What I really want to know is what ever happened to "On top of that, we’ll soon have someone joining the team to help with Patreon communication." Really feel giving Dr.Muramasa or someone more free rein over marketing, PR and release management would help greatly with these blunders. As I have said before not expecting release dates, but a "Kal is working on Eclipse", "Kal is about 50% through Starmaker production" every so often would be nice to see.
Agreed, to be honest I do think while it isn't something people want to hear I think even being told a rough estimation on current update progress % would be healthy for the games community even if that number happens to be low. A low number would have people rattled for sure but just the people who scream the loudest like feral rats taking game dev for granted and think things get done in a week. I think its past the point of no return for this current update but for the next and final update for sure it should have clearer communication and be more freely talked about via the team. I'd take that over a definitive deadline and perhaps something where once a major milestone gets hit we get told something and celebrate about it. people do need to understand though that this isn't some major AAA studio and games of this quality and testing are few and far between. Waiting is fine and seeing the Dr work overtime in their reply's for years is beyond what we deserve for sure and they're a saint for that but I do feel honesty about progression is critical at calming the masses so they don't get vindictive when the game releases on steam. Again none of this is the teams fault and they are doing there best, a community is unpredictable and more often than not unappreciative. I just also hope for the last update things go a little more openly and the teams given more relaxed management to oversee the updates marketing safely.
I was wondering about that as well. The whole having a person dedicated to marketing sounded like a good idea but I'm sure something happened to change their mind. Probably a payment dispute/no real availability or just maybe the person they had in mind wasn't as good as they hoped it would be. It's hard to market nsfw games on public platforms. You either are someome looking for something specific or happen to come across an nsfw recommendation.