Talk:Updates/@comment-2602:306:3B8F:A400:D82A:D4D3:690D:74D3-20180715170429/@comment-25012056-20180715185529

No. Simply and definitively. The update will not be released unfinished because certain people are impatient. I don't think you understand what this mod is or how it works. The mod is a personal project. Nothing more. Because of that, it doesn't depend on the community. The fact that there is a community is a great thing, but it isn't essential unless Mevans wants it to be. Now, do not get me wrong and take from this that Mevans doesn't care about the community - he cares a great deal, and has said many times in the past that if he ever does decide to stop coding the mod, he will find and announce a replacement. But he hasn't stopped coding the mod. It has not and will not be abandoned on a whole, and if Mevans was leaving it for someone else to continue then there would have been an announcement. I know for a fact that Mevans is still around and working on things, if slowly. As for the community - I've certainly seen people gripe about the community dying, but those people clearly aren't familiar with the community. Yes, people are leaving. But there are hundreds of people who will be in this to the end. And when the update is released, they'll still be around, and even more people will be drawn to the mod; plus, we still get new people in the community as well. It's not so much dying as it is shedding. And if the delayed update means shedding the impatient, then I would be all for it. I am all for it.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 18:55, July 15, 2018 (UTC)