i don't think anyone is arguing that they knew it would be this bad. what we are saying is there were plenty of signs that it was going to be bad enough not to buy, and plenty of reasons not to support this developer by buying.
everyone thinks the game is terrible by an incomprehensible order of magnitude.
everyone thinks the publisher/developer have behaved shamefully in releasing something in this state.
everyone thinks pressure should be applied to 505/ECB/CA/Steam to kill the game.
however, some of us also think that PC members should have been savvy enough not to buy this game, and therefore aren't particularly deserving of sympathy.
the fact is, if this game was just good enough to be playable, it would still have been crap, the developer's behaviour would still have been terrible, but by buying it you and others like you were saying "fine, we don't care what crap you give us or how bad you treat the community we just want a cricket game" - which is precisely the attitude that leads to crap cricket games being released, so i have no sympathy for that.
do i want this game taken down and killed? yes. oh god yes.
do i care that you wasted $20 on it? not even a little bit.