Viggen released on the announced date, but only for open beta. I think this was communicated only 1 or 2 days prior. So a bunch of very vocal people felt cheated and started screaming, said they were lied to etc. Other guys rushed in to defend the devs, yet others tried to explain how easy it is to switch from stable to beta over and over again only to be ignored, the whole open beta concept was put into question, there was talk about class action lawsuits and so on. All the fun stuff. :lol: The whole affair lasted for nearly a week before the dust started to settle.
With the influx of a whole lot of new people to DCS in the last year i see a high potential of a riot if this should really happen again. In this case I might want to avoid the forum altogether for a couple of days for the sake of my sanity. :)