Alright Bones, since you're clearly still reading this:
Nobody is happy with the abandoned tag. We all love it and wish it would continue. There's just no longer any confidence that it will actually do so.
You know what I feel about the abandoned tag? Relief. It's like when Duke Nukem Forever was officially cancelled; the acceptance that after its interminable gestation, everyone involved finally came to terms with the fact that the scale of the project had grown beyond the capacity - mental, physical, and technologically capable - of its creator, and that we were finally able to stop living in hope, that we could put it aside. That's what I feel here - that rather than expending energy or money in the hope that the project might be delivered, we can all put it behind us and move on with our lives.
Maybe it'll come back at some point when we're all older and wiser. But it's pretty clear at this point that the issue isn't technical problems, or even health; it's simply that the author's interest in the project has gone. And that's fine - that's how most failed projects end (every time I see a new project with "unlimited potential for expansion!" it means the dev has no idea how to actually wrap it up), the ones that don't collapse in a jumble of spaghetti code anyway. So we can all put it aside and stop giving it the time. It's the hope that kills you. We've killed the hope first.
