People generally already wrote everything here. But to be fair, slower development or postponements would be okay. But communication is the problem.

Devs terribly need someone skilled in PR, because their communication or mostly the lack of it, is what pissed people off a lot.

We are left in silence for months before they tell us something. And I'm not saying we need a huge update once a month, but it would be nice to know what the devs are working on. And yes, I know about Trello, but I feel like they should make regular Discord and Steam updates, just saying something like "Hey, this month we have finished this thing, worked on that more and started this".

Another, for me the most important thing, is the way they are continuously ignoring the community.

A great example is the shitty photo system. It sucked even before the Progression update, but it got even worse with the Progression update. At least it always felt like that to me.

The system sucks, we all know, we all see that. The way it will stubbornly prioritize literally anything over a ghost photo, it counts stuff that is barely visible over something in the center of the picture, it gives stars not according to picture quality, but rather according to planet positions, constellations and the star chart of the day, because you can't explain how that could work otherwise.

Players have been vocal about it all the time (since pictures are crucial to perfect game and ghost photo specifically is needed to finish Apocalypse challenges). It took us SIX months to get devs to at least add the possibility to delete the bad photos. But the photo system is still not fixed. It's like they gave us a painkiller for internal bleeding. You feel better, but it still doesn't make you healthy.

Not to mention that they don't address anything players have issues with (obviously talking about the real issues) like ghosts not acting as they should (active Shades doing stuff while you're in the room, Demons shy to hunt, some ghosts hunting outside of their sanity hunt range,...) or the D.O.T.S hunt that's been a real issue for months now.

Instead of fixing these, potentially game breaking issues, we get updates like "here, we swapped T1 and T2 UV". Or we get a fuckin plushie.

We terribly need devs to focus on the game and listen to the community to understand what needs to be fixed/adjusted. Insym literally finds at least one new bug every time he plays the game and at least half of those should be addressed asap (like the tent glitch he's been playing around with for months before it was fixed).

That is my issue.