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I do believe that although the AI has been a very major complaint, box. It certainly is not the primary one. The number one complaint by far has been the broken promises. Yes, I know you never give timeframes or dates or even any level of degree of completeness on any level (still no actual roadmap after endless months, even years of promises of one).

It is really the implication that something major is coming soon... then instead of any type of game update, we get a new format of delivering behind the scenes peeks. After implications that once the refactoring is done, we will start seeing rapid content updates, and then nothing. After endlessly telling us that now you are working on AI... I think most of us have learned that upon completion of that, we will not see any updates.. instead we expect to hear about how you are all working on a new physics engine, or pathfinding tool, or lighting algorithm or whatever, that is keeping any further updates from coming.



Remember, that what we really want is communication focused on what is coming next, and how far along you are in delivering it. I am sure there are some that are passively interested in how you got the perfect sound effect with a pan and a marble, or how you are building new 3D models... Most of us BY FAR are much much more interested in hearing about specific features being implemented and timelines to expect them.



It has been beyond frustrating to get on this forum every few weeks thinking "Surely there is some news of progress by now" only to be let down every single time.



We all sat (some more patiently than others) as the game was refactored with Unity. Being told that once this was done, feature and content updates would start flowing. Then when it was finally done, we are being told that none of those features/content updates will be coming until a long AI rewrite is done. (Please dont get hung up on the word 'rewrite').

These may all be valid efforts, but the problem is that we were told (or at the minimum - lead to believe) something else.



Again... none of us really seriously care whether you update us every friday with a text post, or every month with a video... what we do care about is that the updates are of actual progress on the game. "We are getting closer to delivering this particular feature".. "Here is a feature that is coming".. "We expect to be able to get this out to testers within X weeks", etc.

What we do not have any interest in is "Here is how we adjust polygon counts on the forearm on a character that you may never see", etc.



Telling new prospective customers to hold off is valid, however for those of us that invested in this game long ago, some level of honesty is owed.



So, in summary (and I do believe this is the overriding sentiment of most here)



- Fantastic game, environment, mechanics, etc. We all look forward to the first general release.

- Please keep us updated on game progress specifics.

