First off, you should know that many people using the forums either opt for the "Quick Reply" feature at the bottom of a thread, which automatically uses the post immediately above to reply to, or they just hit the Reply button in the last post for convenience. I wouldn't get too upset about that.

To address your concerns about the progress bar, we do consider everything when updating it. We don't always use the same percentages for every game, but the progress bar is intended to give our fans some idea of when the game will be released.

There have been a lot of valid points made here. As far as speculation and debate is concerned, it's all good until it starts creating extra work for us. Then it's not as much fun.