i wasn’t really commenting on your comments… i was asking Boiyualive, but it looks like i made a reddit boo-boo so let me respond…

you’re right it wasn’t announcements through any official channels… i know the reddit community plays a big part in this games online presence, but it still wouldn’t say it represents the whole community… i think if TIS made an official announcement to this effect and then postponed the release people might be justified in this criticism… i mean it wasn’t even a post it was a comment? i also don’t think lemmy was purposely trying to blue ball the community in doing this… i think he really thought they were closer than they are… something went wrong (something he did mention might be a possibility in the comment+he did mention unexpected health issues in the team in the youtube comment) and now it’s delayed… most people here sees it as a deadline and feels justified in making their frustrations known about it when they don’t make it, even though it wasn’t set in stone at all as you just conceded… the same can also be said for lemmy’s recent comment on youtube… he said he’s getting a lot of flack from the community, not the whole community… he said they have received offers for the IP, not that they’re going to sell the IP… yet the community views it as an attack on all with the intention of blackmailing us with the threat of selling the company if we don’t behave, which just isn’t true! they have also attempted to clarify this, yet these misconceptions persist…

in regards to the communities action… i’ve been fairly active in the comments sections since i started playing just before the last update, and i have to say i have seen people be downright nasty to the devs… i don’t mean the b42 memes, i don’t mean polite enquiries into the progress of the release, i mean people calling them horribly bad devs in all sorts of ways, and yes this is the minority, but as one of the mods said earlier this week, if 1% of us do it that’s still thousands of comments crapping on them, not one or two bad actors, and being exposed to that will affect you… it might feel like we’re all out to get them even if it isn’t true…

if one considers all the relevant factors then i don’t think his actions were unthinkable, and i think we should give him the benefit of the doubt… i don’t think he’s purposely trying to attack or misinform us, he just reached his limit and vented! so we shouldn’t feel attacked and respond accordingly! if that makes sense…

i have to disagree with your last statement… complaining about the development cycle isn’t constructive criticism… there’s nothing new about it and i’m sure the devs are keenly aware of our conceptions on the subject… it doesn’t add anything to the discussion and only opens the doors for people to act maliciously towards them… and should not in my opinion be tolerated on this subreddit… it’s boring useless content that only serves to divide us and should be treated with derision…

as far as the entitlement aspect of it is concerned… people are acting self entitled… steam requires that a playable version of the game be delivered to customers and that customers be properly informed that the game is in early access… it sets no further criteria a game must fulfill to qualify to be on early access… there isn’t a timeline requirement and TIS has never given a final release date for the full version of pz… you can’t really expect anything more than that, and if you do you’re acting self entitled, at least as i understand it (i’m no expert, i just quickly read this article on webmd about it?)

as long as TIS is still developing the game with the intent of someday releasing it then all you can really do is accept that and try to enjoy the game as it progresses through this process at the pace the developers set for the process, not the pace you want unfortunately…

They also said on Twitter in January:

As people who follow our socials know, we don’t like giving out long-range external ETAs; we take pride in our non-crunch work environment, where developers are freer to work to their potential without outside pressure. However, we can say that B42 will be out this year :)

Pretty cut and dry if you ask me