For the people saying that the slow updates let the dev earns more money, I would say that they are wrong. Let me explain:
This game has a very big fandom, these 1k patrons could be the double if the dev would deliver accordingly and respect his own promises. For example, this thread has more than 1k pages than the Fashion Business one. This VN even has a very big fan art thread, something that Fashion Business doesn't has. Yet, DecentMonkey has more patrons and even $50 patrons, still when he released his game later. Why? Because DecentMonkey has been responsible, he promised to hire people and he did it, he promised to be faster and he did it too. He even releases a 1080p version, something that
Lust&Passion doesn't do.
Even from a business strategy, the one from
Lust&Passion is very bad. Look, this guy
westpod creates awesome renders and look at his
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: he is ready to do a great album of renders in a week for like $250 per month. If he hires this guy, or someone like him, he could increase the patrons twice. Even if he finishes this VN faster, he wouldn't lose the popularity of the characters if he makes a continuation of the story. With something like 'A Divorced and A Mother'. Or he could improves his creativity doing a new story.