Sometimes I wonder how many of these people are his discord cheerleaders pretending to be just randoms.
A reminder to those still pledging: read about the sunk cost fallacy
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The ignorance here seems to also stem from people being completely unaware of the work required to produce a game which has no advanced mechanics, no original assets, no complex post-processing, no branching, a trivial codebase, etc.
Compare this train wreck with the content produced by people like Dr PinkCake, Super Alex and NOTvil. What this dude is pulling out is a scam, there is no way around it. Daydreaming about it not being a scam serves no purpose other than to keep tricking new people into pledging to a scammer.
To be clear, with the money this dude was making in 2018, the entire game could have been finished a few months ago (this is not a game like Monster Girl Island which is quite complex so detecting the scam is harder). A pattern you usually see with successful non-scammers is that they create a simple game as their first (like this one), then they finish it in like a year and move on to a more complex one.
But this person isn't interested in any of that, even as profits decline, because this is almost surely a scam. The profits/work ratio is massive, and he almost certainly has no intentions of ever making another game (without rebranding at least). You are paying a dude for a year for him to advertise a non-existent product, how crazy is that? even if you pledge, why not ask for evidence of work?