Quote Originally Posted by TaleraRistain View Post
Oh look I made the list twice!

I think they have to be careful about what they do and don't say. They did reveal things a bit earlier or tried to let players see a little behind the curtain in the past. But instead of appreciating that peek for what it is, players often took it as promises or made up their own expectations and then got mad at the developers for not living up to some things they never promised. So they keep things a bit closer to the vest now.

One of the most recent was Island Sanctuary. They kept that close to the vest. That tried to tell players not to go overboard on expectations. There was a ton of speculation here on the forums about what it was going to be. Some was honestly rather ridiculous given what we had been told. And like clockwork, people got angry that SE didn't implement it the way they had envisioned and acted like SE had promised things they never said would happen.

I enjoy when they go over the things that will be in an expansion at the Fan Fest announcements. I'm happy when I hear updates on things, like the raid tool that was mentioned recently. But I know things can change and delays can happy so unless they officially set in stone announce something, I just wait for the topic to come back around.
I am remember reading some of those wonderful expectation and so called promise threads. Very amusing to say the least as well as the resulting anger and disappointment that followed when said expectations were not met.