JFC I forgot he was raking in 7K USD (!!!) per month. How labor intensive is it to supposedly generate a few renders and post them up as "progress", if that is what is actually happening here? I seriously can't wrap my head around how this dude can get away with collecting that much on a monthly basis without generating any real product, while theres devs out there with games released in the same year that are already completed and have now moved onto new projects who don't even make 10% of how much this guy is making.
Crippling anxiety regarding letting down his patrons with a new update is understandable. Even perfectionism is understandable. I personally don't view
Komisari as a malicious actor who's trying to rip off his customers. Primarily because if it was malicious, it would make way more sense to release an update now, 2 years after the fact, only to hold off with your next update for another 2 years. You already know suckers have already stuck with him for 2 years, so whats another 2 years of waiting right?
I still think that anxiety and perfectionism don't excuse not having a release. I don't envy the man in his position regarding the stress, but collecting 70K USD/year without having any tangible product to show is insane to me. You'd be fired from any company/breach contracts for this kind of behavior in any industry. Or as a startup would start to bleed your investors as they lose confidence, which seems to be the way things are going.
I don't really have any skin in the game here, but its interesting as an observer to see this go down the way it is.