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The sense of entitlement that crops up throughout this thread amazes me.

It'd be bad enough coming from the people who actually donate the money that adds up to the steady living the Adams brothers earn by their work on Dwarf Fortress. Coming from random Hacker News commenters, many of whom hasten to add that they'd never play anything with such an awful UX themselves, it is bewildering and disappointing.

Isn't this community supposed to be above such things?

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It is a bit discouraging. And keep in mind that the game is technically still in Alpha, everyone.

It has been in Alpha for a decade now. It's not clear if it is ever going to advance to Beta status.

Well, he has a set of goals he intends to achieve before it hits 1.0 and the version numbering currently is meant to reflect the % the brothers deem it complete. Considering they've managed to spend ten years doing the work I would say it seems possible it will, eventually, hit beta and even be 'finished'.

Well, it is currently at 0.43, and since we know that the last 10% of the project takes 90% of the time we can expect the 1.0 to release in approximately 232 years.

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