We launched the multiplayer beta on January 31st and the outcome has been quite overwhelming.
Almost 250.000 people have decided to opt in the beta so far and we've had many thousands of active concurrent players every day. These are great numbers and they make everyone in the team extremely happy.
On the downside, it also meant that the servers had a somewhat rough start as they weren't ready yet to accomodate such a large number.
We would like to apologize once again for the first few days in which the servers' stability was rather bad and not everyone was able to join or play. Unfortunately such is the nature of game development, and betas serve the purpose of breaking things sometimes. This experience helps us with ensuring that once we launch the game everyone will have a completely smooth experience.
At any rate, we've decided to move the end date for the Beta.
We're going to allow everyone to play for the whole weekend at the end of this week, and instead of closing it on February 16 we'll close it on February 19.