On the forums we finally had a serious topic. It pretty much sums up all the questions you people have. So here it comes

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babyHERO at 30 July 2009 00:55 wrote:
This is for you… I know this question has prolly risen 1,2 many times XD..
but my patient is running thin… So im forced to ask you this. When do you see Pokemon Universe becoming open to the public ?!… like just an estimate, it would be greatly appreciated ! … I recently seen in the updates that you were looking for new mappers. So its safe to assume the actually game release will take even longer(Painfully to say).
Any info on the game progress would be nice ^_^

I’d like to give a release date but, I can’t. We’re all working hard to finish the beta as soon as possible.

We know everyone is eager to play our game, but if we give a expected release date we HAVE to meet this date otherwise everyone is going to be mad at us. The reason we don’t give a release date is that there are too many variables.

Our team consists out of people from all over the globe and they all have their own lives. Everything we do is 100% free, so it’s not possible to demand stuff from our members, it’s all voluntarily. Sure we expect they do their best and work as much as possible.

An other thing which we have encountered is the holidays. At the moment is summer holiday and people are going on vacation, so progress is a bit slower than usual. Well not really slower because when we’re all at school that’s our primary objective (for most of us ;))

Because of those things we don’t give a release date and most of the time when people ask for one. I’ll give them my favorite awnser… When it’s done

As a reminder for some of you.. We are building a Beta version, this means NOT all the stuff/features we mentioned on the front-page are going to be in the game (yet). It’s going to be a basic game. But when we have the basics we can easily expand it.

Updates
- Last week we got two (maby three) new mappers (SnipeZilla and NikNaks) who are going to help us fix the first island.
- But the mapping is not all that needs to be done, me and Urmel still got lots of stuff to code (server and client).
- I fixed our PokÉditor and should work fine for now. Now i can 100% concentrate on the server.

As mentioned earlier we’re not being payed to build this (so, NO we don’t work for Nintendo as some of you have asked us). As a matter of fact we (me, Urmel and Wasabi) are the onces who are paying to build/run the game. If you like I can make the numbers public you everyone can see our costs. BUT, there’s always a but, we don’t mind paying for all this because we hope everyone will like the game and give us their support (ex. being a good community member or player for you fellow trainers).

I know this last part was not really something you asked but I wanted to post this to let people know how much effort we put into this game, so they might stop come into our IRC channel and just bash at us.

babyHERO at 30 July 2009 00:55 wrote:
Mr Dark im like already 2 steps ahead of you ..
ur most likely reply to this will be … “Topic Closed” …lOl
Its pretty shameful even though i know ur getting tired of the same questions constantly but what do u expect? . you present to use what could possibly be the best pokemon mmo ever … Dark i just can’t wait to finally make ur finishing touches to the game..

Yeah you got that right. I’m really getting tired of all these same topics. I know we don’t have a search button atm but it isn’t that hard to just browse through the topics.

We really hope we become one of the best Pokemon MMORPG around that’s our goal, to fill the gap between all other Pokemon MMO’s

babyHERO at 30 July 2009 00:55 wrote:
I personally hope when u do, i see u in battle 1-on-1..It’s gunna feel sOO heavenly unleashing my Pokemon on u XD …all the frustration i have right now il take it all out on u in that match but of course it will be a friendly battle XD

If you want to beat me you’d better bring some really good party with you I’m looking forward to it.

If you (or anyone else) has anymore (real and serious) questions feel free to ask them. Seems like this has become quite a long post xD