Still though, at least the other mediocre updates have still very clearly been smut stuff, this is an entire fucking expansion that's been hyped up for a while and contains literally one new sex scene. I've honestly got no idea how that idea got approved, is savin really that delusional about why people play the game? Or did he just never okay anything and it was just assumed to be fine?
Well, given the sycophants on his forum and Discord I don't think he does. What with the people that actually pay for such meager results, he may very well be right... the thing is Savin hates power fantasies because he's a cuck. And before any mods nip my ass: that's not kinkshaming - however my feelings on it - that's an explanation. Savin just doesn't see the thrill of being in power. He also has an ego - which is funny because of the explanation before, but that's netorase for ya - which makes him think that others think like he does. So he presumes people are fine with it. It's why he gets so mad when people make fun of him for it.
Savin has also clearly checked out a long time ago. Like CoC1 was still in production time ago. He had actually tried to make his own game on 4Chan which is now called Slablands - originally an unofficial sequel of CoC1 - and fell out with them - I imagine that bad blood still exists - and he gets bored easily with things. He got bored with CoC1 - he procrastinated like crazy on projects, even with TiTS - and with his ego had delusions of grandeur, got in over his head/got bored and then left. He's clearly bored out of his mind again and just tells them put in anything. Since people are still paying why the hell would he care about the quality? There's no passion from anyone on the team except the aspiring and even then I imagine they'll realize the truth too eventually falling into the same rut.
As someone else pointed out - sorry the site is fucky and I can't look up, may have been on 4Chan - CoC1 worked because it was a passion project. CoC2 fails because it's a job.