This is from Hime on his patreon back in September:
The Future of my projects
At the moment I can't say if Akuma no Maou / Ikarus will ever see the light of day.
The number of supporters has dropped steadily over the last few months and at the moment it even looks like I have to go for a job to even be able to pay my bills.
(I dont need much but paying my Bills is what I need to work all the Time on this Projects)
That means less time for the visual novels and less money to buy all the assets or any equipment to improve quality in the science-fiction genre.
So no more 1x Update each Month.
If you consider that I still had about 400 supporters in January and today only about 200-250, it shows me that inflation has everyone under control and that many are no longer interested.
I will definitely finish Deadlocked and Maou-Sama, but all other projects are currently on the brink.
We'll see what time brings.
~Neko~
At the moment I can't say if Akuma no Maou / Ikarus will ever see the light of day.
The number of supporters has dropped steadily over the last few months and at the moment it even looks like I have to go for a job to even be able to pay my bills.
(I dont need much but paying my Bills is what I need to work all the Time on this Projects)
That means less time for the visual novels and less money to buy all the assets or any equipment to improve quality in the science-fiction genre.
So no more 1x Update each Month.
If you consider that I still had about 400 supporters in January and today only about 200-250, it shows me that inflation has everyone under control and that many are no longer interested.
I will definitely finish Deadlocked and Maou-Sama, but all other projects are currently on the brink.
We'll see what time brings.
~Neko~
It is pretty obvious what happened here. This was never about inflation. It was about stopping development on a popular game so you could develop another. Your maou fans wanted you to concentrate on maou and give them updates, hence why they subbed you on patreon, also given each of your patreon sub groups is focused heavily on a game your not developing. They got fed up and stopped subbing. Why else do people sub, if not for the game they enjoy, and helping you financially through subscription so you can keep on making the game.
I was kind of baffled that you changed course midway through maou to concentrate on another new game. The subs where there for maou, and you never did anything to update the game since feb this year, which meant the last actual update would have been a month or two prior to that for your subs on patreon, which would have probably been December last year.
What I am trying to say is, if you go back to developing Maou, then i am fairly certain if you can assure people this game is now your priority, you will get them back and probably more, most likely , but the longer you leave it, I bet those subs you say you have will continue to drop off, I don't think it's rocket science to work that out. This is a fun game, story, it just seems an absolute shame you shifted focus. The mistake you made was you changed focus completely and decided on developing a new game, with absolutely no new updates for the game, that got you the subs in the first place.