First of all to assume malice over incompetence say a lot about yourself as a person.
That said. No. The game is not a 'con', I've been playing fine with minor issues that were not too distracting for the past two weeks.
They are just really running into many unexpected issues at certain points of the system from the player count, that were not there before in Alpha because of much lower player numbers.
Just accept that this is a Real Beta, where things actually break and not work sporadically, and not the kind of "Beta" that Fortnite was in until it made its first billion dollars.
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