And this is why I am sick and tired of unfinished VNs. To future VN authors, PLEASE complete 80-90% of your project BEFORE bothering to publish it & wasting everyone's time & money when you decide to abandon it.
How do you know this? Even if it is true, albeit unfortunate and sad, bigman16's sentiment still holds, he isnt cursing anyone. I can understand their frustration.. I was a Patron myself for about 5 months. In Nov. Castor was still actively working on this project and no mention of being sick on patron or twitter. Its almost like a rumor spread in the Devs absence, mostly likely based on people telling them to feel better after responding to criticism. But if anyone knows Castor personally feel free to chime in here.
Thank you, Rynbin. I was also a Patreon for several months. I am beyond frustrated, since in the last 18 months this exact thing has happened to a dozen other VNs I used to support.
Any developer's poor work ethic and tendency to abandon projects is unprofessional and unfair to those of us who invested time and money in their projects. And since there isn't any accountability (and people like omar are quick to attack and defend said poor work ethic), some Devs can get away with it.
Well, good luck finding backers for your next unfinished magnum opus! We deserve better!
It can be a good way to make money, for sure... even the big game publishers sometimes sell their games before finishing them. Which is just really dumb when consumers pay for it, despite there being no benefit to doing so.
Sexual games being sold as 'early access' can really get people's money and attention, because people don't think clearly/rationally when sex is involved, especially when you can declare something as non-heterosexual, as it gets an abnormally high degree of forgiveness and virtue signalling for anything that isn't heterosexual, even if it's terrible or lacklustre.