Son (you sound very immature, so I'm gonna assume you are around 10 and refer to you as son - I hope you don't mind), you haven't been around long enough to realise that that method hasn't worked either as people all want different things and as soon as a progress report comes along saying we've been working on this people like you say "but I wanted this and you took way too long to do that and this is more important to me and I don't care about that" and so on and so forth. You had your chance at frequent progress reports and you blew it... If you weren't around here for it, tough shit. Now, after years of perfecting the method of communication with a community filled with mature people and the odd idiot such as yourself, the devs realise that it will be easier to keep everyone happy by not releasing much information and surprising everyone with big updates. When the situation gets out of hand, the devs step in explain their case which is the reason for their posts above. Recently they have grown tired of having to repeat themselves over and over again and someone who did share your views at one point realised that what the devs are doing made sense and posted the collection of Scawen's posts. Now, instead of repeating himself Scawen posted a link to that thread. And what difference does it make if you get frequent progress reports about what the devs are doing? Its not like you will get your hands on it before the whole thing is done. They also tried frequent patches - that didn't work too well either because people complain about downloading 1mb a month. People are hard to please. This has been the best policy so far in terms of keeping posts like yours to a minimum and that is why the devs will stick to it. Grow up or go home.