Originally Posted by
HyoMinPark
Who do you get mad at when a company fails to deliver a product to you? I don’t think it’s realistic to get mad at yourself for something like that—vacation time being a factor or not. Someone is going to be the source of a person’s ire/upset/disappointment. And that’s fine—as long as they are being reasonable about it. I don’t see many in this thread being unreasonable when they post about why they are upset about this. Most are fairly calm; and most are just upset that the delay was announced so late.
I have to agree that yes, perhaps it could have been worded better. If we want to just chalk this up to a semantics argument, then fine. But your words were “just don’t be upset”. That’s still telling someone how to feel. Even with the addendum of “if things don’t go as planned”/your quip about “if people had considered things”. It is extremely easy for such a phrase to come off as condescending. There’s no real way to excuse that.
However, there has never been a precedent set in this game for delays when a hard date for a release has been set. EW’s delay seems especially harsh because we already know content was cut out of late ShB to make sure that development time could be fully dedicated to EW-related preparation and activities. And there was no talk about the mere possibility of there being further delays than what we already had (since expansions have been routinely released in late June/early July, and the developers were transparent that COVID cost them about two months of development time).
No. No one needs to tell anyone how to utilize their time off. That’s not anyone’s business but the person using the PTO. Not mine. Not yours. Not Yoshida’s or SE’s. Just their’s. There is no reason to tell anyone how to spend their time. With regards to anything, really. Not just vacation time.
Bullying? Death threats? No one is bullying the development team here. Criticizing them is not bullying. And death threats? As crazy as these forums get, most here would agree that sending death threats to a developer is uncalled for, and would rightfully shame the sender for it. I get that they’re a thing that happens, but that’s not what is happening here. Far from it.
This wasn’t about bugs, though—it was announced WHY the game was delayed, and it had nothing to do with programming bugs. Yoshida said that they wanted to fine-tune the lore. And then there was the server stability issues that came up during QA—and those have been known about for weeks.
This thread is feedback. If they took the time to read comments about how people wished they had more time to rearrange schedules, they can use that for future announcements should this happen again. The needless white-knighting is all irrelevant, though.