There's a whole discussion about his aspect on the Steam forums. If you check one of the streams where people play the game, you will notice that almost at every turn there is a multitude of actions that need to be taken by each player, based on the context, and it is essential that the players do not see each other's cards.

Doing this via hotseat would mean constant back-and-forth, and in the idle periods you cannot look at the other player's actions. Think HoMM3, not Carcassonne. A regular duel for 30 score points would normally take 45-60 minutes. If this were done via hotseat, you can easily multiply by two.

While we are not against the hotseat feature in principle, we simply do not think that it's a good investment of dev time – when compared to other features/content that we can add to the product. You can play with people in the same room, if you're using a couple of notebooks, and making this possible with just one notebook will make maybe 1% of the player base happy, maybe less, while, say, adding another playing field to the game would improve the experience of 30-50% of players for sure.

* The HoMM3 hotseat games that I played, normally went from 9PM to 7AM. It was pretty taxing and we stopped doing this after a while.

* In the world where all of us are immortal and there is an infinite time on hands, every feature that adds up, is worth pursuing. In the current world where I'll die, you'll die, and everyone on our dev team would die, we would like to pursue the features that have the most impact to our player base.

Essentially, hotseat just saves a few people $7.50 that they would need to spend otherwise on buying an extra copy. It does not introduce any new functionality. Compared to the things that we are doing right now – new playing field, new cards, new items, further balancing and tournaments, – this is definitely not at the top of the list. Sorry if this sounds harsh, but that's the choice that we have to make, as a dev team.
This is an incorrect statement. We don't work on the hotseat mode because it is not the most useful feature that we can work on, considering other options. This will be weeks of dev time, spent on duplicating the existing functionality of playing on different computers. It's just not going to add much to the player experience that we already have.
Gremlins, Inc. is not a board game. It is a digital board game. We designed the game specifically to be playable as a multiplayer PC product. When we tried to build a real board game based on this mechanics, we decided to give up because (a) it takes too long to play (b) the process is pretty tedious when you preform dozens of actions manually. For the same reason, while hotseat would work for the actual board games that make a digital port, this is not the case with our game, which was designed for PC from day one.

This is an incorrect statement. During one round, you often have multiple players taking action, e.g. Governor taking bribes, other players choosing Misfortune events, etc. Please watch a stream with some experienced players, you will see how within one round, there are many interactions by different "actors".

Not with our game. We use an in-game editor for the deck, resources, and rules, and keep all created mods on our own server which is independent of the platform on which the game is launched. It just so happened that our editor is also named Workshop.