I can hardly say changing elena's art which was perfectly fine as going forwards, but sure, lets say he is
Taking one step on a 30 km hike when he's barely made it past idk, 5km is gonna take a REALLY long time
Like, i obviously dont pay (and given the pace i certaintly wont, kemono has all the patreon content anyways), but i still feel this is disrespectful behavior to the people that are actually paying (though they themsevles will not admit it, ask his dev rambles chatters)
Like this update for example, majority of it's work is done by felt, oh and dont say anything, im not complaining in particular, the fact he's getting help is good, no man can be good at coding art music and so on when developing a game at the same time, and help is almost natural, being a solo dev is tough (even though there's plenty of those who succeded and made phenomenal games in similar time frames but you know, comparing people makes the people in question feel bad)
However the updates ass of several months now have just been getting stale, it's almost been a year since i updated the game and i honestly can't say the total content i'd have to go through would even reach 2 hours.
And considering that the game has been in development for 7 years already, it doesnt make me optimistic on its future ,given that the capital has yet to receive actual good content.
It's sad even, comparing it to the earlier sections of the game, the decisions, the quality, the depth, i can't call this the best or even a top tier game, but it's not mid, which is good enough for me, and i liked it enough. But ther'es atleast several more areas and dungeons to make, dozens of characters which havent recieved a content update in YEARS, possibly better mod support, gameplay enhancement, so much stuff to be done yet not actually being done. And this is where i'd say it's qualified to fall under the same umbrella as the western games that fall under the same curse (look at other devs? i am, the situation of mgd and them is literally identical *cough* LT) is just... disappoiting, thresh has yet to give me or many members of his community which are creating seperate servers to escape the god awful moderation of his server are saying. (which says alot about his moderation team)
If we're to give a few considerations without bitching or shitting on him too much, i'd say there's 2 possibilites for the disappointing work
1. He's dealing with something he doesnt want to talk about, and its naturally impeding his progress
...except for the fact he never talked about, now i know i said 'doesnt want' but that doesnt actually make much sense, first, patreons are putting him on a payroll, im not sure if this is a fulltime thing but either way someone is paying money for the product they recieve and expect the same level of quality and pace to be maintained, so he naturally owes them to some extent to atleast tell that progress will slow down due to some issues in his life, that's it, no need to go on a personal rant or explain, saying that would explain enough
2. The workload he was under for the preliminary years of the game was an unhealthy amount, something a person shouldnt be subjected to.
I'll give you half a point on this one, since i have no way of procing whether he's lazy now or active then, i'll make a compromise and say he was somewhere on the middle before, if he was as workaholic as you could possibly claim he is we'd have camelia content by now
So putting the standard as just moving forward is just.... masochistic? And yes i know itch tags it ass femdom, but i'd say the balance between S vanilla and M content is fairly balanced to consider it as a femdom game, so the masochistic desires dont really make sense (no personal insult though, i've had the same conversation with similar people already and you just fall into the same crowd)
The members or the community doesnt own him, he's a living person blah blah i have to say i understand this aspect or it'll be throw to me later despite being a weak argument, anyways, the quality standard which he's been putting out for over more than a year already falls below standard for what he's being paid for and for what he's been promising for years, so yeah, i consider my opinion fairly justified
so all in all, i think he should get off his ass to do some coding and writing instead of "walky" (which adult man would ever say that) and "chores" (how fucking big is his house? Is he a live in maid or something?)
