Look, I'm not arguing that they made the wrong decision by not releasing the game too early, because it wasn't the wrong decision. What I'm arguing, is that no matter how near or far this game is to completion, their deafening silence can be felt across time in the harshest of ways.They made a mistake with when they announced the next game. Also, life happens. Sometimes there is nothing you can do about it.
The game was too buggy (or whatever their reason was) for release anytime soon, so they stopped giving us updates. They would rather have waited until it was much closer, but they didn't know so much was wrong (code-wise) with it. Ask an actual dev about it though, my knowledge is incomplete.
Want an example?
Here, I'll give you an example:
February 2015, Terraria Otherworld is announced. It is scheduled for release the next year, sometime around early 2016. Hype is through the roof, people are excited about the next installment of such an incredible game. I am among them, eagerly awaiting when the game will be released. I thought it was perfect, it was originally scheduled for release around the same time that I would graduate college! It couldn't be a better gift to myself for working so hard those years to get through college, holding down two jobs and working hard to get the best grades possible.
January 2016 rolls on by, the Winter quarter at college in full swing. Sunday January 30th comes along, and I go with two of my friends to try snowboarding for the first time. I enjoy myself up until the moment that I collapse into the snowbank, slowly dying from a heart attack. I spend the next month recovering (forced to return to work and school the following Tuesday), working through medications making me both tired and nauseated, the doctors are very fond of reminding me that if I were any older (25) I'd be dead. The only things I had to look forward to was finishing college, and Terraria Otherworld.
As you can imagine, I was disappointed. But it wasn't that the game wasn't ready, it was the proceeding months of silence.
I still want to play this game, more than most may know. But a lifetime of events happened to me while I've waited. I survived a Myocardial Infarct, completed college (I ended Winter qtr. with all 4.0s, I felt like a badass), recovered my stolen motorcycle (three separate times, I'm not even joking), moved to a new house, completely upgraded my computer, bought a car, started a new educational path, and changed jobs three times. I get that life happens, but even I have the time to write a post more than once every 6-10 months.