Release the game to the community. I've been saying this for a long time. If this team of three is so swamped, release the game to the community. O wait, you can't because of some obscure reason that you can't specify. I think it has to do with legal issues? That you say are no longer an issue?
Edit: I bolded it. I mean really GReaper?
Edit2: I wanted it to be bigger.
You know, way back when L:O started, I used to hate the fact that the current development team got hold of the game, I really did. I even thought I knew where this game's gonna head, but slowly my attitude towards this team, changed a lot. The reason behind it, being simply that, when they say an update will be showing up soon, they mean it. As far as I've seen, these guys have been working on the game quite hard, and taking feed back quite well. We've told them the Sentinel class seems very underpowered, and they've made changes to it, so now it actually got some prominence in the game. We said, we're bored with all the maps, and they've launched 5 to 6 maps, to keep us busy. Therefore, I doubt they'd do all that, if they were really throwing us a deaf ear. Heck, this is actually the main reason, I've been quite active in the forums, dropping opinions about some of those interesting ideas, I see in that thread, and making my own Idea threads, no matter how impossible/ridiculous they may seem.
Having said that, about your bolded and super sized sentence. Do you really believe that the community cares about how this game's made? Half of these guys just want the code, and hack the hell out of the bloody game, so they can make everyone else's life tougher. And by the way, when you think people are just abandoning the game, why do you ask these guys to release it? How will releasing the game make it better, if there's no community to develop it?
I am really sick of people thinking they can do better with this game. I'm tired of listening to comments like "They didn't do this right" "They didn't do that right" "These guys don't have a proper schedule" "They got no ambition" etc. And while they're saying that, they're sitting back in their chairs, having a cup of coffee, and playing the game for free. And here's a fun fact; if the game really comes into their hands, I bet 1000$, they aren't going to do crap with it. Just explore, find all the holes, and make hacks, that's all they'll ever do.
This is the type of community you're talking about Floks, to whom you want the game to be handed over. But still, I think you can make this dream of yours come true. Just bring 10 more of your friends into the forums, and get to create 10 more threads like this, and see if that doesn't happen. And seriously, I won't be even a little bit surprised if they just stop on everything they've been working on, paste the download link for the game code, and post a big "We're done, eff you" message, on the blog. Also, most of the community took a break from the game, they didn't cut hands, and make any blood promises to never play the game again. I can vouch for my own clan, and the reason they don't want to play the game(or get involved in competition), is because the game's unfinished. But when it's done, they'll definitely come back and give it a try.
In any case, I think all the rage you guys have on the team, will tone down quite a bit, once the vote-map and private hosting are available.
And let me finish this off by saying one last thing; nobody
leaves a game. This is not a job we're doing, we don't resign from it. We did not make any contracts with these guys, saying that we'll play and bitch about the game, for "x" number of years. I myself, go back to playing retro games, just because they're fun, and the same goes for Legions if I ever "leave" it.
