VU has never been a threat per se, it is the legal owner of the IP. And yes, believe it or not staff is what makes the technical side of this so they do relate big time and it is not a "threat" it is the core of what this whole project is about. But let's be honest, what can you demand out of a group of people that works for free for over 40 hours a week? They work at their pace and within the reals of their own possibility. Again, it is not a threat, it is pretty much what it is made of. Every single license, every single hosting/domain, legal affairs, etc. It has been paid by those same folks, sadly we cannot afford working on this 24/7 and/or afford better things to work with than just our home PC's but also equipment that will help us produce something in the lines of Final Fantasy or whatnot. We can only dream about that.
Some people tend to understand different I guess because they seem to forget what kind of people is working on this. We are all professionals who do this for a living (production, animation, marketing, programming, etc) so we do try to somehow shape it up the best we can and organize it as much as possible. But sadly we cannot afford more than what we do, time and money speaking. Therefore delays and perhaps not the best of quality, long ass legal dead times, staff that comes and goes and you can pretty much name it.
I understand you have got no idea what is behind the courtains, and to be honest at first it was a wish brought from the Project Leaders, now it is just a reasonable standard to keep things in order (legally and production wise). What has been accomplished during the last year has been quite more than what we thought it would eventually be (VU situation and all) and yet not enough (not being able to just launch the game as it is right now). I know everyone wants a full progress report every now and then, and demand to know progress status and percentages and whatever else. Then it would be people complaining about it and asking for more, it always is and it always has been through the years. Needless to say, I will have the Directors post as much as they feel like it when the time comes, for now I refuse to get ahead of myself here just to prove a point. The demo was shorted out so we wouldn't give out much before the release of the game but that demo wasn't created out of thin air as some would like to believe, it was actually launched so fans could get a silly glance of what was going on behind this website but apparently, yet again, just wasn't a date to point down in a calendar.
I do apologize for the time being, but there isn't pretty much we can do without just releasing the game for everyone to understand and just finally have what they crave for.
I will keep you posted.
