Most of the actual information that's useful from players tend to be in private communities and shared in a club of mostly cash-based players. I use the word club because I stumbled upon one of these things entirely by accident, and it' not really well-known even among native speakers who mostly congregate on their imageboard equivalents instead of web-based chatrooms.
Incidentally, the devs do pay attention to these guys because they're dropping hundreds of thousands of yen every update, so it makes sense that these guys are privy to information way before they'd announce it to the public, if it happens at all. The reason why the Odette thing leaked out was one of those folks took it to the 2ch because, as I noted earlier, he was understandably upset about what actually happened.
Well, I didn't see your ninja edit. I had a long day in the hospital. I don't appreciate being called uppity because I reiterate, I'm simply bringing information to help you. I dislike their private P2P only club as much as the next person, and one would think that the perceived tone of writing is less important than the actual content - in which, the only useful information up there is that they're considering about adjusting the serum requirements because it was a mistake on their end.