From Homotron: PlayStation Home, IE8 Top Wired's 11th Annual Vaporware Awards
Ah, the Vaporware Awards: where Duke Nukem and would-be Microsoft products roam free with nary a productive thought in their abstracted little heads. Duke Nukem Forever takes the top spot - again - with 3D Realms adding "...there's also been a lot of World of Warcraft" to the excuse list, which previously featured such gems as "hookers and cocaine" as reasons the 12-year-long development cycle continues unbroken.
Newcomers to the list included Internet Explorer 8, which continues to recede into the horizon; Android phones other than the T-Mobile G1; Garmin's 3G smartphone, nüvifone, which I didn't even realize I was supposed to be expecting; Microvision's phone-embedded microprojector; and Sony PlayStation Home - alive and utterly disappointing in what appears to be an endless, featureless beta.
Also on the list was an electric SUV called Zap-X; Myka the BitTorrent set-top box; and never-gonna-happen MMO Hero's Journey.
Vaporware 2008: Crushing Disappointments, False Promises and Plain Old BS [Wired]
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Posted to Miscellany on 30 December 2008
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"There's a lot of mistakes and lessons we had to learn," Broussard says. "But most of all, there's also been a lot of World of Warcraft."
DONE! That's it I no longer hold any respect for these people as developers and this game is as good as dead to me.
If you want to postpone a game for technical reasons then fine and yeah it's "their" game but at least have the decency to admit that you would rather play WoW then actually make the game ffs. That way people can stop holding out hope for it and just let the embarrassment of this project die.
To say that its been delayed because they can't decide what's more important making a game they keep talking about or WoW is just incomprehensibly unprofessional.