I just want to post this up, and it was a very hard decision for me to decide to post this but I feel like I need to get my side of something that happened this week out there:
So I was recently banned from the Swelladia Discord server for (According to someone): “Being an asshole about the delay”, when I had expressed my honest opinion about the excessive delays (Yes I know that it was poorly worded and I will admit that I could have worded it better). But to tell you the truth, I felt like that when you set a date for when a beta would be released (Regardless of whether it is a closed or an open beta), then there is kind of an expectation that it will come out around that time, give or take a few hours at longest in terms of delays.
In my opinion, if the game really is not ready to be played, just tell us that it is not ready. I understand that making a game is hard, but saying that it is going to be released with an exact date but then not end up releasing something and then telling “Ah, just give me a few more hours” or “Just wait a little bit longer” is kind of being an equal “asshole” as the way I worded my opinion about the delays that got me banned. I know you said you wanted to fix all the bugs that you knew were there, but in my opinion, I don’t really see a reason for why that should delay because even if you know there are bugs out there, you can still release it and say that there are expected bugs that you are aware of so that people can be able to provide you with feedback, just like a beta release is intended to. But by attempting to fix all those bugs before releasing, you kind of defeat the whole purpose of even releasing a beta in the first place (This was something I did point out as I said if you were going to fix all those bugs you were aware of, it would be better for you to just do an open beta rather than have a closed beta release).
Well to be honest, I have become a bit upset by how you have constantly set these firm dates of release and then not follow through, which was why I gave that opinion that I believe got me banned from the Discord, but to be clear, I’m not trying to be an asshole about all the delays, but I’ve been following the game closely and I have noticed a clear pattern that I really did not like and was reminicent of other projects that ended up being abandoned/discontinued because the dev ultimately didn’t like how the game ultimately turned up and thought that it would not deliver to expectations, which I know this is not the case for this game. I also have noticed that you have been hostile to such opinions and feedback in regards to when you get called out for not following through, something that I’ve seen in devs whose games that ultimately get abandoned and I know that you are better than that. And yes, as I have said before, I believe my wording was a bit too harsh and could have been worded a bit better, and I do want to apologize if the way I worded my opinion offended you, but to be honest, I really don’t want to see this game end up like other projects where the developer just stalls and stalls until deciding to call it quits and abandon the project. If you want to keep me banned from your Discord, that is fine, I’m fully understanding of this, but I believe that you have proved my point about your reception to criticism.
And to the mods, I do apologize for this long and lengthy post, if you want to delete it, that is fine by me, but I really wanted to get my side of the story out in order to try and clear up any misunderstanding that may have occured outside her in the Swelladia Discord server.
