Well that lack of communication is possibly also the case in relation to your issue with people stealing credit for your academy creations, still doesn't stop us discussing things. Wouldn't be much of a forum if people couldn't discuss what pleases and doesn't please them, as you've illustrated yourself.
Just because it's standard behaviour as you put it for game developers to care about their community while the money flows in, it still doesn't make it a good idea for everyone. We all might have differing views on that.
As for every time Matt posts one comment, no I don't think the forums turn to that every time. Actually that picture is very vague in it's implication.
Talking about the forums, in fact recently they've been pretty dead for a while with very few posts in a lot of areas. If people are in total agreement and there's no points to debate/discuss then everyone goes away and the forums lose their interest.
What you're unsure of what I'm expecting, is that some of the suggestions that some more of the things Big Ant have said they'd do would actually happen. This game had an undeniably poor start and many things have been fixed and rebroken. I'd like communication that suggests that people can still hope for improvements and repairs to the poor features within this game. Big Ant have fixed the state of the game in a lot of areas and that's great, but there's more to do before I'd consider this was a value for money title.
For just one small instance, it'd be nice if they actually did proper licensed faces for New Zealand and Ireland. If you defend those as "quality licensed product" as it stands, then I'm not sure we could agree on anything.
Anyhow, stop worrying if the forums have some disagreement. It might actually bring them back to life.
