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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4461556" data-attributes="member: 40961">Mustrum Ridcully- It isn't just whiners who don't like not getting things on time.  I don't like not getting things on time.*  Telling me that something will be available on a particular date creates an expectation in me that I will actually be able to obtain that item on that date.  If I can't, I feel like I lost something.Let me give you a comparison.  I follow two miniature wargames, Infinity and Anima Tactics.  They each have their own release scheduling systems.Infinity releases 4 miniature blisters per month.  They don't tell you in advance what they'll be.  But there will be four of them, always.Anima Tactics releases two to three miniatures per month.  They're a smaller company with a smaller product, so that's not an issue.  What is an issue is that every six months they issue a release schedule that is a pack of lies.  It predicts five to six miniatures per month for the next six month period.  At the end of that timeframe they've invariably released the usual two to three per month that they always release, and the next six month schedule is packed full of overflow from the previous six months.  In fact, this cycle is how they ended up with such a heavy release schedule to begin with- they just roll each season's figures into the next season without pushing anything back.From a certain perspective, these companies are doing the same thing.  Each releases a certain flat number of miniatures per month.  But one lies** about it first.  That one annoys the heck out of me, and out of a lot of other people.  If the only thing that matters was the consistency of physical product reaching my hands, I wouldn't react to the release schedule written on the water.  But expectations count too.*Maybe that makes me a whiner?  Hope not.**I'm sure they aren't lying per se.  They're just consistently making statements that turn out to be false in repeated, identical contexts.  Its like someone who swears they'll give up cigarettes every New Years.  They probably mean it when they say it but no one believes them.</blockquote>

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