This game should be doing better than it is in terms of popularity. I played it a couple of years back, before it required the player to be logged in online to play and save. The character modelling was good and the interface worked fine with minor glitches.
I was entertained, was going to continue to play, and importantly, was willing to support the game financially. The creator voiced a few complaints about cheating and people playing for free. The creator made a few changes to discourage these behaviors that in fact failed. I was sad to see the next step that the creator took was to move the save files to the cloud storage and require registration and online presence to play and save shortly thereafter.
What made me sad wasn't that it kept me out, (it was MY choice after all to protect myself, right or wrong) but that I could see that the creator's actions would significantly lower user participation in what I saw as a game with great potential.
Another creator has recently brought out another similar game. He/she gives a nod to Last Man as inspiration. This game seems to be using the same format and very similar programming and it works very well without needing cloud storage or on online presence to play and save.
Whether that creator reverse engineered Last Man or built their own from scratch may be relevant to some, but the actual outcome of another similar game being built and put out for play was the inevitable.
It seems that in response, Vortex Canon has come up with a new set of justifications for the measures he has put in place. I'm not in any way shape or form saying that Vortex Cannon (great name) hasn't the right to do as he feels with his creations at any time. It's my opinion that all the game creators have the right to do as they please with their creations at any time in any way they choose. I consider myself fortunate to be able to access these creations and try them out. I am grateful to each and every game/vn creator that shares their creations here. Thank you all.
Vortex Cannon, I thank you as I thank all the other creators. I think you've got a great game here even though I haven't actually played it since version 8 or so. It was a fun ride. But I think you are shooting yourself in the foot over and over.
I wish you well.