Personally I don't give a shit if the developer is giving us updates or not.
I like the fact that the guy is delivering one of the best AVN's in this site and he is doing it with flying colors. He is excellent in the way he delivers each character relationships with each other bit by bit and I fucking love the slow burn. Being following this one since it was still made as a sandbox game (I am glad that he changed it tbh) and in the early chapters it was sure a very painful process to see a hot milf like Amelie and not being anywhere near into doing some sexy stuff with her. But now? Now the lady is ready and ripe for the taking and we have been waiting for a long time for this one to come.
About his misfortunes, he may be lying about his situation or maybe not. He maybe got his ass jailed or maybe not. We will never find out and I don't care about it either. He already said that he is doing a piss poor job in communicating with his fun base and this is why he goes on silence mode on us for a full year, or maybe he just doesn't want to have to hear all the crybabies out there about how they hate Stephanie or other characters of the novel. It's his choice to go radio silent but I respect him for delivering a full blown update like chapter 0.10 and for the earlier chapters as well.
In any case, keep up the excellent job you are doing Xenorav, you are THE MAN!