So is this whole "Rich guys arcade game" shebang still in a spreadsheet???
Like you I thought this was a game, but I was wrong. I now see that CK is actually a financial matrix for crypto currency users to immerse themselves in while they're doing business, so while it might be fun to 'play', people will learn to use it to move stuff around quickly, and exchange all manner of digital assets between all manner of parties. That's more than an arcade game!!
Well for now it's still vaporware as you suggest. Until the release of V.4, most of the game happens in here and IRC. To develop a platform that can do everything, and develop it without debt or outsider funding, tends to take some time.
But we will ramp up the financial thermometers that measure the progress. CKG has been doing well lately and the bond auction is going on.