Did you ever create a all game ?
I've co-produced more than a dozen. Which means financing, direction, and a significant amount of close work with the dev teams. I have been directly involved or indirectly adjacent to this industry for decades. I understand the challenges involved with background and character art, with UI, with storyboarding, with outlining the narrative, with mechanics, with coding, with marketing promotion. The gamut.
And I said it years ago with regard to the original developer and will say it again with this one. When you go past six months with no meaningful progress whatsoever to report and only excuses to offer, then the project is DEAD.
Eight months ago Aexier said he was 'pouring work into the project every single day.' At the time he shared an image of a map with some icons. Nothing since. No screenshots, no progress reports, no updates, nothing.
The first quarter of a project's inception is typically the strongest and carries the most momentum. If the plane stalls out before it even lifts off the ground, the journey is doomed. People hanging around here asking for updates that never come is an embarrassing reminder of the YEARS of identical behavior with the original game.
Please recall that there had been only ONE update in two years' time with GATES even before the military buildup in Ukraine.
This whole project/franchise/fiasco has been a doomed failure since the end of 2019. I wish people would stop flogging it.