Not promised, intended. There's a huge difference. No developer promises a release, they project and anticipate, but only AAA games have hard set release dates. Don't get me wrong, I'm sorely disappointed (yet again), but I can't hold her to task for missing a release date on a free game. My patreon support doesn't have anything to do with the price of the game, that's just my support of the developer. That fact of the matter is that nobody is paying for this game, except Notty.
For now, I'll just stand by and see what news comes up in the next day or two.
Now, let's be honest here, this is how you understand patreon and maybe even how it is supposed to work, but we all know that is not how the majority of patrons see it and not even how most of the creators see it.
If you tell people you will update monthly and let them pay not per update, but per month then you do indeed promise them something, yes, even without actually SAYING or WRITING "I promise" you make people believe that for the money they give you, they will get one release a month.
I'm really not someone screaming bloody murder when a game gets delayed, but what you write here is either just your personal understanding of the patreon or an attempt at deflecting criticism away from a creator you like.
And that's not wrong, but the thing is as valid as your opinion is, those of the others criticizing that no update was released is as well.
This game, Dr. Amana, DeLuca Family, I love these games and I don't say anything aiming to attack and insult the creators, but while there are valid reasons for the delays, the delays are still here, and both RomanHume and NotTravis have given release dates they haven't met.
I hope they have become wiser now and won't set a date, unless they are a 100% sure they will release an update at that point, but it is completely understandable that people, worry, ask and even complain in a situation like this.
I mean, episode 2 was delayed for a week or two because NotTravis realized she'd made a character's lipstick the wrong color, a detail many people wouldn't even have noticed, and redid all the renders for the character before releasing rather than put out a completed, if flawed, product and provide the corrected version later. If people want perfection, they've got to wait for it.
Personally, I don't give a fuck about this amount of fixation on details if it delays release. It's her game, she's fine to do it, but that isn't something I would ever applaud or see as an excuse, unless they change stuff like that and still deliver on time.
There's a comic artist I really like(d), Travis Charest. His art is insanely beautiful and detailed, but he takes ages for it.
So long that at one point he just couldn't work in US comics any longer, instead he went to Europe and started working on a Metabaron book, more than two years later he still wasn't finished with that one book and it had to be completed by a different artist.
All the beauty and detail all the work he puts in his art just simply pale before the fact that he wasn't able to finish one GN of between 48-64 pages in several years.
I doN't hate him, still like his art, but I would never invest money into anything he does, until I have the completed product available.
