I'm not forgetting anything, I thought the idea of a paying customer-exclusive demo stupid back then. If he really intended to do it and changed his mind, I say he did the right choice. Had he gone through, I'd have shaken my head and gone on. I'm waiting for the complete game anyway.
If you backed this to get your own little exclusive early access backer-only content, well, tough luck. It's never been the point for me.
All this "backer-only" supposed incentives are idiotic anyway, I'm helping to fund a product that would otherwise never be released, and in the same move securing my physical copy, not stroking my ego by clamoring about early access or my name in the credits.

Edit :
That may be, but it's you defending it and throwing a fit because you feel somehow betrayed that this demo isn't in the end exclusive to you, me and the few other crazies.

Tidings huh? How about a vote for your funniest statements? I nominate:

Grimoire will never be a finished game worth playing and Cleve Blakemore has stolen money.

This is how it stands today and based on 17+ years of bullshit odds are it isn't going to change.

Retracting my other comments about this vaporware, it's bug infested super demo, etc.

I really don't understand you, dirty. You have been proven wrong, completely. Your rudeness was inexcusable. Yet you still seem to think everyone else is at fault. It is kind of fascinating.

Grimoire will never be a finished game worth playing and Cleve Blakemore has stolen money.

This is how it stands today and based on 17+ years of bullshit odds are it isn't going to change.

Retracting my other comments about this vaporware, it's bug infested super demo, etc.

Except it was only different in your mind, not his, not mine, not anyone's here or the other forum.

It's called metonymy - a surrogate term is used to convey a meaning that a competent user of a given language will understand.
One of the more widely known (and relevant here) characteristics of autistic people is their inability to read between the lines, understand anything that goes beyond literal meanings, take cues and information from context.
I'm not particularly fond of Clive, but I couldn't help but laugh at his "severely autistic" post. I've been disappointed by other people's limitations before, so I can empathize with him...

17 years of development??????????????????????????????????????????????
it must be a joke.

I understand that Vestin but consider the use of the term for a condition people suffer with to be inappropriate. No doubt there are people who will disagree with that too but that is how I feel.

No ?

Don't be surprised. There are other games out there that have been in development for a fair while... just not as long as this one (Kenshi and Xenonauts come to mind) :P

Seeing as how that other guy isn't even alive anymore to tell his side of the story, I'd take anything Cleve says with a pinch of salt.

The eBay auction was what convinced me Cleve's background (working in Sirtech) was for real - I couldn't find anything about it that even remotely suggested the seller was pulling a fast one. A bunch of us on the dex did try to acquire the documents, but 2-3 external buyers were able to bid snipe most of us with bids beyond what we were willing/able to pay; there were also some legal problems with the whole thing. Too bad, some of the stuff would have been really cool to have e.g. the letters and financial records.

Yes, old news, I've already seen those. Seeing all that stuff suddenly pop up on eBay on a routine Wizardry search one day is what led me to the rpgcodex thread on further research in the first place.

I'm still not believing the outlandish claims he made about his Sir-Tech co-workers running a pedophilic sexual human trafficking ring.