Yeah you nailed my feelings. I didn't buy the game right away, saw it was 3 patches in already and figured it's good enough to play through. Buy it, install it, play a few missions, then the first city and kaboom! Can't play, that's it. Feels like I dropped 50 bucks to play a demo version.
Seeing how big this thread is, and how widespread this issue is, even if it takes them a while to fix it, they could at least have someone say, "yeah, sorry it's taking so long, but we are aware of this and we are working." That alone would make me feel better, if they just say they got people on it. Right now I feel like I'm in the dark.