On the release date saga, they put it back twice now, no doubt they will do again, if needs be. So don't count on anything, like everything, its best to give general impression your on schedule and things are going as expected, even if this is not the case.
In gaming world it seems to be normal practice, a fair precentage of games get ther finishing date put back from initial estimate, many times seen on net game sites or magazine, game te released first quarter of the year, only then to get new annocement that its now second quarter or even third.
If how test is running at mo is anything to gauge how long till realease, you would have to say a while yet, but then maybe they are further along then we think and we arent seeing all the lastest on beta.
On lag issues, my biggest hope is that they are running on minimal server as they would on full release, in fact it seems to me that in last week lag got far worse. So maybe they are running minimal server status to test server stress a long term perecentage stress test. After all as someone else mentioned, they haven't done a stress test recently.
Well i hope so anyway.
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