Nothing he said there actually states that he had to quit his job, and nobody else mentioned the sidejob either before he did. Being able to speak decent English certainly doesn't make that statement any clearer. It can be laid out in both ways. Now, obviously supporters gonna say it implies what you think it implies, and the doubters will probably say the opposite, so it's gonna remain a mystery I guess.
L&P refers to it's beginning of it's game development, that Viper couldn't do it better and faster with his conditions that he had. So that doesn't mean he still has his side job. And it would made no sense to keep his side job considering how well this project is going. Should he still have a side job, then it wouldn't add up his 11 hours work a day on AWAM. So it's most likely that he quit it.
Now we come to what I wanted to say.
So first of all, as L&P announced that he would release a game day in 3 updates, I was concerned that this would slow down the game process, and I was right. Should the next update come in November, then it took him over 14 months, that's 1 year and 2 months for playable day 12. For comparison the last playable day 11 took around 8 to 9 months, so he outbid himself for at least 5 more months. The updates didn't come faster as he intended, making his last release the longest update time.
So why did it take so long? Is it because there are more event, that are longer and more complicated? I don't know.
My theory for his 3 updates per game day is not only because of faster updates, but more because of reducing stress and ease up his schedule. But he then spend more time on each event, which is why it took longer.
So when Viper was badmouthing his renders, he did it because L&P always tells it needs time that his renders are so "realistic" and have that amount of "quality"(that are L&P's catch phrases), and he wanted to show that L&P he is talking bs.
That after such a long time of abstinence, L&P answers only Viper, badmouthing his render and trying to finish him off, didn't help him at all. It was like watching 2 kids trying to take each other down. Cringe…
I know some of you are former supporters of L&P on Patreon, hoped that with your help, he could make updates faster, but it become the opposite. Some of you might ask why it takes longer than before. Is he doing it on purpose? Are there other reasons? Nobody can say that L&P isn't working on his project. But with the time it seems like that it takes him much more time to create renders. Maybe it took him less time in the past because of his hardware limitations. And now that he has the hardware, he can do much more.
I can't say if he's working less than before, that would be just assumptions. But there is a steady increase in his visuals and that doesn't come without a price.
Could he do it faster? Certainly, but that would mean he would have to downgrade his visuals, that 99% of you wouldn't notice even if you would compare with it latest works. But that's a path that L&P took and you on your own can decide to support him on this path or not, but you have to understand first which way this project is going.
It is difficult to answer why it takes so long and just saying for the sake of milking is too easy.
But on the other hand L&P isn't so transparent about it, so that's why it's hard to understand.
The toxic and the simp comments don't help with that.
If you can do it, then please don't hate everything what L&P does and don't celebrate everything he does, like he said that viper trolled him because he is ugly (that was immature and wasn't ok). Everything has two sides like a coin and you just shouldn't look at one.
