There will always be this loyal crowd to a game/company who will defend a product or company no matter what sorts of criticism (even the constructive kind) appears - just look at Apple. Of course this is also the case here and its fair enough. However, this doesnt mean that other people are ungrateful, impatient and stupid because they have an opinion about communication and news announcements. This sort of argument is invalid and ridiculous in my opinion. As said by others, this is a forum on the developers website - even a developer who released an early access version of a game while receiving tons of help from the community and they communicated very well here on the forum in the past. Now the game (PG) seems to be done, its out and can be bought. But they announced that PG2 is being worked on - people would expect at least some communication/status about this. Of course not as regular and involved as the early access PG1, but more than whats been given and i think thats very fair to expect.
I havent been active and around the forums much in a long time. Mostly visited here just to take a quick look at the first 10-12 forum headlines to find out if theres important news about the game or PG2 - and i understand those who long for news. But i also can't understand why the devs cant seem to find 2 minutes of their time once a month to do a simple 2-3 line status update. Coming from a 20 year long customer service business career, this is the opposite of ideal if you want to keep your current and future customers happy. It simply hurts the brand.
Also, i'm not aware of the popularity of golf simulators around the world - it must be huge and cheap to buy in the US + be quite a good source of income, since theres so much focus on this? I know that here in Scandinavia where i'm from...sims are fairly rare and usually only found in very few golf clubs in the country - also being expensive to try/use. So i'm guessing theres a huge target group of PC golfers wishing there'd be some progress (news-wise too) on the PC golfing game too, including myself. "We" cant quite understand the excessive simulator focus, altho we know that its important to the revenue of the company.
I cant help but think there might be some pride (and perhaps a little arrogance?) involved here, when the devs obviously read all these posts but still wont give a tiny update or status from time to time. I hope im wrong tho. 