I've been following your project for a long time now, and while I've disagreed with some things at different points, such as the non existing Harem route that was available in the early versions of the game, that will no longer be a thing according to one of your posts as you are focusing on specific stories with the characters and etc, where I hope that it is reconsidered and that at some point a Harem route is made possible, I agree that you should take your time with the project in order to polish it and make it even better than it is, whether it is to fix bugs and issues, or also avoid burnout which is something that is unfortunately unavoidable for some things.
I am pretty sure that as long as you keep communicating with the people, they will come to understand and support you, because this project has shown to have a very unique art, as well as great animations, and I am sure that people would agree that a delay is far better, than the project going on indefinite hiatus or even far worse getting abandoned, as so many other visual novel type of works unfortunately ended like.
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The gallery and the menu to select parameters to start off the story in are good additions, but I really wish that there was an in dept guide on how to use them, because without it I just entered random numbers in there and got random results, and it would be very cool if we actually knew what we were doing.
Other than that maybe add in a full gallery unlock, for those lazy people out there who do not want to play the game, and for some reason when you use the ESC menu to select the Post game option, the scene appears as just black with some dialogue happening, and sounds as well as an interface of a climax, so that might be some kind of error or unintended result, but not sure if this game will have any further development.
I really appreciate your honesty as a dev and it sucks that the game is not making much, because I really dig the art style, and I found myself intrigued in the story since I played the demo in 2022, but there's just not enough content in the current version of the game, for you to be asking people to purchase the game. You can ask for support on Patreon and all the other sites, but these are just donations to help move the project, its pretty unreasonable for you to expect people to go all into the project in its current state. You can pretty much blame all the kickscammers and failed indie projects, that have been turning up asking for payment as if it was early access, promising that the game will be made on just that purchase alone, only to end up in development hell and then having to basically come up with excuses, all the way until the devs finally decide to hell with it and cancel the project altogether, but none of the people that did that early access purchase were reimbursed, and this is why in the end these people were scammed, and its why nobody will trust a dev's words anymore.
It is also the reason why a lot of gacha games are failing as well, because a lot of companies have been wanting to cash into the current gacha trend, since it has proven to be very lucrative for some big names out there, but then because of their poor planning and bad decisions, they lose the interest of the playerbase and cannot keep up with the demands, and then when people quit the game and the devs have no real way to bring them back, they fail to meet the expectations of the investors or publishers, and then the game is declared a failure and shortly after that the end of service gets announced, but none of the players that were playing daily and investing a lot of time and cash into the game, are ever compensated properly since some companies do not even make an offline version of the game, and even if an offline version does get made then all progress linked to that player’s account is lost, so its like what was the point of all that time and money invested into playing it.
This is the current state of the gaming industry, because of many rotten apples, the rest of the bushel goes bad, as by the time you have been identified even though you were a good apple, you have already spoiled thus they mistake you as a bad apple as well. My only recommendation is to continue proving that you can overcome these obstacles, and hopefully people will take notice and decide to support you, as nothing can be done in regards to people’s skepticism.