Seriously?!! You post your game on a PIRATE SITE where it’s obvious that the exposure will gain you more benefits than pitfalls knowing fully that it can be posted any time and, in the hope of delaying the release by interacting with the forum and getting a number of sycophants who will facepalm any independent thought, then you complain that it’s posted before the public release?!! I could have posted it on the day of release for that matter.
Firstly, what are developers doing on a pirate site? Apart from Marketing and Mitigation.
Secondly, to the players here, if you want your games only to be available when the devs say so, then you’re on the wrong site. Patreon or SS, itch.io ….etc are better for you. No cash? Don't play. Whose games have you downloaded and played for free without even a sense of guilt or a facepalm? There are 1000s of links on this site.
Thirdly, f95zone was, is and will always be a PIRATE SITE. What are you doing here? Think about it.
We are on this pirate site by choice. As a matter of fact, F95 is the reason we began making this game. We are fans of the site. Fans of the games, and most of the people on this site. Patreon was an after thought, and we don't do Itch or any of the other platforms.
We interact with the forums because we have been on these forums for years. And we encourage people to download and play the game, for FREE, when we release it here. If they then wish to contribute, we do appreciate it, but we do not require it in any way. It isn't like we are keeping the game only for subscribers, and then someone NEEDS to pirate it and post it here.
We make the game for ourselves, and for the fans of games such as this. If they wish to contribute to us, that is fine, but it isn't why we do this.
By you releasing the game early, you prevented us from putting out a version that was bug free, which is part of what our patrons provide, reporting bugs to us. You also did not add any of the new tags to the OP in doing, so you did a disservice to the players on here, who, if they downloaded the game you pirated, will now either have a buggy game, or have to download a 3 gb game again in order to get the complete release.
And for what? A few likes? Well done.