To provide some back ground, @kilif and I have actually discussed this issue at length well before @AlexKay and @Krodmandoon have been brought in. We do understand the concerns you bring up @Manchura and do plan to relax these rules eventually but not as of yet.
The reason this rule is in place is because, historically speaking, allowing users to ask for updates tends to be both a moderation nightmare and put undue pressure on devs causing them to drop projects. You may not think it but its amazing how many different users would just ask for updates without even reading the threads first to see if the question was already asked with many posts being asked almost right after another just asking for the same thing. This causes the threads to quickly become junked up with “when is the next release” questions and while usually does not come from the same user the frequency, what I have seen in other communities can be more than what would be considered harassment if it was from a single user.
So in short, yes the rule is in place (as @zdeerzzz puts it) to protect the creators over the standard users.
That being said we do have a distinction when it does come to paid content. Both @kilif and I do think that the users who pay for a game do have the right to ask for updates. There are two issues that prevent us from allowing this though:
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Tooling - There is not an easy way for us to identify what projects are paid, asking for donations, or otherwise and we dont want to ask our limited moderation team to have to check this for every post an asking for update question is posted in.
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Clarity - We try to favor very cut or dry rules to make things clear while also reducing the very common argument of “while X can do it so why cant I?” that tends to pop up in grey areas. While we could add an exception the fact is most people would likely just see someone asking when an update will be out and assume they can do it everywhere.
Due to these considerations our current stance is users should use the channels available to them by the payment processor (patreon, itch, ect) to ask these sorts of questions. We do know its an inconvenience but its just the way things will work for right now.
I will say we are considering some rule changes around this with the release of the main site though, especially since we want to support allowing devs to sell their projects through us. Until that is released though we are currently holding firm on our rules around updates.
Quick Edit:
To answer your question I missed @zdeerzzz the forums are more supposed to be for development and discussion. Devs can choose to advertise their games but its not technically what the forums should be used for. Despite how some of our rules look though we try to take a very laz e fair approach to what is posted, especially when it comes games since our main stated goal is “supporting fat & expansion game development”.