Some of your comments are not accurate. I share your frustration but let me clarify. The reason that an old plot and new plot exists is because the story writer/developer took a backseat around 2018/19 (end of the old plot) and thus they needed to bring in a new writer which started the new plot. Everyone will agree that the original old plot was abysmal and the English translation was none existing especially early game. So the new writer started act 2 and that progressed but the elephant in the room was the old plot needed to be fixed and redone. This is the bit that frustrates me the most because it took 1 year of the development time to go over old ground but they did splash new content in between to spice things up. They are nearly done with that now. I reckon two updates tops and will finally be in the position to move forward with Act 2 and progress the story. In the meantime they are working on new characters, new locations to visit around the castle, they brought in L2Dlive animator to animate the scenes. There is talk about bringing in AI voice acting (poll has gone out for that). That 22k is not a single person pocketing the money. It is split between a teams of 11 people situated in different countries with different time zones. It may be 6 months for people getting the game off this site but for patrons the last update was in early Nov with Halloween update. The next update will be back end of Jan 24.