He might have an estimate, but not an exact date. If you post an estimate and the estimate is wrong then people like you will be speaking negatively again. They can be doing the dload server first and not both at the same time. In which case he said almost ready for the dload server. That's all the estimate he needs to say to avoid more "shtick" from impatient community followers.
Its rather simple don't you think.
- Switch the servers
- test/fix the problems
- do it now, so that I can play!
Phreak,
I was given an 'estimate'. These estimates are usually wrong, so I don't pass it along. You can say it's not how business works, however it's exactly how I've seen things work with most large company I've worked with for the past 17 years in this industry.
I chose our current hosts for two reasons:
1) They were highly recommended by a friend who has managed data centers for some of the largest MMO publishers.
2) The main reason: We considered many different locations and our current hosts had the best average overall connectivity and ping to test locations around the globe. (Our current problems were not with bandwidth only and that is being addressed with the server reconfiguration and move).
As soon as I know that the servers will be ready I will announce it. They are being worked on right now.