Ah, Link :-)
Well this is not exactly true, it is more like gamiix is under new ownership, changing ISP?s type thing. I am not sure of the details, but that is the essence, gamiix was a wonderful place while we where there, and it is really has nothing at all to do with us.
We where and are very thankful to gamiix. They have been exceptional and at the time it cost them a great deal of effort to set things up.
There is more to explain, but I really don?t feel it is important enough to mention in any way.
As far as dead?we will see.
There is more out there then you or I may know, and there are things we just have not even considered.
I do think there will be a playable game by years end, however that will not be ?persistent? it will be more Alpha/beta as we play with and tweak things.
I personally hope for true beta this time 2004, but things may happen faster or slower, it is impossible to tell when people are putting blood and tears into a game for free.
We truly run more of a risk of being irrelevant on release then of being dead. But at the same time I feel strongly that we are in very good hands technically, and the game will be good, but getting the AI to the level of ghost recon and such I think will be difficult as much as we try.
But you never know.