My sincere apologies, I read the full explanation, but it does not contain anything new. The matter is simple: if BR143er created an update (and big thanks of course to him for that!) beginning of April and nothing moved forward in 7 months, there is nothing else to be said other than that no-one simply cares. JTG don't care, TSG don't care. The latter of which was already stated openly by Maik by the way. Ruebelandbahn is an abandoned product. After all the ads and promotion last year it's a sad result. You have to feel it yourself. After all that you as JTG did last year, your name is somewhat tied to the product, whether you want it or not.
As for my reply to 143er I did not mean to be rude, but given the circumstances and my position as the customer and BR143er as the developer (he did get his share of the paid sum, I hope, if not, there is something terribly wrong here) I could not do otherwise than consider his answer as rude. If I asked about the update the week after he had announced it, fine, but this answer is hardly acceptable after such a long time. And it's not about whether the update is going to make it or not: if 143er replied that he's sorry but due to TSG and/or JTG policies the update probably won't be released, it would be a polite acceptable answer. But making it feel like I'm the bad one asking after 7 months...come on.
And to those that are clapping their hands to such approach of JTG: you are not doing a good service to us, customers. This is not what we should teach developers and publishers. We should teach them humility, respect and that a happy customer means a returning customer. And returning customers make the biggest profit. Period.
I will not add anything else to the topic as there is nothing to add here. I will silently wait for the update as I may still be pleasantly surprised by its unexpected appearance. In the meantime I will continue the discussion by speaking with what the customers have always spoken best with: their wallet.