Quote Originally Posted by Sanctus View Post
it seems the only logical explanation as to why they had to take servers down now and are rushing to transfer data in time for when beta starts. We may very well be looking at more of an "exclusive early release" rather than a beta in late jan / early feb though they will call it a beta for sure, and a few things may not be in the game until the "official" release
Oh the idea of the game having a release beyond Feb is all speculation at this point. If you look at the original PDF, they had the release date to be January 2013... so even at 8 weeks it is still possible to be end of Feb early March. We really don't know WHERE they are on it.