I said that she only needs to replace the old art to a new one and polish the story a little bit, because thats her number one priority to keep her patron happy, she wasnt Evakiss that did her art by herself without any artist and basically did everything by herself, but redlolly need someone to makes the art and many other things for her game, this makes her expenses every month will became way bigger than Eva's.I agree with your fear of the game going abandonia. It has been very quiet on this front for some time now.
But I don't agree that just replacing the art would have been better: The old base-story was goot - this is what we agree on, right? But the story-telling was not that good. There were a few shortcuts into corruption and even some bigger story glitches. It felt like not beein ironed out enough.
The new story deploys a slower yet more realistic pace. It is also hotter at the same time. It is more believable, I think.
But yeah, what is all this worth if new versions of this still quite "simple" game take more developement time than Eva's epos for example? Let's just hope it will not be abandoned.
Every patreon dev income comes from their patron and patron chose to supports dev based on their content, Eva can do whatever she wants to her games because she did almost all of it by herself, she doesnt needs to pay someone every month to help her develop the game, this makes her can be at eased to develop her game and her games was only a passions project at that point.
But not with Redlolly, she needs to pay some people to keep her games alive and her income will only increased if she give enough new content to their patron or enough new content so people chose to became her patron, the longer she dragged this development cycle, the more she needs to pay to keep her games alive, but based on this trajectory, her updated cycle keep getting longer and longer, some of her patron already starts to leave her and many people doesnt even want to supports her by becoming her patron based on how long this remakes thing going.
So its litterally way better in every aspect for her to just replace the old art with a new art and just changes the story a little bit to released the chapter 6 as soon as possible to get people attention and eventually convince them to became her patron.
This is her first project, so her highest priority should be build up her community first and makes as much money possible to supports her second games.
This is what Eva did with her games, she build her community during GGGB era and because she did almost everything by herself, she can keep most of her incomes everymonth, and now she used the money she get during GGGB era to develop ORS, game that was more complex than GGGB and with way better art.
But Redlolly choose the wrong way for her games, she doesnt need to makes her first game to complex, by making her games too complex, she needs a longer time to develop it and the expense every month will be very big, i know that she only keeps a small amount of her incomes from her patron every month after paying other people their money, and this strategy is wrong, she doesnt have the capability and money to supports the development with this scale yet.
Sometimes being way too idealists do more harm than good.