Good to see some more activity on the forum. :P
Disclaimer- I don't formulate paragraphs much... so if my grammar, syntax, yadda yadda yadda is less than desirable.... I'm sorry XD
And if I'm wrong, please correct me, I'm speaking from distant memory. ;)
To "quickly" speak my two cents-
I think ZanMgt realizes they've turned many people off, off, and away by not doing as many developers do and push updates out weekly or even monthly. I'm not saying that's a bad thing to push things out quickly, many producers do it successfully without (a noticeable amount) of hitches. Many times though, they've stated that they want to create a quality game, even though it means doing things their way.... albeit their way meant creating their own engine from scratch and building from the ground up. HEY! They're comfortable with what they've made, and if it means in the (distant?) future we'll see some quality updates, then so be it.
Looking to the future, I do fear that many of the original consumers will look at a more "complete" version of BR on steam and say- "Hey, this game.... I thought it was dead, oh well, they'll probably just cheat more people for cash".
I will state they are NOT seeking to do this, when they realized they wouldn't get a decent product out in a reasonable amount of time, they shut down the store so they could continue without worrying about people being misled to buy an incomplete version and make a noise about it.
I personally am cheering them on to reach for their dream that they originally had (quite literally on pen and paper if I'm not mistaken).
While they may have missed their window, they're confidently pushing forward despite the lack of funding and support.
I appreciate that, they so far haven't left yet another dream-game tossed aside to be forgotten like many "potentials" in the past.
Nor have they built the game up to a point that it became a bug-nest; They have focused so much on compacting what they have, and tried their best to make it as stable as possible (things DO happen though...).
Anyway, I've lost my train of though... Here's a cat
Spoiler
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f36/Redpandead/Paintme_zpsccttfzae.jpg)