- Jun 17, 2019
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They did say they are poor planners, yeah, and this update has proved to be especially challenging in that regard. They also said the other day that there's no place in the chart for the time they spend playtesting the completed parts, so they just add a completed 'edit' task, even if they didn't need to fix anything, to show they actually worked on something. In the end, the chart works fine as it shows there's still some work to do and lets people easily infer the pace of development just by taking a look at some of them on different dates, so they can adjust their expectations -and payments- accordingly. It doesn't really matter if there are 25 tasks left or 250, or even if they keep adding (and completing) a couple of them every day; we all can see how fast those tasks are done and how they keep increasing, meaning there's still some time to kill before the update comes out. But, as it has been said, the written reports actually match those figures, which was your first claim. Don't move the goalposts.if this was their first update, sure, things go wrong, need reworking etc, but if you're any good at all at anything, then you learn and don't repeat mistakes over and over and over and over again wasting huge amounts of time on rework
and their planning skills are absolutely terrible if they do this much rework, which also means that the chart is total nonsense, because they themselves don't know what the end product will be at this point, so how can you apply any weight to the total values on that chart?
and what deadlines?there are no deadlines
they might, in couple months or weeks, announce that the Gomira didn't fit in the overall arc as well as they expected and announce they go different route with it start all over
As always, criticism is fine, but unless you have some solid and fair base for it, you'll be contested. As it's the case.
Now, what I find fun about this kind of 'criticism' is that these people actually seem to want the devs to earn even more money by doing a worse job, since more frequent updates would translate into more patrons (they all get a bump after each release) but a less polished product - which is what attracted them to the game in the first place. I guess that way they could keep coming here and say the game is overrated and half-assed and can't understand why people are paying any money for it. It must be a weird kink of theirs or something, but it's also a very nice one to have: they'll always have something worth complaining to scratch that itch of theirs.
