This game is far from completion, gonna be another 6 months easily.
maybe some more, say (let's hope) one year with some more features implemented?(hope for what OP said)
A man can still dream tho..
Ofcourse it won't be released within close proximity. Rebellion and diplomacy alone need a couple of months more and someone told me that he had read a dev say they are working on a third perk for multiplayer (never saw the forum post myself tho) but if that's true it will be something that needs to be worked on untill summer.
there's party control coming, hope for a crime system, diplomacy fixed, the smithing being fixed/changed and only these would fit into Steve's 6 months vision. Other than that there are bug/performance fixes, adding scenes for villages and such and maybe that's it?
At least this is what I''m speculating, if not 8 then maybe 10 months probably. They can take their time for all I know, the more time they take the more they'll be able to fix and polish the game