Man, I'm just so incredibly disappointed by all of this. It seems to get worse by the minute, too. It's kind of amazing that there are so many people who actually post in that Steam thread thanking NISA for their "good work", I think that's what makes it even harder to accept.
I'm really not a programmer nor do I work with anything of the sort, but I can't understand how someone can thank a company for what basically amounts to failing to meet their deadline and what was promised to buyers. If this had been announced as a PC port that was coming 2 months after the PS4/Vita versions, then, fine. But no. The catch was a simultaneous release on PC and consoles.
And then... this. The beta seems to have started like 2 weeks before the game came out, and it seems sort of unthinkable to me that a company would suddenly find "three very big issues" to take care of, or suddenly realize that, hey, this PC port we're doing actually doesn't run very well. From what I heard, it seems like it made relatively good machines crawl to a halt, and that definitely isn't something you need to wait until the very last second to maybe realize that announcing a delay in any sort of acceptable time frame is the safer and better option to take here. The fact they themselves say they "know the cause and estimate that it'll take 2 weeks to resolve" only makes it even worse in my eyes, because if it takes 2 weeks to resolve an issue, then how did anyone figure out that less than 2 weeks for a beta was enough time to iron out problems?
The whole project just seems to have been incredibly mismanaged from the start, and it's like the PC version was an afterthought. Like, I'm not going to not buy it, or say I'm going to pirate it or wait for a deep discount to get it, because I love Ys, I love Falcom and I want to play it as soon as possible. But there's nothing to be "thankful" for here. It's their job, they're running a company, and whatever NISA is doing sure as hell isn't something that only NISA can do. Publishers are plentiful around, and if they dropped the ball on a product I care, I sure as hell don't wish them anywhere near close to other IPs that I'm interested in in the future. I'll be supporting Ys, I'll be getting the game anyway, but I'll make sure to be as vocal as possible that the whole situation is a big show of sheer incompetence and lack of management AND communication, because if this in any way or form helps other publishers in the future get their shot at doing better, it'll have been worth it. There's no "thank you" for NISA here.
