If I was a member of the Dev team I would put say the server will go Live this weekend. I would then get the most buggy version of the files and put it on a server. Then do not post anything or reply to anyone for a week (maybe longer if you have no soul) and let them play with the crap version and watch them cry whilst you get peace to work on the files without anyone asking when its going live.
Now this could go either way. It could destroy your rep and nobody would play the real server once gone live. Or people might appreciate that things do take time to develop and get right. And being patient does pay off as you will recieve a better quality of gameplay do to more time gone into it.