I’ll be honest, so far the switch seems much more seamless than I expected. With how sedentary social media and the web generally have become, I’d have expected a much, MUCH slower transition, to the tune of maybe a person or two joining per day, with somewhere around 50 joining initially… And that’s not even mentioning like others have said that it’s already a pretty dead time in the ebb and flow of PoE communication. Given all the circumstances, I think what we currently have is about on track with what could be expected early on. It’s not like the reddit userbase didn’t generally rely on comparatively few active users to provide content to lurk in.

A year doesn’t seem too likely; two teasers for mainstream attention seem to suggest a much closer availability date, especially coupled with exilecon being included in the teasers and GGG’s implication that you want to leave for home pretty immediately after the convention. I’d expect the start of some kind of beta a month or two into the next league, with an aim to release for the winter league. Granted, that might just be wishful thinking on my part, but it seems a sensible way to capitalize on the hype they’re building.