I hope we hear of an announcement regarding the mythical community manager. It would do alot of good for the game and its community. Just keeping us up-to-date on the game's continuing progress helps cut down the negativity and speculation while also creating some hope our purchases were not a complete waste but rather an early contribution to a great product.
It'd also help to start a proper bug fixing effort where the CM could compile an actively updated list of known bugs and their status (fixed in next patch or being worked on etc). Although we as a community have tried our best to do this ourselves, it is useless without active feedback from the dev team.
I really hope we have a significant update to hear about, seeing the new sound engine in action with some sneak-peaks at some new sound samples would make alot of people happy and confident the game can only get better.