the stage-concept works fine for me, no problem for me to pay another 20€ or so for stage 3. because this is more an enthusiast-game, it will never be popular as need for speed or all that arcade games. the small developer team must be payed while they work on it. this is the way how its possible to get all the features that makes lfs LFS.

i work on a games-company too and can see all the crap thats usually going on with publisher-stress, they cancel features because they think its not suitable for the main-market, they dont care about innovations because its too much risk and so on. the only goal is to make as much profit as possible. in that case alpha versions are often not well payable, thats right.

so feel lucky that there are people like the lfs'-ones, making a game that they want (and we want) and don't have to listen to people who only want to bring it to the market.

support it, its worth the money