No because I'm not that much of a scumbag. I'd be grateful I have such loyal supporters and I'd make sure I could give them the content that they are paying me for. If I personally *couldn't* put out a monthly patch, I would even halt everyones' payments if I could, or put out an update that I literally will be unable to and they should cancel it for the month if I'm not able to do that.
Welp, Rich Dev Poor Dev situation right here. That's why you'll never get six-figure-yearly-income doing next to nothing, mate
Mind, I'm not condoning her actions. But I can certainly understand the motivation behind them, even if it's a shit thing to do in my book as well.
I will say it's fucking hilarious that people will white knight such scumbag people, like what they're paying for is totally normal.
This happens with "non-porn-mass-market" games as well. Whatever the motivation, there's a lot of people who, once "engaged," will defend anything, no matter how shady or outright immoral, afterwards.
Also, politics, heh.
I've been following this game for... I want to say 3~4 years now, and virtually no content has been added in that time, yet she has made such a fortune doing almost nothing to the game.
Personally, I don't think she started with underhanded intentions. Burnout happens, and considering it's her first project, that probably came as a surprise. The whole "I'm going to milk this for all it's worth" aside, but let's be honest - that one's more on people who actually enable it with their money.
I know this was probably sarcastic, but for people who think I haven't played the game, trust me, I have, way too much. What we have is great, I just think it's a very douchebag move to keep charging people while you put out no content for years.
Yeah, snark doesn't carry too well in writing.
Agree, if with the cavet that the code underneath what's out there already is... eh, what it is.