When the game comes out we'll all know soon enough whether its good or not, either because we will have the game ourselves or someone we are in contact with will have the game. They say "past is prologue", but when release day comes ALL the guff that went before - all the trailers, reveals & controversies - won't matter a jot, and will be quickly forgotten.
+1 here for a return to playable demos in general, bypassing the dubious journos, binning the pre-order bad-work incentive, & encouraging a better product release ethic in the industry in general. Although demos wouldn't be required to make such attitudes prevalent, any dev could do it by simply choosing not to release a bugged product and showing a bit of pride in their work. Imagine that.
That statement may have been as a response to a specific question on the rumour, Eurogamer doesn't make it clear. Nevertheless, the impression is given that the ridiculous allegation of vapourware put about by some anonymous coward has touched a nerve with the REDs, and why wouldn't it? How would you like it if what you had been pouring years of effort into creating for an audience was claimed to not exist, implying that you were conducting a scam by wilfully defrauding people of pre-orders, never mind some ciriously broken hearts.
One anonymous source with zero evidence supplied versus 35 minutes of gameplay (at least 10 mins of which must've been one unedited / unpaused slice) and people didn't laugh in the face of that neogaf twat? Me, I'd be pretty fecked off with the lot of you. Them, they're clearly still a little bothered by it, and even want to calm peoples irrational fears.
TL ; DR: TW3 is not vapourware, never has been, entertaining the very thought is ridiculous, so don't. It may release fatally bugged (disclaimer: I don't think it will, just an example) but that still doesn't make it the v-word. The V-word implies the REDs have been twiddling thumbs these last few years, watched the RedEngine gather dust, how they hell could anyone believe that?
