07-27-2015, 02:38 AM
(07-27-2015, 02:22 AM)Battle Bee Wrote:(07-27-2015, 02:16 AM)Segolia Wrote: They aren't even doing anything underhanded though - they aren't backstabbing anyone or exploiting anything. They are literally just being bad at their jobs and people are just too dumb to notice or too apathetic to care. People actually buy all that snake oil salesman stuff.
Sure, let's say I'm wrong. They're innocent and just bad at game development.
And you're okay with it, even though you notice it? If they really are just bad, that makes everything worse, because now they're incapable of making a good game.
If they were cunning, at least that meant they were smart and knew what to do.
Well, what underhanded thing do you suppose they are doing?
They are developing at a slow pace and coming up with excuses (be they false, exaggerated or true) as to why. I highly doubt it's completely false because really if you actually had the capacity to deliver a good game why wouldn't it be in your interest to do so? Like, do you really think they're sitting there going "look at all this time and money we have we could make a super awesome game but instead we're going to sit here and... develop slowly while we lose all consumer trust and revenue crawls to a halt?"
Really at this point it's quite obvious the devs are well-intentioned. If they were going to cut and run or anything it would have happened by now. Having had first hand project management and software dev experience with a project team as well as lot of insight into the industry - there is a lot going on that you probably don't even realise. Do you know how hard it is to come up with estimates and stuff like that and how often they fall through in any industry? IIRC in the IT industry something like almost 40% of all projects straight up fail and are never completed. An overwhelming majority of the rest run over budget, over schedule, underdeliver or any combination of these.
On what basis are you complaining anyways - you bought into the game solely on the promises of the developer a long time ago, as did I: it's caveat emptor. Not to mention the way I 'care' about this kind of thing is with my wallet. I stop buying things from the dev, stop supporting them until they become more reliable.