Seems to be a lot of people adding 1 + 1 and coming up with 3.
The community management team don't just have to look after the community of this game, they also have to look after the community for Elite: Dangerous and with the 2.1/1.6 patch for that game going into beta next week surely it's understandable that they are overstretched right now?
With regards to the eventual release, nothing has changed. As recently as today Frontier have reaffirmed that the game is on target to release by the end of this year in a press release to the LSE.
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