Not really getting my hopes up after some of the things the director has put out online. I think he probably dashed whatever hopes were left unfortunately. Dude has gotten extremely bitter over time.

Very true. I'm surprised he's still involved in Ashfall to be honest - seems though he has also posted somewhere that an inside source at Bend has mentioned this. That could've been a fake screen grab, posted just for clout by a user on Reddit though. We'll see, I suppose.