I got fed up of their houses updates so sent the following post on their forum, and, in all fairness, DarkStarr had the reply that follows - to me they are catering for the minority that like houses and trinklets that seem to maintain funding.
My post:
"I might have missed updates, but I backed this project as it promised to deliver a single player, offline rpg over ~ 40 hour campaign.
Are there any updates on this promise? All I can see are houses, pets and trinklets to buy and a client to download."
Reply:
SpoonFULL,
The serial chapters of the novel are the fiction leading up to that campaign. Plus we have provided many updates about game systems like combat and crafting that are fundamental to the game, whether single player or multiplayer.
Much of the other content you are seeing are the assets being built to satisfy the rewards we promised backers so things you feel are not important like houses and pets are extremely important to those who pledged to get those specific rewards.
Also please understand that we are still in a mode of active fundraising so each update will have something that is part of that fundraising effort.
-Darkstarr
