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Due to the successful Grim Dawn Kickstarter campaign Crate has announced the following schedule:

When will the alpha / beta be ready?!
Our current estimate is that alpha may be ready by the end of this year or early next year. We're working our hardest to make this happen as soon as possible but we need to produce a certain amount of continuous, playable content and complete certain technical tasks before this can happen.

We expect beta to follow 4-6 months after alpha and then estimate August 2013 for the full release. I'm sure no one wants us to rush and release the game before it is ready though. After all, this is part of the reason we've avoided a standard publishing deal. So, please be patient; it will all pay off when we reach the finish-line.

Update from March 4th, 2013:

Originally Posted by medierra

Alpha is on the horizon though and we're churning through the last things that need to be done before the long awaited release. [...]

Will alpha be out in March? I think there is still a good chance if we don't hit any snags or have to redo any animation work but, ultimately, it will be out when it is ready. It's getting down to a matter of weeks but whether that's 3 weeks or 6 weeks, or more, I can't be certain. [...] We're working as hard as we can to deliver it and would appreciate it tremendously if you can just hold in there a little longer.

Update from April 8th, 2013:

Originally Posted by medierra

Man, I don't know, I'm still betting on April but, then again, I thought it was going to be done in March. [...]

There are only a couple things holding us up at the moment but they've proving to be elusive problems that are difficult to fix. This is all a normal part of development though and, on a positive note, preparing for alpha has forced us to tackle a bunch of stuff that we normally wouldn't get to until the end of development. So, in that regard, this is good because we'll be better prepared for the final release once we get there.

Update from April 16th, 2013:

Originally Posted by medierra

Yes, I don't how know long exactly and I hesitate to say anything but it is probably more than a week but less than 3 weeks... Assuming nothing goes wrong but it is hard to predict all the little difficulties we may encounter. [...]

Update from April 29th, 2013:

Originally Posted by medierra

We know people are impatient to play Grim Dawn and we are doing our best to work quickly but we're not going to release the alpha before we feel it is ready. Caving in to that pressure would be no better than having a publisher that dictated our release schedule.

Update from April 30th, 2013:

Originally Posted by medierra

I'd ask you all to just bear with us a little longer. As much as I don't want to give another vague estimation, we are very close.