Just a guess but im of the opinion that the reason beta has lasted so long is that there is some kind of massive content update coming with the server being moved and such sounds like they are getting ready for a global rollout and maybe some content additional server access ports who knows and this current group of devs and moderators dont seem to be very forthcoming with information of any kind look at the number of maintaince periods and the number of posted patch notes for proof of that. making other towns accessable possibly who knows with this bunch lol.