For both of you:
The roadmap:
As said it is not binding but expected to be somewhat followed which it wasn’t at all.
Fatshark will have to live with their and only their own failure.
In my opinion this all comes down to them hugely overestimating themselves as well as not delaying the release as would have been proper.
The Stats mod:
It was denied sanctioning because FS intends to do that feature themselves and in this case it also used FS created but disabled UI.
This has it’s own controversy around it. As FS is really slow that feature might never be released by them blocking the feature forever.
As well as that if you take this statement at face value means that all the qol mods that currently exist which include very minor things will never be implemented officially because of the retroactive conclusion of what they said.
Even dough the former was over analyzed you shouldn’t give too much weight to what they say exactly since they too do not think about everything in detail before posting which exactly why things like the roadmap are a thing.
Back to fashontide and therefore the subject of this topic.
I do like that we can customize our heroes a bit but I’m very sad that their very talented artists haven’t had time to retexture the skins in cool manners or that there aren’t at least be many many more recolors to choose from and at least there is the issue that hats and especially hoods do not match to most of the skins. Read more…
I’m very much aware that Winds of magic is what they are working on and I will take Beastmen over skins any day.
PS: It might just be the case that WoM sees many new/returning players and if they want to reverse the trend of loosing 90% of players over little to nothing they might want to correct some of it.