Tell me in all honesty: Say you were the creator of something with a massive community and you’d spend one hour a day checking up on that community. Say there is this one very popular request among your fans that you want to make happen, but that takes a lot of time. Let’s say you’d often have spare time inbetween working on that request because someone else has to work on it or it needs time inbetween your work sessions on it. And you want to use this time for other requests and concerns of the community. But then in that one hour you read a good majority of requests for this one thing you are already working on. And only a considerably smaller amount of comments on other things. Would you not want your community to have the common sense to trust that you know about their request? Would you not want them to focus on other feedback instead, which you have not really looked at yet? Wouldn’t it make your job harder, when everyone keeps commenting about this one thing you are already working on?
Well, it’s the exact same thing for them!
And no, they couldn’t just simply tell everyone that they are going to come back! They’d risk their jobs doing that! And that’s not even EA’s fault for not allowing them to do so. Unveiling future content at a point where it could easily change, be delayed, etc. is a giant risk that is connected to a lot of internal drama, potential buyers and investors.

In short: They are intelligent beings who are perfectly capable of understanding a request after it has been made a million times. They will not tell us anything about toddlers until everything is set in stone, so we will just have to suck that up. And if we really want the best for the franchise we love, it should be our responsibility to make it as easy as possible for them to follow our feedback by not clouding their vision with something they’ve understood by now. That’s the sensible thing to do!
There is nothing wrong with sharing your opinions once, twice, three, four or five times. But hundrets of people sharing the same opinion over and over again? There is something very wrong with that!

So to conclude this, I will repeat what I said above: If you really want the best for the franchise and care about the community, stop asking them about something they are well aware of, and instead make room for other peoples questions who have more pressing concerns that are less widespread or share such requests yourself. They are giving us as the community a great opportunity with their giant presence on the forums and on twitter. They never communicated with us on such a scale. And we really shouldn’t let that opportunity go to waste by overshadowing many really great ideas or important concerns with something they’ve been told a bazillion times already.