Development Transparency

[elgeeko]

One reason I don't think they give us progress reports is because when you give a community a deadline for the completion of something they want... it has this way of... how shall I put it?

Turning people into rabid "I CAN HAZ NAO!!!!!"-ers

and that causes even more problems when development is delayed (development will always be delayed, its part of making a mod.)

As someone who has modded in other communities for other games once upon a time, I can say that a developer can incur no greater curse, no greater bane upon his existence, than to tell the community at large when he estimates he will be done with something.

sympathizing with this, and also enjoying the surprise of a surprise release, I can say I would much rather the devs not give us direct or concrete progress reports.

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