CarrionCrow Wrote:Going to? More like did.
They should have prepared the next step if the Alpha went as hoped before launching.
I'm not sure I want to invest time if the company running the game is so unstructured. It is like Nexon all over again.
To be fair, the Alpha was more of a test to gauge the amount of interest in the game from the NA playerbase.
It's somewhat unreasonable to expect them to pour resources into making a new client and publishing the game when the alpha test itself was trying to gauge if the expenditure of resources was worth it. Not to mention the fact that the alpha test went poorly according to "their standards", which hints that they didn't begin working on the new client until the later part of the alpha after they decided the game was worth republishing.
It's also gonna take a while even from now, since they seem to be rebuilding a new client from scratch. They probably have killed a lot of the hype in this interim period, but it should come right back if/when the game comes back with all the new content from the past 2 years. The hype from the Alpha was generated purely from word of mouth -- it should be easy enough to regain that hype when the game re-releases.