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I think many people here have seen that I'm not complaining about the lack of it being released, or the lack of a specific release date - but really focusing in on the lack of communication and updates.
I've heard a lot of excuses for the lack of updates (taking 10 seconds off when they could be coding, they're a small company, etc).. I would argue that both of those are relatively easily defeated ::
1) Smaller companies generally have less people to have to communicate with in order to find the status of things. It's not like you get an update from 30 of the developers and need to wait for information from the last 5 before you can make public comments..
2) Plenty of other indie companies do a very good job with updates - even saying "rats, we're running behind, sorry all - we don't have an updated date at this time so let me just erase any of the dates we have up here and put "TBD" for now". These silly little updates result in a lot of people going "hey, can we get an update" or having to respond to dozens of posts and hundreds of tweets. So the 10 seconds is better spent in advance..
Still interesting seeing the discussion continue! =)
--Micah
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