TheMightyPaladin wrote:

Also if what he says in the first part of the article is true, then THERE IS NO REASON NOT TO HAVE NUNCHAKU, AT LAUNCH!!!!

You might have read the first part of the article but it seems you didn't read the whole thing. Towards the end in section 2 (titled "Lots Of Bad Games Were Just Too Ambitious") the author directly talks about what happens when a game tries to deliver too much at launch. The following is a quote from that section:

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"[Malice] was in development hell for three years. It was huge, it had Gwen Stefani doing music and voicing a character. But it had I think literally 100 levels. And a dozen weapons and weird magic components, it was just too big for its own good. It crumbled under its own weight, eventually some version of it got released but they scrapped most of it. I remember seeing a copy of it in stores and thinking it was kind of sad. You know what the game could have been, because you play the game as it was intended before financial reality catches up with it."

This passage clearly points out when a game tries to do too much all at once it can easily implode on itself. He even talks about "weapons" in his example in terms of the game trying to implement too many of them all at once. Look, no one is saying they don't want nunchaku to be in CoT at all. It's just that almost EVERYONE is telling you why all things being equal it's MUCH, MUCH more likely that if they happen at all they'll happen AFTER launch.

I really can't understand why YOU don't seem to understand the situation we're dealing with here: We've got a small group of very dedicated Devs attempting to do something with CoT that's almost impossible in the first place. If these guys (with all due respect) even manage to get ANY version of the game running it's really going to be a minor miracle given the general lack of funds and grassroots nature of their development. And here you come along, seemingly oblivious to how hard software development is under those conditions and ignorant of the fact that it's going to be a challenge for CoT to ever be a fraction as content-rich as CoH was and continue to scream for a relatively unique (read non traditionally superhero oriented) weapon style that never even existed in CoH for a very good reason - it's not something that would ever be easy to do half-assed let alone properly.

Maybe a more simplistic analogy will help you: It's like we've got a dozen people trying their best to build us an entire cruise ship on a pennies and dimes budget and you keep ranting that you want them to build it with golden anchors. Sure it would be very nice if the ship could have anchors made of gold but since we're going to be lucky if they can even get this ship to float the chances that they'll have the time, money and/or manpower available to install golden anchors on its maiden voyage is practically nil.

There's going to be a lot of people who won't be getting their "perfect wish" thing at the start of CoT. You're no more of a special snowflake than anyone else so stop thinking your thing is somehow more deserving than anyone else's.