Is this the "June announcement" that never was?

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

I agree with you about the base game engine, but those comments from B6 regarding how missions work, and how they will be completely different in the sequel, perhaps less coding needed - no longer in NET etc., has me thinking the core of the engine might be the same, but the perhaps many parts are completely different? Time will tell.

We're probably all posting to this topic to find out it's fake

I agree the new game engine was initially designed to be used for many different purposes with the ability to tweak it for those purposes. They may have decided its much more profitable and far less work to use the game engine for MMO's exclusively. That said there is still profit to be made by selling sequels, especially after the game engine is stabilized and working properly.