No, not white knighting. More like venting my own frustrations from a creator standpoint. I've made similar points in other threads that people bitch about and get deleted. I understand this is a pirate site but people wonder why so much shit gets abandoned and I would wager a significant amount of it, I'm sure, is creators getting sick of being bitched at because they aren't releasing fast enough. (the majority is still people thinking they can make a quick buck and quitting when they realize they can't, but there are good creators who quit because they get no appreciation and their stuff stolen. And then the thieves bitch at them.)
It might be hurting him from a business perspective, sure. But that's something the Dev has to manage. The Creator/ Supporter relationship is not the same as the one I have with my boss. So to compare the two is dumb. My boss can dictate timelines and can fire me if I don't meet them. In this instance, the creator sets the timeline themselves and each individual supporter decides when they are done waiting and they pull support.
And yes, some people cross the line from pirate to supporter. And at that point, they gain a justifiable reason to bitch if the Dev promises something and doesn't deliver. (Note, I said justifiable, cause people on this site bitch anyway when taking the content for free, thus making them entitled.)
And I'm not against the idea of coming here to try a project and using that to discover new projects and then deciding if it's worth supporting the creator. It CAN work to their advantage. It's about 90% of the reason I am here. But when you have people who only tear down a creator's project or bitch that they don't work fast enough and aren't even supporters, it's shit that like that can make them quit or get burnt out. And even if the don't quit, slows getting the work done. Bitching from pirates doesn't make people work faster, cause the creator knows that even if those pirates are satisfied, the vast majority of them won't give him a dime. He gets no reward from making them happy and he gets shit if he doesn't.
As for the abandoned tag here? I don't see why anyone makes a big deal out of it. Yeah, it will decrease traffic to his game for now. But when the remake comes out, the tag comes off and people will suddenly "discover" his game again. People make too much of the tags here. They're arbitrary and don't mean squat.