Clearly you don't know as much as you think you do. Being a DIK hasn't had a release every 2-3 months since the first couple updates.
Last update was Dec 31, so your statement is technically true by 4 days. Unless you talk to the dev you don't know if they've "gone back to work". Just because he doesn't post on Patreon doesn't mean he isn't working on it.
It's really not. He has a day job, and this is is outside his actual profession.
Not sure how you got to be the judge of whether or not he works hard or how much he gets for said work.
Feel free to link this because I am not seeing it anywhere in the TOS that creators have to consistently give out updates and/or notice on delays.
You're genuinely stupid. I didn't say Being A Dik had bi-monthly updates, quote me on that before you follow up with something completely irrelevant to what I said, thanks.
What I SAID: If a game HAS been updating every 2 months with X amount of scenes, the game then goes 6 months before an update, usually you'd expect said update to have triple the content a 2-month update would have, maybe slightly lower if it's a more story-focused update, perhaps more due to the long wait.
Yes, this is flexible, but the overarching point I made was if every single update a dev does when they work properly takes 2 to 3 months, and then they take half a year on an update and said update has the same amount of content their usual bimonthly updates had, that my friend is a sign they didn't work hard (enough).
My statements directed towards Being A Dik, were to say they earn so highly and deserve it BECAUSE they're consistent. The quality of the game has also increased as they've earned more money (should always be the case for any company that wishes to survive, reinvestment is smart).
My statement is true by 4 days?... Okay so why is this even a fucking point, you're literally being anal over the duration he's exceeded the updates he's given to his Patrons? If my statement was correct you just ignore that point, why are you even bringing that statement to attention? Your next point is TECHNICALLY true, but you're being a smartass about it. It's so fucking obvious he isn't working on the game, or if he is then it's minimal.
Go to his Patreon and have a slow browse through update times, they're usually never more than a month, and even the stuff not on there (this is speculation >) I'd assume he talked on his Discord since I've seen people chatting about shit he's said on there months ago? So why did someone who consistently put out monthly news on the game suddenly stop? His wife tried to shoot herself yada yada. I'll repeat yet again: I feel sorry for him and as someone who has had an ex who attempted suicide (different method but still) I know it sucks when you feel helpless and sometimes perhaps blame yourself for what happened/your powerlessness to prevent the attempt.
That being said, normalcy is the best-established way to move on in life and to stay focused/not depressed. A ROUTINE is paramount to keeping yourself motivated and healthy. It's time he got back to work.
Now then let's entertain the idea that he's been working regardless of no updates: I'd take back everything I said and apologize. But he's still nearly taken triple the time of past updates, so I expect the next update to be approximately 2-4x as big (I'd put an average of 3x, but as I said it could have more sex, less sex, or no sex lol depends what the focus of the update is). We'll have to see whenever it drops.
If he has a day job he's stupid. If he kept consistent updates coming he'd easily be earning over 4k a month. After-tax that's over 40k a year. But it'd be EVEN MORE since he could focus on marketing, have more time to push updates out faster or make them bigger, and thus would likely earn 60-100k. So let me correct the statement you quoted as I'm gonna believe you that he has a day job. "It is his DUTY to put out updates for the people paying his lazy ass >3k a month)". Better?
I got to be a judge by 1. having supported him in the past and 2. being a member of the community. I have as much a say as anyone else. Get your liberal views out of these forums, please. I'm not shutting down your right to judge him, you can think the path he's taking right now is the best path any developer has ever taken, you can offer him blowjobs and candyfloss if you'd like. I don't care. But that won't stop me from speaking my mind on the corruption of medium-sized devs within this community. I'll repeat: defunding corruption is the only way this community will ever push devs to put the work in that they used to. Or abandon the game before putting out gradually slower updates before the game's inevitable end.
I'll be real here and say I can't provide a direct link as of now. I've searched for it and so many different things come up. There's stuff you can do within 90 days to get refunds if the content creator doesn't deliver stuff, simply search that yourself.
Sure you can't recharge a year's payments, that's absurd. But my statement stands. Patreon is not above the law. If I DID support him for a year and he released 0 updates, if Patreon didn't give the money back, I could easily sue.
Welcome to the adult world, it'd never get that far as Patreon would refund 60 dollars way faster than opening themselves up to lawsuits. Look at why they banned rape and loli, neither are illegal in America, yet it's more convenient to outright do something than to go through the troubles someone may encounter with lawsuits or articles, etc.
I'm not ultimately saying you're not allowed an opinion, but all of your statements except the last had little to nothing to them...
Sure I can't PROVE he's doing no work right now. I can't PROVE that he's being lazy. But it's a basic deduction that he's either doing such or is practicing bad business, which I personally think isn't the case since he was once consistent.
Hey, for all our sake I hope I'm wrong. I hope he releases a bomb of an update soon.
Until then we are both speculating, only my speculation has some material to it. (The lack of any form of update through Discord or Patreon)