In case this is a scam then you could, of course, go to the police or report it to the SEC, and sue us, either way, we are a registered company so that there would be no troubles in retrieving your money and having a solid case against our company, we are getting our business account in the Uk right now so we will be redirecting payments through that and adding the game to steam in the coming weeks :-)
Also, pre-sales and crowdfunding are very very common these days in the gaming industry and those roll on screenshots and videos, it sounds like you don't purchase many games or game a lot, but this might be educational for you to know and maybe you should look it up a little bit before shouting scam.
Also, you must be pretty far-off to believe that I would put my own personal reputation on the line to scam people and my studio's reputation
I'm not sure if you are familiar with our studio but we are an Icelandic team with experience in business, games, blockchain and a reputation in all
of these, also Iceland is the most peaceful country in the world and one of the richest countries in the world as well, and with the highest income in the world and Icelanders don't generally scam people, we barely have crime, for one thing we have enough money to have a comfortable life and we don't need to scam people to get a comfortable life, we are actually ranked the 3rd of highest Income in the world, you can see it here
https://www.careeraddict.com/top-10-countries-with-the-highest-average-salaries , but these have up since 2017 though as to inflation, also never in my life did I hear about an Icelandic scammer on the internet, I really should not have to be battling over people if our studio is a scam or not, it is ridiculous to say the least, if people want to support the game and help us build it, fine, if not then don't, its really simple, but it's logical that the people who arrive first in-game will be able to claim the best land near resource nodes as a "goodwill" gesture for the support.
And somehow you assume that just because I posted this thread on here on this tiny bit of the internet that you think I am working alone on this project and this whole thing is a scam, your logic seems to be flawed, to say the least, the back end system of the game is the most troublesome part of the game it is not the front end that is troublesome or the level design, that is easy compared to all of the back end functions that need to be made and created and assigned etc, the level design is not hard if you have some good people that know their way around level design and have a keen eye on architecture, so you say show us this and that, what is there to show? a backend demo
the new inventory system? we don't have anything presentable right now marketing-wise and we will release something when it will be presentable marketing-wise.
Also, these newbie accounts have nothing to do with us as far as i know.
also here you can see the biggest scams in Iceland targeting foreigners that have happened in the last decade
https://www.reddit.com/r/VisitingIceland/comments/4xluxz/are_there_any_scams_in_iceland/Yeah as you can see we are real hardcore heartless gangbangers down in Reykjavík just trying everything to get a buck or 2.