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Originally Posted by Chivas
I suppose Luthier could speculate weekly what they hope to have done, but he gets crucified when people take his hopes as a promise. Its much better for him to speculate every few weeks when he has a better idea whats going to make the next update.
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I would agree with this. It's not a big deal for them to tell us what's going on once per week. What is a big deal is the backlash when things don't go as planned.
I think that's why they only come forward when there's something to show and to be honest, it's reasonable. A lot of the disappointment was not due to the product being downright bad, it was because of raised expectations that weren't met. In that sense, going back to the old way of Oleg Maddox (back in early IL2 times his motto was "don't show anything that's not 100% sure to make the list of features) will help manage expectations.
What we got this week is exactly that and i wouldn't confuse the frequency of this week's updates for a sign of regularity. They just had the sounds close to completion so they showed it to us and told us about a few more features in the previous update, then the date slipped but they had more finalized features to show (the terrain colours and new coastlines) so they released a few screenshots of that too.
I don't mind this, because i can't really expect to see stuff that isn't ready yet. Updates just for the sake of updates are useless, but when they have something complete to show then by all means an update is welcome.