(Subject to VR tweaking / amending / rubber-stamping)
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What are the approximate timeframes for Alpha, Beta, and commercial release?
There are many variables involved and developing a massively multiplayer game is not an easy thing to do. Our goal is to be in alpha and beta in 2016, and to release the game in 2017. But this is not set in stone, and the above dates are subject to change.
Can you provide any sort of timeframe for alpha/beta?
As soon as the game is ready to bring in outside testers, we will honor our commitments to do so. At this point, however, it is too early to commit to any specific dates, though Alpha testing is likely to commence around Q1 of 2017.
Around how long will each phase of testing (Pre-Alpha/Alpha/Beta) last?
We want to be in full testing for a full year -- it helped EQ launch in a solid, fairly balanced way, and we want this for Pantheon as well.
-Evoras, Salyer of Quillmane.
We will announce the testing phases prior to them being launched, you won;t miss it if you are following us in any capacity until then, we must ask that you be patient, making games is a very time consuming business and the team are working extremely hard on the games development, once we have more to release we will do so official across all platforms and that includes testing news for all phases.
There is no current eta :)
I am going to go ahead and close this thread as it has been answered and there is no more discussion to be had until we announce testing.