Holy smokes, some of you peeps are pushy and impatient as hell.
I have to say, I'm a little disappointed with the general attitude on these forums toward Re-Logic staff and the development of Terraria - enthusiasm and excitement is great, but this constant "GIVE US MORE MORE MORE WHY ARE YOU TAKING SO LONG" pestering is
crazy. I look at the profile pages for Cenx, Red, Loki and others and see just constant streams of asinine, impatient comments about when X is coming out or why won't they add Y to the game. The forum is filled with threads like these, speculating and obsessing over release dates and content updates and new features, and while that's great in and of itself (yay enthusiasm), there's this real tangible undercurrent of a demanding, almost entitled attitude. Try and settle down and just let them do their jobs.
In this particular case, you've already heard directly from Cenx that 1.3 won't be any earlier than mid/late January - IIRC, she said something like 'no sooner than one month,
please stop asking.' So speculating that it'll be out in
less than one week is really silly. Obviously it's your own time to waste if you want to make posts like that, but try and understand that you can actually make Re-Logic's (and especially Loki's and the mods') job harder by spreading misinformation like that, even unintentionally. That just encourages more questions and more speculation and more time that Re-Logic staff has to spend addressing rumors and hearsay.
Please, for their sake as well as ours, just relax and try to remember that they have actual jobs to do. From what I've seen the Re-Logic staff is surprisingly open and communicative, and it's great that they take the time to communicate so frequently and informally with their fans, but you can risk taking too much advantage of that if you guys push them for more info, more dates, more
everything so frequently. Try and understand that this kind of access to a developer is a privilege, not a right. Use it wisely or you may risk losing it, or stressing out and frustrating the people whose work you enjoy so much.
Disclaimer, if necessary: I'm just another Terraria fan, and I don't speak on behalf of anyone but myself. I just want everyone here to think a bit more about how their behavior in the community can impact the folks at Re-Logic.
Apologies for the diatribe, now back to your regularly scheduled colorful chaos.