff... I get folks not being aware of the incredible amount of work that goes in to making games or development, but you have to ask yourself this:
Would you prefer dev studios rush stuff and release demos / pre-alphas that are janky as shit, or would you prefer that some in house testing being done and majority of the jank being polished before you play it?
Claiming folks are telling lies or stretching truths when what they are really doing is actively working to deliver a multi-user playable pre-alpha is for lack of a more polite term fucking ignorant. XD
Anyways, Cheers, hope to see you on the battlefield here soon enough. <3