Dalrien said:
I am still confused about those people going around, saying the game is already a dissapointment, even before anyone played this demo.
It's my understanding that said people had been led to believe that the community would be given a substantial say in the production of the game, and that that promise was compromised by the employment of a toxic community manager who was more concerned with promoting her own agendas than the communities desires. She's gone now, but as we're at the tail end of production, the damage has been done. Even if the game still turns out to be excellent, the product we receive will not be the one that was promised.
I backed the game, but wasn't following it very closely. I DID find it weird when the surveys stopped coming in through my email, and finding out about that after the fact, I can only assume she was at least partially responsible for obfuscating the development process.