You know what I kinda think this release date they gave is kinda bad faith, it is the 21st in most of the world, especially where they are based in Korea
Also I love the game, I have close to 300 hour on live and test server played, but I have 0 faith that Version 1.0 will be anything near what people would expect for a fully released game. I still would expect game breaking bugs, lag, and random crashes to still be in 1.0. I am sure they will continue to update the game, it just feels like PU is releasing it and calling it 1.0 so they can say it is out of early access, inside the year like PU promised.
Do not get me wrong, I have been playing a lot of the test server, and the performance on the new map is so much better than the old, it is a massive step in the right direction. There is just so much to do, I will be shocked if they have managed it, oh pleasantly shocked, but yeah you get the idea. It is such a strange game, I mean this is my GOTY, but man some of the issues in it are maddening