I found myself nodding with the point sin this video quite a bit, and figured it was very relevant to the way Missing Worlds Media is handling the public; Digital Extremes, the designers of Warframe are in much the same position as MWM, being an all but independent company with an ambitious, user friendly project ongoing in development. Bear in mind, the hosts of the video are quite biased in favor of Warframe, but I don't think they ever actually lie.
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One of the big things with Warframe is that started off kind of awful. To the majority of people, it was a Left 4 Dead ripoff in which you were running around in starships wearing space suits, rather than being people on the ground in a zombie apocalypse. Anybody that plays the game these days knows it's nothing like that anymore - in full-on Ship of Theseus style, it's become something else entirely, being a game of quite impressive breadth (if not quite opaque explanations) that people outright pay the developers for because the players like it, not because they're required to pay for things. The development has been so extreme in that regard that it's starting to set industry standards that don't even make sense from a marketing standpoint, but people still know that it works because it's happening at all.

I see a surprising number of parallels to what MWM is doing, and maybe looking at Warframe's troubled beginnings and storied rise to prominence is worth it for those of us who want City of Titans to be successful, because we've got all the ingredients for this particular recipe. I feel like CoT, if the devs remain passionate about the game and handle it right, could mimic the success of Warframe. Though, hopefully in a faster timeframe than the years it took Warframe to catch on.