The thought of someone handing me a project as large as taking over the Ryzom codebase, and learning it, and starting to fix bugs, and making new features, and getting all the marketing projects lined up and running, and getting all the business processes (billing, etc.) set up and running, all while a bunch of impatient customers are breathing down my neck and complaining.... well, it gives me the shivers.
Three months, four months, six months... I say it's a huge mountain of work even with a larger organization than I suspect SW has. The fact that they let us play with what already existed while they work on it makes me very happy indeed.
I know many of you old-timers are sick of waiting, waiting, waiting. Just remember that Nevrax and GF are gone, these folks are not the ones who made you wait all those other times. (They're just the ones who are making you wait now...

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But seriously, enjoy your free access to the game you love, if you want to, or do something else to kill the waiting time. Another month is really not that long, when you get to play the whole time.