Certainly, creating a game comes at an exaggerated cost.
Do you know how much Lust's computer costs? And he spends time on it, and as we all know, time is money.
So he does well to protect his work.
Of course, there will always be an Uncle Vincenzo who will look down here and taken by the compassion of the poor sailors turned pirates will donate the game anyway.
Because old Uncle Vincenzo knows that if Lust is successful because of this site called F95
The most disadvantaged pirates will not be abandoned.
If the online version were a system where developers would send individual codes to backers, piracy would no longer exist.
Some people often say that pirated versions are uploaded here without the developer's consent, but this is not the case.
The only pirated versions uploaded here are “a few teasers.”, not game.
I'll see if some of his fans still rally behind him after the game stops uploading.
(It is not yet known whether uploading of updates will be stopped completely or will resume with a lag, but...)
Moreover, it does not appear that there is only an online version, but if there is only an online version left, there is no reason for his sponsors to create and distribute a download version at the risk of illegality.
If they take that risk, they will face huge attacks from this developer, and it is known that this developer already has a track record of doing so.