: I can't remember which interview I saw it in, but Frankie said they wanted to
: have the beta as early as possible to gather feedback on every aspect and
: have plenty of time to change and adjust things, rather than running a
: beta simply identify bugs and glitches and changing very little .

Which is admirable, but it's so far out from launch that you'd think they would want a second beta to test whether or not they screwed things up even worse from the first one. A lot of H4's "fixes" only made things worse. It took them months to start finding a good balance to their fixes and to start really nailing things down, and even then some of their "fixes" and patches and TUs were a detriment.