Who knows maybe without it being brought up there would not have been the team covenant video that addresses the advanced.

Particularly given the pie chart in the Inflight Briefing, there's just no way anything gets added to or changed in their product pipeline over the course of a day or two.The question isn't an unreasonable one in the context of a two-on-two interview between representatives of a gaming news site and the designers. It might have been a bit less appropriate--by which I mean, less likely to get a useful response--in the context of a mass Q&A with the company CEO, though everything I know about what you actually said is secondhand.

The likelihood of me being granted a one on one interview with FFG is probably close to zero. I fully intended to get the point about the Advanced across as soon as I heard about the in-flight report. I don't really see why some thought it was inappropriate. Is it because it was the CEO? I for one am not going to blow air up his shorts just to make him feel good. I did tell him I thought they have done an excellent job with game balance/power creep except for one ship. That's pretty good IMHO with the amount of content we already have. I also told him I have spent over $1,000 on X-Wing so it's not just a passing interest for me. This is the most well designed game I have ever played. I am a Fire Fighter/ EMT so perhaps my view of propriety doesn't jive well with corporate types? In my world almost to a man we tell it how it is because your life could depend on it and that tends to translate into my life in general. I am betting as a CEO he has dealt with worse then some Star Wars geek at Gencon.

I fully intended to get the point about the Advanced across as soon as I heard about the in-flight report. I don't really see why some thought it was inappropriate. Is it because it was the CEO? I for one am not going to blow air up his shorts just to make him feel good.

I'm not a corporate type, so I can't address that part of your post--but I didn't mean that it could have been "inappropriate" meaning "a violation of etiquette", but rather meaning "not well matched to the context and principals involved".

FFG's CEO isn't somehow above criticism, but he's the person to whom you'd pose a question about the overall financial health of the company or their business plans going forward. The people who work with the game day after day, and who are directly responsible for the content we see, are likely to be much better prepared and much more knowledgeable* than the CEO about what they're going to do with the Advanced, so they're more appropriate people to ask.

(*For all I know, Christian Petersen really is involved enough with every aspect of FFG's day-to-day to be able to answer your question--but that doesn't seem like a good general assumption.)

Christian Petersen seemed to have a pretty deep knowledge of the games since he expounded on each one quite a bit. If I were a CEO I think I would want to know what is causing people to flock to my game from other games. Just look at the posts on here about why people play X-wing. A huge number of people are old 40k players who left for the very thing I brought up. I do not want a power creep to set in to X-wing is seen in many games. I understand why it occurs. As a Game company they want sales to always be at a good level. As a game ages the tendency is to make something that is more appealing therefore parting people from their money to have the new thing. An easy way to accomplish this is to make something that is out of balance therefore giving those who have it an advantage over those who don't. My question was more about that and how they plan to keep that from occurring. I think that is something a CEO would be instrumental in overseeing. He responded that he thought they had done a great job keeping "all" the ships viable. That led me to respond that thy had done that with all but one ship to which he did not have a response about. I think he and everyone else knows the advanced is not balanced. I just called him out a little bit on trying to say that all the ships were balanced.