I understand your concerns, guys, but I think I should tell the same as I did recently in the german discussion board.
The advent calendar is not mainly intended to satisfy the hardcore group. You're are watching the progress of the game and talk/think about it in a very intense way. So of course you're much more interested to see some features, new vehicles, curves and so on ... rather than some joke pics of the team.
BUT ... since the start of the calendar we have more then doubled the hits on the homepage. And, what you can't know (and we almost couldn't believe at the first time, too), the section "team" and "From the studio" generates sometimes more hits than "Vehicles" or "Buildings". If you would make a chart "Most hits per section" the ranking would be: "News" (not really a surprise, it's the start page
), "Screenshots" and "Team" or "From the studio".
What could this mean? There must be a lot of gamers out there, who are not so interested to know any detail of the game, but highly interested to see the guys behind the game. Honestly, that's a big surprise for us. And we would be glad, if wouldn't be that way, because we're not so eager to find our grinning faces in the internet
Anyway, we have to try to satisfy both groups of interested people. That's not always easy, of course.
And it's an advent calendar! As I understand this, it's something with minor goodies to shorten the time until xmas
If I'm honest, I don't like these shooters as well. That's not my kind of games and entertainment.