The NDA topic in this community is elevated so much that is starting to look a bit ridiculous. No other community I participated ever gave that much attention to this topic.
NDA is a legal contract established between two parties(people, companies, etc..) in order to maintain/preserve confidential material until it's release. This practice is not an invention from Relic and its not only used by Relic. Its a practice spread out around all companies or studios that works with IP's (Intellectual Propriety).
This community is constantly bombarded by treads and complains regarding NDA and I wonder if certain people are not using this as an excuse to bark at the game. Seriously folks, leaking the next faction, patch notes or bashing NDA will not solve any problems related to Game Balance, Game Optimization, Meta Game or what ever complain you have.
Further more I seriously doubt you take your NDA outrage standards on Relic to EA, Ubisoft, Paradox or Activision for "not being so open to the community". I never saw any of the NDA Rebels complain about any of the companies above. If you don't use the same standards you use on Relic on those companies, you are a spoiled hypocrite with the entitled feeling that Relic should be giving you information as you see fit.
Now regarding the lack of information/ bad communication. Yes, I would love to know more about what is being developed at Relic. Yes i would love to have more balance patches and content. But Relic is a studio of not more then 70 people. It takes time to develop content for a huge game like CoH2 and even if every Friday Cynthia showed up on twitch and said they were working on X or Y you will still be complaining that the content is taking too long. Game Development is a long a time consuming process so stop blaming the NDA for the decadence of the game. This topic is extremely overrated in this community and deserves no special attention, especially coming from entitled kids.
I'm looking forward to the Brits. Hopefully the new faction will make the matchmaking search time more reasonable and encourage axis fan boys to play more Allies.