This comment doesn't really sit right with me.
To be clear, for a VERY long time, even under Palmer, we took the "No ETA" approach with free releases - that hasn't changed since his passing. You can go back to when he was still with us, he and ourselves said the same to people.
Ultimately, we don't set scheduled release dates for free releases now (before Palmer passed) as it's a mistake we feel we made in the past. Things happen and things change, setting a date adds an unneeded pressure to the team and backlash if we fail to meet the date depending on a number of reasons.
There's no "particular" reason regarding EP19, many factors. The team is now smaller, working with a lot less budget, focusing on building a new engine, new game, new assets, new environments, new characters amongst other things behind the scenes while starting from nothing again and building ourselves back up. Our team got smaller, our budget got smaller, our workload stayed the same / went up. All these things factor into that. I really think it's fair enough to understand these things. I'm not trying to argue it or offend anyone, just wanting to tell things from my point of view.
"Palmer's principles" were for the games to be released for free down the line, we haven't moved away from that, we will release it for free eventually.
