Um, what? Considering the community has been paying their salaries and recommending their products to others for over a decade we do have a voice in how they behave as a company. The Elder Scrolls is not a gift bestowed on the masses, it is a product. Why have this forum at all if you do not intend on communicating with your fanbase. Beth seems to go out of their way to avoid talking to us. And this is certainly not limited to Bethesda, it's a problem with the entire industry.
I don't understand why Beth can't just talk straight. This isn't asking for a lot. This should be standard practice.
Assuming that this forum represents even a moderately substantial portion of Bethesda's fanbase is pretty off the mark. We are quite the minority, actually, in terms of the whole collection of those who buy Bethesda games.
And as such, it doesn't make sense in the slightest to communicate
en masse through the forum, and it makes every bit of sense to communicate through more wide-reaching mediums such as magazines, the official site, trailers, etc.