Hello everyone.

Since a week I’m on 6-week sick leave from work (humeral bone fracture with displacement :/) and I’m not spending much time in front of my computer. Before you jump to the obvious *but but I want my dedicated servers now * I would like to point out three things:

• I know the demand for it is high and our user-base is loyally waiting for it. Trust me I know.
• I’m 100% sure it’s doable!
• I’ll be right back on it as soon as I’m off the “plaster of paris” from my hand & painkillers.

Now there’s one more thing to tell, we’ve decided to make it totally Steam-less after all. Thanks to s0beit and dudes that developed OpenSteamWorks we got our hands on just a proper framework to do that. Currently durkka who’s been working with me for a while is doing a research related to SteamMatchMaking code.

So guys: It will be done sooner (6 weeks) or later (9-10 weeks). Can’t do much about the 5-weeks from now. Please have some faith!

PS. On behalf of the whole team: Happy New Year, 2010!

~Smurfette