do they realize that download numbers are public?
i can think of many reasons. for one there could be some other gaming coin thats gaining in popularity and they need to act. either way its a good thing to get it out as fast as they can to the public. i can understand why some bag holders are not happy because they cannot capitalize on inside information like the whales as they were promised. just another one of those fast 180° they seem to specialize in
whats pretty shocking is that they noticed this only 4 days ago? and even this information had to be tortured out of them + thanks to unpaid slack account its gone in a day or 2... this is the top notch communication you will get from them if you want to become a new bag holder
I think when they refer to their user base, they mean the total number of people who have signed up to ionomy.com rather than wallet numbers. I still don't think they have thousands of active users (i.e. users that have logged in and made trades/purchased new stakers/skins etc), but they haven't released any official numbers for that platform so we have no real way of knowing. They probably have a decent collection of emails from running that platform for quite a while, though, so I guess they're hoping that a mail shot with a download link to the app stores etc will entice users who may have forgotten the platform/lost interest into downloading and testing.
I don't think we'll see the game before the years end, though, as they were talking about finalising a social media invite system before they launch the beta; we already know how long it takes to gestate these things.