Oh I absolutely dislike the silence and consider it highly unprofessional and probably causing them to lose sales. That said, I got the Gameshell because of the hardware, and they delivered a solid platform. The software was unfinished, somewhat untested, and buggy, but thankfully certain folks in the community here stepped up and addressed those problems in their spare time. (I’m looking at you. @javelinface, but there are several other folks who have made critical fixes and stable alternative OS options and software options.) Personally, when I saw how the official software was supported, I decided to stop using it and instead used one of the more up to date, stable, and less buggy user created options.
For the DevTerm’s sake I hope that happens again. I want to see the company continue to make this hardware because they do a great job with it, and the Gameshell was worth it for that alone.
But I do think it was disingenuous to sell the Gameshell as a sort of assembly required emulator device, because I’ve seen a number of disappointed folks on the forums who only wanted a working device to play games, and didn’t realize they were signing up to help develop (or at least help test) community software to be able to use it in the way they imagined. Personally, I’ve enjoyed tinkering with it, and didn’t want it to be a plug and play emulator device.