I removed the part addressed at you because it's becoming more and more pointless to me to argue with strangers online, but since you took the time to write that wall of text I'll make an effort to reply to it.
7 years. 7 years delivering on their promises, 7 years releasing a game with over 300+ hentai scenes with the quality that they have, with the amount of work and effort that was put into that game, it's actually close to 8 now. They don't need your "benefit of the doubt", they have earned it from the followers, that's why it didn't "dip a lot below 3000$" as you said it would because the followers aren't as brittle as you are, they don't act bitter like you do and they aren't petty because every podcast, Starke explains why the patch is taking longer and among the reasons for it was heart issues, covid complications, etc. but most importantly, I am so happy they no longer kill themselves to release patches every 1~2 months because of ungrateful assholes such as yourself make it absolutely not worth it to work ten times harder than everyone else out there. You're getting what you pay for.
You don't know because you don't want to find out, you're just stuck on October and you're going to whine like a kid that was promised something in Christmas but didn't get the present he wanted. The reasons have been made clear for Patrons, if you don't know why the delays then it sucks to be you, I know and the other Patrons do as well.
Your validation as well as your opinion is absolutely irrelevant.
Because it's hard to compare the amount of work they put in the game and the pace at which they work with every other project out there, right? How many teams do you know that release content at the pace at which they do? None? Then maybe they're crunching. Again, they communicate it, if you're poorly informed it's your fault, not theirs. If you really want to find out the reason for the delays just go on Discord and ask Starke directly instead of engaging on a petulant vitriol every post you make on this thread.
Literally last post on Patreon explaining the stage of the game:
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Another piece of info you missed because it was "hidden behind a podcast".
I won't even reply to the death hoax part, you're just.... ugh... just a sorry person.
God forbid they take a Christmas break. They should keep working on holidays because people like you make it so worth it!
Check the last time you came here to actually discuss the game. "Almost".
You won't "white knight" shame me for setting the story straight. If you want to criticize the game with facts then by all means but if you're going to get emotional and make up a bunch of lies regardless if there's malicious intent behind them or just out of misinformation then yes, I will "white knight", I will take white knight over gaslighting any day.