Well said. Josh comes across as an earnest perfectionist, but he will suffer from a perception problem the longer he hides from public contact. That perception problem is the vaporware/cool engine one. I think we still trust that he'll come up with a playable game, but every "broken promise" on public engagement makes things worse.
We've all said before that public engagement really does not have to be a productivity interruption. It doesn't have to be a comprehensive update, it doesn't have to be perfect. The content doesn't have to be finished. It can have "dev textures" and unresolved problems. It can be as simple as "I have 2 minutes, I'll post a screenshot with some text to kickstarter." Josh seems to have anxiety around this, and he isn't self-aware enough in that arena to realize that this anxiety isn't going to go away just because he changes update schedules. What he has to change is his mentality towards updating kickstarter. Drop the perfectionist attitude on PR - anything is better than nothing at all.
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Fri Feb 06, 2015 10:43 am
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Re: The Road to the Beta Series!
Spacecredentials: looks at stars sometimes, cheated at X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, killed a titan once.