Hey guys! I am creating a server that requires a huge plugin. This project started back in May, and I hired a developer to create the plugin for the server I was making. He said that original plugin would take about a week to complete, and ended up getting just the basic features done in the plugin 3 months past the due date, which was fine, even though the server was missing a lot of features that would be added overtime. That server ended up running for two weeks before I ran into a lot of issues with how the original plugin worked, so I asked the developer about a possible rework of this plugin that he agreed to in August. He said the much larger version of the plugin would be done September 22nd.
Then the series of delay, after delay, after delay started. I didn't mind them until the point of the plugin getting delayed week after week that he says "it will be done friday" or "it will be done tomorrow". I haven't even got any sort of test build this entire time the plugin has been in development, which mind you has been since August. Server members that I have promised a server release date for are leaving because I have been wrong about the release time after time mostly because the dev can't seem to figure out when this plugin will actually be done.
I don't think I am being scammed as I have yet to pay the full price as I have paid like half of it at the start of the plugin, and there is a github repo with code and very good evidence he is working on something, I just don't know what to do anymore. I can't find another developer since I already paid this one, and he would likely expect the other half based on how close he is to finishing the plugin. He says he will be done this week and told me to outright just announce a release date of this weekend, but it is looking more and more like this plugin just won't be finished....