FWIW, this would be an extremely piss poor way for them to start Melee. Pissing off the dedicated customer based that donated to get it going, then pissing all over them.
And the current system of little feed back is working oh so well? And leaving cRPG in a very broken state with no indication of fixing it is a good idea? Pretty sure that'll piss ppl off just as much. And bottom line they got the money. Which means 2 things, we trust em to deliver and they can fuck us with cRPG as much as they want now. Imagine the advertising they'll be doing. Youtube channels who review new indie games have millions of subscribers, and the gam won't be expensive when it's finished. It can't be.
Ideally, the devs would get to a point, such as now, and say "We're finished balancing cRPG" (cos lets be honest, it's never going to be 100% balanced) then they iron out all the bugs, such as the siege beta issues, the siege equipment issues etc and then say "We're focussing more of our time on X project, we'll still support cRPG just updates will be less frequent and not so game changing"
I feel that they skipped fixing the bugs and just went straight to project X, which is understandable cos theyre excited about it, but still.