You guys should have a week leading up to the release, where you're giving all kinds of updates and ****. Then, on the day of release, you have a countdown. Everyone is super excited and hanging out in the steam chatroom or IRC. Everyone is happy that at long last, 1.3 is about to be at their fingertips. The countdown reaches zero. People are confused. The game isn't out yet. Grega comes along and tells everyone they made a mistake, and the countdown was actually on some random timezone and ended before it was supposed to. Avenger calls bull**** because that doesn't make any sense. Grega assures everyone the game will be out in an hour. People are a little irked, but at least its still coming out. Happiness everywhere. An hour comes....and goes. No 1.3 in sight. The forum explodes. "Where is 1.3?!", they demand. It's at this point the dev team and mods go completely black, and there is no communication between the forum and anyone in the know.
Sky updates the ESF site with a download link, and the update is titled, "Gotcha!". Everyone is happy once more. They try the download link. It isn't working. It's taking us to a dead site. Oh, says Sky. There must be too many people downloading. We'll get right on that.
A day passes. Everyone is pissed and miserable because of all the non-effort and imaginary work they've put into the game. Grega comes along and says this time, for reals, they're releasing the game. If someone complains after this post, however, they'll delay the release until they feel everyone has learned their lesson. I immediately sign on and complain. Grega says we've left him with no choice. Meanwhile, everyone is trying to be buddy buddy with the devs over AIM/MSN/w/e. "Hey, man! The forum shouldn't pay because Zeo's an *******. Let's show him he can't stop us! Who's with me?!" random suck ups declare.
No on is with them.
Masta decides he's over this. He and the devs use 1.3 to get themselves jobs at various companies and agencies. He demands Sky delete the forum and shut down the site. Sky obeys.
Everyone is shocked. No one can believe this is happening. And then the site comes back. And there's an update from Grega. There's a picture of 1.3 Final, in all its glory. Beneath it is a picture of a man beating his meat. And below that is Grega telling everyone to go **** themselves.
And that, my friends, would be the greatest 2 days in ESF history.