1) True. You are objectively right.
2) Again, true. You are objectively right.
3) Please stop treating piracy all the same. It’s one thing to pirate a game
because you can’t wait a fucking 2 weeks for the official version to be released, and it’s a wholly different situation from pirating off of professional game companies that never release their games, or indie creators that take months to release a single damn update to the public. Maybe it's not guilt that's keeping people from wanting LiL leaked, but instead their sense of morality stopping them from bashing a dev who freely released their game in 2 weeks.
I don’t want to assume, but have you checked what kind of pirating Selebus was supporting for each of his games? Have you actually confirmed if he was impatient enough to not wait two weeks for a public update, or if was he pirating because of other reasons? If you have, please send me an excel file or some other medium that has compiled all the information. I would be happy to look at it.
Additionally, although piracy is common on this site (as you have mentioned), just because one comments on this site does not mean that they are pirating. Some people come here for community. Have you taken the time to divide Selebus’s posts into those that are for pirating, and those are for the community? Do you objectively have a grasp of how much Selebus has pirated?
On this same not, using Illusion's games to create assets is absolutely not the same as pirating a game. I do not know how you came to that logic. Why do I say so?
1) Because all the models featured in LiL was not made by Illusion, but rather by Selebus. Thus, though it is a grey zone, it is more akin to me using Miku Miku Dance to make my own vocaloid videos, or using Photoshop to edit my own photos. In any case, although the program I used is not my own, the final product is definitively my creation.
2) You miss the topic of how Selebus paid for Koikatsu as a creation engine. Pirates did not pay Selebus for LiL.
3) You also miss the topic of how pirates are simply leaching pleasure off of Selebus with no hard work involved when they pirate LiL. Selebus, on the other hand, is working his tail off using Koikatsu to make an actual game.
4) A great bulk of what makes LiL special is the storytelling. The narration. The plot. That’s why there’s so few Koikatsu games that are popular – @Selebus’s success hinges on his writing ability, which in no way is owned by Illusion, or anyone for that matter. To steal that is not analogous to using Koikatsu as a creation engine
Additionally, one can see that Selebus is not making infantile tantrums – if you analyze his language, his case against pirating is based on
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. He explicitly refutes the point that "pirating is good" and he also supports his stance using data from Graphtreon that shows his income going down in the months where his games are leaked right off the bat. You, on the other hand, rank the lowest on this pyramid as you use the name-calling technique – basically trying to dismiss Selebus’s credibility by saying “your game sucks because MC is named sensei.”
Additionally, if you are not invested in this game, and this is a logical analysis as you have not played it since 0.2, why do you appear now to tear down at Selebus? One can only assume you are doing this to assuage your feelings of inadequacy and your jealousy for those who are successful.
Finally,
Selebus, although I really don’t need to tell you this, just note that for ever insensitive critic that tries to tear you down, there are at least 3 fans who have your back. I just don’t want to see you go into
hikikomori mode like Arc from Corrupted Kingdoms did.
It’s hard to believe, but because people kept on pirating his game, Arc went from a very active dev on F95zone who listened to all of the fan comments, to a reclusive shut-in who only engages his patrons on Patreon. I don’t want that happening to any of the great devs on this site
Have a great afternoon (or whatever time zone you are in), community.
Well said. Also, if anyone's interested, it is true that some people abstain for the leaks – one person being myself. I can't own a credit card right now due to various reasons in my life, I don't have the means to support the dev, so I stay straight and gratefully enjoy whatever I can get for free from this game