If we didn’t care about the concerns of the community then why would I asked explicitly for them?
The purpose of that thread was to get directly from everyone feedback on what they didn’t like about the game. The thread isn’t closed. I intend to respond to all queries. The thread contains many hundreds of comments (little c) and responding with thought takes significant time.
We’ve gathered details and reoccurring responses from the thread to roll into our ongoing planning and design.
Our development progress is described and shared in the Weekly Dev Updates.
Game progress is described and shared in the Release notes.
The vision for Boundless is captures on playboundless.com and steam.playboundless.com.
Creating games is extremely difficult. Creating a game where all players, on all platforms, in all physical geo-locations, play in a single shared voxel sandbox is even harder. The complexity of creating a shared sandbox is an order of magnitude greater than a feature equivalent single player game.
I hear that a percentage of the community is underwhelmed by the progress we’ve made - but games of this complexity genuinely take serious time.
What do you mean by a real RPG system?
Finally a general comment about requesting detailed descriptions of features not currently in the game. This is an impossible request to fulfil.
Any game developer who can write down upfront an exact description of a features before it’s implemented is creating a bad game. You might know the general direction you want to explore, you may even believe you have a vision for what you think will work. But no feature survives it’s first implementation. No feature survives it’s first interaction with players. It’s a continuous process of ideas, experimentation, iteration, and evaluation. It’s great to talk about ideas. But attempting to describe the final state of in-development features is a huge waste of time. And to your frustration it’s why no one in the dev team responds to these queries.
I know these responses will not satisfy you - but I’m responding in good faith as I would to similar queries by anyone else in the community.