I love this game in general (yeah, there's flaws, but I enjoy the art/story a LOT despite some things), but damn, seeing the release gaps it's just sad.Lol you said it, but don't give anyone ideas about breaking a record, as we'll be waiting for months to come! The current longest gap between releases stands at 9 months either between 0.9.3>0.10.8, 0.10.5>0.11.2 or 0.11.2>0.12.4, depending on how you wanna count it. To be fair, these 9mo gaps included the outbreak of this current global pandemic, which majorly fucked up alot of stuff across plenty of lives, jobs, and content creation as people figured out new work styles and navigated family tragedies, but 9 months still stands the grandest wait and the current norm across the most recent version releases. So for anyone holding their nut or their breath, we've got about 3 more months of holding tight if this trend is anything to go by.
For anyone who wants the record of the gaps, I've listed them below. I used public release as my reference points, as the early release versions for patrons have become increasingly buggy as time goes on, sometimes necessitating a wait until lower tier patron or public versions drop with ironed out glitches in order to experience the new content:
- Update 0.1.2: June 01, 2017
- Update 0.2.2: August 03, 2017 wait time ~2months
- Update 0.3.3: October 14, 2017 wait time ~2months
- Update 0.4.2: January 26, 2018 wait time ~3months
- Update 0.5.2: May 30, 2018 wait time ~5months
- Update 0.6.4: September 23, 2018 wait time ~4months
- Sierra Lee's Departure announced: December 30, 2018. The post tells that Sierra left "a few months ago, just before the end of the last update" aka the last update with Sierra's work in it was v0.6. I list this here bc notably, content differences aside, Sierra's departure seems to have made no direct impact on release dates for the next several versions
- Update 0.7.3: January 6, 2019 wait time ~4months
- Update 0.8.3: April 17, 2019 wait time ~4months
- Update 0.9.3: September 30, 2019 wait time ~5months
- Update 0.10.5: March 15, 2020 wait time ~6months
- Update 0.10.8: July 3, 2020, it's worth noting that this version update came out, adding some stuff and bugfixes, notably a missing scene that didn't make it into 10.5 upon release. Depending on how exacting one would like to be, this could be billed as the true&complete v0.10 release, which would make the v0.10 wait time 9months if counted from 0.9.3 > 0.10.8
- Update 0.11.2: December 15, 2020 wait time ~9months (I'm counting from 10.5)
- Update 0.12.4: September 14, 2021 wait time ~9months
- Update 0.13.??: TBD, wait time at least 6months and counting
Specially considering how much they're making from the game. If it was a starter and small developer, it would be 'ok', but Hreinn?...