“They're not scheduled to open for public beta until end of the year -- and given the script situation, I very much doubt they'll make that target anyway.”
From what I understood from the drips and drabs that is the Sansar communication the end of the year is Ebbe’s goal for the full production version of Sansar. Given the way Sansar is floundering in my opinion that is even less likely that a public beta by the end of the year.
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BTW you’ve found another person that doesn’t take High Fidelity seriously. I found it interesting from a technical standpoint but as you say they have punted such basic things as text chat.
Didn’t Ebbe respond favorably about a centralized official source for Sansar information back in November? Given the drips and drabs way Sansar information gest out that is needed to kill the rumor mill on the subject. But I haven’t heard anything else about that since then.