I can't remember all of the "juicy lore" of this game's terrible development cycle but assuming life isn't biting her in the fucking ass constantly 24/7 bc that is not possible unless you're somehow despite that funding so in poverty you cannot do shit with the game, the best answer I can give is Inno doesn't know how to Lock In on her own damn game that she's being payed for and has been for many months and years now with a massive following. I was playing when they game was not as bloated as it is now, long before it even had its slavery system, that was YEARS ago and I feel like outside of witnessing that bloat in the settings, the actual game itself hasn't changed much if at all. And that is a bad thing.
This game is supposed to be a full-time job, she gets more than enough to sustain herself, and yet the majority of "updates" have been "Oh sorry but the next update will have to be pushed back further bc *insert life excuse here*" and whatnot.
She doesn't know how to focus on the game, idfk what she has going on but even people with ADHD can get something done if it's of their interest. Story updates are dead bc she won't do the story stuff to move things along, I haven't seen many character updates even outside the damn cat romance quest that I heard was executed terribly. Otherwise it's been bugfixes and the like, but nothing you can actually wanna bite into.
The other issue is she keeps setting these self-proclaimed deadlines that clearly hurt more than they help. Speaking as a procrastinator myself: If you cannot stick to your own damn personal deadlines, literally just stop fucking giving yourself deadlines. A deadline will not make you work faster, it's just putting a time limit on yourself and heavy expectations to achieve what you set out to in that timeframe and when it comes around and you have jack shit WHOOPSIE gotta make up an excuse to her audience paying her for this game and hoping for something to chew on now. And this happens so much I as a long-time procrastinator who only gets things done on my own time actually facepalms so much when I see this.
This is especially damning given she is being paid monthly for this, and her supporters basically get no food in return for giving her money, so to speak. She's starving them.
I'm not saying do the shitty secretly-tiny updates that are so small but are made to sound bigger than they actually are ala CoC2's shitty updates to reach that quota. But Inno needs to stop procrastinating when she's supposed to set out to do what she says she does, and stop giving deadlines to herself that she KNOWS she won't be able to accomplish.
And Imma stress the deadline thing tbh bc no deadlines are better than deadlines you constantly fail to uphold at this point. The thing with THAT now is that without deadlines, we probably wouldn't be getting any updates period bc she will do these long stretches of nothingburger coding with nothing to actually show for it. Assuming you're not doing monthly updates, even smaller smut game devs without deadlines will stuff updates full of content when they come back to life, bc they can work without that pressure. The only pressure is to give a good update to their game for their players, something everyone who creates anything longform deals with. I draw, not for a living, but I create digital art shit and have for over a decade now, sometimes I can make deadlines for drawing events on social media to bring artists together for a singular interest, sometimes I can't, I am aware I can't 100% that so I try not to do that to myself. Unless you're that punctual it will give you a damn migraine.
She also refuses to have anyone help her, and has been doing the majority of this shit herself. I betcha had she got a coding team, she could focus on the actual writing, and they can do the extra heavy lifting, but she refuses to even give that out. She's so insistent on doing this herself, and it's eating into her business. And the game is such spaghetti code now that I bet nobody who does wanna help code even wants to touch that minefield the moment they see it, so that renders a code team potentially moot to get. Nobody wants to clean up a proverbial minefield.
Inno bit off more than she could chew and has been taking advantage of her excuses for eons now. She either needs to accept she needs help, lock the fuck in, or abandon all hope to ye who expects this game to be remotely halfway through at this point.
