We have seen several examples of advancement in development from the guys at planetside, Fenring, maybe you don't count renders as news but many of us do. How many other pieces of softwaare have you followed through development where you've been offered anything more than a few screenshots? Video games are a prime example, Alan Wake, Splinter Cell Conviction, Tom Clancy's EndWar. They've all been in development for years, all been postponed by months at a time, all with little more than a whiff of screenshots, most of them prerendered. Hell every evidence of Splinter Cell Conviction has been of one level. I'm a game developer myself, I've done more for London Mafia, my own game than we've seen in those screenshots, and they were released months ago, we've seen no development since, in that case we can have grounds to consider that production has halted, at least temporarily. Eventually it was announced that development had been paused. but we have seen evidence of Terragen 2's development, if that isn't good enough for you then maybe you made the mistake of choosing planetside, but that's your mistake, not theirs. All I'm saying is that there are actually very few companies that will keep prospective customers (seeing as fewer companies have pre purchase options) as "in the loop" as planetside has. Almost all software companies will give very small peeks at production to give customers a taste and then provide streams of announcements, screenshots, trailers, etc. mere months before the final release. I would suggest that the main reason that you are unhappy is because Terragen was announced when it was still pre-alpha, this is very unusual for a company to do but the development time has been pretty average, if not, above average.