I'm happy to say that it's looking like they were all wrong and this game is coming closer and closer to full release. It is a large, complex, and ambitious title that many thought would never even happen. It is a much-anticipated game that is set in an immersive world with player run domains, governance, economics, warfare and the logistics that makes all that possible. Hopefully, this information clarifies things for you and helps. This post is for those here that may be interested but are confused and do not understand the development cycle for CoE. Take this information into account when appraising the general time range these dates represent as being far-fetched. I've watched this game for awhile and its rate of development has been consistent and rapid. It does not take 50+ million dollars and a 50+ man team to make an MMO anymore. Also, technology allowing the streamlined creation of games has also come an extremely long way just in the last 5 years. This is a common misconception which I believe is leading to a lot of the comments below. Anyone who has ever done any amount of programming will know that a game engine, especially a dynamic story creating one, for a game like this is literally the most time-consuming part of development. To be accurate 10 years prior to 2015 (12 years ago). This is not the case, the underlying engine for this game is something that has been in development for quite some time. Also based on input below there are a lot of people that believe that this game started its development at Kickstarter, which is a common misconception. These dates are not written stone, will be adjusted in the future, and at the end of the day, we'll just have to see what happens.
It is a development cycle for a game and that always has a lot of variables.
The dates here reflect an estimation of when the work on these particular phases will be happening. Rather than provide ship-dates or deadlines, we're providing a development schedule so you can see when we'll be working on stuff. This was quoted by Caspian as a clarification. While the title here says that alpha 1 is coming at the beginning of next year this is due to a misunderstanding on my part and for that, I apologize.
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