Arcturus said:
This is very true. On the one hand, it's really unfortuate that developers have to be extremely careful with their words or remain completely silent about development for fear of backlash if plans change or they can't deliver. On the other hand, when a game is early in development and so far from release you should keep your publically stated ambitions in check. |
I think if he just tailored his language to, "we are trying" or "we would like to" rather than definite words like "will" people wouldn't feel so entitled for a release on Wii U. Furthermore, such claims were directed toward inquiries about the status of the game: whether or not it is not being worked on Wii U yet, how far it is in development, and what is the potential future. A truly honest statement is that they have plans to bring the game to Wii U, but really haven't done much with those plans beyond just porting the code to the system. They have hefty goals, and likely only will want the game to release if such hefty goals can be met. Instead people see something like, "And the actual console itself is quite good." and they are reassured that this developer is saying that with proper experience and sincerety. The honesty issue isn't one of lieing to other people, but rather the developer lieing to themselves on the extent of their practical knowledge of how they can achieve said goals and the certainty of it.
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