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No, you are very clearly not interested in giving any kind of "support" to the dev. Your post was incredibly insulting. You could've said something like, "Man, I really wish the devs of this game would engage with their community more often. I really enjoy the game, but I find it frustrating that there's so little interaction," but you didn't. If I was a dev, I'd actually take something like what I suggested to heart and try to work on communicating with my fans better in future updates. However, just reading your comment would lead to me simply noting you as someone toxic in the community and continue to not engage with it because of how incredibly hostile it comes off as.

What it sounds like to me what you're saying with your unnecessary addition is "I can't do anything other than talk shit about the devs of the games I enjoy!" But the thing is that if you can "express opinions online", you can find plenty of other things to do. Develop a game yourself, maybe it'll help you find a hobby outside of making lackluster comments on the internet. Read some books, there's free PDFs out there. Watch some movies and/or videos, there's plenty of stuff on Youtube. Go onto Wikipedia, read some articles, or go on the Internet Archive, there's movies, music, books, and plenty of other things they're hosting. To put it simply, there's literally an ENTIRE INTERNET of possibilities at your fingertips. Do something other than "expressing opinions" online. Again, just cause you have an opinion doesn't mean it's a good one, especially if you're posting whiney screeds like "the dev of this game that I like need to do this specific thing!" that really don't amount to much more than crying about "community engagement".

On top of that, as I understand it, part of the reason the updates are kept behind the Discord is because the dev is attempting to limit their and their team's exposure to toxicity (which certainly seems like a smart idea to me), and that the team might want to keep the community from getting a constant flood of updates. Unfortunately for them, people like you are going to screech and cry about whatever it is they do. If they don't post, then people will say "post more!" but if they post more, then people will say "These aren't important updates, post less!" and if they post less, then people will go back to whining about them not posting enough, or whine about some other thing because it's not enough to have updates for a game, it's always got to be "the best" when it comes to community engagement, even if the people running the game don't want to have any kind of engagement with the community at all. 

On that topic, you do know that the team making this game is there to make the game and not necessarily there for interacting with the community, right? Like a dev team that interacts with their community is not only rare, but it is also something that costs time (and likely even money) that they could just put towards making the game. So if they did what you're asking for, it'd just take that much time away from the game. But I guess the community is more important than the actual game that this entire discussion is revolving around - or, at least to you. To the dev team, apparently "the game is more important"! :O How unexpected of a game development team! To develop games! Imagine it! Who could conceive of such a bizarre and unheard-of concept!

Again, I'd suggest that you take a step back from the game and everything connected to it and come back in a month or two when you're a bit more chill. I'm not criticizing you because you're complaining, I'm criticizing you because your comment was written like you have a parasocial relationship to the development of this game. I imagine your original post would only signal to the team behind VotV that they should continue to not engage with the community until it as a whole is less hostile towards the people working on the game. But if you're going to just double-down on acting snotty towards them, silence from this team is what both you and the more toxic parts of the VotV community deserve. But whatever, keep biting the hand that feeds. I'm sure you've got SO much to show for it.

Here's a rhetorical question for you; does engaging with the VotV community in the manner that you are currently make you happy? If not, then why wouldn't you just simply do something that does make you happy? Don't bother answering either of these questions because they're both rhetorical and I don't actually care about your answers, the point I'm getting at is that you should do literally anything else. I am presuming you have eyes, ears, and a brain. I'm pleading with you to use them somewhere - ANYWHERE - else, for your own sake.

Or don't, either I just ran several circles around you and you gave up or I get to keep running circles until I get bored, it's a win/win for me.