Asheron's Call: Throne of Destiny Community Letter

Turbine's Jessica Mulligan stopped by the official Asheron's Call: Throne of Destiny website to make two major announcements in April's team letter. First, the expansion pack has been pushed back to July 18th, and, secondly, she is leaving Turbine and the Asheron's Call team. Surprised by both? Check out the reasons for the former:
As you probably know, we did some closed focus testing with several groups of players last month, in preparation for the upcoming general Player Preview. Before we put the Preview in front of the toughest audience in the world, AC players, we wanted to put the game in front of, well, some of the toughest audience in the world, just to make sure we had the game we thought we had. This seemed only prudent, and we made sure we had players from a wide range of servers, including Darktide.

The upshot is: Boy, are we glad we did that. It was interesting, if your definition of 'interesting' is having your flaws pointed out in graphic detail. The feedback we got from the players was great, very detailed and specific and delivered with tough love. What they told us is that we had some changes to make. And we took that feedback to heart and have started to make some of those changes, but it is going to take some time.