Huh.
Interesting idea, although I wouldn't reccomend a developer just cutting all ties with the community and just announce a game, then release it.
I'd like to still have some information on what's going on internally, even if the game isn't mentioned once, a la Bungie Weekly Update (seriously, read the updates: there is hardly EVER any new news or updates about a game until near release, they only had about a paragraph devoted to Reach in the most recent update, which is the most I've seen them pump out about the damn game; we don't even know when the public beta is).