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.