If the dev isn't sure about the actual release date, why is there a hard date on Steam? There is literally an option to just say "coming soon". I understand that apparently the IDEA of release dates seems to just OFFEND everyone involved in this project, but maybe they should stop giving hard release dates if that is the case...
17 days ago(+5)(-3)
Hello there,
it doesn't offend anyone involved (Kal is the solo dev of this side project), its just a lose/lose situation. When no date is stated people start speculating that it wont come out/ start asking for when it will be and when given either a year or month they still ask for a specific date or get mad for no date, while on the other hand when a date is given some things happen, more stuff gets added, there's things to fix, LIFE happens.
We always advise dates are estimates that might, or might not be possible, yet users still assume is a hard date. Like I said, it doesn't offend anyone, there's just no winning when one part wants one thing and the other wants other thing.
Communication hasn't been handled the best up to progress, but at the same time its hard to advise on progress with information without giving spoilers when stuff just gets added out of nowhere because "hey, this would be nice". 99% of the times the delays happen because of feature creep, and while is still bad because is a delay, it still means theres more content than planned.
Anyways, is something that should change, but change is hard. All there is left is learn from previous mistakes and move forward.
17 days ago(+1)(-3)
in my opinion this was a snowball effect, there are countrys that didn't understood april's 5th was a joke from april`s fools, plus, the next day you forgot to delete the date or explain that was a joke so people got nervious waiting. in the end was just a joke who get out of the hands.
in the bright side you can assume that people really love your game and work
12 days ago(+1)(-1)
Don't re-write history. The April 5 release date was there WAY before April 1st. It was NOT a joke, it was a deadline that was missed. Anyone who says otherwise is lying to you. What kind of April Fools' joke is visible the month before April Fools' Day and actually uses April 5 instead of April 1st for the day?
12 days ago(-1)
im sorry if that wasn't that day, but im pretty sure i saw it in april 1st because i enter to the page almost daily.
11 days ago(+1)(-1)
If that's when you saw it I can't blame you, but it was there well before. I had a dilemma about whether I wanted to restart the game or wait until the update about mid-late March, and when I saw that release date I decided to wait. I'm still waiting to this day, lol.