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[Azurus]

So basically SE shouldn't set dates like "mid-June" at all and just say "it's done when it's done"? I don't agree.

Although they have been doing just that for the past half a year. They won't release their major overhauls before they're done, and the community criticizes them for it. They can't win. I wouldn't be surprised if you have done the exact same thing too. Which would be hypocritic, so I hope not.

dude they released their entire game before it was done so stop kidding yourself. And no i'm no hypocrit, i was one of the people who during beta was saying god they need to extend this no way this should go out. It went out anyway so i thought maybe they had a huge patch for release. After that it has been deadline after deadline that has been met late, so yes the community will be rather turned off by that. All i'm saying is they should stop trying to put a deadline on everything. They should have did this before release but hey they put themselves in this predicament. They would win by doing simple things like saying hey all these things will be done by the end of summer and not even putting a mid june release date on 1.18, then when it comes out in june people can be like wow changes are already rolling out! However SE puts dates in peoples minds and this causes outrage when the date comes and goes and nothing happens.

[Betelgeuzah]

. All i'm saying is they should stop trying to put a deadline on everything. They should have did this before release but hey they put themselves in this predicament. They would win by doing simple things like saying hey all these things will be done by the end of summer and not even putting a mid june release date on 1.18, then when it comes out in june people can be like wow changes are already rolling out! However SE puts dates in peoples minds and this causes outrage when the date comes and goes and nothing happens.

Lol, maybe that's a "win" for you but I'd be pissed to know that patches that have come monthly so far are put in the trash bin and instead we get vague dates like "Summer '11" for the future patches.

And frankly i need to ask who exactly would think that patches didn't start coming in mid-June if a "Summer '11" date was given? We'd simply expect a patch week after week and without no solid date to go on, we would be enraged by now. Especially since the patches were coming monthly not so long ago.

We already went through half a year of development behind the scenes with no timeframe as for when the overhauls are coming, as per normal when a game is in development. Now it's like ArenaNet announcing the official beta testing dates. They may be slightly off too, but is that a reason not to announce them? I don't think so.

Either way, you are naive if you think people won't start expecting patches the week Summer begins and become more and more frustrated when nothing happens week after week. Give them a slightly vague date like mid-June and they'll at least wait until mid-June before becoming frustrated.