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I defended the dev on a number of occasions, pretty aggressively as well. Mainly to the 'update wheners' or rant posters. 

After the most recent thing that's happened, now im starting to have doubts as to how commited they are to making this game. It was a step too far for me tbh. Since this was on discord, I will explain it here so people have context.

Before Christmas, there was an announcement thanking people for 3 years of support and explaining the status of development, it was pretty longwinded.. The important statements in there were as follows.

''I've been working on something else, something that I should have done before, something It should be normal for me to do every year, to respect my users and my community.

And that, I hope, will be proof of my dedication to making this game better, it will be a show of my actual skills and an open door directly to prepare you and create expectations for Chapter 1.''

To give context, the dev stated that they were going to release some content showcasing the skills they have been working on, before going back to working on chapter 1. ''the little surprise has 118 animations ''

now the important thing is this.

''proof of my dedication to making this game better'' and ''to respect my users and community''

Sounds great right, its pretty much a perfect way to assure people. I was hoping for it. It was going to be coming out around Christmas. 

Anyways fast forward to new years eve and this gets posted. 

''It's New Year's but there isn't any Christmas update, and I think you guys deserve an explanation on what's going on:

I'm an idiot and I'm unable to properly estimate dates xDD It's not more deeper than that. I'm just an idiot.''

Then the eta changed to early january, its almost mid january right now.

''When? This month . Edit - Early January.''

How is this proving your dedication to making the game better? and respecting your community? Like I have a lot of respect for this dev, how they would communicate so much. I hate the constant 'update wheners' that post here. I felt bad for them needing to deal with that.

You might be asking, why am I going so far to criticise this person? because this pissed me off a lot, that's all. I want them to take this more seriously, and to prove to everyone that they are infact taking it seriously. To shut the people up that keep asking for progress, and they did the opposite.

Yeah im some random nobody on the internet, whatever. But this is me trying to tell you Komi to get your crap together because I want the end result to be good even if it takes years, but for christ sakes man give your community something, and soon and stop making promises that you cant keep, its making you look bad. Prove the below people wrong.

Also this is a friggin bible of a post, and im outright hostile here so feel free to delete it if you want. So long as you read it once I dont care. 

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Thank you so much for your opinion, I'm sorry to not be able to meet your expectations in terms of time, I hope to do it in terms of quality, or at least, to make you have fun with future updates.

I won't delete it.

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u gotta admit komisari he has a point........ the update is taking an unreasonable amout of time.......  i respect u and think ur really creative for your game but also very lazy..... u should be considered of ur fans a bit cause tbh this constant chains of delays and miscalculated ETAs making u looking bad even those very fans are defending u so many times that they started to have doubts .... please post the update as soon as possible .... i have faith in you .... as so many others ... but nothing is infinite. peace

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I think ur right bro. After 2 years of no updates while also taking patreon money, its inexcusable.  I'd rather the dev make small updates gradually. 

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I really hate to say this but it is the easiest scam to perpetrate, promise updates and keep people waiting while milking the patreon subscribers for their money the longer it takes the more money they get. This has been happening with other developers too, I am not saying it's happening here, but 2 years is beyond a ridiculous amount of time.

An honest developer would stop charging his / her subscribers until they could actually deliver anything. I know of developers who do this.

The best way to get anything more is to hit them where it hurts financially and stop subscribing. I think if people are still subscribing now paying a monthly fee, after 2 years of nothing then in reality they deserve to be scammed. Most people end their subscription if they don't receive anything within a certain time frame, or of course if they are being lied to.  Regardless I would say by now something is very wrong and very fishy.  This feels like a similar situation as milfy city developer dangling a carrot and delivering absolutely nothing for years...and even today still nothing and he still has his subscribers. At this point they are throwing their money into the fire and watching it burn.