I'd like to be optimistic, but this is no good news at all...

Unless chaplja decides to hand the project over to somebody else who will then continue its development, prepare yourselves for a dark age for competitive/semi-comp. gaming in ET. And unless there's been people secretly working on an alternative AC all this time, it surely won't be too easy to keep an eye on players who actually know how to hide the fact they're hacking.

Paranoia and shadiness of players will rise exponentially.