Thanks for everyone that beat me to the response! Haha!
The first step to play the patch is:
1. Have patience.
The second step is:
2. See step 1 until we release.
We're happy that people are interested in the game and in the release, certainly. We've put hundreds of hours into the making of this thing. The last time I started estimating my personal contributions I stopped counting when I hit around 500 hours of estimated work because beyond that the number just becomes "a helluva lot of time". As mentioned many times before, we have a ton of people that have put their time and talents into this project, so the total amount of work put in surely reaches into the thousands of hours once you include playtesting and bug fixing and all the rest.
So, we are happy you want to play it! It would be a shame if we put so much work into something that nobody wanted.
Feel free to tell us you are excited, or ask about the project, but we made a decision many years ago to only release it when it is done so that we are sure that at least some people get to play the full game. Projects that have had very public advertising for their work, and that have done periodic releases of incomplete games seem to have a higher incidence of getting told to stop their work by the copyright holders.
I think that there is nothing that would make us more sad than spending thousands of hours on something that gets buried before anyone gets to see it in action, which is why we will release it when it is done and no sooner.
As promised, this forum will be the first place we post info about the patch when it is published. Keep checking in and you will know when everyone else does.
Thanks for letting us know you are interested in our work! And thanks to everyone who has followed this project for any amount of time - your support has definitely helped make these long hours feel worth it.
The first step to play the patch is:
1. Have patience.
The second step is:
2. See step 1 until we release.
We're happy that people are interested in the game and in the release, certainly. We've put hundreds of hours into the making of this thing. The last time I started estimating my personal contributions I stopped counting when I hit around 500 hours of estimated work because beyond that the number just becomes "a helluva lot of time". As mentioned many times before, we have a ton of people that have put their time and talents into this project, so the total amount of work put in surely reaches into the thousands of hours once you include playtesting and bug fixing and all the rest.
So, we are happy you want to play it! It would be a shame if we put so much work into something that nobody wanted.
Feel free to tell us you are excited, or ask about the project, but we made a decision many years ago to only release it when it is done so that we are sure that at least some people get to play the full game. Projects that have had very public advertising for their work, and that have done periodic releases of incomplete games seem to have a higher incidence of getting told to stop their work by the copyright holders.
I think that there is nothing that would make us more sad than spending thousands of hours on something that gets buried before anyone gets to see it in action, which is why we will release it when it is done and no sooner.
As promised, this forum will be the first place we post info about the patch when it is published. Keep checking in and you will know when everyone else does.
Thanks for letting us know you are interested in our work! And thanks to everyone who has followed this project for any amount of time - your support has definitely helped make these long hours feel worth it.