So much delusion going on about it possibly being released in October.
Again look at the development length per episode:
Episode | Development Length |
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Episode 1 | Unknown |
Episode 2 | 87 days |
Episode 3 | 105 days |
Episode 4 | 148 days |
Episode 5 | 141 days |
Episode 6 | 169 days |
Episode 7 | 162 days |
Episode 8 | 154 days and counting
(as of Sep 23rd) |
While development time has increased over time, the most marked difference was during the Season Finale. As Ep.8 also is a season finale, by looking at only this data we should expect a November/December release.
- Episode 2/3 took about 100 days each on average.
- Episode 4 (Season Finale) took roughly +50 days more, or +50%.
- Episode 5/6/7 took about 160 days each on average.
- Episode 8 estimates:
- Estimate A: 160+50=210 days (mid-November)
- Estimate B: 160*1.5=240 days (mid-December)
Now add to this that there is so many things not even started based on the weekly updates (DPC still working on setting up the last renders) so we still got several weeks to go before feature-complete. Add 2 weeks of QA. Is it even remotely feasible this will be a late-October release? A remote possibility maybe, but overly optimistic in the extreme.
TL;DR:
- Don't expect a release before mid-November.
- An early/mid-December release would not be too unlikely either.
- Late December release probably would indicate unexpected problems, and would be the first point where describing it as Delayed would be appropriate.