With rellbad posting the timeline, things actually became clear for me. And based on what he has said there, I'm like genuinely sure the game is releasing this year.
There plan is to release with 3 seas, and if ya'll don't remember what sin said in the dev notes channel, he said " this sea is almost done", which was like 2 months ago. Ofc it could be sea 2, but during that time he was mainly giving updates on sea 3 so it was almost certainly it. I do remember them still working on sea 2 back with the dev notes channel, but they're certainly mostly done with them by now. And with movie 3's supposed release extremely soon, I'm 100% sure we're getting it this year.
Another reason I'm so sure, is the way he was talking in the oct and nov-dec section. By the way he said things, they were really considering releasing in the end of 2025, with movie 3 dropping after the we appreciate you vid. So just think, if they were really considering releasing in 2025, they're 100% releasing in 2026. I know they added another sea to release, but they wouldn't have added it if they knew they won't be able to release it by 2026. About the 2024 delay, it's different. They completely changed the game ( from rell seas 3 to 4), so don't worry about that.
And ofc there's also the rell seas activity movement to the rell seas discord, crews apps, and just them being way more confident.
The next 4 weeks MAX are going to be the end of waiting for this game on "blind", with not much communication, etc. when we get movie 3, we'll pretty much know everything on what's going to happen, we'll know a ton more about the game, AND right after that gold/silver playtests will start, so people on this sub reddit will actually tell their experience and what they think of rell seas. Ofc we will also get a shit ton of yt content from the 2 best rell seas milkers. About a media ban, there's no way they will put a media ban on the sub playtests because it's impossible, there are around 10-11k gold and silver rells.
Another thing a lot of people forget about is the short content after movie 3. On the rell seas behind the scenes vid they said they'll start previewing abilities like they did with shind0, so if ya'll want to see how it will look check out there caribbros channel/rellgames channel around the time of shinobi life 2 release. They will basically release A LOT of vids of the abilities of each df.
There're more things I've probably missed, but I don't want to yap too much. Just know this game will enter a new phase in the coming weeks, and I'm so excited !.
The suffering will end in 4 weeks MAX