We wanted it out 28th of March 2009 I think. At some point you have to decide not to wait any longer. So when the major new features were working, and major problems seemed to be under control it was decided to release. Also take into consideration that some features such as quest menus and the better lighting were working for over 8 months already, and not only players can get anxious to see new stuff in game
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Unfortunately the test with many players on ezpc was not as massively as we hoped (with only 5 chars online at a time), so even with major problems discovered and fixed, even more problems surfaced after release on Laanx. Christmas is a busy time for everyone, including devs, and still some have spend days on getting things working (with success). Hopefully the remaining problems are fixed soon too, but where they are related to old hardware, there may not be too much we can do. If we postpone release till all old hardware works again, even newer hardware will become outdated
