therein lies the fundamental flaw in the convo. your definition of worth is very different than mine. there is very little content in this game regardless of how you look at it. I could list 10 games off the top of my head that have 5 times the content for the same price. I'm not saying that out of spite, nor giving justifications for my lack of a purchase. If it isn't a multiplayer game, i don't buy it, period.

There needs to be 20 hours of game play at the absolute minimum for me to even think about purchasing a game, and honestly, i haven't put 10 hours into this game since alpha. i would love multiplayer to be the thing that puts it over the edge, but to be frank, without trying it out, i won't be putting my monies into it. I'm just posting my thoughts/feelings here because i want this game to be as amazing as it could be, hence why it has been on my radar for so long.

Are you talking about the "full" or the "demo". As you obviously don't have the full beta, I suppose you are talking about the demo. I can't comment much about it since I played it only for max 5 minutes. This was enough for me to buy the game. I for myself didn't enjoy the demo much (I don't enjoy singleplayer games at all anyway, I get bored after a few minutes) but since I read about the multiplayer part of the full game I decided to buy the game in the next few minutes. I had a blast playing it multiplayer and I didn't regret my few bucks investment lol. Eventhough it's not that easy to find players to play with/against for now.

You don't have to bloat a game with useless content to make it enjoyable... I will play for sure WAY more than 20 hours with this game, everything in multiplayer. Don't expect the single player part to be huge, this game is ALL about multiplayer fun.
It's not like the game would cost 20 bucks or something. Everyone should be able to pay a few bucks for a game if he thinks it could get big.
Of course I respect your thoughts, it's just that I could bet that you wouldn't regret to invest a few amount of money into project which imo will have a noticeable impact in the indie scene.
If I couldn't convince you, just be patient a bit more for a demo which will include multiplayer.

I've had random thoughts about a free multiplayer-only version of the game with certain feature limitations, that would continue to co-exist with the full game after the final release. You wouldn't have rank progression and you'd be always just a private, essentially limiting you to a sidekick role, you wouldn't be able to use mortars, you'd have less grenades, you wouldn't have access to all weapons, etc.. but you could play all the maps and see all the content and events happen, you just wouldn't be able to do it all yourself, but you could participate nonetheless. Even if I'd go this route, the game would obviously need a server browser instead of manual IP/domain input and a dedicated server support, and at 0.572, the game isn't there yet.

I've had random thoughts about a free multiplayer-only version of the game with certain feature limitations, that would continue to co-exist with the full game after the final release. You wouldn't have rank progression and you'd be always just a private, essentially limiting you to a sidekick role, you wouldn't be able to use mortars, you'd have less grenades, you wouldn't have access to all weapons, etc.. but you could play all the maps and see all the content and events happen, you just wouldn't be able to do it all yourself, but you could participate nonetheless. Even if I'd go this route, the game would obviously need a server browser instead of manual IP/domain input and a dedicated server support, and at 0.572, the game isn't there yet.