Well... it would be a issue that can be solved...
BUT i dont think that its just that...
Lets face it, he pretty much VANISHED from one day to another, no news, no statements, no nothing... if it would be a copyright issue, why not make a message about it to the patrons? Even if he has to take it down the very next day, the notice would remain in everybodys email folder for example.
No... everything is just gone, in an instant. You cant even reach TLG in any way.
That is some strange shit. Never saw something like that. "just" a copyright case would have been gone in an otherway. And many games had copyright issues recently. Very popular ones around here. They had to delete music and such, and solved it... well it took them time and they had to step back from developing like planned for that, but thats it.
TLG is *puff* gone... nah, there are only two scenarios on my mind why this happened... something really fishy is going on, like getting hacked... OR some personal shit. My bet? its personal... TLG made some statements in the past that he has personal issues here and there... i have my own experience with that in many different ways... sometimes its like that... you just pull the plug and shut down everything, no matter what. (iam not saying suicide... dont need to be that dark)
For example, i had a very low phase once and just didnt went to work from one day to the other... never went to the workplace again, didnt even called them or anything. They tried to reach out for me, i didnt respond, didnt open the door or get the phone... after some months they gave up and thats it. That happened over 10 years ago. Fuck i still have the keys to the office.
I would say, its something like this with TLG:
I was a patreon a while (couldnt afford that anymore, really) and i have to say, there were some pretty harsh critics going on here and there... and i was on the discord too and boy... its getting really toxic there pretty fast, compared to that the F95 board is real civil, those things can eat you up, til a point where you just close everything in a heartbeat, no matter what...
Or maybe the development didnt go like TLG intended, it was growing a little bit over his head, and he decided "ah fuck this" from one day to the other. It could be just a little error in the code that did bother him or some other issue that he just couldnt solve like he wanted to (ever saw breaking bad, where walter tried to catch the fly in the lab? He pretty much would burn down the whole place just to get that freaking fly). And if you are a person with some mental issues (maybe a bit bi-polar) this can get you over the edge in a instant and you just throw the thing against a wall so to speak and stop everything, pull the plug, shut everything down, and thats it. Maybe he is regretting this right now but cant go back cause he crushed everything or deleted it. Cause its look just like that, that everything is "gone"
