The big three and release date?

Last year, I seem to remember that the developers said that were concentrating on Quests, Combat and Trading as the things that they needed to get in place before the game would come out of Beta for full launch.

Since then there have been all sorts of updates and new content but no word on progress towards the big three or news of a release date.

Do we know when this is going to happen?

As much as I'm enjoying the new content, I would like to see full release of the game as it is frustrating knowing that every bit of progress I'm making now will be wiped.