Well, for fangames/ROM hacks, there seems to be a damned if you do/damned if you don't scenario: average fans will treat any projected release date as an ironclad promise and will throw a massive collective shitfit for not getting product "on time", but these same sort of fans will also get touchy if the project leaders say "it'll be done when it's done" and simply leave it at that.
That said, for me it depends on how well the project is managed; Mother 4 seems like it's got its shit on lockdown and the team has had things planned out in advance; plus it's nice to see that they actually have something to show for their work even as recent as the teaser linked in the first post, which all convinces me that the team's word is worth a good deal.
That said, for me it depends on how well the project is managed; Mother 4 seems like it's got its shit on lockdown and the team has had things planned out in advance; plus it's nice to see that they actually have something to show for their work even as recent as the teaser linked in the first post, which all convinces me that the team's word is worth a good deal.