apehater: hmm ... why do they have to apologize again?
HereForTheBeer: From a publicity standpoint they felt they had to say SOMEthing, and the "Screw them" or "Apologize" coin toss came up tails. XD
I see this as a contradiction:
"We have squeezed everything we could into the game, there's nothing left on the table."
Followed right after by:
"We initially had a much longer story written and more levels planned..."
You DID leave stuff on the table: the "much longer story" and "more levels". Yes, I realize there's a reason for that: the budget. But by their own words they had fully intended from the start to make a significantly longer game - presumably at a similar price point - and development costs got in the way of that. The snipped content is what got left on the table, and that's the crux of the complaints.
Same price, a lot less content. But I hear it looks really pretty...
i just meant, they feel somehow guilty, but they shouldn't there are far worse games where you pay 50 bucks at release and get a boring 6 hour gameplay game. and i can't remember that i've seen an apologize for such games, example: bioshock infinite.