I say keep it open so he can see how many people pirate his release without paying just because he never freaking updates.
Redleg already mentioned Bones releasing the game for free after a while, but I'd further like to draw attention to who posted this thread in the first place:
Oseo Bones. And just to be clear I'm not pointing this out necessarily to credit the man, just to offer further evidence that Bones probably cares very little if people get his game(s) from here.
Scumbag? What'd he do, anything specific?
Others have recommended reading previous pages (which would indeed see the subject discussed extensively), but I figure it's worth trying to summarize briefly, in no particular order:
Scumbag move 1: Despite receiving a high income from Patreon and Subscribestar (more than enough to live off comfortably while being unemployed) he feels no obligation to actually work on the games his supporters mean to support (this is not hyperbole, he publicly and repeatedly admitted to this). He instead first admitted that he didn't work on it for months for no particular reason, but was just sitting on his hands and playing games.
Scumbag move 2: Once he started supposedly working on the game(s) again he split what was originally intended as one update into three (the illustrious 0.18A, 0.18B and 0.18C) meant to be released in quick succession. 0.18B was released in Febuary, and we are still to this day waiting for 0.18C due to various very dubious excuses. (Among other things - let's call it
scumbag move 2.1 - he has apparently been suffering from kidney stones for
months, with pain so bad he can't even sit down in front of a computer, yet boasts about going out for his birthday to drink and get laid, both of which are activities you probably shouldn't engage in when you have kidney stones.)
Scumbag move 3: On his Discord, at least, anyone who comments in an even slightly critical way toward him or his games are publicly ridiculed by Bones and his supporters and/or immediately banned from his server. Likewise anyone asking for the next update there have been known to be swiftly banned.
Scumbag move 4: The update (0.18) he has been working on for... how long has it been? Eighteen months? Two years? When did 0.17 come out again? Anyway, that update is mostly (originally
entirely) reworks of existing scenes, with a tiny sprinkling of new stuff that was only added to the plans recently. One of the 0.18 partial updates consisted solely of adding horse sounds to an existing scene; sounds that most players dislike, at that.
There's probably more that I'm missing, but I think that'll do for a brief overview.