Most game companies don't give informational updates at all.  Have you lost interest in all of your other games because of a lack of updates on an internet forum?

I'm not sure what you expect them to say. A new guy just took over as producer of the game, and there's a substantial patch being developed. It's not like stuff isn't being worked on.

Plus if you look back in the past, you can see how many times announcing stuff early caused trouble when it turned out to not work out. If they're holding off on talking about 1.1 stuff until AFTER some testing and iteration on the game systems, that's a good thing.

Nobody really wants another "this will be a realtime game with thousands of troops on the field... oh wait, no it won't" type issue again.

Nothing, you just haven't been taking your Ritalin.

This has to be sarcasm...

That or DevildogFF wants something along these lines...

Dev: "Hey community, just grabbing a coffee!"

5 minutes later...

Dev: "Okay, have my coffee and am back to work!"

10 minutes later...

DevildogFF: "What, no update?"

I think at this point Stardock is keeping their nose to the grind stone and getting 1.1 ready for release.  There's a lot riding on this patch -- it could very well make or break Elemental (in a PR sense) -- so I don't blame them for focusing their energies in that direction at the moment.