jaggedlunch
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I dont disagree about him not being communicative and it leading to people being more angry than they really should be. Its a problem but unfortunately thats just how teary is. patreons have tried changing him he wont. hes socially akward or something and usually only communicates when hes had alcohol to have courage to chat i think is what the discord says. last communication was "im not going to communicate until update as it hasnt been working." basically so yeah. that was like november i wanna say. Again though plenty of former patreons feel that way as well most have stopped supporting.Thanks for the update, but if he is going to do the rework, he needs to be more clear, not with us (We filthy pirates), but with the patreons, who still have good faith with him, if he states "If we have *Insert money necesary to hire a programmer*, i'm going to hire a programmer to help rework the game, so it doesn't take a 1 millon years and i don't have to do it again" the patreons might help him with that and can start some real work on .1 update.
What i'm trying to say it's that all this radio silence doesn't help anyone and only complicates the problem.
he only gets like 1k atm and i bet most of those bought for a year. discord people say you would think he would talk with us as money dries up but again it appears to be a passion project for him and not in anyway something he cares about the money for really. mostly seems to view the money as a side benefit for making a passion project. If he was doing this as a buisness and for profit i would agree he should definitely be following your advice unfortunately if its a passion project and he has other priorities it becomes a grey area. He also wont ever hire anyone else. this project is his baby of sorts and he wants no one else in it i believe has been expressed. But yeah in most companies communication is the basic of basics. if you make an action update the notes etc, but its funny usually the tech people tend to be the worst at that. Most game dev companies have even made a role for the person who is supposed to
be noting everything instead of having the devs do it themselves usually. seems a reoccurring thing to be honest that tech and IT people just dont communicate or put notes if they absolutely do not have to.
I think as a whole it seems like the patreons would actually rather .1 update as at this point if that doesnt happen its like wtf have you been doing for four months. either he lied about being near done on previous changelog in november or he really just fucked around for four months. so if they get a full rework at this point say august or october even if it were 2026 theyd be less mad i think than a broken janky .98 that still doesnt work four months down the road. most of them that care have canceled and will likely resume on a reasonable update anyway tbh.