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Very good points, and the reason why I stopped following\commenting here. Basically the more people talk about it the more attention (and money) he gets.A (likely small) part of how this happens is maintained by what we say here. If people didn't arrive at Internet discussions to criticize the lateness, we wouldn't have others self-identifying as defenders of the FA release schedule. This causes these defenders to double-down on their monetary investment in the game. Given the rate at which things happen, many people would otherwise completely forget about the game between releases.
I can't say that this would drive it down to obscurity, however. Crush realizes that constant Discord dialogue with fans is a way to keep FA fresh in people's minds even when releases do not happen. Plus, people with a disposable cash tend to throw it away on subscriptions that go on forever with little or no payout, and therefore forgetting about the game only reinforces this phenomenon.
I'm not saying to stop criticizing of course--truth needs to be said. I'm just explaining how this happens.
Failed deadlines cries, the constant alluring pictures he carefully pick for his posts, etc.. have all the same objective: keep attention high so that people do not leave while he works as little as possible. The last delays granted him 13000$, Idk if you guys realize how much it is but I assure you with what he gets every month you could run a little business and pay at least 2 people making only that for an entire month, working 5 days a week. Considering how easy and linear he's developing the game, I'm convinced those two people could produce the equivalent of his entire game every month (every two with a proper character creation and the relative variability, and by working smartly which he doesn't).
And just to be clear, I don't hate him. For sure he's not the only one on the internet unfairly getting tons of money. I just despise him because I know what he could do.