Delay I guess... I read the darkfall leak post.

http://darkfallleaks.blogspot.com/2009/01/tassoss-newest-beta-update.html

Yeah theres no chance in hell the games releasing the 22nd, which is just as well.

If we are lucky, they will hit open beta by the 22nd.

From that same site, it sounds like that they are actually prosecuting people who leak to the public and are caught, not just canceling their account. This might account for the "quiet" nature of beta even though it's rumored that up to 2000 people are in beta.

From the way he talks about beta tester picking, it does sound like you have to be a troll to get acess. (aka nutcuppping like an SB advocate )

Syloc, thats pretty much it. Or guilds that they know from AC1.

Thats what pisses me off more than anything TBH, I know several guilds that have significant presence and a few that have almost the whole guild. Theyre almost all either forumfall guilds, or early AC1 guilds.

Some of which have left games/servers in the past because they all got banned for exploiting.

So.. yeah, that part is utter BS.

This is too bad, I was looking forward to testing the beta out on the 15th ish... Have to wait and see now

Down in the comments an imaged was linked - might be a fake but I'll toss it in here.
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/1253/forumpostwq3.jpg

Nice find Arginal.

EDIT: appears to be fake though =(