Guys I think I'm too stupid but can someone explain to me how the hell it goes from just needing to upload the update to maybe it'll be ready by the weekend?
I feel like I missed something, how come no one on Discord asks these things?
Allow me to clarify things for you.
BD is lying. Obviously and clumsily. However, he's not a sociopath, he feels remorse and desperation to please others. In many ways, this makes things worse. So first he sets a realistic date. Then he misses said date, because he's either lazy, lacking the talent to complete his work or something legitimately comes up in his life (this does happen guys). Then he sets another date. This date is UNrealistic. It's a desperation move to buy himself time, made only to avoid displeasing people. However this is shortsighted. It avoids short term hardship, but sets up a long term problem, in that it is LITERALLY impossible to meet this new deadline. It's a failure of maturity, you see it a lot in children. They make promises they can't keep in order to get someting or avoid something. It's actually really sad to see in adults, but I digress.
From there we enter the feedback loop, failure to hit the unrealistic deadline begets more promises. More promises beget more unrealistic deadlines and so on, and so forth.
From the discord (which I assume is populated entirely by subs and fans, of which I am neither) we most likely have three main groups of people. 1
Uncaring donors - People for whom a small tithe each month means nothing* and thus, their interest in the game is entirely whimsical. If it comes out, great. If not, who cares? 2 Fans - Whether through the sunk cost fallacy** or ideological capture*** they choose to believe or at least
tolerate BD's constant lies. 3
Others - Such as myself who are uninvested in the game, or those that know the game is constantly delayed but for one reason or the other consider this to be an acceptable timetable.
TL;DR Braindrop is lying and the Discord is [insert adjective here]
* When I say nothing, I mean NOTHING. So many people pretend like a dollar per month is a pittance, but those same people would absolutely bend down to pick one up off the street. I'm talking about the people who feel, rightly or wrongly that their time is worth more than the effort it takes to bend over for three seconds.
** They've invested more money than they care to lose and more importantly, TIME which they value into the dev and the story.
*** Through the power of self delusion and the compounding effects that occur when your world view is reinforced in an echo chamber, people can and will believe things they know to be untrue. In fact often times events that should cause a 'crisis' of their faith only serve to reinforce it. This is because our belief system is deeply tied to our self esteem and sense of worth. Ideas that challenge our beliefs arouse (in most people) a sense of loss or physcological damage. Many people cannot abide such damage in modern times and thus avoid it at all costs. And while I know a silly little AVN seems like a strange thing to 'believe in', it's not. The things people latch on to has little to do with their inherent value, and more to do with strange combinations of past associations and unconscious memories that trigger chemical reactions in our brains (specifically dopamine).
