There a quite a few of us that have said from the beginning that a wipe of the game prior to release (or earlier), would be needed to set things up for all players. Happened in ED and worked fine.
But a wipe is not going to save DU, just in my opinion. The game is broken, lets be honest.
It will release in some state, not sure which state that will be, but much lower in scale than the original idea. It will run for a while until players dry up, possibly quite quickly.
Then they will announce that the game can no longer be supported through lack of players and turn it all off.