I mean, there is also the possibility something actually happened to him. He hasn't been active here since March, which is when he stopped updating the patreon or replying on discord as well.
For all we know he may be dead and we're here talking shit about him.
Even if it's not something that serious, I talked with him back when the game was gaining traction and he seemed too into it/passionate about making it good to be just wanting to scam people. Hell, the effort that went into it visually compared to the usual Honey Select game already makes me doubt he stopped updating just because "making money, why work lmao" and not because some situation is keeping him from it. Usually milkers do update their patreon every couple months to reassure the rubes that the game is totally bring worked on (usually saying they're revamping early parts of the game).
If this is the very first time he pulled such vanishing act, sure you can speculate this way. Heck, even for a second time you can excuse him. But no, this is probably the third or fourth time he completed the cycle of:
disappear - come back announcing an update is ready and coming - start posting official dates of release on patreon to lure people into subscribing - disappear and ghost everyone on the promised release day - come back after
months to release a buggy 30 mins update, which clearly does not justify the 9 months dev time - promise the next update will make up to it - disappear again.
He has been doing this since late 2021. This game only received 3 or 4 updates since 2021 and none of the previous plots got completed. Mia arc. Sophia arc. Church case. All waiting for a continuation but guess what he did with the last update in Feb (which was a delayed 0.9 announced all the way back in December 2022)? He added more characters and opened new arcs. On top of that he will lectured everyone in the discord saying how he envisioned this perfect game, dodged all the questions coming at him asking why he would repeatedly lie to patreon about having an update ready to release, banned everyone who question him about his behaviours on discord, came to this forum and went rampage because people left him low star reviews while screaming he couldn't care less about what people here think, and makes about 50 promises like how he would do season 2 after complete 1.0 or whatsoever.
He then went completely MIA since March and now the official discord bot is set to response "the game is abandoned" to any question on the discord.
No one will bash an honest dev for not delivering it once in a while. But a repeated offender with no intention to communicate and acting like a total jerk like this one here? I would say he deserves it 100%.
