Oh, by all means, finish the mod, make it awesome. My deal, is that we were given a release-date, and it wasn’t met.
If say, they had said, Summer 2010, and it hapenned, there would be no problem. Why? Because I wouldn’t be eagerly anticipating the whole thing by the end of 2009, and therefore wouldn’t be psyched up about an impending release. The difference is, once you start counting the days, and those days shoot suddenly from 20 to 180, it all feels that much farther away. It’s like needing to use the bathroom, and finding the stall conveniently at the end of the hall, only to get to the door and find it’s teleported halfway up the road. Now you have to worry about pissing yourself before you can reach the appropriate facilities.
There’s a phenomenon I call “almost there” syndrome. Notice whenever you’re back from the road and have to use the toilet, you had no problem holding it up until you parked your car, but with every step closer to the bathroom, the urge becomes greater and greatr, and by the time you actually let loose, you feel like you only JUST made it. It’s psychological, and applies to many things. Releases are one of those. The closer they get, the more the excitement mounts, and then THIS happens, and that enthusiasm has nowhere to go.
So patience is fine, but this kind of thing just feels so irresponsible.
Also, it would hardly be MY fault if I convinced a kid to get The Orange Box partly for BMS. Saying that is indeed displacing blame.
And to DeathMonkey, I’ll tell you this. If someone WERE to give me $1000 scott free and took their sweet time doing it, I might not voice it aloud, but it would be a bit annoying after a bit. I usually get half that in my annual tax refund, and I get a bit impatient. Although that might be a bit different, since it’s already MY money.
The difference is, the BMS team aren’t necessarily in this just for us. I do some mod-work myself, and I can tell you that the public (ie, you and me) are typically just a by-product who will praise you for your work, and spread the word. The modders themselves are making the mod, because THEY want to play this. That’s the truth. Modders make mods because they think their mod existing would be awesome. The modders themselves are going to play their own mod just the same as we will. I made a TRex NPC for GarrysMod, and I can tell you I did it because I thought Trexes were awesome and I’d love to play with one in a game outside of Turok for once. See a need, fill a need. And usually you fill your OWN needs. So it wouldn’t so much be someone giving me $1000 as someone having an unlimited supply of $1000 bills but only being allowed to use one of them.
