So, the question popped up

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(Pop quiz: if I publish a "final completed 0.2 public edition" tomorrow, how many of those "too busy with real life" people will suddenly find time to play with it?)

What puzzles me is why you don't do just that, because after all that's exactly what you want to achieve and what will probably get the train rolling again.

I get it, you don't want to do buggy untested releases like in my days or - likely even worse - VK's, but seriously, it cannot be that bad. Bugs happen, people find them (and it really doesn't matter whether it's Speeder or a random newb), the word is spread, the community works. People won't be butt-mad about a bug or two. But obviously they are about nothing (visible) happening at all, and reading a formally phrased "fuck you lol" composed in 80 minutes of precious time won't exactly be motivating them either.

In any event, I gather I'm not the only guy with that opinion I expressed in my last rant here. Maybe instead of spending 80 minutes on picking apart every detail of those posts, spend them on wondering about why they are even posted. I have that weird kind of feeling that it's not because all is well and there's just a bunch of polemics complotting against Renegade because it is 2012 and the end is near.