Voodoo Extreme has unearthed a few of the always entertaining comments from 3D Realms' George Broussard on the official forums. Here's one:
Fan Question: The only thing I can figure is that this is a case of a desire for too much perfection.
Broussard: That's not it at all. We certainly have very high standards, but the bottom line is that we had some issues and made some big mistakes and that cost us a few years of wasted development. We started fresh in very late 02 (really early 03) and have been on a pretty good pace since then. We are making progress and driving towards something.
This reallly is a case of just screwing up in a cosmic way early on, then just deciding to try to do it right.
Fan Question: The only thing I can figure is that this is a case of a desire for too much perfection.
Broussard: That's not it at all. We certainly have very high standards, but the bottom line is that we had some issues and made some big mistakes and that cost us a few years of wasted development. We started fresh in very late 02 (really early 03) and have been on a pretty good pace since then. We are making progress and driving towards something.
This reallly is a case of just screwing up in a cosmic way early on, then just deciding to try to do it right.