word. 

Considering the release is scheduled in two weeks I am doubtful that we'll see another beta at this point.  There isn't time to prepare the release, perform the release, collect feedback, make the required changes, and properly test the new program.

Swami says the next release notes you read will be for the May 22 release.

Yep.

But, but.  Isn't that what they done with the first elemental?  I believe that things didn't end well on that occasion.

I would even go as far as saying it's been a plague for them! One that there is no immunity for. I would even argue FE standalone isn't even a finished product. To me it's still pretty buggy/unpolished and pretty much unplayable. LH isn't just an expansion but really just Stardock finishing up FE.

^ how so? ^

I largely agree Brainjuggler but there is more to fixing the bugs and other issues than just a few weeks work. Stardock don't seem to regard it as a priority. I don't know why, I don't pretend to understand it, but I do live in hope they will eventually realise that the WoM/FE/LH is really getting there BUT needs some serious polish to deliver on its potential. And by serious I mean several months of full on bug fixing, UI improvements, testing, more bug fixing, a bit of balancing, more testing, etc.

I'm hopeful that LH will hit one more public beta prior to release since there are still 2 weeks yet. Derek went through a flurry of patching/fixing a few iterations ago, which was awesome. Would love to see that again as people (myself included) continue to find some additional bugs, crashes, and balancing that would really help a 1.0 release.

Even if a public beta doesn't happen prior to release, I'm confident SD will keep their awesome work up that they've started. Even if 0 new features were added, fixing the things identified here would make the game very enjoyable.

Well kiss my gritz.  I am still a little skeptical that the timing is going to work.  The traditional thursday night release gives them three business days to address bugs, do QA, and kick the thing out the door for the 22nd.  Quite the high-wire act.

In my opinion a 0.9 Version is still not the real game. Should have called it "Final Version" and promised to fix and adjust everything.

Well that's obviously not going to happen.