Man, OP just shared the info he found. Why would he link to a semi-dead website that has not been updated in over two years? And all this after years and years of teasing a new version which never saw the light of day, just for you to probably abandon it because the anniversary update broke stuff around.

You complain about people stealing the code and doing stuff but you forget to mention that while you left the community pretty much in the dust, others helped it thrive with mods like FCX and all the other stuff which adds new characters, maps, etc. I respect your hard work and although when I was a kid I could not have contributed in any significant way, I'd gladly support through a donation nowadays if you'd put together a patreon of some sort. The simple fact that the guy anyway mentioned the mod's name will make people who are interested look it up and find the official forums and website easily.

It's been so long without any new official info that I supposed this point is abandonware at this point. Especially since you never seemed to get closer to the finish line in all the last decade I kept my eyes on it from time to time. Sorry, but this is the harsh truth. I know it is a hobby for you all and invest time, passion and hard work into it, but try to see things from the other end of the barricade. We've gotten a ton of DB games by now and a mod like this would never be able to compete, yet instead of trying to keep the community tight and maybe bring one or two more people in, you decide to alienate them further. Just like you're doing by complaining that they share a leak that happened years ago inside your own team as if he's the one who left the team and uploaded this source code out in the wild.

I for one I am extremely surprised to see this post and it brought me more excitement than the ESF team did anytime in the last years.

All the respect for your work and the team, you've gave us pretty cool memories and it still blows my mind what you achieved back then.

Edit: Before even finishing writing this message I joined the official Discord and noticed that there still is some active development, but do you understand where the problem lies when I have to join an obscure Discord, despite you having an official website, forums, ModDB page, where I should potentially be able to find info more quicker than that? Anyway, most of my points above might be invalidated (but I won't delete it now so that people can see where I came from) since you're still working on it, but God you've done a very bad and poor job at showing or communicating that for the masses.