Thank you for your detailed answer. To be honest, I'm just afraid of a situation like with the game Made Marion, which I fortunately didn't buy, unlike my less calculating friends)
Then I think no one will stop me from buying a finished game in a year. In any case, I'm glad and grateful that you were able to effectively implement the development plan and write regular reports on real work, and not filled with whining that doesn't concern players and buyers. I wish you further creative success!
They can talk about their problems as much as they want until they start collecting money. After that, it's just unprofessional. I've been involved in creative projects for many years and know the difference. Look what happened to Restart Heart. To deceive and disappoint so many people, that's really rude.
In any case, as a future buyer, I can express my opinion since the developer has installed such an opportunity after posts. If people keep silent about their opinion, then in the end the developers will have no information at all about the reasons for the problems in promotion. Where creativity is complemented by business, you need to be more serious. The eternal search for comfort from strangers does not contribute to creative growth as much as many people think. Artistic growth is overcoming. Talent must be complemented by hard work, otherwise it will simply fade away.
You really cannot expect an indy dev to have the same reasources as a business. More often than not they are very small teams and sometimes, especially in the visual novel world, just one person.
In these cases your money is not supporting a *business* it is supporting *people*.
So again I'm going to reiterate, they do not have the same resources to continue a project in the face of personal hardships. People can be shady about it, yeah, but calling having to make the choice to open up to talk about why they've slowed down or gone on hiatus or dropping a project "whining" is disrespectful. To the people having to make that choice, to the things they've had to deal with.
Because you keep mentioning specific projects, I feel like maybe you've been let down by a dev or project and take it personally. I'm sorry that's something you dealt with, but I find that painting everyone else with the same brush is kind of callous and unkinnd.
Honestly, I don't see the point in this discussion. I stand by my opinion as an experienced player with 30 years of gaming experience, if the game is free, then the developers can do whatever they want and whenever they can. If this is a product for sale, then the developers need to take responsibility. I worked with people for many years and none of them cared about my health, mood or whether I could do my job as if I had just come from a funeral. They came to me to receive services and they received them. This is professional. And this is real respect for people and your own work. And my work is very creative.
As for one brush, I only ask questions to developers of paid games. I have no questions or complaints about the rest. And I quite often praise them and morally support them.
So let's stop there. In the end, I was addressing the developer, not you. Although it's funny that according to your posts, you've found time in the last three years to accuse other players of various forms of disrespect. And you haven't found time for so-called words of kindness and support for the developers. My posts look much more convincing in this light. Work on your ability to reason and conduct discussions before commenting on my words again.
umm i supported made marion and i am not ~less calculating~ or whatever nonsense you wrote. the game is still being developed, there are frequent updates. i'm not gonna be mad about someone going through hard times, especially when i made the choice to buy it early knowing full well it was unfinished and anything could happen to the creator (death, illness, etc) and no one forced me to do so. also, sorry no one cared about your health or mood at your job, but i do care about developers; especially when burnout is so common and frequent among creatives. an indy game maker is NOT gonna be held to the same standard as corporation or whatever. also, weird behaviour to go through someone's past posts and comments! really odd!
As for Made Marion, apparently we have different ideas about what is normal. Development started in 2021. Pre-orders for over $30 opened in March 2023. Today, in September 2025, only 2 of the five routes are ready. As far as I know, buyers on Steam are not very happy either.
And I don't think it's weird to check trolls so as not to waste your time on them. By the way, no one invited you to this discussion either. But I completely agree with you on one thing - there are a lot of odd people in the world and some of them have finally found an audience for themselves. I just ask you to exclude me from this dubiously privileged category and close these pointless debates. I'll even put "like" to your comment since these childish habits of minuses and pluses are so comfortable. All I was interested in was when to buy the game now or at the next summer sale on Steam. But here everyone needs to chime in and put in their two cents.
P.S. If some other people still have something to add here, they can continue themselves.
