Judging by what appears to be an EXTREMELY low post count for somebody who has been a member for over 10 YEARS tells me that you arent a very active member, I never said hurry up or anything I am just saying if there's an oppurtunity to release an alpha build then take it, the people have waited a long time. I still hold my statement, i am very patient. But it also comes down to common sense, why tease everyone on youtube, facebook and mod database with all these promotional videos and images and no sign of release date or demo/alpha?? Go and look at every comment on the videos, majority of people ask "whens it coming out?" And usually followed by an annoyed member/moderator saying "uh, when they want to release it stop asking"
The first thing that comes to mind when seeing a video like the 2011 xmas trailer is 'wow when can i play that' so they go google the name and find out they need to fork out 10 dollars or so for half life just to play it, and they did. We all did.
To me its teasing a hungry dog with meat.