here we go again :
p & p created probably one of the best game in this industry, its original, the story was good, the renders and animations are perfect, but instead to keep working hard and keep bringing regular updates , they just disappeared for months, and later came back with a dumb excuse, im agree with you that devs should receive more good feed backs and more support , but im also agree with all the costumers that dont support a game that its so irregular in their updates ,
money is not free either , if p & p are receiving 1500 per month today , to be honest, they are getting a lot more than what they really deserve today , instead if they where more constant with the game updates , and more active in their patreon site, today all will be different
the only enemy of p & p and their game is p & p itself , and they are the only one who can bring back the project, more Patrons, more support and more good feed back ,
You are re-litigating what happen a year ago, which they have apologized for to the patrons multiple times. A lot of things have changed since then (repeating some old post here):
1. they deliver monthly wall papers
2. they are a lot more active on Patreon behind the pay wall:
- posts almost bi-weekly (lately it was the west map, the circle stats, free roaming plans, remodeling of certain characters and places, future direction etc)
- comments etc. at least weekly following up on Patrons questions and feedback
3. actively listens to the paying community and seeks feed back and input to the game (some Patrons are even getting some of their suggestions implemented)
4. a game release about every 4th month give or take a month.
I agree for the non paying community, they do not do much (except releasing new public versions of LotV every now and then) but the paying community get quite a lot, on par with other Creators that delivers far less quality or less interesting game.
There are multiple creator that get much more than 1500/month and delivers much less and/or with inferior quality or inferior game.
But my bottom line is:
If you were in their shoes with a real day job paying real money and with family, why the hell would you spend any time on this "hobby" when people are whining that they want more, more frequent, and keep complaining about things that happen in 2017.
Instead we need to accept that they have settled in with a work/life/hobby balance that allows them to sustainably do what they get done in the pace they have gotten things done the last 9 months or so.
The alternative is that we piss them off and they quit the game.
No, it is not an alternative to tell them to quite their day job and focus on the game full time. These guys, have real market valuable skills (my guess IT industry) and do not have a low level job. They likely work for a corporation with health insurance plans, pension plans, paid vacations and perks.
No it is not an alternative to tell them to spend less time with their family for obvious reasons.
So net, net, as much as we want more faster, what we are currently getting is what we are going to get in the pace we are currently getting it in. No whining is going to change that.