The community kept on pirating his fucking game so he fucking quit. Simple as that.
Also the community kept on ridiculing Sel and all the people who argued piracy was bad (like me) so this thread lost a good amount of loyal patreons
I remember you, and not in a bad way, so don't worry
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I was a decently staunch defender of Sel as well; I subscribed to his patreon, didn't leak the games, and agreed with the arguments that piracy for this game wasn't strictly necessary as the public release was always only 2 weeks after the paid release.
He
did lose me as a supporter, both financially and in spirit, once he took his anti-piracy attitude to the extreme and essentially began to wage war on everyone. I'm still firmly in the camp of people should be able to wait 2 weeks to play a game, but I prefer how other creators handle leaks (Caribdis, Jestur, etc) by just understanding that they'll happen and hoping people will still support the games due to quality (which is absolutely the case).
Every page back then had someone like that Xhunter guy or it was some kind of piracy debate.
Oops, sorry. Guess I really was longing for the old days after all.