>>25287034The reason i keep saying SOON is because every time I've promised a release date, something new came up that prevented that date from being realizable. "SOON" simply means that the game will arrive when all the required work is completed.
"SOON" does not mean that we are slacking, right now Squeetz is doing the single most integral part of the game's development, afterwhich we will be finalizing and going into beta testing, then release.
Squeetz is going to be helped out by NDC once NDC finishes up figuring out technical bugs like black stars, egg palette, and trainer issues.
Im going to be preemptively starting work on the Ebin Islands and Fochun postgame content, that way once the 8-gym is out we can jump directly into finishing the rest of the content and pushing out the final version of the game much faster than the 8-gym took. the only reason the 8-gym is taking so long is because there's a HUGE amount of content, and we're building on top of vanilla Firered of which very little is directly reused.
So "SOON" simply means we're working as hard as we can to do exactly that, get the game out soon. Promising release dates based on inaccurate estimates was wrong of me from the beginning, but clover has been a learning experience for me in a lot of regards involving software development and planning.
So hope that clears things up a bit fampachi