Art is never finished, only abandoned. - Leonardo da Vinci
It is never useful to criticize an artist's motives when you don't know what those motives are.
I admit I didn't see that joke coming ! x) You're right, what am I, poor mortal, to dare question the judgement of the gods and sully the perfection of their works !
I'm just expressing my frustration at seeing a visual novel that's just starting to get interesting suddenly cut short for reasons we don't know. As for the motive behind a person's intentions, like everyone else when I can't know them, I rely on known acts and assumptions deducible from them.
Personally, I avoid relying solely on someone's word or good faith, even when it seems sincere; actions and their consequences over time are much more meaningful in the long term. It's a kind of lesson that many people should follow. It was an implicit reference to all those people who elsewhere on this site seem to fall into a delusional faith for one/or more developers based on the sole credit of their “surprisingly” ever-fluctuating discourse, and they come to a point where they completely lose their grounding in reality.
On the other hand, I avoid taking ridiculous positions of authority, comparing myself to idols set up as examples of impossible perfection, and even less feeling outraged on a personal level because somebody criticizes another's work.
It's perfectly sane and justified to criticize the work of someone who demands payment for the service they provide in the first place (whether you've paid for it or not), and to question the credibility of what someone produces, when you consider that they haven't achieved the outcome you thought they'd achieve or deemed adequate.
Whether you consider this person (the dev) to be an artist or not, frankly I don't know, it's very subjective in this case, but that doesn't mean you can't have an honest opinion or criticism of what he produces, far from it.
If this were true, the profession of art critic wouldn't exist, and neither would my art history classes when I was at university, because we devoted a lot of time to critiquing and interpreting the works of art we studied.
P.S: (Believe me, I'd have liked to have done without these classes, they were a secondary subject in my history curriculum, I was bored stiff).
