Quote Originally Posted by kazaran View Post
They would need to move current players into beta fairly fast, and release fast.
Why would they need to do it "fast"?

Quote Originally Posted by Felis View Post
It should be clear that the july date was just a rumor.
Yoshi said that the date depends on how the beta is doing.
They can't make a date if the beta haven't started yet.
Do you know anything about the game industry? Developers make dates all the time before even Alpha of games both online and offline, they just don't always make it public until their sure. He said the game will be out when he feels it's ready, but when you look back by patches, he as a nasty habit of delaying everything and there's still issues with them, and this is ignoring the earthquake and tsunami situation.

Btw, SE delays everything, testing for ARR was even delayed.