Originally posted by Mr. X:

Maybe they're just tired of saying something. because you would always get the same answer from the community anyway. 6-9 months sounds realistic to me for the size of the team. but they probably can't work on it in one piece and communicating every interruption would only delay everything further and wouldn't interest anyone anyway

Well they do seem to communicate ... I just avoid their stuff since I don't like spoilers.

But it was <I think a moderator here> who pointed out in those monthly things about how it took 6 months for concept and prep... the Oct to march time and in march it officially started to work on mistlands.

So they are communicating but in bits and pieces ... just trying to get a grip on the whole picture if they are willing to share that.
It was also stated it was basically only one person doing the terrain work and concept stuff so that time might be rolled into the previous beta/bug time or something.

I can put together a timeframe from what they have said and done but I just want to see if that is realistic to them.