1. It is similar to Eromancer, at first they make Malise and the Machine, and then they announced that they revamp the RPGMaker engine (iirc), and then revamp graphic, and then revamp gameplay mechanic, and revamp this and that.....until they announced they make Pure Onyx to have more money to complete MatM. I'm used to defend them but when they pull out that Pure Onyx stunt i lost my shit, literally.
2. PH are going to release SFW part on steam, which is storyline and normal gameplay - which i believe is a tabletop type - on steam. And the NSFW - which is sex part - will be on patreon. Thus created double paywall, you need to buy through steam to have the game to access and play, and if you want the sex part, you need Patreon account to pay for that part. So literally if you want to fap (like, is there anyone care about the gameplay or even the story part????) you need to pay 2 times to fap those characters; let not talk about a bunch of other microtransaction in the game like outfit, sex pose/animation, new character, new map, etc... as form of mini DLC......Now the worst part is, using server hosting model, make the game stability depend on server and internet stability, no one want a situation where you are in the middle of enjoying a fap but get disconnected from server instead and can't play the game....lol; and when PH shut down the server in the future you lost not only the money but also the game you buy cuz most of game core data will be in the server, the game folder you have is nothing but a trash bin