Not sure what help I can provide? Clearly if it was about to launch or there was a specific date, it would have been posted. I will say it’s looking closer than ever before - but there are still a few things needed to hit our standards. Sorry those have led to this delay, but the desire and plan behind those standards are to avoid issues like we have seen before (1.2) and to put as uncompromised a version of the game as possible in your hands. That means no cutting corners just to “get it out there”.
Not sure what else to say other than we are just as upset and stressed about the time it’s taken as anyone - but it’s not for lack of effort or focus or anything like that. Anyway, hopefully not much longer now....
Not getting into that again - but targets and plans are not promises. Clearly, PW underestimated the time it would take. Assuming they knew that at the time is 20/20 hindsight at its best. Everyone would have loved it to be out then. It wasn’t ready. That happens in gaming development all the time. Still sucks for everyone, of course.
Yes, it sure would be if we had been in a situation where 2 was the actual choice.
As for the old port - it is a fine thing in its own right, but it has always been “off” versus the PC experience... and then you have the admitted disasters like the 1.2 console update. We were not as involved then as we are now, the systems for QA and development have been completely overhauled within 505 (and bringing on PW), and the decision to rebuild the codebase vs just adding to the old one should wind up being a smart future investment even with how long it’s taking to get the initial release out.
Again, not sure what else to say - outside of having a date for everyone, it’s all the same shared logic as before. I know it won’t help, but there it is anyway. Hopefully soon...