I feel your pain on both parts. I bought into ER and even spent a large portion of my free time working on the ER wiki, and even helped moderate the forums. Which also meant helping to keep things civil as things started to fall apart. (not fun!) As far as AA went, I also am quite sad about that. This being because I a) got a higher end founders pack for myself. b) bought one for my girl friend, and c) bought one for her friend .... (yes I was in a position where I could do that >.>). Which was great at the time since I was streaming it and it brought it a good audience. BUT once it went live the game went horribly and well ... yeah ._.
And one would've thought I'd have learned my lesson by then. But here I am with a gold backer status for PG and having achieved concierge status for Star Citizen >.> So let's hope PG and SC do well! \o/