Yeesh! Hot button issues. I am HAPPY to wait for a game that is not being cranked out and monetized via micro-transactions and paywalls by an investment company.
I can tell you what I have LOST patience for though is my beloved computer game industry getting sick and bloated from these investment firms trying to drill down the perfect formula that they can take and throw at impatient children with trust funds and "casual" gamers alike. TFP are not an investment company working on timelines for profits. Though they and some of you will laugh, but this is an art. Everything thus and so. If you only go into this world to make MONEY and damn the quality of the product with your name on it. You will only find yourself in a world where you have even MORE money with which to buy OTHER people's shoddy products. This, is not what I want.
I wholeheartedly defend TFP for ANY time that they feel they need. I will say this...entitlement is a disease. Paying for the EA experience is fine and on games like this, I second what COUNTLESS others have expressed here. I represent the crazy rational crew here on the forums. What it comes down to for me is this: I have a life. I don't pine away at night, lose sleep, fail to eat, and rock myself back and forth to sleep waiting for the next Alpha. (Well, sometimes, when I hear that Roland developing a headache, but that is my prerogative after all
) So as I was saying, I have a life...real world ♥♥♥♥ I have to do, problems I have to deal with. REAL WORLD problems that turn the volume down on not having the newest Alpha in my hands. To those that feel an entitlement of "now"...I feel sorry for your generation and its entire egocentric culture. I am saying this with the most sincere tone I can muster...GET A LIFE and/or GROW UP. FULL STOP. If the things that truly piss you off is something like a release date, then you have already joined the walking dead. It is so painful to listen to these people badmouth a team that is working hard to give you entertainment. You don't even have to go get a job, or take responsibility for anything at all, because I would wager that actually doing the work (like making your own game) is not up your alley...you can play another game. Any other game you like...pass a few days, weeks months or whatever playing the ASS-TON of available games you likely have at your fingertips.
I shouldn't have to get pissed off about this ♥♥♥♥ because it makes me a hypocrite that something as stupid as crying about not having the Alpha is not something you should be devoting time to. But I DO find value in defending the devs whom I respect. So thats on me this time. Take your 1rst world problems and take a long look in the mirror and ask why you can possibly be upset when people are starving, dying from disease and on and on the list goes. I know that is an extreme comparison but I say that to make a point.
Its a game, it will be completed, its not life and death...what you are "owed" as it pertains to timelines on this Alpha, as a real world problem, ranks just below "Are we eating too much ranch dressing, as a people?". Getting mad about you crying is also way down there, but getting mad that some of you are disparaging those who are here to serve you, yeah that ranks a little higher to me on principal...check your morals people...check your priorities. If you want to complain about the release date and what you are "owed" Please...just...DON'T.
Don't attack those that are working for your pleasure, it is petty, and childish and getting REALLY long in the tooth IMO.
To TFP...keep trucking guys, I appreciate EVERYTHING you are doing for US.
