It seems that I have some work accumulated here, my words seem to have really hurt some of you. I'm going to ignore some "special" guys and answer some of you who have tried to bring some seriousness here.
Damn, I actually nearly spat out my coffee.
You make estimates with your understanding of the facts at the time and the plans for the release.
Your understanding might be wrong (damn, creating a new monster actually takes way longer than expected), the facts might change (sudden changes in the health environment having drastic effects on productivity), plans might change (actually this system we thought of as really cool... isn't fun. Let's try something else).
Here's the thing: Estimated release dates being off months or years is... ridiculously common. You usually hear of them as "X delayed until Y!" headlines, and those are just the official, external estimated release dates, which because failing to meet them does carry some higher cost (marketing might need to be rescheduled, you might lose some investor confidence, etc) are usually only declared if you're rather confident in them; the ones you don't hear about - internal release date targets - are missed even more routinely.
That's true from the largest AAA games over small indie teams to single-developer hobby projects.
So no, you're not the bad guy here, just someone who's seems ignorant about game development?
But yes, you should wait and see - not because of any insinuations that the game actually secretly doesn't exist, but because what other options are there? It's not like you can rush out and PREORDER NOW! Testers can test, of course, but that's not the target audience of that suggestion - but what can the others do except some form of wait? Wait while watching the thread, wait while expecting or not expecting to see chapter 5 pop up on the latest updates, wait while drawing fanart or wait while engaging in some sort of low-level flame war insisting that it's all a scam.
I can agree with you only if we are talking about a large dev teams where a single change could take months to be done cause there are many people involved on that, here we have a single dev that makes everything and specially, in this case, knows that the project is having a huge delay rn. And I am not an ignorant about game development, and just you thinking that seems the problem here, you guys think you can compare this project to games from companies like Nintendo, Ubisoft and so, where is pretty frequent to see delays because of my 1st point said here.
About your second point, of course the only thing I can do is wait, the problem is I AM TIRED OF WAITING.
The problem is not with your assumptions, but with your style. The purpose of trolling is to PROVOKE others and GENERATE DEBATE.
If someone writes that, according to their ESTIMATE, the game will be released in xy month, you immediately jump and accuse that person of lying and bias.
And you're doing all this on a PIRATE site, in a thread labeled ABANDONED, against a developer who DOESN'T accept money. What would you call this?
Of course you're not a troll, nope. You just look a lot like them.
I just told him to stop trying to convince people to think that everything is going fine, at that time we already knew that she was having problems with certain things, so it was pretty obvious that it was going to be delayed again. Could I have been a bit aggresive? maybe, but that guy is not Mother Teresa so...
The problem with you guys is that you live on a bubble where everything about this game is perfect. You have taken 1 year to make a HUD? good job. You just makes 20x more renders than you have originally planned? You are the best. We have been in a streak delay for 2 years but you now decided to include VA in the worst moment possible? Great.
And then when someone come by and tell you how wrong many things have been done you think he is a troll.
And about your last point, I dont see the point talking about money now (btw there is not an Abandoned tag in this thread). But do you think something will change if I say the same thing on discord? You all will just tell me the same thing and there I even have the risk of being banned, seeing how you guys are here, technically, without any power.
