Okay, let's take another example. Minecraft. They accepted money for their ALPHA. Another two alphas I've bought into, Kinetic Void and Starforge Alpha. Hell, there's a whole section on steam dedicated to "Early Access".

Another one is Arma 3... And another is Trials Gold: Evolution.

Need any more examples?

Essentially, all you've done by complaining about game development and asking the devs to "speed up" is to show your entitled side. Asking for transparency... They don't need to provide it. Perhaps it's in their best interests NOT to provide it. Unexpected setbacks occur in game development, which means they may need to leave features out of this update to be put in later, or they might delay any planned deadline so that they can put certain, almost-finished-but-not-quite features in.

If they set a release date, and didn't meet it, how annoyed would you be? If they said this feature would be in and it wasn't, how much grief would you give CCP? I can imagine more so than you do now.

No. Repeatedly I've seen you, and others, complain that the game is boring. There have been complaints about the number of maps, slow gameplay, new game modes, everything. Almost all of those come from the same people, and the threads come within days of each other. The same people make the same complaints, day after day. They ask for the content as quickly as possible, when they don't realise how long game development takes.

Yes, you're sick of the same game over and over again. Yes, you complain over and over. For example, your thread re: stop paying CCP. You want to motivate them, in order to speed up game development. I honestly cannot think of a more immature and entitled way of getting someone to do something for you.

You don't NEED to send them a message. They KNOW. They're coding and making content as quickly as they can, and doing something as idiotic as not giving them money because they're being SLOW about it is the worst idea I've ever heard.

They KNOW everything about how to improve their game as they've heard it from twenty different people, ten times a day, over the last eight months.

Cut CCP some slack.

They've announced something for around Fanfest. That's been known for a while.

@General: Apologies, I've seen too many of "this game is awful fix it" threads, that they kind of all mold into one complaint.

I also get that you don't need DUST, but DUST needs you. That's what I'm trying to say - you're saying you won't give them money unless they do something you want. It is, in effect, coercion.

It's up to CCP whether to release information or not. They've announced upcoming features, and what they want to be in the game for release. They don't want to be premature in anything else they do, and I can fully understand that.

You do realise that Fox Four meant that as a harmless bit of fun? That CCP enjoys playing practical jokes on people? In fact, go through the first page of this thread.

http://community.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1232785

Also look up the boot.ini. Two very notable events for CCP, in which QA was very important, and two events which show they care very much, and love getting involved with the community.