I think a lot of developers underestimate the value of communication even when the news they have to give isn't good. It seems to me that a deliberate lack of communication is the result of greedy or unethical decision making by the developer. Just as a youtuber DMCA's a video criticizing them is basically a confirmation that the criticisms are true, a developer not making an effort to communicate game progress to show that they are not taking advantage of supporters means that you can say with very little doubt that they are definitely taking advantage of everyone supporting them.The dev weed to realize that people wouldn't be mad at him and constantly calling him a hack or a scammer if he simply updated everyone of the situation of the game. I'm not asking for him to magically hand to us the entire finished game, I just want to know why it has been taking so long, if the next update will be a giant one and that's why he's taking his time or what complications he is facing that are making it take so long. Deleting angry comments from Itch while just updating the people at Subscribestar is just making his situation worse