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[Darkmere]

The line down the middle would drive me to madness. I'm fine with my current 23", thanks.

[Sean Mirrsen]

The line down the middle would drive me to madness. I'm fine with my current 23", thanks.

Indeed. Dual-monitor support is only good for when you don't have a single viewport stretched across them. For everywhere else, triple-monitor setups should be standard.

[Chattox]

Oh man, do want. Anyone know what day of i49 we can expect the announcement?

[hemmingjay]

Oh man, do want. Anyone know what day of i49 we can expect the announcement?

Nope. I imagine it will occur on whichever day I stop obsessively F5ing the coverage.

[scriver]

I hope you tell us when you do so the rest of us can start watching

[GrayFox]

Here's the presentation thing from today

http://www.twitch.tv/multiplay10/b/450135567

[Maxono]

Here's the presentation thing from today

http://www.twitch.tv/multiplay10/b/450135567

That sent me to the previously-recorded building demonstration.

It's a bit further in

[Sappho]

What's wrong with the audio? I keep hearing everything looping and echoing in the background, very confusing.

[Sappho]

And near the very end, they announce that they are not announcing the release date. Only that the beta should be released by the end of the year. Siiiiiiiigh.

[quinnr]

~SNIP~
Yea seems like they're setting up
So i assume the girl on the right is molly but who's the guy?

What the heck is "Minecraft Parkour"? That sounds scary.

And near the very end, they announce that they are not announcing the release date. Only that the beta should be released by the end of the year. Siiiiiiiigh.

BLEH.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Does the video load past 30:03 for anyone? It seems to refuse to load beyond that point for me :/

Twitch video caches in 30-minute chunks. It plays to the end of the chunk before starting to cache the next one, and the switch to the second chunk might take some time.

[Darkmere]

And near the very end, they announce that they are not announcing the release date. Only that the beta should be released by the end of the year. Siiiiiiiigh.

Nice. I look forward to the shitstorm this will cause after the "definitely release in 2013" tag on the pre-orders.

[hemmingjay]

what they actually said is " we're firmly committed to having the beta out sometime this year, beyond that 'we aren't sure'". I believe I had to paraphrase that last bit as I have bad audio in my current location. This does not rule out release at any point, just that they are guaranteeing beta by the end of the year. This isn't much different than the expected October/November first look we have been preparing for.

It is upsetting since everyone, even team members were speculating that there would be a "window" announcement(not just beta by end of the year). Also upsetting is that we were told we would see the first boss today, but that too has been postponed. They are infuriatingly laid back about everything, and it's begin to piss off even their most diehard fans.

[Grakelin]

This is pretty much why I decided not to preorder. Preordering things without a release date just seems like a bad idea to me.

[Darkmere]

I went to the pre-order FAQ and looked it up to refresh my memory. It's here, for reference.

Q. What if you don't get enough preorders, will the game be unfinished?
A. No, the Starbound is going to make it out in 2013 no matter what.

That probably should be beta, but it isn't, and is very easy to misread/misremember. They also promised to add new tracks to the soundtrack over time, and have not. And to update the roadmap, which schedule slipped and then got more-or-less abandoned in favor of the daily updates (which I much prefer, don't get me wrong, but shifting that way is a bit off-putting, objectively).

There's also a subtle undertone of dis-ingenuousness in their infodumps, where over the course of several months we get "feature X is complete!" and then "feature X is finally in-game" and then "feature X is finally being integrated with other gameplay elements!" and finally "we're debugging/reworking feature X!" I'd only actually call the last step "complete."

I've been trying to remain on the optimistic side of neutral, but things like that make me raise an eyebrow nonetheless.

All that said...
I know it's a large-ish team of developers who live on different continents and have accomplished everything via teleconferencing, which isn't easy. What they've done already is laudable, and the ones who update regularly seem to be good, likeable folks who really enjoy what they do and are enthusiastic about it. I still feel I've gotten my pre-order money's worth from the soundtrack alone, and believe I'll be spending many, many hours on this down the road. I'm just a bit un-easy about some of their practices so far, which will perhaps be forgotten post-release. Whenever that is.