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Completely missed my point, aren't you? I don't care much about how frequent the updates are. I think the person I replied before also think the same. I mainly rambling about how often this kind type of game stuck in the state of eternal updates with no real closure. Look at TiTS, CoC 2, LT, and now this. Sure the process takes a time but it's been 6 years, my dude. Author should really think about their vision ahead, was the project too ambitious? Or they just simply lacked of manpower? No matter what answer is, it leads to the same conclusion, it simply needs to end because it's been too long. Any good story needs a proper ending. Any good journey needs a proper closure. This story seems has no such thing or any indication that leads there. And that's what I care about.The developer is paying people for art. They do their own writing, pass it off to a team of editors, and then when everything is put together, they give it to a team of testers who stress test the game for bugs and such that might cause problems for the consumer. Now, I'm no defender of devs who clearly want to milk their audience and reject all forms of criticism (Zion of Olympus being the most prominent), but Threshold does update their patrons frequently and does warn us ahead of time of any potential delays or issues that prolong the process.
Like, I'm not even going to point out that game development on its own is not a short process. Even someone capable of rigging and animations on their own is going to take a few years to finish their project, and that's assuming it's a simple game with a bare-bones story and maybe a handful of h-scenes. There is a process and while I would like to jump on the wagon of blindly accusing devs of laziness or exploiting their patrons, such is not the case here. That said, I also get why someone might lob the accusation at Threshold given they did go through a period where they focused more on a side content waifu than furthering the main story. I got no excuse for that, nor do they. Heck, they even made a couple patron posts where they confessed that they got stupidly side-tracked and apologized for it.
So, yeah, Threshold does get side-tracked and/or life happens, but it's not as if they're delaying the process to milk their patrons for money.
I didn't even accuse him of milking Patreon money, btw. It's your own assumption and now after thinking it for a while, it's also author's fault because what and how he did to this project made it look like author was milking the patreon money.