Just some quotes, just for fun. Mind you, they're from the RSI forum...
This vapourware 'Jesus patch' is becoming even more of a joke among the general gaming community than it already was...I'm seriously embarrassed to admit on other gaming sites that I'm a backer as it is....and to think of all the hours explaining to the natural sceptics among my friends the possibilities I saw in SC, why I gave my support to the concept and the dream behind it. From now, I think I'll be wise just not mentioning SC at all.
How can I realistically explain my previous enthusiasm at being an alpha 'tester' when all that's been tested over the past year has been the cash cow backers patience? Well, like many others...my wallet is firmly shut until this alpha test is on my hard drive...after all, CR saw fit to let gaming media play test something we as backers, subscribers and supposed play testers apparently are now so superfluous, we haven't even seen as much as a fix for the the current and very broken baby PU. I'm tired of lies, misdirection, smoke and mirror tech demos, excuses and smiling faces expecting me to swallow even more bullshit on a weekly basis....I know, I just know there will be the ever chanted war cry that's fast becoming a meme...'I know nothing about game development'. ...But I can certainly tell bullshit when I hear it.
It's really seeming like the only person on the entire planet that doesn't want SC to be the BDSSE outside of aimless dreaming is CR himself. Enough crap, enough with the polishing, refactoring, burn downs, sales talk and adding pointless fluff to something that doesn't exist outside of CiG's offices and get the damned thing shipped so I can hold my head up among my many friends in the gaming community and be proud instead of embarrassed I backed the bloody thing in the first place.
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see, you can't keep saying "this update is huge, the technology is revolutionary, no man has gone there before" and then slap a 5 to 10 days on this task and call it a "genuine best estimation". The schedule on tasks seems good enough and slippage here and there was to be expected, but all the release aims dates, that was a joke!
Who in his right mind would think that bringing this whole humongous pieces together could take between 2 weeks to a month and be taken seriously. Given the huge number of various bugs given in the report, who could estimate to 'maybe next week or the next' an evocaty release for 2 months straight??
The new schedule format certainly seems more honest, but at this point, it's hard to believe it comes from a genuine intention as opposed to the fact that the fantasy dates schedule was putting cig in an untenable situation so a format change had to happen to avoid antagonizing the potential buyer. Also, a lot of communication doesn't equate to a lot of transparency, what is communicated matters for that. i don't know that using atvs and bugsmasher to promote an ongoing sale can really be called 'transparency' more than marketing.
IMHO, i'd like more hard truths from cig, like removing the '2017' from the squadron 42 pre-order page and replace it with something which bear some sense like 'in development' and in general avoid the whole routine of giving 'optimistic' dates around events to be replaced by 'dev is hard we can't give dates' around delivery time.
I look forward to the days of chris roberts simply saying 'coming next' the public events, not 'soon' which translate to 6 months / more than a year later.
I look forward to him clearly stating when something has taken considerable delays and not sweep in under the rug while showing a new shiny concept tech.
