I was listening to the Critical Drinker's after hours stream and they were talking about Winds of Winter due to the fact that GRRM recently released something Westeros related that wasn't WOW along with his many projects with HBO. They all pretty much agreed that it is highly doubtful it will ever be released, at least while he is alive.
Someone in the comments put out the whole "he owes you nothing" argument and that fans are entitled, but he did say GRRM made a mistake in constantly promising that he would end the series.
What do y'all think? I understand that he owes me nothing and I read the books between season 5 and 6 so I haven't been waiting since the 90s, but I would respect him more if he just said that he didn't want to finish and hire someone to finish. I will say now that whenever someone recommends a book series to me the first thing I ask is if the series is completed or not. I also remember someone saying that now people will be less willing to give a new author a chance if he has a multi book series.
I personally believe that once he dies (assuming he never releases the books) that his publisher will take what he had written and publish that or find someone to make it a coherent story. GOT could've been an epic show from start to finish had he finished the source material and even if he does release the last two the interest will be far less than what it could've been.
Seeing as how this is not Reddit I'm going with "That white knight is a whiny faggot."
Customers are by nature of their existence/transactions expecting a product of some quality and quantity. That isn't entitlement, it's an inherent aspect of being a customer.
When a product is well received then hyped up as ASOIAF has been over the years [in part due to the show] the product failing to materialise despite assurances from the writer is not a point of entitlement as the white knight is trying to deflect towards, but rather a consequence of the producer/writer being the one acting entitled towards having a persistent consumer group after having failed to publish 1 book in the last 11 years.
A Game of Thrones: Aug 1996
A Clash of Kings: Feb 1999 [2.5 years later]
A Storm of Swords: Nov 2000 [20 months later]
A Feast for Crows: Nov 2005 [5 years later]
A Dance with Dragons: July 2011 [5.5 years later]
The Winds of Winter: Still not out [10 years and 8 months later.] <- You are here.
A Dream of Spring: Yeah, right. More likely to have George Carlin do another comedy tour than have George RR Martin write another book at this point.
The show did ok because it had a basic outline with the books. Once they overtook that point the quality went to shit and the ending was up there with 'How I Met Your Mother' in terms of killing all rewatchability in the future.