Stoper was already very slow during the formal party scenes, this year he was even slower due to illness, supposedly.
Eh, I'd argue that ~4 months per release in 2020 are worlds apart from v0.60's 11 months (v0.55 took ~9 1/2 months, v0.50 took ~7 months, v0.45 took 6 1/2 months). It's only downhill since January 2021 pretty much right after he's released the "formal party" update on January 2nd 2021 (v0.40, unless I'm mixing releases up here). While you are right saying that he's already been rather slow at the time, those ~4 months compared to recent releases makes it pretty clear that something isn't right. Not the first time he's been using "illness" as an excuse either, and funnily enough during the exact same time of the year aswell. It's never anything serious, and he either doesn't know what it is, or it's covid. But apparently still bad enough to add several months to the development? Yeah, right..
Just too much going on for this crap to be considered coincidence at this point. 3 years straight everything going downhill. Excuses left and right, "illness" at the same time of year pretty much on the dot aswell as constantly coming up with his quarterly "clothing/posing taking longer because details" excuse even though the graphics and details are the exact same since atleast 2020. I'd have to check the start of the game, but actually I'm pretty sure it's always been the same quality since the very beginning. Add to that the endless contradictions in his development blogs compared to what you'll end up with in the update, and I'd say what we have here are a bunch of more than heavy indicators for a developer who is taking a piss on his financial supporters.
Last devcycle, the guy took like 3 months just to set his new computer up (4090ti, which was also supposedly gonna increase development speed...hint: Exact opposite happened, who would have thought), but was apparently tech-savvy enough to do "maintenance" on his old, bricked 1080GPU....Followed by his 2 or 3 month lasting "illness", to which his Doc apparently said it's nothing serious. Who is buying this? Like, seriously...Imagine pulling this off when you're working for someone else in the real world. But ay, easy enough when you can sit on Patreon money.
Anyway... I've been way too active in this thread the past few days. Any PR is good PR as they say, and stoper certainly doesn't deserve that right now. Should just stop posting until something happens...or not.
Merry Christmas everyone.