| Turkish said: I'm just pointing out the double standards, with these people who think being cynical is the new cool thing. People hate on AAA games because they're always delayed and shown too early, but then try to justify when it happens with indies with excuses that they're small. Why would that even matter? Those indies are making games according to their capabilities, size and budget, they aren't making AAA sized games. |
Because games that are being kickstarted are getting funding from the audience to actually make the game so of course they're going to be presenting games that are far earlier in development and it's much harder to judge a game's timeline whose features will be determined by how successful funding is. AAA developers do not have that restriction and announce the game and release date whenever they feel they are prepared to do so (well, whenever the publisher pressures them to).
Personally, I don't complain about either. Delays happen. Getting mad won't make a game come out faster or better. Complaining about them only encourages publishers to put undue pressure on the devs, who don't really have the final say in things like advertising and release dates.
