Yep, people too often fail to see alternatives. Take this example:

Do you think maybe Electronic Arts wishes it hadn’t shipped an early beta of its big new game, Titanfall 2, only a couple months before launch – which convinced some of the original games’ biggest, most vocal fans to write it off? (Reports suggest the game has sold poorly.)

There are choices (alternatives) and sometimes it is impossible to know what the best choice is. So even if I wasn’t a tester and really wanted the TextBlade even if WayTools felt it wasn’t ready, demanding it be released is really just self-serving. This is first and foremost a business decision, not about what individuals want and when they want it. Our choices are to buy or not or cancel or not.

Sure, they may make some people happy to ship sooner. But they may also have gotten so many negative reviews over the past 20 months if they did, that no matter how good it eventually gets, the business fails. Sure, the delays may also lead to a failure. Like I said, no way to know what the best option is. Which is why only WT can and should make it.

After all, they have far more info than we do - including the testers.

For example, while some make a big deal about people who have canceled their orders, we only actually know of a pretty small number. The vast majority are never posting here. WT can look at the rate of cancelations vs new orders and, while not being sure of the best decision, certainly can make a more informed on than anyone else can.

Of course, assumptions can be made (like the one that said they wondered if they only had hundreds of orders left which was based on absolutely nothing), but assumptions are not actual data.

It is worth remembering that virtually all the testers who have commented on the delays have said that, after getting it, they understand why it didn’t ship last year. This includes people who were among those complaining about WT.

Of course, some just assume those testers are now dishonest or a have psychological problems, etc. Assumptions are the ultimate self-serving approach to things.