Bandits were never advertised as being planned for Alpha 17. They only previewed some art for probably outfits the bandits would have.They have been known in development since Alpha 14, but the only time they ever focused on having bandits for release was for a21, but the AI was nowhere near ready so it was set aside for later. Even then it wasn't promoted that they would be included in the update.

Originally posted by Stevanator: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/earlyaccess

2. Do not make specific promises about future events. For example, there is no way you can know exactly when the game will be finished, that the game will be finished, or that planned future additions will definitely happen. Do not ask your customers to bet on the future of your game. Customers should be buying your game based on its current state, not on promises of a future that may or may not be realized.

they literally broke this rule every single update they did

Ok, so go ahead and show with references where they gave a specific date with a promise, and broke it.
When they say "We are aiming for", or "if all goes as planned", that is an estimate and not a promised date.So again. Provide evidence of them actually violating that by making a direct promise, and missing it.

Originally posted by Stevanator:

Originally posted by tazman1: Alright everyone lets post when we first heard that and how many updates redesigns and complete game overhauls as well as other just random non bug fix crap was given out instead while they pushed it to the next update.

For me it was Alpha 17 would have bandits

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Originally posted by SylenThunder: Ok, so go ahead and show with references where they gave a specific date with a promise, and broke it.
When they say "We are aiming for", or "if all goes as planned", that is an estimate and not a promised date.

So again. Provide evidence of them actually violating that by making a direct promise, and missing it.

Again. It was never promised. And you linking to a false claim does not prove anything. Here is the Alpha 17 Developer Diary. Go find where they stated an exact date for release, or that bandits were for sure going to be in Alpha 17.
https://community.7daystodie.com/topic/4430-developer-discussions-alpha-17/

Originally posted by Stevanator:

Originally posted by SylenThunder: Again. It was never promised. And you linking to a false claim does not prove anything.

Here is the Alpha 17 Developer Diary. Go find where they stated an exact date for release, or that bandits were for sure going to be in Alpha 17.
https://community.7daystodie.com/topic/4430-developer-discussions-alpha-17/

well i wont find it now, because its been 8 years, and in that time you had time to edit and delete everything to cover yourselves, every person here is aware of your behavior

Then use the Wayback machine. The developer has never shown the kind of behavior you imply. It's just people making false claims that state that.