At first I was strongly against the idea, but now I somehow approve it.
Our current status is: work in progress (just ask Corosive who added more than 100 new dialogue files in recent months, improved a lot of old ones and is still working like a beast), a lot of things already added, a lot of things in progress, some things not done yet. The biggest issue we are facing since long time is kinda unstable new engine revisions, so we can't just make full update because new client has still some major bugs that need to be fixed before starting new session.
How long can it take? No idea, because it doesn't depend on us, it can still take several months.
We COULD make full server reset (basically a wipe) but I understand that without any update it would not be awesome. I'm pretty sure we can include an update - several new features (hex shooting or shared experience for PvE, for example), many interface improvements (new binds useful for PvP, or roof/wall on/off switch), few drug managements features, in-game reroll feature and more, maybe a beta-version of new/old pvp mode as well. That would of course come with the removal of all characters and world save which means all players would have a fresh start again.
From my point of view, those who still play the game are:
- old players who will play anyway and would surely use some new features,
- new players who would surely use a fresh start,
so assumption that "most will leave" looks kinda invalid.
AND it wouldn't change nothing about coming wipe (full update), which will happen anyway when we're ready.
However, it is you who play the game, not me, so you should help us decide - here.