You may be right, but in that case they shouldn't bother charging extra for early access and another extra tier for early news. If all they are doing is getting us to testing and writing bug reports that they're not going to communicate about, they shouldn't charge US extra for OUR extra work and reports, if we're not getting anything more back than we would if we just waited and bought the finished game. I thought they were going to make the process more fun for us as *premium paying* testers by being more interactive.
I understand your point. You felt you were paying for your own "be part of the alpha" experience, at least to some extend, which is understandable, and there is nothing wrong with that.
However, I personally think a bit different about this.
In order to be able to make this bold move of "releasing" an unfinished game for triple the price, you have to be very determined about it, and frankly, it has to be good already, otherwise there would be huge backlash.
I felt I was first and foremost supporting Frontier in terms of money and feedback, to create an exceedingly good game.
So if my money and time helps them to do exactly that, then my expectations would be 100% fulfilled.
I personally don't really care all that much about "Dev Diaries" or anything, really. I think it's nice, but in the end those things have no bearing on the quality of the game.
Like I have said before, at this stage, now that they have gotten a lot of feedback to work with, it is also really difficult to release more information, because the risk of misunderstanding is very high, as the expectations are very high.
Again, I am not criticizing your feelings about this, but If I had to put the intentions of this campaign, as I felt about it, into one single phrase, it would go something like this:
"We want to create a really awesome game, but we need money, time, and feedback. Will you help us? We will try to keep you up to date as best as we can, but our promise is that the first priority will be the game itself."
Besides all this, I guess there will be updates, but they will be likely to include only things that we will indeed be seeing in the game in the near future.