While you make a valid point in regards to other games and it might apply to Life in Santa County in the future, it does not apply to the content we're getting in the next update. Don't forget that the Lauren content was supposed to release together with the Chloe content back in December 2022; roughly six months have passed since then.As a long time Life in Santa County and A Mother's Love fan, It's not the Developers using the game eventually to milk people. It's them starting to develop a game with all the hype and all the great ideas until they hit the point where they run out of ideas to write the story ahead.
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This game is stuck because the main story has no direction, just like a lot of the games here, had to say it.
The direction of the main story for the next update is obvious: fucking Lauren. And since it was supposed to release back in December 2022, we're not going to pretend this dev isn't milking his game because it doesn't have a clear direction.