by bellerophon » Mon Nov 10, 2014 12:36 am
While it should not be rushed, and quality beats everything out in the end, Nolstarius explicitly claims they are ready content-wise ("more than playable"), and just doing minor bug-fixes at this point (and it can never be literally 100% bug-free anyway). Given that, I agree with the ones who say it's better to release sooner than later; I'll certainly go with whichever releases first, and since Kronos isn't ready to release yet, while Nolstarius is, Nolstarius would do well to take advantage of their position.
That is not to say it should literally "open it now" -- initial population is also important, and we probably want to wait a few weeks for advertising. However, it would make advertising much easier if we had a release date now. While there is the risk that we might not be able to attract enough people before the release date (and once you set the date, it's hard to go back on your words), if we did have a concrete release date, that fact alone would set it apart from Kronos or any other project and attract attention. I'd say, maybe announce a release date in the following week, if we get enough subscribers/forum accounts to have some guarantee that the server won't be dead; I wager that once there is a release date, interest in this server will exponentially increase.