Question about Planned Sept Release:

[Esthar]

if there was not the promise of no character wipes, no one would be playing now.
End of line.

This. Probably not no one, but wiping characters... I think they couldn't bear the effects of it. (^-^)
Anyways, the way they answered this, was pretty cool I think.
In one of the Producers Letters, Yoshi answered to a player who sent him a letter asking this question.