I think you missed the point. The fact is you don't have to, nothing is
stopping you from NOT playing until all this tuning is finished. But either
you havn't figured out that you have a choice, or your addiction is so strong
you can't stop yourself, and for severe addicts who are playing a unfinished
game they can't stand to play, a ban until tuning was finished would be like a
wizlock, but solely for you. It was a bit tongue 'n cheek, maybe my sense of
humour is just non-existant. But what you were asking for, IE, unfinished mud
to not be given to players, amounted to 'keep game wizlocked for weeks on
end', and I don't see why we should all suffer simply because you don't have
the self discipline to not play something which is obviously irritating you.
Besides which, not having it played until the tune was 100% complete would
lead to a crappier mud. Beta testing is an integral part of development, and
it is effectively what we are doing now.

Maybe I'm blind or stupid, but I really can't see what good would come from
not allowing batmud to be played until everything was fixed. Those who don't
want to play don't have to, those who do want to can. I can't see anything
wrong with that.