Welcome to the game and glad to have you, Daere. Don\'t take any crap from Link. :-) He\'s grumpy but mostly he\'s right, so once you are used to him it\'ll be ok.
Regarding the two year time horizon, I don\'t think we are that far from having something fun to play, although we may well be that far from a \"feature complete\" game. Just having combat and spells and progression, for example, could be a fine game without trade skills, group combat tactics and HAL-level AI. That is the beauty of Open Source development... it never has to stop. We all want something playable asap though, so we will be focusing on that after MB is done.
- Vengeance