Asking because there’s a TV show coming out soon that I’m excited for, but I’m having flashbacks of all the times I’ve had to wait up to two years for something to come out, often due to delays.
I’ve been building a house myself for four years. I move in in 3 weeks.
Congratulations!
Starting in 2016 I spent four entire years looking forward to the end of the Trump presidency.
Shit.
From the second day I started participating in the workforce, I started looking forward to retirement.
Half Life 3
still waiting
R.I.P. to those who said they would hold their breath for it to come out.
I was just waiting for next Half-Life. And Alyx delivered big time. So guess that reset the timer :D
It’s not much, but an intro for Project Borealis has actually been released! There’s only ~10 minutes of gameplay/content and it doesn’t run great, but the artistic direction looks promising.
I feel it’ll not be done during my lifetime, but the hope is still there.
And ending to A Song Of Ice and Fire
Been waiting 8 years to be told I’m allowed to turn my pp into a not pp 🥲 More waiting to go yet
I believe in you!
Well, I’m a Star Citizen backer, so…
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Your grandkids are going to have a blast! :D
I still hold onto the moment when I saw a crowdfunding video for it back in 2012. I got so excited that I went over to a friend’s house and showed it to him. I remember him not being that excited but did ask how long until it came out. I thought for a moment while I recalled how long it took Blizzard Ent. to prototype, build, fix, and ship (vanilla) WoW. I said to him. “I figure it will be 4 years before they announce a soft or hard release date. So we might hear about it heavily in 2016 as they get ready to release it sometime in 2017. I’d be surprised if they had to wait till 2018.” 💀
15 years.
The time between losing my first child and having my second.
Several years I was looking forward to turning 18 :-)
Oh shit. I turn 30 in November… I’ve been waiting damn near 30 years for that…
Eras Tour, Vienna. So about… two years.
So, I’ll never get excited in advance ever again. Call me pathetic but it’s been months and I am still so upset it was just cancelled, erased, and forgotten about. I didn’t want to be greedy so I only planned for that show. I really wish I had been greedy.
Riot MMO pls don’t suck
13 years for Fear Inoculum to be released.
The Winds of Winter? At this point though I’m not sure I’m actually waiting anymore.
you know what, this is, probably mine also.
I read all the books that were out before the show was even announced, and didn’t realize that the story wasn’t finished.
then the show started and I was like oh well, at least they have to finish the novels before the TV show will be fully produced.
joke was on me.
I have a thing called ADHD that makes it really hard for me to read novels. Hell, any story really. But I got really into the TV show and was excited to see such a great TV production come about. The stories were often enthralling and the twists and turns of the material in the first four seasons were amazing. It was I believe at the beginning of season 5 that I heard that George R. R. Martin hadn’t finished the sixth book yet, and there was concern that it would conflict with the TV show adaptation. Story, characters, and conclusion being the largest concerns. It was very concerning to me that by the time that season 6 was announced, The Winds of Winter was still not close to being done. After early season 6 is where I (and I believe a lot of others,) felt like the TV show was starting to stall out and then started to come down in story, character, and outcomes. Season 7 was a mess and the enjoyment of watching was lackluster. But I and most likely a large amount of other fans, felt like they had spent to much time getting ‘involved’ in the story and characters that we just wanted to see where this thing would land. They should have extended the time between the release and production of each season when it was clear that George R. R. needed time to finish things. Extending the wait time I strongly believe would have been accepted by most of the fans as it would have in theory, allowed for the seasons to not slope downward in the previously mentioned qualities. Even if I had to wait up to two years for each of the next seasons, I had concluded that I would rather that accrue than for them to release worse and worse seasons and episodes because they didn’t have the full story to utilize.
I was pissed about what they had done to the series. Season 8 was an abomination.
As the years went on, it became clear to me, that George R. R, Martin was not going to finish the last two books. And honestly… How could he?! The sure amount of backlash that the TV show got when it didn’t stick the landing. I can only imagine that he would rather die a hero for making what he did and not die a villain for what people might think of the last two books of the series.
They were marketing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (though not by name, because it didn’t have a name yet) before the WiiU was released. And they strung everybody along until after the Switch was released.
Fuckers! I was an early adopter of the WiiU because “well, I’ll for sure want one when the WiiU exclusive Zelda title comes out.”
Man I was so hyped for Zelda HD back in the day off of that TP art style demo. The hype cycle around BotW was wild
I really enjoyed The Song of Ice a Fire book series. I have made my peace with the fact that it will never be finished.
