I'm just going to go ahead and say my peace and probably set this tread to ignore until December so I can finally be free of my thread updates being filled with people bitching and moaning about this game being a one man show every other day.
I've followed this game since it's beginning and in its beginning this game was popping in development. You had basically a page worth of new content every week to 2 weeks with areas being fleshed out, new species being added, and new scenes being developed. But after the starfallen race was developed, production noticeably slowed. I'm not going to pretend to know what happened. I gave the guy the benefit of the doubt since there was already so much that had been done. Then the spirit form stuff came out and my interest peaked again for this game. Then updates 0.727 and 0.728 came out in the span of 3 and a half weeks at the end of 2019.
v0.728 Alpha
v0.727 Alpha
It was practically nothing and I got worried it was going down the Malise and the Machine path. Then a lot of QoL updates came out afterwards, so I though nothing of it. I went back and tried an old build before all of them and the game was noticeably rougher to look at.
Then the updates with the gates happened. I'm not going to pretend that I think they're a good idea, but I do recognize the want for an actual progression system. And if that's what his discord of patrons (the people who are paying for this game) are asking for, then so be it. If you don't like it, get in there and protest instead of bitching in this joke of a thread. Every single time I come here its some douche with few actual posts saying the same tired crap trying to get internet points.
My point is that I've long since given up trying to defend this guy. At this point I'm just tired of people saying the same thing over and over again and not being helpful or adding anything new to the conversation. It's just become a massive circle jerk of people flooding the thread copying each other for upvotes. Is he going solo to hog the money or to just come short on updates? I don't fucking know and neither do you (everyone reading this). There are many reasons why he could be doing this, but I really just don't care. He's said in the past that it's his passion project and he felt that bringing people on would derail it, which is understandable. Is that the real reason? Once again, I don't fucking know and neither do you. All I know is that's all he's ever said about the subject matter and that's all I ever thought of it.
If you have a real problem with how the game is developed,
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He's active there.
TL;DR: Fuck this shit I'm out. See you guys in December.