Funny thing is..
Devolution used to do that. First one then two versions behind he released a public version with everything (even cheats) unlocked. It was great. Even though the thread was always full of those that wanted the most recent version. But the majority was happy.
Well, the dev moved more and more away from that, pushing back the public release until the threshold was reached and the first crack came out. You know the rest..
Yes, I remember those days well, as I paid for the game for several months. There were many wars, and a lot of keyboard warriors died then

Personally, I stopped paying and started looking for hacking methods for two reasons:
- the main reason is that I didn't see what I would like to see in the game,
- and the second reason is that the paid version stopped working for the 3rd month, requiring an update, which means give me money again, I'm tired of begging. And who else remembers those passwords of the free versions?

something like
- 06free
- free07build
- full08free
- rel09free
- free10rel2
- 11freeplay
on the 11th version, the developer left this place, apparently angry at the audience starting to break the game, but he did not want to understand the reasons, probably because of the surging emotions. I'm not pretending to be the truth, it's just my guess.