We want to announce a few things, but first and foremost:
Tomorrow we will release the big WSE2 Beta (also known as client beta). This is something we have been testing and working on for a long time, and, with some delay, is finally ready for the public. So I'd like to invite everyone to test it out tomorrow. It's optional for now, you will be able to decide whether to use it or not in the cRPGLauncher.
As you have without doubt noticed, we had some technical issues lately. They were more "severe" than what we are used to, and also they have hit us from several sides. We had trouble with the webservers and the gameservers at the same time, and fixing this is of high priority, but it might still take some time. This is a shame, really, and users experiencing technical troubles hurts us the most, but we need a bit more time to fix it for real.
In general I want to say that we are working very, very hard on some very cool stuff for all of you. I can absolute assure you that you will appreciate the work, and this will increase player numbers again, but we need a bit more time. Also, the stuff we are working on can't be released half-finished, which is the reason why there weren't many updates lately. So please bear with us, we're doing our best, but our working time is limited, we're all working as fast and hard as possible.
By the way, XP will be doubled tomorrow after the patch is released, to test the patch and the servers.
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