The updates are just "missing"
. Nothing more. It's almost, like you could, unethically supplement your own normal income. Requiring only a minimal amount of work and it's consequence free.
Like with all other scams a hook and a mark is required. The offer of an investment, that seems too good to be true. The opportunity of a life time. Being buttered up and having your own ignorance used against you, enforced with the threat of violence. Is amoung the many archetypes of scams.
The case we are dealing with here is a "relative" recent trent, which has been going for around half a decade on Patreon, evolved from kickstarter scams. The hook is "a lot of potential" of the pornographic material. The mark is people with poor impulse control. Preferably addicted to porn in the first place. They'll keep making excuses to themselves and to everyone pointing out the obvious. As their need for the hook to be true, has lead them, to become delusional. There are pretty models indeed. The animations are janky as hell at times and the renders occasionally clip, which I've previously stated in another post. The mind is playing tricks on the mark and it won't notice these discrepencies. As it's feeding on the petty morsels given to keep the illusion alive and them hooked.
There won't be any meaningful development on this project. Investment in it only serves to embolden and encourage others to try the same. Any 3rd party not financially involved standing in defense and praising this hook is also detrimental. En masse it may be even worse.