An open letter to the Starbound community.

name me one as i can name a lot of people on this forum that would defend the Dev's no matter what and have done so as long as if been following the SB forum. all the people criticizing chucklefish have a reasonable argument.

 

Maybe you should make a critical poster appreciation thread. ;p I mean we do have many developer appreciation ones.
(This is a joke before anyone freaks.)

 

Hahaha all of them? Oh please

 

Stunning as this might be, some people side with the devs because they actually recognise that nothing the devs do is done with the goal to screw their fanbase, and in fact that their goal is to try to please us where possible. While I agree that some people have had legitimate gripes, the way that those gripes have been presented has often been the problem, with their posts painting the devs as liars who treat their fanbase with disdain, when nothing could be further from the truth.

 

Uhgg. Who cares? I unwatched this lame thread. Why am I still getting notifications?

 

If someone keeps telling you, repeatedly, something that turns out they can't followup on - What do you call them?

It doesn't matter if it is a promise or not. If you keep saying something, repeatedly, and do not following up on it? Eventually you will cry wolf one to many times and people will stop believing you. Chucklefish has gained a reputation one could argue, for not being able to follow through on what they say. Some people have stopped believing them.

They, themselves have said they stopped giving estimates, because they can't manage them. Keep that in mind.

 

I have taken the original concept of this post and translated it into a simple principle so that people realize more easily the intent was not to criticize a particular sector of the community.

If someone annoys you and is breaking ANY of the Forum rules. Simply:

Report Them
Ignore Them
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You simply claimed that any bussiness that delays a game for 2 years is incompetent. All i did was illustrate that it happens in big titles aswell that are developed by teams that are far from incompetent.
Besides those big MMOs run dev teams that have had years of experience, being overseen by a big publisher with a multi-million dollar budget and people that studied to manage such projects.

 

Chucklefish has a multi-million dollar budget.

 

LOL as if

 

82,199 Backers ( $1,877,481 )

$1,877,481 + their combined money that they were expecting to use to, "work on the game for a lot less". 2,000,000 is multi-million.

 

when you say multimillion you logically think of more than under 2 million >_>

 

This thread started out great then devolved into depressing.

Smiling monkeyface is crying on the inside.

 

have you ever considered a job in politics as a spin doctor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(public_relations)

• Selectively presenting facts and quotes that support one's position (cherry picking)
• Non-denial denial
• Non-apology apology
• Mistakes were made
• Phrasing in a way that assumes unproven truths, or avoiding the question[5]
• "Burying bad news": announcing one popular thing at the same time as several unpopular things, hoping that the media will focus on the popular one.
• Misdirection and diversion[6]

 

I'mma pop in with something totally unrelated and say that I have always wondered where the suicide message in Black Ops 2 came from

 

Yes. It's not uncommon for people to miss them, even if it's a proven studio. (It's why a better way to phrase things may be "We are currently targetting Q1 2014 for SuperAmazingOfficeProgram." because it's not a promise or a statement it'll be out.)

However, I can't really call missing estimates more than a minor problem at this moment. Ask me again in December about that...

.. so, this really cannot fairly be used as a criticism of Starbound... yet.