At this point i would like to give out praise for your improvements over the last 2 years and 9 months that i am part of the very community you desire to fullfill with happiness.
While many mistakes were made even more improvements were made. I am certain that when @InsaneHawk and @Blank started this project they never once thought that they would be the leaders of a project that amassed over 19000 followers to this day. Managing 19000 members certainly is very different from doing just that for the 500 we were when i created my account. And while the community grew so did you. You updated the forum, you added multiple Card Bases, you added a dev platform with regular updates, you hired new modertors and found new developers, you added bots with a trivia to the forum, you created a discord server, you added a Booster Simulator. I think you handled uncertain information pretty well from the very beginning, just the ambitious ETA's were a pretty big HYPE-killer that was publicly discussed. This change shows me that you are still close to the community and read and discuss every suggestion that is made. I am pretty confident that you won't change so fast and believe even more that this project has a great future ahead of itself.
While it may have taken many hicc-ups and a lot of time to get to this point and there certainly is room to grow and improve i fondly remember each and every second of being part of this community - Be it the huge milestones and moments of entering the forge, hitting 1000/5000/10000 members on the forums or finally starting the first game in Battleforge or even just the small discussions and conversations in various forum threads with great people. The road might have been rocky with many obstacles to overcome but i felt that the heart and soul of every SR-team member was in this project.
Thatfor i want to sincerely applaud you: Thank you, you are awesome @InsaneHawk @Blank @MrXLink @Kiwi @Dexirian @MephistoRoss @fiki574 @Bolrader @Boorinio @bobfrog @Aviat0r @Lord NullPointer @Inwutsch @NanoRhino (yes even you @Ultrakool )
So you're bothered by the whole communication we're having with you as a community? That's the impression I got from your statement, just as the hype part you got from mine. Weekly dev posts are not enough? Discord or forums' private messages anytime as well? Streams also?
Out of everything you can and could have quoted, you're still tied to those two words "no time", which, as me and you said, have different time frame in everyone's point of view.
QUOTE: "When bugs like "accepting group invites causing the crash of the world server" got fixed just now, then it seems like there is still a very long way to go until the game is ready for an OB release."
ANSWER: There is a lot of context missing from those kinds of changes, because I tend to simplify and generalize those changes for the public so people can read nice changelog instead of the one few pages long, which is pointless and boring, both to write and read.
QUOTE: "The "in no time" line was already a month ago."
ANSWER: So? "in no time" is not a valid period/interval of the time itself, thus can last anywhere from 1 month to 1 year (in my point of view).
QUOTE: "I'm obviously not a programmer but to me it seems very possible that it could very well take another few months until the game is ready for an OB release. "
ANSWER: Yes, sorry for trying to make this game as bug free as possible. Rather have a stable and working game with satisfied community than unstable and crashing one with people raging for the inability of having servers up for consistent 12 hours.
QUOTE: "Statements like the above cause unnecessary hype, and when hyped up expectations can't be fulfilled there will be disappointment and ultimately hate. "
ANSWER: That statement was not intended to create any more hype, I just can't see how you got that feeling out of it.
