If the SAGA team is waiting for the project to be perfect, nothing will ever get released. So what if there are a few bugs, release a patch update later.
This is certainly a good point here, and often one of our problems. We already have to simply say NO now, even if we could do better. But on the other hand, in those years we build the game we all improved our skills in modelling, texturing and all the other stuff, so that we have overworked quite a lot of stuff in the past
Let me make a litte longer answer here, for you and all the other people still waiting, so you have an update what's going on
I truly understand your feelings, I also hate it when I have to wait long for a new game to come out, or even hear that is has been delayed. Believe me, we would all be more than happy if we could release the game tomorrow, but we simply can't. I could bore you with a lot of reasons and technical explanations, but that wíll not make it come out quicker, i'm afraid.
In short form, we have decided to switch to the most recent available SCP-Version, since it has a lot improvements the old version we used didn't had. Those improvement directly influence the gameplay and the possibility for the mission building, so we decided to take on that step (Not to mention we had 2 unsolved problems with the old exe). However, we now have to upgrade quite some data, and still have a few technical difficulties (i.e. with the installer and a graphic problem). The other stuff is done, models, missions, graphics, voices etc.
How about a demo prologue- 2-3 missions + 6 or so ships + minimal music and SFX + no voice acting and expansive animations?
In fact, that's why we decided to do the prologue first
It has a little more stuff than what you have written above, but much less than the final game we are aiming for. However, after the prologue is done and we can build upon it, we hope that the next step will go faster. (And I also have to say up front, that I'm the one preventing us from doing a episode release later, I want to deliver a finished game.)
But once the prologue is done, people will be able to do their own missions, which will deliver people something to play away the waiting time
Unfortunately we still cannot give an ETA yet. It will be this year, but when, we do not know exactly. We don't want to promise something, and will then be forced to brake it again because of something unexpectable happened.
We can only ask you people for a little more patience. Thanks
P.S. As for Sphynx's "fairly soon", like I said, we hope, but we can't promise
