They must know that people are screaming for an update, and they might just be keeping us at bay, just like dangling a carrot, and making sure we’re still eager and want it really bad, but there is no carrot if they don’t give us anything, if this game is still to be released this year, like the Main Page says (Little Greyed out “2011?”) then they could just have buttoned up leading to the release, I have a strong suspicion, that this game is on hold, and that's fair enough if they think it needs it. On the other hand, looking through at the little pieces they have released over the years, and the 20 steps through the Development diary are very, very impressive, but the last any of us have seen, but they could at LEAST say something, just one or two lines on the Dev. Link on the Introversion website wouldn’t take 5 minutes, to calm all our fears. I’m not saying all this because I want a release date (would be fantastic if they did) but why all this cloak and dagger and hushed secrecy. Looking at the dev. Diary page, at the last video posted in May 2010, the game looks solid, it shows NPC reactions, the recon fog-like system, Path finding, and some form of Physics that may have been tweaked. The inventory wasn’t up to scratch, such as inventory interactions, tooltips, item images etc, but that was over a year ago, and those issues must have been addressed, I don’t know about the rest of you, but I would happily play this game if that’s how it was, I love the wireframe idea, the procedural generation, the logic systems shown in other Dev diary pages, this game looked 90% finished a year ago, why the sudden secrecy over the last ~10%. I’m not writing all this so the rest of the fans can poke holes and say “This” or “That”, I’m writing all this to rouse you up and say, however loyal you guys may be, “WTH is going on with this game” and get some kind of response, this game has been in development for almost 6 years, and they’ve gone dark for the last bit of development, at least, let’s hope so. I’m seriously getting the feeling that they don’t even check these forums anymore, and looking at the rest of the Subversion Topics, no-one else really checks them either, and the interest on the Subversion forums is waning, a simple check of the “Last Post” dates will confirm that, they need to breathe new life into the forums, and kick start public interest again, what good it if they release the game tomorrow let’s say, and no one even realises right away, because no one bothers checking the forums for updates anymore. I Hope you all agree, or if not all...at least most of you
(Once again Folks, Sorry for the 500 word Essay, I think I’ve written more in these two posts that the game developers have all year, please Introversion, we want to love you, but...
don't make it this hard...)
