I would agree with this. The only reason I made Hengsha public for a while was to make it easier to get advice and contributions from non-team members, it turned out that everyone was happy to register and join a private forum anyway.
It was a relatively short dev time of about 1 year and then 1 year with Poor roughly, but even so that time lagged on the forums, sometimes there was nothing new to actually show, despite progress.
Also on Facetown, for example, testers are banned from any recording or screenshot. Also some features that are demonstrated to us, we are not allowed to talk about. Talking about them would have noobs trying to rush those ideas onto servers before FT is finished, or simply deflate the surprise that Cozmo is talking about. All I can say is FT missions and equipment will be worth the wait.
With Hengsha, everyone already knows there are two maps, apartments, 7 teams and they know exactly what is in the final version, or maybe not :P Maybe we will have some surprises too
I'm in the mood to kill zombies though.