I also want to point out some other things:
Firstly, there’s no mention of Udon 2 or WASM in the original post, despite it clearly being a widely renouned update that was previously promised.
Secondly, despite the majority of the thread being intense and leigitmate concern about what happened to WASM and Udon 2:
- There were 4 VRChat Staff replies made before WASM or Udon 2 was mentioned
- Of those 4 VRChat Staff replies, 1 of them quoted two replies mentioning Udon 2, but they did not directly mention Udon 2 or WASM.
- It took nearly an entire day to have a response about WASM and Udon 2
Third: Like someone else mentioned, the original Udon 2 feedback request was renamed to Soba, and the udon 2 link redirects to soba:
https://feedback.vrchat.com/udon/p/udon-2
They also changed the post content, from this:
To this:
Fourth:
They rolled back on a change (which is not new behavior from VRChat[1] on top of existing radio silence[2][3][4][5][6]) and even acknowledged they overpromised (something they’ve talk about avoiding before[7], but somehow didn’t learn that lesson[8][9][10][11][12][13]).
Finally, Fifth, 209 days after Merlin was fired, and 27 days ago:
So… presumably based on their outward communication, as far as I can see: Within the last 27 days they were able to start working on “Soba” and not only have some WIP to give feedback on its performance, but also have a general roadmap, and they somehow know that Soba will [eventually at some point in the future, assuming the feature is still being worked on and will be released] have similar performance to WASM Udon 2.
27 days ago, we still were under the assumption that Udon 2 was going to be the same WASM-based solution with the performance they showcased.
And Fax replied with that.
That is not transparency.
Guys. I’m really sorry. But you can’t keep doing this. We wouldn’t be so mad about you guys doing this if you were just more honest about things.
If you’re uncertain, say you’re uncertain!
If something might jeopardize a feature, say so!
If you don’t have a release date, don’t promise any dates (roadmap)!
It’s really simple.
At this point, even if you are being entirely honest to the community and Merlin is somehow wrong in saying you’re lying or misrepresenting the truth, we can’t trust you.
