Hi, so I normally lurk but decided to get an account on the forums ahead of the release.
I don't want to be an ass and I deeply respect the "when it is ready" answer, but an estimate on time would be greatly appreciated. I've been on "it could be today!" energy for a few days now and I'm starting to not be able to get to sleep from the child-like excitment I'm feeling currently.
I know this is pretty much a me problem but an answer with a time estimate would help to temper my "kid on Christmas" enthusiasm.
We had an estimate, end of march, and he made clear that's all it was, an estimate.
The only way you can get a date that means anything is one of two ways. Either he stops progress and releases on that day, game breaking bugs or not, or he gives himself so much time that its next to impossible for him to fail to meet the "deadline", and then sits on it until the time comes.
That excess could be hours, days, or weeks, only he knows, because only he knows his pace, free time, and remaining tasks to see to, and how fast he and his machine can achieve them. Only he knows the sorts of issues he may face, given what he wrote, and how he wrote it, and the issues that have plagued him already relating to it. Yet even he cannot say how long solving them will take. Its not possible to know — the last time you were stumped, could you have guessed at what time you would suddenly realise the solution and solve it?
Maybe the fix breaks something else and he needs to again think of another solution.
Suppose he thinks it'll be this weekend, and says end of the month? He maybe makes it this weekend, maybe a bug stops that from happening, maybe he finishes next weekend, or doesn't resolve the issue until too late to test the release build, or life gets in the way and he misses that too, no worry though, he said end of the month, he's still got time to meet the deadline.
Its a one man hobby project, not a AAA studio that is going to dump the game on time complete or not and maybe not patch it after - and they will overestimate the needed time to try and not be late.
We know only that its soon, and that's all we can know with any certainty, and its the only answer he can give with any real certainty until its finished uploading to the site for us to download — He could tell us the minute he finishes the release build, and starts uploading it, it'll be there in 15 minutes, and his internet goes out for several hours and he goes to bed before it comes back, whoops, missed the date.
Easier to just not give one.
Soon.
