There are two options
1) Payouts are not distributed for a long time because the price of the WINGS is being held on purpose (accumulation phase) and once we go off we will never see such prices at low levels like now
2)Something is screwed up in the team / with the system. I mean, c'mon previously we had at least some payouts and now there is just big silence. I don't believe that it requires that amount of time that they cannot even pay 1 forecast to keep the people shut from complaining.
I think the first option is very likely. This is a really great marketing strategy.
It is also known that a new employee was taken to the team. He will distribute awards.
The price of the wings will be very large. In my opinion, the wings should cost 10-20 $.
They did not need new employee to distribute previous ones and basically no project can't leave old recuring tasks which are important in order to implement something "new" i.e beta phase.
This is example of irresponsible project management. They just dont care about rewards.