They will no doubt release it to the public, as they have done the same with DoW and vCoH aswell. I personally will spend my time on worldbuilder rather than playing the game.
CoH2 = beginner friendly
vCoH = hard for beginners
And i totally agree with steph on this one, vCoH had so much depth and unfortunately CoH2 is no where near what vCoH is/was. That's why so many players are leaving the game after like 100+ games. I lost CoH2 mojo after i played in the last Langreskaya tourney, because i felt the soviet faction is way off. Ostheer plays well, but soviets feel like half assed faction that can only do 1 thing in order to win, while ostheer can try different approaches.
If a player harasses another player, then please, go ahead and report to relic. Seeing how you both keep posting replays against each other with nothing but:"NOOB", is just sad. I'm more than sure that relic will get you guys separated, at least in game.
Well, you would've already seen news about it if anything was mentioned. But there has been no news and the question has been asked many times. Gotta search a bit mate.