If anyone is gonna get pissed about NPCs not being in the game it's those of us who've been waiting since day 1. I love these devs but I think I cried the day the laptop incident came to light. These days I check in with PZ 3-4 times a year, I'm not a big multiplayer fan and I still drool when I think about playing the finished game. No one's ever built a game like this, and it'll be an industry benchmark when NPCs release. I still remember Kate and Baldspot with fondness, it was ridiculously scripted but it really gave us early birds a sense of how NPCs might feel one day.
PZ forever, peace out.
