I understand its frustrating to finally get an animation just to find out its locked, for future games Ill look into a better system to avoid this. A lot of these problems arose from the game growing in scope. It wasn't originally suppose to have animations or multiple games, as it grew there's some decisions that were made that could've been handled better. This was a leaning experience, and the next game will be better.
This game alone has taken various artists and myself several months to complete. There's a lot of work that goes into the programming, bug fixing, and all the art assets. All of the gameplay and shop cosmetics are free for all. asking for a little in exchange for animations doesn't seem like much to ask. None of us do this full time, and the money lets us hire additional help to make future games better.
I appreciate the time you put into your critic. I read all of them and think of how to improve our future projects, but to call any of us greedy is simply wrong.