Its a cash grab riding the pokemon hate train. People only bought it out of hatred towards gamefreak + its MMO, people wants to be first in any MMO, there's a good reason why most "kickstarters" are MMOs. Call it "early access" to excuse all kinds of bugs and voila you got your perfect recipe for easy cash grab where your victims will willingly defend your scam despite the obvious signs.
In just 2 months it lose more than 90% of its player base, a good portion of the remaining are bots so don't be surprise if this game becomes a pay 2 win mess before 2021.