Did you purchase the product in question? Do you own a stake in Paradox interactive? Do you have a contract for delivery of the product with a date in Q2? Did you fund it on Kickstarter? No? Well, they don't owe you anything then.
"Professional" = carrying out your commercial obligations in a responsible, courteous manner, usually in accordance with some understood cultural standard relevant to this industry. There is no obligation here, and delays are a fact of life with software.
"It's a big, complex project, and testing is taking longer than anticipated." I believe Paradox is justified in thinking that most of their prospective customers can connect the dots and make logical inferences. Though, these threads make me think they might be wrong in this assumption.
A few things,
if you would have cared to read what i wrote, then you would have realized, that i never complained about the delay, i expected it and i am fine with it as i suppose most people on these forums are.I dont know where you got the idea that i was feeling entitled to a game release in Q2. I connected the dots, thank you very much.
That being said i dont know why you feel that any kind of criticism needs to be related to a financial investment. If thats the case then we should close down the HOI4 Forums alltogether, because nobody here has a financial investment, so your position would be for everyone to just be quiet? Would be quite a low traffic forum then, wouldn't it.
However let me point out a perspective which does not derive from buying into something before being able to criticize it. The concept of taking someone on its own word. Their only obligation is to what they said themselves. It was Paradox himself which stated a Release in Q2. Over the last couple of weeks there have been quite a few topics on this board, trying to get an update on the release schedule, because the time is close and we havent heard of them for a long time. All these Topics got shut down by the moderators and rightly so, referencing the forum rules and the sticky topics, leading us to believe there will be a proper update sometime. Johan telling us here it wont be Q2 is hardly news because almost nobody believed in a Q2 release anyway. The mods enforcing the rules look kinda silly now, basicly saying dont beg for an update in a random thread you wont get it like this and then Johan makes the update in a random thread.
All i am saying is that it would have been good if they would have communicated this better and earlier. Maybe like this:
"Dear community, as most of you might have realized by now our development hasn't proceeded like we expected and a Q2 release is not possible anymore as we want the game to be as good as we can make it. Considering our past overconfidence in the schedule we are hesitant to commit to a new timeframe but will inform you as soon as we have reached a decision. We are sorry for this further delay but i think we can all agree that its better to take the time we need than to rush and deliver an incomplete product. Yours sincerly PDX"
That was really hard, wasn't it. Being profesional by giving an update on the commitment Paradox themselves made. You know courteous, responsible, that kind of stuff.
And if you really prefer "connecting the dots and and making logical inferences" over a believable Developer post, all power to you, but dont blame me for wanting something a bit more reliable than forum gossip.
And i really don't wont to get too worked up about it, but could you please tone down your thinly disguised ad hominems and vitriol?
Your sincerly
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