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jchastain -> RE: Any news? (2/11/2007 9:31:06 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Justascratch
No matter how often it reoccurs, I am always amazed at how many times folks look to these forums for release date predictions only. Most folks with enough interest in the games to participate in the forums have at lease some idea of how complex the task of bringing a title to market is, yet some still hammer everyone from project managers to playtesters to "do them an favor" and make a best guess and then turn the "favor" around to beat them over the head. Come on fellow players - get a grip.
This forum has supplied tons of information on the progress of this project over the year. It has provided a effective conduit for player input into the project and is consistently leveraged as a tool that both informs interested gamers and contributes to the overall quality of the project. Prognostication is just icing on the cake that most serious gamers enjoy with their morning grain of salt.
While I agree that it is unproductive to "beat them over the head", I do not think it is unreasonable to ask about the progress of an announced title. When you announce you are producing something, the logical question that will follow is "when will it be available"? When Intel announced a new CPU, that question arises. When Microsoft announces a new operating system, they get that question. If the United States government were to announce a new national park, you can bet your last dollar that some reporter will ask when it was expected to open. Any half competent business knows that when you announce something, people will ask for target availability dates. So I cannot accept that it is unreasonable for us to ask the same thing of an announced game - the true oddity would be if we didn't ask.
And I also accept that things change. It is the nature of the beast. But again, when it is obvious that things have changed I think it is reasonable to request an update. There was a suggestion (certainly not a commitment but rather a very rough projection) that it might take in the neighborhood of 4 months and it has been more than double that and nearly triple that. I can't believe that it is unreasonable to ask for an update. It gets back to the first point, when you have an announced product on the horizon it shouldn't be a surprise that there are questions regarding its progress and requests for updates on timelines - especially when it becomes evident that previous comments will not come to fruition.
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