[Tripamang]

Well look at it form a marketing perspective, you have a developer posting somewhere about their game other than their official forums. They're targetting a demograph outside their current customers with updates about what they're doing, they're also showing that they understand whats going on and have made plans to fix it. To people who play these games as a serious hobby this makes me consider purchasing a game/renewing a cancelled subscription. Take Brad for example, I didn't really think Vanguard was going to be a great game, but having him post here defintely sparked my interest. As long as the person isn't slamming the game publically and not updating their existing community through their official boards I can't see it as being a bad thing.

Take this topic for example, it's a great topic and I'm sure Tigole is dying to post about upcoming ideas he has and what blackwing's lair is like.. but he can't. These kind of conversations are always turned into heaping piles of shit on the offical boards (or buried with no reply in minutes), and nobody ever asks the hard questions. By imposing stupid restrictions on their developers they're shooting themselves in the foot.. =/