Can't do that. They might work on something and have to abandon it because it's either too time consuming or otherwise unfeasible.
If it had been announced somewhere, it'd become a pr nightmare to do so, with loads of complaints from people, bad "reviews" on other websites, etc. etc.
I've done work for other game companies in the past, and every one of them that made such early announcements (rather than only announcing things when ready to ship) had to deal with all that cr*p on a very regular basis (and those were companies creating products aimed at a clearly adult/mature audience, not dissimilar and maybe more so than Ryzom).
If it had been announced somewhere, it'd become a pr nightmare to do so, with loads of complaints from people, bad "reviews" on other websites, etc. etc.
I've done work for other game companies in the past, and every one of them that made such early announcements (rather than only announcing things when ready to ship) had to deal with all that cr*p on a very regular basis (and those were companies creating products aimed at a clearly adult/mature audience, not dissimilar and maybe more so than Ryzom).