People keep saying he lied, they don't consider that maybe there are bugs going on that prevent it, or overloaded servers (right at the start, they had trouble even just connecting everyone for uploading discovery data). And you say stuff like "the lying is whats get me" as if to imply that he constantly did this with multiple features in the game, when all you can point to is those two players who tried to meet up not seeing each other.

I mean just think about this logically for one minute: the guy went out there and in multiple interviews literally said that you had a lobby flying around you that players could connect to. If that wasn't actually true, just flat out 100% intentionally lying like that using very specific feature description is something that no dev has ever done for very good reasons. When Molyneux did stuff like that it was in the early phases of a project when he was clearly describing ideas rather than concrete implementations. This is different here.

First of all, it would be incredibly stupid and incredibly obvious once the game comes out. Even if you hate the guy you can assume he at least has some brains.

Second, what would drive him to lie like that? Do you really think lying about that to get some additional money is what drives this kind of person to game development? Someone who sold his own house to go indie?

It seems to me people just WANT to be outraged at all costs.