Here is what Bluecat wrote:
Since I took the helm myself for Month 1, there will hopefully be a playtester version by the end of July.
If it doesn't work out with July, then there will be the next update in the first or second week of August and after that, definitely Month 1.
It doesn't matter what he wrote though. He could write that he has given up on making the game because he is helping NASA build colonies on Neptune. It doesn't matter. Its just words at this point. For 2 years he has been talking, talking, talking, but never delivering. Ok, he released an update in June. Why? Because people were putting the pressure on. Even the fans started to question him.
Now we are starting to get into the same routine. A promise of an update AND the merge. Remember the other promises for the merge? At the end of 2020? The end of 2021 if they leave out the character cards? At this point the merge is just a empty promise to keep people around or it really does exist but not one fucking person on that team knows what the fuck to do on it.