If we're at a point where we're discussing if something is illegal, it's probably 100% shitty
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I remember EroMersive mentioned he gave up his day job to do this fulltime, so I assume he couldn't really give up his patreon. Also it seems to me this is a case of burnout rather than abandonment. Even in the last release he made he was plagued by scope creep, failing to properly plan the content needed and failing to properly estimate what work he had left.
For the current release it was even worse. If we are to believe his posts, he pretty much had the content done by Sept-Oct 2022, but then realized it didn't make sense story wise and needed to add new stuff and rework things. Combine this with him making stupid posts like "release next weekend" because he can't estimate for shit and everything lines up with his previous issues.
Again I'd be really happy to see him back, but if he does come back I hope he learned his lessons, otherwise people will stay away from his patreon.... but what do I know? Icstor has been a turd for years now and people are still paying him big $$$
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Hey, they can't all be Stiglet, who basically said "I want to take a break and I'll be back when I'll be back", kept his patreon up but manually pauses payment each month. Fucking class act.