Show me where it says "Deadline" anywhere on the list of development dates. These are not deadlines, they are expected completion dates and it states this multiple times on the very page it lists the dates. If something causes a delay, the expected date changes based on the updated details.To "do it right" requires more iterations, more testing, and not missing deadlines.
Traditional game development doesn't do public Alphas. Even their beta's are limited. With Crowd funding you have more people to answer to, not less.
No deadlines have been missed because THERE ARE NO DEADLINES.
If you think GamesCon is a valid deadline for A, B or C, thats your subjective opinion. Until you said "GamesCon" I had never heard of it and I still don't know what it is about or why I should really care. A computer game convention? Great and probably important for those who like that kind of thing, but for me GamesCon may as well be HairStyleCon - it is an irrelevance.
There are plenty of crowd funded games that don't have a public alpha. There are plenty of crowd funded games that don't even have beta access. It is a gross overstatement to say just because the money comes from multiple backers instead of one or two big companies that the masses know better. I bet Derek Smart has a basic pledge account so he can read Spectrum, would you want him to call the shots considering the beef he's raked over?
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