Basically the delay must have been known to the devs beforehand.
Which brings me to the conclusion, that you ran out of money and lied to the community about the progress of your project.
This would also explain the hasty ICO, which you started shortly after opening the thread.
While your alpha looks really nice and the whitepaper is really good, youre actions on the community are not to be accepted.
For me, this means that I will sell my Heat tokens shortly after you release them and will not reenter. Period.
So true.
Another gem earlier on in September was how, after missing every deadline they promised, they said they will refrain from mentioning a further release date from this or that, because this can be "too easily misunderstood for an actual release date".
Oh well, another day another scam, what's new and who cares. And maybe one day we'll even see some of the investment back.
They were thinking they could sell their tech to some companies. They failed. Then they made the ICO what was a buyout of their previous investors and themself.
More important is the future plan. I am sure they can deliver by doing a production ready platform and release it with the heat coin as a proof of working system, so they can form the Incoporation, they want to issue shares for.
Delays are normal in development. As it look like they want to keep the money for themself and not hire some coders, so everything will take longer.
Without community no blockchain, no nodes, no support in marketing as always with altcoins. Without exchanges no market for the coin. There is some risk.
It's not the delay that is bothering, but the way, they communicated it. For me, this is as close to a scam as you can get without actually scamming.