How would CA being more open about their Development be a negative?

[Gregoshi]

Talk of save / load was pretty much halted here too. Mark my words that it will be halted again if you talk about it too much because it upsets the devs and then they tell whatever site management they won't post there anymore unless they quell the dissent. Faced with that choice, the "whining" forum members are expendable.

Not quite. The decision was ours alone. The reason? Too many threads discussing the same issue with the same set of "whiners" repeatedly saying the same things over and over. It gets tiresome, it drowns out all other discussion, and creates a general foul mood in the forum due to this last point: many of those "whiner" posts were disrespectful rants that violated forum rules on multiple counts. Constructive discussion of the issue was never a problem.

[Papewaio]

Join the dots by answering the questions.

10 points for the first person who explains what the acronym NDA stands for.

20 points for the first person who gives the legal meaning for it and the penalties that are standard for breaking it (slight clue here )

30 points for the first person who can explain an NDA in layman terms.

In this case the GOLDEN RULE of commerce applies:
He who holds the gold, makes the rules.

20 Bonus points: So guys who holds the gold? The developers or the publishers.