You know part of your argument I do understand and agree with - having to wait for new update for nearly 2.5 months with not that much content added compared to previous update that took less than 2 months with double the content. That kinda sucks.
But there are two point to add:
- patch which brings content to near parity should be out in just a week with bug fixes to content released now
- If you want to play new content of this game you need to normally pay only 2$, or less like now, once that is it. And if you don't want to pay you basically get like 80% of the whole game for free, the 0.2.1 has 21/25 levels done.
What I can not agree with you is considering running discount and bundle with other games made by same dev a "crowd funding".
Most crowd funding campaigns work that there is idea and people pitch in with money, and than if they reach their goal start to work on said idea (et least in cases that it is not prepared as a scam). Or in other cases when project runs out of funds, to raise more.
What is what Lags is currently doing, then? He is running promotion like many other dev studios on the market. Just look on Steam, Epic, GOG or here on Itch. It is summer sale. What may seem controversial to some that he set in stretch goal of 300$. The only difference of Itch to other platforms is that instead of paying fixed price for something is that You decide how much You want to give to author for their product.
And to address only android version now. Considering how heated your comment was you must know bit of history of this project. But let me remind you if you forgot. When 0.2.1 was released for PC it worked well with only some minor bugs. So do to Lags goal for this game to also port it to android just like his other games. He did just that, but find out there is major problem that most of devices refused to run that version. So instead of abandoning android version or whole project with game that was one major update of to be done probably by the end of last year. He decided to REDO the whole game from scratch, while asking nothing extra from anyone who already purchased the game prior.
Honestly I'm not surprised that Lags takes longer and longer to push new stuff out. I would be burned out. Especially because he decided to update graphics so most of the things he had for old game has to be redrawn by him. And also he listened to us which caused feature creep only making development even harder.
I do like to read discussions between con artist devs and people that see through their scam. But here it is crying on wrong grave. This platform doesn't work same as subscription base platforms where someone wants lot of money for as little work as possible.
Not to mention Lags did already released two titles. Yes relatively crude and simple. But how else you want to learn and grow? By pushing your boundaries. Survive is significantly more complex than College Brawl. Same with HTA is more complex than Survive. And now you can see difference between 0.2.1 and 0.5. Only problem is that do to pear pressure we may be pushing his boundaries bit to much and bit too fast.
And if you thing so far this game is not worth your money, just wait. When is developed further or even done than you can decide if those 2$ are worth.