The update has been slated for 2026 since April, dates haven't been given for months precisely due to the fact they kept getting missed. The 70% post being in July, there's a saying in game dev, "80% of the work takes 20% of the time, the remaining 20% takes 80% of the time."
Now granted, the before GTA VI is a clear deadline, but saying "nobody is buying it" is just false, lots and lots of people are expecting the update before then. But to say "came after months of setting specific deadlines and constantly moving the goalposts." when again, the date has been 2026 since April is just false. Detrimental to your point honestly. There's no need to make things up.
22 hours ago(+7)
Delays are understandable, but nuking Discord channels, changing release conditions on the fly, and ghosting the community isn't 'normal dev cycle' it's poor management. If they just posted transparent updates, nobody would be spamming. It's totally normal that people are pissed off when this is how they handle feedback
The initial release date, and only that one (the april issue) was the poor management along with the communication, after that it has always been 2026, people just create their own believes and try to make those into a "given date" when is not. As for Discord channel, it was nuked because of a discord incident around the same time it got restricted for the banner (even thought it had nothing wrong), that has nothing to do with this topic and brings nothing to the point.
18 hours ago(+1)
Was the discord “incident” the one in which Kal rolled a die and it landed on the number the Starmaker channel was? Or the bloom incident? At least that’s what was actually given as the reasons for deleting the channel, not an “incident”
17 hours ago(+1)
I mean yeah of course I knew it was entirely extremely unlikely the most active channel in the server was deleted via dice roll, but what was the point in lying. That’s my point. Why is communication continuously bad when it’s been said that it’s something to be worked on. Why are you still being vague here too?