I'm very much looking forward to Edge being released, but am okay with the delays as I know what DCS are going through. I have been developing private cloud File Sync & Share software for about 3.5 years now, and I am often promised date by my developers we're entering just entering beta any day now (when I can find some beta testers). I looked at an old schedule on the wall and the estimated completion date was 14 months ago and the previous release date was before my 22 month son was even born! Developing any software takes much longer than expected and cost much more too. Go easy on DCS I'm sure they're doing their best and they have a huge amount of pressure on them already.
I'm sorry but you can't just say that software development takes longer than expected and costs more too because that shows a lack of quality planning. If you think a particular project will take longer than expected in the first place then you don't give it a release date of 24 months thinking it will be closer to 48 months and you don't even start a project in the knowledge that it will cost more than you are estimating. There would be a lot of people losing their jobs through incompetence if that thought process was standard practice or funds simply wouldn't be released to start a project.
I'm in no hurry for ED to release x, y and z. I just wish for once they would stop dangling carrots only to then hide the carrot and start dangling a new one 6 months later whilst talking about release dates that they never seem to get close to. I don't buy the excuse that it's the community at fault 'demanding' information.....ED are the ones releasing information/dates/progress/videos (see the last one regarding the fly-through of the airbase for example) and this gets the community excited. The latest approximate date is that it's 3-6 months away.....so let's not forget that ED has issued this information to customers.
