As much as I despise people who complain about shit they're gonna pirate anyway, I have to admit this release has been very poor. Delays happen, so we get told the official release is gonna happen week later, people can readjust their hype and prepare for that date instead. Now it's just in limbo because of what exactly, Steam verifying the game? You really couldn't have done it earlier? People have a rather short attention span, when Aurelia inevitably comes out, it's gonna be more of a lukewarm welcome, "oh cool, this game, I was wondering what was going on", instead of a proper response filled with hype that was practically guaranted had Mirthal and his publisher didn't fuck up this bad.
I'm leaning towards agreeing with the notion that they don't give a fuck because Patreon will keep going anyway. So much sour taste, and for what.