with the amount of money he's pulling in he could easily outsource the whole project while sipping cocktails at the beach and everyone would get what they want. guess there's no reason to hire people when the money comes in anyway.
He already is lol, he hired Baron to do the rendering and he already had a writer on staff that got hired for this project, all he has to do is wait for them and throw it together in ren'py then debug it, which would normally only take a couple of weeks even if there where a good number of bugs, then add on any time for pointless minigames and even with that said Icstor wouldn't have to break a sweat to get this out on time.
Realistically though he has people finishing this and has moved on to his next game, the reason he's not updating us on MC is because he's not that involved in the development anymore as far as i can see, he's likely given the writer and renderer sufficient notes and background to know what they have to do and has left them to it and to be honest that may be the better option, ICSTOR has dragged his feet for a damn long time now and lost the good will of the community, the sooner he pops a decent update for this game and/or finishes it the better for his PR.
