MSXVR - Any News?

For what I know the combination of COVID + summer holidays has caused significant trouble with the parts suppliers, but the team is meanwhile working on other stuff e.g. preparing the documentation. I guess they will post here as soon as they notice this thread.

With all respect, but the project has been pushed forward way too often. Delivery has been expanded/delayed many multiple times. Especially the corona period gave lot's of time / and opportunity to assemble machines. I have paid for it (the FULL amount of money) I think in November 2019, so that is almost a year ago in September. Last time I contacted, it's said delivery is in September this year, so well... no excuses this time. This time I certainly EXPECT delivery!

How are you supposed to assemble machines if you don't have the parts to assemble? As I said, the suppliers are the blocker here.

Honestly I'm not surprised at all, and being experienced with other hobby projects and also crowdfunded stuff, I wouldn't bat an eyelid if I had to wait for an year, especially in this particular case. Why? I personally thought (and I bet most people also did) that their initial estimated delivery date was excessively optimistic, considering so much was yet to be done (despite communication difficulties, they were transparent enough that this was very clear at the time). Too many variables, too much stuff out of the team's control, and still the team's to-do list was still big.

My point is, be patient. Be very patient. If the team is serious about this project, and I have no reason to believe it's not, they are as disappointed as you for still being unable to deliver, probably more. When we contribute to hobby and crowdfunded projects we must always be aware of the risk, for all parts. You made an investment and someday it may bear fruit, or not. If any good comes out of all this, it will be a bonus.

Here something I had to learn the hard way in my commercial computer build/fix years.

In the computer building/fixing business it is very dangerous to promise dates. It is very human if a customer only remembers the date you mention. Words like "I hope", "probably" and the likes are of no interrest to a customer.

In the beginning I was very enthousiastic to help customers fix their devices. If something looked easy I told them the probability of it being fixed the other day was plausible. "I think chances are high I'll call you tomorrow". Often it were those cases where there were other problems as well. Thinking of parts that had to be ordered, slow scans, things not working like they normally do for whatever reason, priority jobs. Anything you can come up with goes.
It happened more than once a customer just showed up without me ever having called them and got angry if I told them the computer was not fixed yet. "But you promised it would be fixed". "No, I never did". The customer remembered what was most important for them, the date.

In the beginning my colleagues warned me to never make promisses, no matter how easy the job looked and no matter how much I wanted to please the customer because one never knows what obstacles may lie ahead. I learned it the hard way and new colleagues after me.

@ray2day: I did not write the above to shut you up. Not at all.
I recognize elements of my early days in the time line of MSXVR. I see his enthousiasm and wanting to make people happy with his work. Rather today than tomorrow. In the beginning the deadlines may have been set on a very doable date. But as turns out that would have been the ideal scenario. Ideal scenarios mostly happen when no promisses were made. External factors can easily break your planning and made promisses. Today's Covid19 surely does. International shipping is not what it used to be (my Russian Carnivore 2 has traveled 2/3 of its trip in one day. That was two weeks ago).