My personal theory is they wanted to have some months in advantage so they could launch their new casino and see if there was any possibility to accumulate enough profit to further whitewash their imagine with more refunds, either that or they just wanted more time for them to boost their new casino without having any real intentions to pay those affected.
Good theory. This makes a lot of sense and it's what I thought too when they announced their new site sometime back. It clearly didn't pan out properly for them though which is why they don't bother sticking to this strategy.
Their weird team member who kept posting like a fool on their behalf stopped posting in this thread too for sometime now. Everything lines up.