Yeah, the only reason I doubt a scenario like that is, if she shut the Subscribestar account down of her own volition rather than it being closed by SSS over her unresponsiveness, why did she wait until just the last couple of weeks to do it rather than at the same time she ostensibly pulled up stakes from the modding scene back in late October? In that scenario, it was kinda shitty of her to collect several additional months of subscription payments without telling her subscribers they wouldn't be getting anything further for their money. But, meh, I'm not one of them so it's none of my business (I was
this close to joining, but I was waiting for the Photo Hunt mod update that never came); I just tend to give people the benefit of the doubt so it's easier for me to believe something happened to her than that she scammed her fans.
I think you've got it backwards. Shortly after she went dark, someone posted here that they
had been working with her on a game, and just like us, had stopped hearing from her, and as a result felt he had no choice but to publicly fire her from the project in the course of explaining the situation to his subscribers and soliciting for a new programmer to take her place (I actually really felt sorry for the guy, it was a game that apparently already had some history of delays and under-delivering on promises for update features, so when this happened all the 'fans' that didn't know about the Lain situation from other threads just dogpiled on him with "oh more BS excuses", "guess this game is the new Milfy City" and the like). Skimming over
her posts going back from the last one just before Halloween to a few months before she disappeared, I don't see anything about a new job.
I really do hope you guys are right and she just moved on without feeling obligated to tell anyone, but I still have a really bad feeling about this. It's funny, I don't even know the lady, never met her and almost certainly never will, don't think I ever even conversed with her directly on this site, but her work has been so valuable to this community not only in terms of making good games more playable but also acting as a sort of seal of quality - if a game had a Lain mod, I knew it was worth my attention - that it feels like a serious loss.
