And he doesn't need to. No one paying, no updates required. It comes when it's done. Either way, it's not abandoned. Unless he confirms it or just disappears. He has done neither
yes, he doesn't need to post any updates and can go dead silent. No updates or talk about anything. Just shut out all outside noise and do his thing. Like you said, he doesn't get paid anything anymore so he doesn't owe anyone anything.
But here's the problem. We, his fans/followers/former patreons/haters/whoever, want to know how things are going. So let's see where we can find any information:
Patreon/Subscribestar/whatever - no longer available for updates, his patreon site is "under investigation" meaning it's dead
itch.io - last updated in June 2019
Twitter - a dead steam link in his bio and a pinned post from 2019. The latest relevant post was 1 1/2 years ago about him leaving patreon. No other information in the last 3 years
Website - early followers will remember that there was an actual website but it re-directs to his dead steam site for quite some time now
Discord - no available discord link on any of his official sites/channels, which is already a bad sign for anyone looking for information, but I found one searching this thread. In his discord, the last relevant post in the #announcement channel was, again, from 1 1/2 years ago about leaving patreon and a pastebin-link in which he also throws out the possibility of splitting the game into 2 parts, remaking everything in Unity 2021 or doing part 2 in Unity 2021 after finishing part 1. Nothing concrete, only some "maybe..."s and "if..."s. The latest post in the #updates channel is also 1 1/2 years old which is the last known patreon build. I've also searched for discord posts of him in other channels giving any information, but besides the usual "I don't give updates"-posts, the best thing I could find was the Discord post
Excelia aready mentioned:
A single side-note comment about the main story being 70%-ish done. Was the last patreon build from May 2021 at 5% main story? Or was it at 69%? How much percentage has been added in these last 1 1/2 years and based on this can we assume a release date? Also, that bread crumb of news only mentions the main story, nothing about any other content, so we have nothing to make any sort of assumption that isn't equal to making shit up. In the end it is just another "still working on it, I swear" post with nothing to show. No info on a timeline, on progess overall, on hick-ups or success stories. Nothing.
So when you make statements like:
Release is probably going to be sometime in 2023 as the game is soon done.
it is just wishful thinking based on un-official rumors and speculation which only furthers the believe that he's doing nothing if your guess doesn't come true
Besides, the forum
game uploading rules clearly define the prefix "Abandoned" as no news from the developer in 3+ months.
So yes, we can sit here and dick around about
if the game is really abandoned,
if he owes anyone anything,
if the money he made through patreon still holds him to any moral standards,
what could have been done better in hindsight, blablabla...
But the matter of fact is:
there have been no news for 18+ months therefore the thread gets the prefix Abandoned and this will not change until either Redamz himself shows up or an official update from him gets posted.
