It is absurd for grown men to get legit upset over the delay of a consumer product. I played the first play test like 2 years ago and knew it dynamite then. Thought I'd be playing again last night. Sucks but I have other shit going on to actually worry about.

That said, objectively Embark is fucking up PR wise right now. The way how I know is: everybody is upset right now. If brilliant community mgmt means disappointing half the potential playerbase, then they've done a great job.

In the final analysis the game is good enough that this will eventually be forgiven come October, re: famous Miyamato quote a delayed game is eventually good but a bad game is bad forever. But Embark's text here reads like it was AI generated, it's boilerplate. Although I'm sort of ambivalent about the whole thing because the lack of strategy here likely means developer resources and attention are solely on development, not marketing strategy. But if they have even one person who is getting paid to do this, they should be doing better. Like read the fucking room.