They've been responding within a day or so to any comments on both plurk and their journals from what I've seen. I don't think the moderator team isn't excited, motivated, or available. Like the other anon downthread I think they probably just forgot to update the application comment since everything else is getting timely responses and updates.

I do think that there doesn't seem to be much of a potential player base, though. There's a few people tagging but it doesn't seem like the initial interest for the game is going to translate into people actually joining? I saw on plurk there's only three applications in. I'm still working on mine because I'm slow.