I think that any Business with subscribers would want to keep customers updated on some form of regular basis, i.e. Quarterly or such like on developments, Not asking a lot, most video game companies do that now as a matter of course.
I'm only guessing, but seeing as HT has been involved with warbirds too, maybe he got burned by letting out a bit to much information. He seems to like to play things close to his chest. It's his company, I'm not a shareholder, are you? Seeing its private, I doubt it, so its his way only.
Are you suggesting that AH charges customers for Game development news? I'm curious as to why companies such as Eidos or Sega haven't started charging customers for update news as of yet...
Im guessing here to, but with such large companies, by the time the "news" is out the games are well into production and there is little chance that another company could beat them out with the same game. HTC being small takes more time to put things together. If they had 100 people working on the software we would see update weekly.
I'd love to see more info, heck if HT would like to hire me I'll run his PR.... I am out of work
but, I also know this is how he runs things, so I don't expect more.