it all comes down to whether you believe the health excuses or not.
Yeah, I think there's a revolving door of supporters that come by every quarter or so. New people find this site every day, they learn about this game, play it, and think "wow this is such a good game I'll give a few them bucks." Then after a few months they say... "hey... where's the update you said would be out by now?" Then they get their first-time excuse and say, "oh okay, this must not happen a lot I'll give them another shot... it's not like a dev would have seven major life events happen each time for seven releases..." fast-forward to today... annnnnd here we are.
It's like the devs spent 100% of their time working on this project initially, then 90% work, with 10% effort coming up with an excuse, then 70/30. Now the table has flipped, and they work 10% on the game and 90% effort goes into a more believable excuse than the game itself.
I'm thinking this conversation has already been had behind the scenes:
Dev1: "Fuck it, we said that chapter 5 alpha is 70% complete right?"
Dev2: "Yea."
Dev1: "And we said we would have the remaining 30% done in no less than a month?"
Dev2: "Yea."
Dev1: "Polished and ready to play as the complete beta, right?"
Dev2: "Yea.."
Dev1: "And we've been in Alpha for how long? 4 months?"
Dev2: "Yea..."
Dev1: "And we said we would deliver Chapter 6 in August?"
Dev2: "Yea we have a ton of work ahead of us..."
Dev1: "Nope! No work! Here's what we do, we work on the remaining 30% and don't deliver it as a complete beta."
Dev2: "Okay...?"
Dev1: "What we do is call remaining 30% of Chapter 5..."
In unison: "Chapter 6 INSTEAD!"
Dev1: "Bro you've read my mind; this is totally believable!"
Dev2: "yea fuck these losers, they've gobbled up everything we've said so far!"
Honestly, screw the update, I'm here to watch this dumpster fire of a developmental process go down; not like the Titanic in a few hours, not like the Lusitania in 18 minutes, but that little sub that suddenly imploded. (Side note: I find it hilarious the company was literally called OceanGate lmfao... perfect)
I either just gave them an idea for chapter 6, or this was their plan all along... Either way, I'm right.
By the way, devs, I know you're reading this between your FF gaming secessions, so hi, and all that... if you would just fulfill your obligations, you set yourself, and give us a game to play and discuss, and I won't have to do these kinds of posts. Do you think my schizophrenic-sociopathic tendencies like doing this? Well... they do, but that's beside the point. Do you see this happening in other game threads? No. Just this one...? Weird. I wonder what factor distinguishes you from them. You. You are your own worst enemy right now.
To the people reading my nonsense, stay hydrated and thirsty for both knowledge and physicality bois. I want you to be better than you were yesterday, so I want you to do this today, break it up if you have to:
x100 body squats
x100 pushups (wall pushups if you're a little fatty (we're going to fix that though))
x100 sit-ups
Stop donating to these clowns and buy a set of kettlebells.