Big Bang Is In the Air

WRONG. i have been talking as if Nexon SHOULD launch Big Bang as soon as possible.

But will it be ready by October? If they do a rush job just to release it before the competition... I predict a lot more bugs than Nexon's usual crop, especially a total mishandling of World Tour areas.
One would hope they release it when they have it complete, *and* Tespia-tested for a decent length of time, and not a second before.

Will it be ready? No. Emergency patches? Most likely. Will this be tolerable? yes.

You didn't say "should", you said "will". Assuming they will just because they should. Alas,

Southperry is full of some of the brightest folks in the Maple community. You can't fool them. Nexon might not be the most transparent company, but the wonderful thing is that it has made the brilliant Maple community figure them out through extractions and excellent deductive reasoning. With all that in mind, pretty sure most people see this as an inexcusable blog post for what ultimately reveals yet another chapter in Nexon's journey through incompetence.

This I agree with. You explained very clearly how incompetent they are in your field of expertise.
I can tell you, as a programmer, that it's clear their development team is not given the best conditions to work in, and that's without making any comment on their skill. Their version control software, if they even have any in place, must be as ancient as the Windows XP they work with, or maybe their procedures for using it are faulty. We see old bugs crop up when new updates are copy-pasted (instead of merged) in. That may be why they waited for KMS BB to be complete before starting to port it.

We'll just have to wait and see how many kids will read this blog and say "oh yay, bb is coming, I will save my xmas money for that" and how many will do as you predict, say "*** them", and spend it all on other things.
Or maybe Nexon is counting on Maple still being there when those kids have grown tired of whatever game they spent their Christmas money on. And being F2P means the kids will be back to playing Maple even when they have no money... and only after they're re-hooked they will go beg their parents for NX. This is unlike a cartridge type game, or P2P, which the consumer has to pay for before they are addicted.

No doubt they are incompetent, but they might just pull through from this fiasco.

At 10+ hours of grinding a day, perhaps. I'm referring to the hardcore of the god damn hardcore here. The "maniacs" out there. Casual players will still take several months I'm sure.

Who cares what the hardcore of the god damn hardcore can do? They level absurdly fast with or without family 2x.
Casual players will still take several months, even if family 2x remains intact.
So basically, nerfing family 2x is not necessary to the balance of the game or w/e, and will just make the lazy Americans angry.