Dear Dreddster
Thank you for your enlightenment.
"However we see changes to the game that we are not notified about (like the apparent reduction of the drop chance of legendary fragments)"
The tricky part is in fact no drop rate changes have been made to legendary fragments at all, so we handle this post according to the defined forum policy. These kind of assumptions arise from time to time and it seems to be no way to convince everyone this simple fact that we didn't make those changes. We don't know any better way to handle posts like this so we'll stick with the current policy. All rumors of drop rates will be moved to off-topic and players can always reference to change logs for any actual change.
"Moreover a lot of leaders are wondering what is going on with patch 1.8, and we posed this question in numerous topics. However there is no official statement about the progress of this patch.
We will appreciate very much if patch notes are posted in a timely manner, and if we can get an update on 1.8."
The patch is already finished programming for two weeks, but because we're very unhappy with our previous release that introduced some serious bugs, we spent more time testing this time. We don't have a set release date yet and we never post a release date before. We don't have more information to share regarding the release date for now other than 1.8 will be released soon.
We understand more on what you wanted in terms of communications and will try to improve.
Thank you,
Icetea