in a way i understand this dev's thought process, you got a guy like oppai man who just started & he's already making 4,400 per month, he sees himself in that category, it's not as if the quality of this game ain't above average.
Lol. The problem is that he DEMANDS the money. He doesn't even ask for it, he doesn't let interests grow, he just demands, "give me x amount of money, or I'll stop working." And that is not how it works.
The people here in defence of him miss one important point, no one here is saying he doesn't DESERVE to get paid for his work adequately, the problem is you can't FORCE people to support you to what you think is an adequate level.
Yes, some devs start out earning a lot of money, and I'll be the first one to admit, that sadly often the amount of money someone gets, is in no way related to the actual quality of writing and art, but that's the way it is. Some people are just really good at giving enough people exactly what they want in a way that makes them want to pay for it.
The easiest way for the Dev to maybe achieve what he wants (MONEY) would be going the most popular route with the game and simply make it an incest and harem game to reach the biggest audience.
This Dev never had the problem that his renders weren't good his problem was the setting. The first problem Primal Instinct had was the NTR threat, the second problem was at least for a part of the audience that it had too many LI's for a non-harem game, and the third problem was that the game had LI's in different parts of the world but the MC was stuck in one place.
The scope in general, there were so many levels of story in that game, a storyline surrounding sister and stepsister, that whole dream/vampire thing in the past, the mystery of the (probably) vampires in the present and how it relates to the past.
And update after update came, and you didn't come any closer to really understanding what was going on there.
Others have also mentioned the many choices, as a fan of Where The Heart Is, I saw first hand, what having many choices will lead to, there's a dedicated team, with a firm hand at their routes and still they flay about with the enormous amount of branching paths. Primal Instinct seemed to have way more important choices (that did not just grant you one point affection or lust or not) than WTHI had in the first few updates, where was this going to lead?
Also, the feeling that you constantly had to make the right decisions to fend off NTR, was of course a worrying sign for all but the NTR fans, as you pointed out yourself.
All in all, there were many understandable reasons why the previous game didn't get the support the dev hoped for and maybe deserved. This one, seeming to have a more generic storyline, might have better chances, but still the money won't just come because he feels he deserves it, and given that he already abandoned a game and already threatens this one with abandonment, who in his right mind would go and risk money on that?
I sure won't.
I have only a small amount of money each month to support creators on patreon, I usually support devs or artists who don't earn thousands of dollars a month, because to them even my small contribution is better than none, and they deserve it.
There are devs who worked on games for many years for only between 100-200 bucks a month of support, and they struggle with justifying the time and effort they pour into their game, and getting so little for it, but they stick to it, because they love what they are doing, the game is their baby, their outlet, their creation.
And many of them are not as talented as silkandmilk, the renders aren't as fantastic, sometimes English isn't their first language, and it shows in the writing, the stories are all over the place etc.., but I still want to support them, because you just see their love for what they are doing and their willingness to continue even with barely any reward, outside the satisfaction of people liking what they are doing, even if they don't pay for it.
For me, that is what is missing with the dev here, I'm not saying he doesn't love what he is doing, but his heart can't be in it that much, because money is definitely his primary motivation, because if he doesn't get it, he will just drop the game.
