Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry that happened! I hope for your sake the smoothest road possible in reattaining lost ground. No pressure at all.
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It's still considered fraud what she did, online or no. People who ran kickstarters and then tried to disappear have been prosecuted before; however, it's people who had way way more money invested in them and therefore were actually prioritized as having pulled a massive scam. It's unlikely anything will ever happen to Agashi.
Okay, well now I have a question. I made another donation on ko-fi, and noticed the rewards were updated. I already donated once prior like I said at a lower amount and so I simply added on extra to raise the total to the level I wanted. I was wondering if it matters that the donations were split? I did use the same email.
First off, how is a past relationship a problem for feeling secure in a current relationship? You think every guy you ever meet should have been eternally, completely unattached and should never have experienced attraction before meeting you or they can't love you? That's pretty weird and insecure to be that controlling over someone's romantic history.
Second of all, I don't know if you got the memo, but otome games are games that largely target any woman who wants to read GxB or mostly GxB romances. The men's sexualities, so long as they are interested in women, have literally nothing to do with whether it's an otome or not because characters do not have to be heterosexual to be in a GxB romance. You're just being illogically biphobic and trying to justify it as a preference supported by the genre when it's not. Even if otome were specifically for straight women, which they're not, straight women don't become suddenly not straight by romancing bi men. Give me a break.
Lastly, GL and BL romance games can and do include all kinds of sexualities and genders too. You can't whine about one otome game and then point to a hypothetical situation in different genres which you have backed up with zero evidence or context as proof that you're being victimized because someone wrote something that wasn't about you. If the game has majority GxB, BxB or GxG romances for the player to engage in, it is Otome, BL or GL respectively. Nothing else is relevant to genre definition. It's up to the author and what they want to include. No one has robbed anything from the otome audience by not catering to solely your tastes always. Stop being entitled.
I make rules of not playing demos of games that look too fantastic for words because I don't want to hurt my heart when I then have to wait for the full game to come out. And because, honestly, I have been let down too many times when projects get cancelled. For the same reason, I don't usually back games on kickstarter. However, because I believe in and love this concept so much, and because you all clearly have so much extraordinary talent and heart poured into this game, I went ahead and supported the kickstarter. I'm really rooting for you. :) I hope saying all that doesn't put pressure or anything though!
I was talking about this case with a friend earlier, and we had a theory what may have happened. Agashi seems to have experienced some sort of personal issue that was serious enough to cause her to go on a massive hiatus, but why the radio silence? She had sometimes gone long stretches without an update, but always came back before. Queen's Crown appeared to have real work done on it, a lot of work at that, so if the end goal were always scamming people, that was quite a long game to play. It was proven she was online many, many times and perhaps even lurking in the forums reading comments; she could have easily wrote a quick message. Her family said she was okay, just struggling. There should be no reason she hasn't come forward to say *something,* even if that something is merely "I can't work on this for a long time." However, if the personal issue were somehow financial and she felt the only way out of it was using money she got from the kickstarter, then obviously, that wouldn't be something she could admit. Moreover, it would successfully prevent her from completing the game any time soon if ever.