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Yes, it was.

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At this point, what we’re wanting to do is an event that revitalizes it. It’ll have something to do with an alien race crash-landing into it, and we’re targeting a January timeframe, which is when update 1.1 happened this last January.

 

Source: http://www.gamebreaker.tv/mmorpg/swtor-star-tour/ Gabe Amatangelo's interview.

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Gah. Learn:

 

At this point, what we’re wanting to do is an event that revitalizes it. It’ll have something to do with an alien race crash-landing into it, and we’re targeting a January timeframe, which is when update 1.1 happened this last January.

 

"We're targeting" does not mean "We guarantee".

 

Stop basing your expectations off of estimations. That statement, that's a developer giving you inside information about estimated schedules. Those things change all the time. Stop taking them to mean that it will happen. Every time people take those guesses as promises or toss them at posters who actually understand scheduling, it reduces the chance that we get that sort of information in the future.

 

"Targeting a January timeframe" means that they hoped to get it out in January, but that it might slip later, based on developer or managerial priorities and judgements. It is absolutely not a guarantee and you have zero reason to be upset if it doesn't happen.

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Yes, it was.

(copypasta)

 

At this point, what we’re wanting to do is an event that revitalizes it. It’ll have something to do with an alien race crash-landing into it, and we’re targeting a January timeframe, which is when update 1.1 happened this last January.

 

Source: http://www.gamebreaker.tv/mmorpg/swtor-star-tour/ Gabe Amatangelo's interview.

 

Ah yes.. the fun "But they made a more vague earlier statement proving my point!" debate.

 

As the poster who first replied said: "We are targetting a January Timeframe" does not equal "There will be an Ilum event in January". While the exact wording of the second quote actually was "There will be an Ilum Invasion event February/March".

Also, the January statement was done in early September, when this was probably in it's early stages, while the February/March statement was done the end of November.. just before 1.6 hit and when the Developers would know exactly what would be in 1.7.

 

Also, any difference in time comes from the announced '3 weeks extra' they said they will take between 1.6 and 1.7 because of the holidays. Because of that 1.7, which would normally be January in the 6 week release schedule, became February. Which also became the "there will be" date instead of the "target" date.

 

It's really not that hard to understand what people mean by the words they use.

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Ah yes.. the fun "But they made a more vague earlier statement proving my point!" debate.

 

As the poster who first replied said: "We are targetting a January Timeframe" does not equal "There will be an Ilum event in January". While the exact wording of the second quote actually was "There will be an Ilum Invasion event February/March".

Also, the January statement was done in early September, when this was probably in it's early stages, while the February/March statement was done the end of November.. just before 1.6 hit and when the Developers would know exactly what would be in 1.7.

 

Also, any difference in time comes from the announced '3 weeks extra' they said they will take between 1.6 and 1.7 because of the holidays. Because of that 1.7, which would normally be January in the 6 week release schedule, became February. Which also became the "there will be" date instead of the "target" date.

 

It's really not that hard to understand what people mean by the words they use.

 

It's also not hard to see that people can and will say "They said January" when .. they did say January. Just because it was superseded later does not change the fact that they pushed back the original intended release date, which was, according to the developer, January.

 

Personally, I don't care - but I was replying to the post that said "They never said January" .. and I was demonstrating that at one point, yes, they did say January.

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It's also not hard to see that people can and will say "They said January" when .. they did say January. Just because it was superseded later does not change the fact that they pushed back the original intended release date, which was, according to the developer, January.

 

No.

 

No, no, no.

 

They never said the intended release date was January.

 

They said they were targeting a January release. That is not the declaration of an intended release date. That is not a plan. That is a guess at a development timeline. The purpose of targeted release schedules is to give some target to shoot for, with the explicit possibility that it will be moved forward or backward without notice to the customers.

 

Things like this are why there is less communication with the community: Too many people in the community are unable to understand what is being said. "We're hoping to release in January" gets read as "We promise you that it will be released by the third week of January". People's chronic inability to comprehend what is said is what destroys developer communication.

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