day of dragons is finally coming out of beta this saturday after many many years. i've been extremely lucky enough to have been part of their journey for the vast majority of that time. not quite part of their team, but the team that supports them in the background that few people know or care about. it's cool tho. i get an exclusive glimpse into this stuff and get to laugh off all the people who spin conspiracy theories and try to write off the entire game just because of some bad behavior and utter ignorance about how the gaming industry works at all.

it's been a hell of a journey for them, and for us on our side of things too. our little company would not be in such a pivotal position right now about to change how things are done in the dedicated server world if we hadn't taken the risk and partnered up with this little indie game studio.

i won't sit here and say that all of the criticism is undeserved - some of it absolutely is. some of it i agree with. but the vast majority of it is just a load of ignorant horseshit at the end of the day and i'm incredibly proud of what beawesome has accomplished. they're about to push out a game that AAA and even AA studios wouldn't even have half finished in this same amount of time.

i've been lucky to have an advanced testing branch to play on for the past couple of days and it's absolutely stunning. it's the game i dreamed to be able to play five years ago, the kind of game i thought would be impossible 20 years ago. and yeah, it still has its flaws but honestly what game doesn't? it'll only continue to get better and better now.

anyway i'm just super excited and i can't wait to play the full release with everyone on saturday ^^