Originally posted by retsam1:

Your long post really wasn't necessary as I don't think the perception of the game's progressive development has had a dire need to have a player, who isn't a dev, to say the equivalency of "Everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you." (Star Wars reference) in these regards.

Games with progressive development meander. Its pretty common.

Is development really progressing though, or just meandering, on a beach. With lots of money in its pocket?