Yeah [Soon TM]
Beside all the trash talk about "Uber promised this or that date to update or not" and all the people who search his posts and words like a shamen reads in cow guts for the right interpretion of them to debunk others opinons who did the same, i think we can at least get on the common ground that Uber besides other devs showed again that "Soon" has a quite flexible meaning.
And while that alone is not so bad it shows once again how bad the communication is.
This combined with his obviously lie in a Patreon Post around the time of the first "Mega Update" that there will be no more Mega Updates was the reason for me to cancel my patreonage.
I hate useless toxic posts like "Game finally dead?" or "Dev x milking his Patreons to death *kek*" they ar unessasary and plain stupid. But what i dislike even more are post who defend everything the dev does to keep him in his safe space bubble out of "Benefit of the doubt mentality" or because they fear the supply of their fav fap material. They really kill Games in the long run.
Belive me. If the past of this site/patreon showed us one thing then that is if really anything serious happens to a dev like rl kicks in or he just looses interest/insperation neither my or any others 1$ subscription can change this nor will cancelation of it for a few months start this things. But what it can do when enough people use it is send a message to the dev that either his updates or communication for them lacks something.
Wich is the case here.
I don't mind intelligent posts such as yours, I do dislike the type of posts you referenced as there is nothing to discuss due to the lack of any reasoning. Now I was unaware of Uberpie having an account here so i never really thought of this being the right place to complain, turns out he does have one but looks as if he is not all that active probably working on his game or is tired of all the toxicity. I think one of the points some of us have been trying to make is that unless you are a patreon bitching holds no real weight because you will not be affecting the money train and the money train is typically what gets a Dev to change. So doing that here as a pirate seems foolish. The real way to get that message across is for the patreons to post on his patreon page.
Every one has a right to post there dissatisfaction here , but if you are going to drop a one liner and use bogus facts there are some who will challenge that. At the end of the day you are probably pissing in the wind but if you want to have an actual conversation about it then try and bring some reasonable debate points into your post some of us will honestly respond to that as I have done with this post.
I am not a person who blindly follows anyone and I totally get why people are irritated and surprisingly enough I agree with some of these issues , I am not a patreon though and hold no power. It is "reasonable" to assume some things however such as, Games such as this one take time, people make estimates all the time and are wrong, Game dev. is not as simple as many make it out to be, the creative process can't be quantified into X takes this amount of time.
So making estimations is foolhardy but, and here is the real problem Patreons keep demanding time lines and when game Devs try and push back the patroens revolt so the Devs play this game of trying to give people what they want with out really being able to truly give accurate estimates. If you think this is a problem that only happens to Patreon Devs think again in the art world artists are notoriously bad at project management, accurately estimating time it takes to create art and communication. My question is why would we expect Game Dev's to be any different than your traditional artists?