Gumdrop´s new message should have made it clear to the last one that it is only about money now. In the beginning that was different, but once the rubels rolled, money became king. Look at his new post, all about business and money, the game comes as backdrop. Even accounting for moving away from Puritan, eh, Patreon what did he offer in his post? He lavishly spoke about how you can feed him more money, the game? A few breadcrumb of wallpapers, few give a single toss about and a blatant lie about how time-consuming the renders are.
I wrote it a few posts up, that I made a HD test render on my totally average Home PC with just internal GPU which took roundabout 20 minutes. Granted, I simply put persons and props in to make it a heavy render and actually arranging things takes a bit more time, but unlike me, Gumdrop supposedly has render-specialised hardware, which speeds up render time by several factors compared to my PC.
So there are simply two possible optionsfor his slow rendering:
a) What gumdrop says is true, but then he admitted in a roundabout way that he is a lazy ass, who cannot be bothered to work until the audience gets grumpy. Because as other developers show consistently, you can deliver a comparable amount of render pics with comparable quality for update within 1-2 month.
orb) Which I find much more probable: Gumdrop is lying through his teeth about the ptrgress. I am 99% sure, he could update this evening if he wanted, because he has the update finished and is just pushing how long he can wait until the milkcows, eh, the patrons finally are fed up.
I am not so impressed with the general scheme of our little conman, because in normal business he would have really foul mooded customers come knocking. Where I have to raise my virtual hat is how gumdrop can rope in such docile patrons who can be quieted with a few dirtcheap posters. He should tell us how he does this, because here he really shines.
