noone has to update if they don't want to?

I want to. daily even if needed.

As to the regularity of updates, no it's far from annoying. Computers naturally gravitate towards more communication, not less. Frequent updates become more and more tolerable over time, (not that they were much of a nuisance to me anyway) and in my case since i have steam, the frequency of updates is largely irrelevant as the updating process is done in the background without pestering me. i just start up one morning and find the version number incremented, and some bugs gone.

Right now at least, the game is in a state, both technically and balance wise, where frequent updates are needed and desireable. In a few months time perhaps people will expect you to slow down, but cross that bridge when you come to it.

FE converted to a mod of that type would sure be interesting. Guess that would be more of a total conversion than mod, but still sounds very interesting.

And for the record, I really like the current patch speed. I'll take them as fast as possible as long as there are meaningful updates. And by that I mean either a significant bug/balance fix or ANY performance improvement.

So either these are impatient children who don't realize how easy, fast, and painless updating this game is (I LOVE that I can finally play a wonderful, brand new PC game which doesn't force Steam down our throats without any alternative in order to do updates by the way, so thank you for that) -- Or, they're game reviewers who must play for a set number of hours and review only most up-to-date version of the game, or else they keep having to start over whenever an update is released.

Regardless of their reasons, I firmly believe this is your typical case of the loudest, most careless, extremely slim minority.  If someone truly cares about the quality of this game (just as with any other product somebody purchases and already sees value in), then I can't imagine anyone not wanting it to be at its best, as soon as possible, even if updates are as much as few times a week.  For some games updating can be a chore to say the least; this is not the case with FE either, in fact it's a breeze.

I still had some crashes in 1.01 due to the game's memory issues consistently after 3 or so hours of play, similarly to many others.  As long as the big problems continue being addressed and improved upon, what more can I ask for?  Thanks again.

first, great jobs getting updates out so far. imho, as long as we have a way to roll back a update in case, and just in case, it turns out to be a bad one, i'm perfectly fine with the current frequency.

The negative voices always shout the loudest, but are rarely the most numerous

I haven't had any performance issues on my 3 years old gaming PC, so that part of the updates doesn't personally matter to me.

BUT I think it's awesome that annoying bugs and obvious balance issues get addressed so quickly. I found it very annoying with Civ 4 and even more 5 that they'd take so long (sometimes) to finish an update. Great job YOU GUYS are doing.

Pathetic fishing attempt though!

As long as they don't break the game, or introduce even bigger bugs, I'm all for the frequent updates!

When software is new, there tends to be more bugs, balance issues, tweaks and enhancements needed than later in the lifecycle. As a software developer, I expect to make more frequent releases early on, and as the software becomes more stable, the frequency drops off. 

The rate at which you are releasing updates is just fine with me.

More rapid updates of a few items, while working longterm on others, makes sense to me.

I did notice the improvements in speed.  The game's significantly faster, now, and that's very apparent on large maps.  Thanks.

keep em coming

I enjoy the updates and the changelogs, more is almost always better... although the premature changelogs are a bit of a tease, held just out of reach by the clear veil of time.

To me, 1.00 was the game I had dreamed of when Elemental was first mentioned. I have nothing but praise for you and the whole team, every single one. Congratulations. I look forward to seeing more of your ideas made reality in following projects. Carefully crafted, balanced and then set free. I know many good ideas were put to one side or hidden deep in the code to produce the crisp and more focussed world as it is (thinking dynasties here, that could be reintroduced or applied to a game like galciv3). The design goals you've followed only makes me more curious as to how things will change, most of those ideas obviously aren't essential because the game is good as is. But then, how much of an improvement was Twilight of the Arnor for having asteroids, unique tech trees and super abilities? I can picture lots of possibilities, but what are you and the team planning? Have to wait and see.

Balance and fixes, memory and optimisation all help someone like me. Thank you so much for them. I'm often using an older computer with annoyingly intermittent internet access, I look forward to the changes that will eventually let me play on larger maps and hopefully use the unit design screen without it getting angry at me. (loading all the textures, including those that my shoddy integrated graphics card doesn't like (surcoats?, eyes!? and the spellbook background all for some reason annoy my computer))

Anyway, I thought you were fishing for praise mentioning getting negative emails... so... Well done and thank you. Keep updating!