Releasin' it then mergin' everythin' would cause chaos. Doin' this first gets all the hassle and trouble of the mergers out the way before they start to go around makin' changes. And then everyone who's quit becasue of the mergers would have quit anyways...it makes perfect sense to let the people who're gunna throw tantrums over this to quit before implementin' the larger changes.

There is an Age II; they're jus' decidin' to keep it cloaked w/o any spills for some reason. They've hired people to do proof-readin' (and I say hired; they won't pay people to pretend to proof-read for a version that doesn't exist) and preparin' and I think there was some kind of closed beta-test a while back?