I've seen many games get milked or stalled for money, however, it is pretty hypocritical of people to complain about it if they don't make a game themselves. If you genuinely wanted to oppose the idea of milking games, make your own game then rub it in their face when its finished in under a year or something.
That's not what hypocrisy means lol. Hypocrisy would be a milker dev complaining about another dev that milks.
What you're saying here makes no moral or general sense. You basically said
"You all complain about murderers murdering but how about you murder someone before complaining about it"
Milking for money is wrong. Well, it's wrong in the sense that a person shouldn't do it on purpose but sometimes an effort does become a bit too much for a new dev. However, a decent person shares this openly and/or tries to make it better. At worst they abandon it.
A milker CAN do better but doesn't because why should they? People are paying regardless and worst of all for them is the fear that they'll never have another successful story to tell. The milking may come from that fear but either way it's out of financial greed.
That said, my view (stated many times) is that those at fault most are the subscribers that continue to pay regardless of a dev's work ethic. A person will rarely throw easy or free money away so how much can a Stoper or L&P be blamed? No, I blame those that complain about it while also still paying them the most.
As for the work, again, if they treated it like a real job they could have more than a single mediocre release ever 4-9 months. A simple M-F, 40 hour week could get these same updates out every 30-45 days. 100%. How do I know? I've done it all and not with the PCs these guys build. L&P alone has openly talked about his multiple rigs that cost thousands of dollars (USD) and he still claims render time like before.
"Well, the posing is the longest part, not the rendering".
True. Again, still not 4-9 months long. This latest JOHN update could be (obviously was) made in a few weeks tops. It's nothing & it took him 9 months lol.
But anyway, by main goal here isn't to dive in to specifics but point out the incorrectness of your main point. Again, what you describe is not hypocrisy. You're merely staying that people shouldn't say shit unless they have also done it and done it better. To which I say that's not even the point here and it's a cheap cop-out even if it was.
A person will either milk when presented the opportunity or they will not. It's a moral principle thing. Also, a person will either stop paying for goods they don't receive or are unhappy with or they won't. To me that's an issue of self-respect and some don't have it. That's why I blame the people paying more than the milkers.
