He also realized hard-restricting access has more downsides than benefits in terms of popularity growth and attracting more people, and will return to an offline-version.apparently it took Bloody Ink 10 minutes to break the DRM of this game LOL
The people that want to pay for the game will pay to show their support anyway if they are able to. Restricted access just takes away the "free promotion" part that gets more people interested in looking into the game and maybe start supporting it in the future if they see progress and direction of the project.
Called it when the online-only 3rd-party-subscription was announced, but most often people need to experience it themselves.
Kerosine will get there too some day.