These forums in its various forms over the years have been pretty quick to smell failure and pretty fair and accurate in the bashing of the melodramatic idiots in denial. It's not like Vanguard or TESO ended up launching as amazing games and the few melodramatic idiots defending them from the start ended up right and the majority of bashers looked like idiots for doubting the project. Even if Pantheon is playable, even if it isn't a steaming pile of failure, even if it's almost kinda good, all the criticism of the project and bashing of those few brave souls with The Vision in their hearts will still have been justified and fair.
And you bet your ass we'll be playing it day 1, whether the beta is halfway decent or not. What kind of dumb proclamation is that? Like it'll prove something that the doubters are there at ground zero to watch the show.
Too many of you desperate fuckers keep hoping the high-school heart-throb is going to show up at your door, take off your glasses and you'll be pretty enough to take to prom. Sorry, you're stuck with Brad. But, hey, you don't care, right, and you're not lonely, right, because Brad is actually a cool guy! I mean, he's got a dirt bike and sometimes gets high enough tells you how special you are.