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I'd prefer a new game too, but you can't fault a dev for responding to what they're told by their audience.Oh indeed, just tested it, it's the cache of cloudflare that's causing our css to not get updated. I'm going to purge it for the css files. Thanks for letting me know.
I don't know your situation or your numbers, but there is an old story from my young gaming days that I always remember. Back in the late 1970s-early 1980s, wargames (board games of course) were a huge market. Many companies put out simple games (relatively, since even the simple games tended to be very complicated by today's standards).
There was a company called SPI that made huge, sprawling, complicated games and they wanted to know what people thought, so they innovated and started including customer feedback cards in all their games. Consistently, a vast majority of the people who bought the games and sent back the cards told them that they wanted games that were bigger, took longer to play, had more rules and more complicated rules, more pieces, all that. SPI responded with bigger, longer, more complicated games until eventually they went broke.
Why did they go broke when they were giving their customers exactly what they asked for? Because they relied on the most motivated section of their market to tell them what to do. Only hardcore wargame fans were buying their stuff, and only the most hardcore section of those fans mailed back the card. If someone bought a game and it was too big, too complicated, took too many weeks complete, they didn't mail the card back -- they just stopped buying SPI games. SPI unintentionally created an echo chamber effect and allowed themselves to be driven by the few people who were most fanatical, thus alienating literally everyone else.
I bring this up as a caution -- I enjoyed the game up through what I thought was the end, with the city conquered and the MC the mayor with a mansion for his harem. I never bothered to try anything after that because, to me, the story was done.
Again, I don't know what your financials and your membership and your downloads tell you. I am certainly not claiming I speak for a silent majority or any of that nonsense. I am certain I'm not a voice of one, but whether I'm a voice of 1% or 5% or more, I have no clue. And I'm not telling you to change what you're doing, only advising you to be aware of other possibilities.
tl;dr: Sometimes listening to their most diehard fans is the worst thing a creator can do.
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