Deinmaar: I'd disagree. They have been more active on the steam forums than many other bigger devs I've seen. Maybe they just treat the steam forums as their main forum? No idea *shrug*
Hal900x: They never post on Steam. Malgardian, a friend of mine who is a fan volunteer, posts there and is then able to submit whichever questions he deems fit to the devs. He is not paid, he just does it for love. Sometimes the devs respond (to him, not us), often they do not.
It is nice to get DLC, but Nordic doesn't do it out of the goodness of their hearts, as shown by the $20 DLC on a now $5 game. This is why all fanboyism must be stomped out like the plague it is: it results in zero gain for the customer, whereas criticism sometimes gets results.
Well, here are two instances of devs posting and replying:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/475150/discussions/0/1699416432416046723/?ctp=2#c1699416432432726882 http://steamcommunity.com/app/475150/discussions/0/1499000547486549440/#c1617220671496025511 Apart from that it's not really feasible as a dev to browse forums all day. I'd rather have it the way it is: One volunteer/moderator passes along all important bugs and feedback, while the devs work on the game and only post if there's a good reason like in the two links.
Sure, they don't. They are a company trying to make money after all. And it's no surprise that a new DLC with new content is priced higher than an game that has been released for over 10 years (disregarding the extensive fixing done with the Anniversary edition). I do agree that fanboyism is not helpful for both fans and the company, but one shouldn't go too far the other way either. Not all criticism is good and constructive and it's easy to fall into a negative mindset of "they don't care about us!" and just complain for the sake of it. This is a general statement, not meant to target anyone is this thread. I've just seen too many people who complain because they get a kick out of complaining in the past years...