New Order

@Pwnstar I saw which intention he has, but i don't see it as an excuse.
Especially because this "excuse" just came out of the mouths (fingers) of the community not from the developer.
DS "excuse" are some things that hitted while Pre Alpha still was running.
Such things can happen. Such things happen all the time to many many develeoper.
Usually you adjust your project plans in this case.
Nothing else DS did.

There is nothing wrong with this kind of developement timeline.
I bet not a single Developer in the world is able to set a 3 years timeline and hold it exactly intime the whole 3 years.

For the other thing he mentioned, the marketing&community part, i am quite on his side.

Somehow the old nerdy cliche about developer is true, they are shy if they need to talk with real people

@Tuoni what you expect to get shown?
It is a Pre-Alpha and it is under NDA.
Be happy the game will not be under NDA anymore even in Alpha 1.
Many other games don't have this and you get rarely some hand picked Screenshots and Footages shown till open Betas.
As usual in Alpha will be much testing about it's future features, and you can be very close to this progress once Alpha 1 is started.
Till them you have to be patient as every other here aswell.

I also don't understand your

@Tuoni said in Developer updates regarding game status?:

That is not acceptable reason. When Alpha 1 is launch, what happens next? Then devs are too busy to maintain Alpha 1 and they need to start focus on Alpha 2. So with that logic devs can use that same reason everytime and they never have time for community and marketing.

I think thats the only valid reason, to work straight towards the next phase.

For sure, there is a need of some good marketing, but thats not our decision, thats the decision of DS, how they walk their path.