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Runey game make a little bit money, depending on the pledge level of his patreons at least. You can look
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for the adult games overview and come to your own. My bet is that this would be between 5k and 10k. Most of the games I know are around 1k.
From the available to compare WVM (Brainddrop) earns 19k per month, TITS/CoC/CoC2/FoE (Fenoxo) 31k and Summertime Saga (DarkCookie) 71k.
I assume, that if you earn more than 5-6k then you can pay yourself (anywhere) and probably also hire some help. With 10k+, then you can hire one or more to help you full time.
I don't say, what the dev shall do and shouldn't do, but this are some background numbers for me. Eg. if a dev doesn't earn much I don't see how I can complain about the lack of updates or quality. If someones earn twice or more than my pay, well the situation change.
Data import is not easy, also if the setting is the same, you would end with serveral times the game size of one game. Also I would think that if I have HH1 finished, then this game wouldn't change - or is George Lucas involved? From Runey work ethics, this would be in contrast to he work.
To be blunt her. From the developer aspect, means in the first place Runey and only Runey. Also he has a defined game, it is not something completely undefined. Could he do it differently yes, most likely, but will he do it?
And to point it out, if Runey would split the game and story and say it would span from HH1 to HH4294967296. He could abandon it after HH16777216. Wouldn't make a difference, at least for me, if I have only one game that is abandoned or a game serie around one story that is abandoned after the x. game.
My assumption is, that your subjective preference are as much of a reason for this than the others. My view of things is I can, with my best intent and with my best ability, present my thoughts, ideas, suggestions and concerns. Yet it is up to the dev, and only to him, what he does with it.