Apologies for being dramatic, it's not so much rumor but interview snippets. The 2013 NA release date is based on an mmorpg.com interview in July (
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g...2/feature/6493), and Jake Song mentioned on his Twitter account that an English version was in the works in December (translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=de&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=tra nslate.google.com&sl=de&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://archeage-online.de/homepage/news-archiv/199-englische-version-von-archeage-in-arbeit&usg=ALkJrhjRoZ5S4SaC-6YQp4PtuyW7yuEQlA). To what extent they are actually working on it who knows but he said it.
Can't speak much about the financial situation, I can imagine there being stiff competition in Korea but it would seem odd that Jake Song would have difficulty getting the attention of investors.