DISCLAIMER: I've stood behind this game since 2012 and have supported development 99.7% of the time and only been vocal/critical these last few months. With that said...I was leaning towards the devs getting it done before Christmas, but it's not going to happen...there isn't enough time. They're already saying they can't do anymore Status Reports this year...why are there no more Status Reports? They can't take long to make. Traditionally, the team leaves a week or so early for travel accomodations which leaves at least two good weeks left. Since BETA we have Modding Tools that don't work and have zero documentation. I'm sitting around here waiting to adjust infected and loot with the CeEditor for WEEKS now. How are we suppossed to use it when there are no instructions on how to do so? Last I heard, CeEditor doesn't even work when trying to deploy. Essentially, devs rushed broken modding tools out to the public. I find that unreasonable and unacceptable. Basebuilding and Persistence are broken and there simply isn't enough time to fix it. Players came in droves for Basebuilding and new fetures/assets/etc and they've left as quickly as they came. Bohemia Interactives biggest flaw is they simply don't understand the lingua franca of the customer.  Example... Rush the console port out (Hicks even said it in an DUG interview), get a buzz, then destroy it with broken night and rain. Initial rush there was a good 6 servers with max pop and plenty underneath with comparable populations. Now it's one if you're lucky. Why leave the game for a weekend of play with night and rain non-stop? I could be wrong here and I apologize if I am, but isn't the crunch time cycle like a 7 day a week affair? I've read a few dev written articles on the subject so I'm not just grabbing that out of thin air. As it stands on PC, you can't even shutdown a server and restart it without persistence getting partially wiped. I can't modify infected I can't modify starting health I can't modify stamina ror sprinting I can't modify a simple custom loadout I can't modify loot lifetime of 50 seconds (why would that even be a stock value anyway?!?!?!) so players can't lootfarm and despawn camps Hell, I can't even get on the bug tracker or get my players over there to file bug reports! The core issues will not be fixed in the next two weeks, we haven't had a PC update in 11 days. Why the big rush anyway? The reasoning posted was very ambigious and not clear. I know PlayStation was the first console to get on board, is this one of the reasons for the rush...to get it out on PlayStation or some sort of fulfillment with console contracts? Everybody knows the console contracts/deals/whatever-you-want-to-call-it made the new engine, renderer, etc possible so they must obviously have SOME SORT of deadline attached. I don't think there is adequate transparency going on here and I really wish Dean was here yelling at Marek. "The thing is, if I'm involved in the project, I'll be fighting anybody on the project to make sure it's good, so for the rest of the year, I'm there. And I don't just sit around; it doesn't matter if I'm the cleaner or the leader or whatever, I will be making sure - I will be in Marek's [Spanel, CEO] office yelling at him. I'm notorious for it." -Dean Hall Source: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-02-24-dean-hall-to-leave-bohemia-and-step-down-as-leader-of-dayz We need a leader that isn't scared to put Marek in his place.  If there isn't a monetary obligation, just postpone the dang thing and release with your best foot forward. You don't take a hot chick out on a first date to Chick-fil-A do ya? You put your best foot forward, not a foot with dogshit on the bottom and your big toe poking through a hole.