"The other is actually brighter; it involves Goko folding completely, the licenses reverting to the manufacturers, a bunch of venture capitalists getting shafted, and going back to amateurs developing the online implementations again.
That last path might even involve RGG, Mayfair, and the like, waiting for someone to actually show them a working product, then licensing it.
Perhaps that last is actually the optimistic scenario, actually." Quote from Kirian.
+1
But, what a waste of time and effort and expectation and goodwill. And any way one tries to spin it - even in the best case scenarios - it will be the far distant future before the playing experience returns to anything like what we took for granted prior to isotropic being switched off. The actual experience of playing the game - the pleasure of playing the game - the reason so many people spend so much time reading about it, thinking about it and posting about it - the actual experience of playing the game is going to be significantly degraded now and for a long time into the future.
Clearly the reason so many people, myself included, are getting hot under the collar is that they really love the game. I think the game itself is beautiful, elegant and almost endlessly fascinating. I want the best for the game and I it to be implemented in the best possible way. I want to be able to go to my friends and say "look at this fantastic game I've been playing, come and play it with me".... and I can't see how I'm going to be able to do that in the foreseeable future.