They actually don’t. Before the last two days, we hadn’t heard from a developer in about 2 weeks. We don’t have any serious conversation like we used to.
And the VAST Majority of these are from before October 2017, which was the last time a dev sat down at their computer and talked with the community about whatever came up.
Everything else are faceless comments under patch notes, brief acknowledgements of people thanking them, and some lore tidbits. Occasionally we’ll get something informative like
But we so rarely get even basic stuff like this. And the fact remains that they are more willing to go onto some stream than actually talk to their community, and they pass it off as communication.
Any forum talk they give is so sporadic, and it’s so often irrelevant, it’s really hard to call that “consistent communication”